Adi Robertson

After a slight delay, the Department of Justice has posted an exhibit from earlier this week in US v. Google, shedding light on the details of Apple and Google’s multibillion-dollar search deal.

Now, his email to Larry Page and Sergey Brin (among others) has surfaced in the US v. Google trial, where the Department of Justice is taking aim at Google’s multibillion-dollar deal for prime placement in Apple’s browser. Google argues it’s simply the best choice, but in those early years, Pichai appeared ambivalent about the exclusivity deal regardless.

The Microsoft CEO’s testimony will follow extensive questions this week about the company’s dealings with Apple and its struggle to get Bing on the iPhone, apparently including floating a sale of the search engine to Apple. And after a week of locked-down testimony, Judge Amit Mehta has directed as much of it as possible to take place in public session.

Check out our interview with Mark Zuckerberg on today’s AI and VR news, the Threads rollout, and more. Meta’s show will continue through tomorrow — the schedule’s available here.

This clip shows off The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners, one of the Quest 2’s headliner games, alongside its upgraded Quest 3 version. We’re still looking at a game powered by a mobile chip, but it’s a significant detail boost.

And it’s going to hook into the “metaverse” — Mark Zuckerberg discusses the possibility of using its AI characters as video game NPCs. It sounds a bit like Character.ai, but Meta’s pitching it to businesses and creators, not primarily as an entertainment tool.

Though the stream is delayed, you can see our first impressions of Meta’s headlining hardware product — the $499 Quest 3, shipping October 10th — here.