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    Gotta go fast.

    Sega has partnered with Seiko to make a limited edition 65th anniversary watch with a subtle Sonic the Hedgehog motif, though he may not be the best character to associate with a timepiece.

    Lewise:

    Shame it’ll always run fast

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    OpenAI’s first hardware slips to 2027.

    We’d heard its devices could arrive this year, but in a court filing OpenAI vice president Peter Welinder said they won’t reach customers before March 2027.

    The case is a trademark infringement suit from audio startup iyO, which sued after OpenAI bought Jony Ive’s company io — Welinder confirmed OpenAI has no plans to use the io name for its hardware.

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    Someone nailed their halftime show bets on Polymarket.

    An anonymous Polymarket account, created a day before the Super Bowl, bet exclusively on celebrity appearances during Bad Bunny’s performance, and got every single one right. It’s a little less alarming than the user who seemed to know Venezuelan president Maduro’s capture was coming, but no less suspicious.

    Screenshot: X / Polymarket
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    Edge cases only.

    As Waymo uses AI-generated 3D worlds to simulate driverless cars’ encounters with tornadoes, floods, and even elephants, one commenter wonders if they could try AI school buses next.

    cowboyfromspace:

    They got elephants down but forgot about school buses?

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    Disney loses Dolby in Europe.

    Disney Plus subscribers in a few European countries have spotted that Dolby Vision, HDR10+, and 3D content have disappeared from the service. A Disney statement blames it on “technical challenges,” but FlatpanelsHD points out it may be linked to a patent dispute in Germany.

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    EU tells Meta to let other AIs back on WhatsApp.

    The European Commission has weighed in on the November decision to block the likes of ChatGPT and Copilot from WhatsApp, and thinks it violates EU antitrust laws. It’s surprisingly fast for the organization, which called the issue “urgent” because of the risk of “irreparable” damage to competition in the nascent AI industry.

    European Commission illustration of its measures to make Meta include 3rd party chatbots on WhatsApp
    Image: European Commission
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    America’s finest news source.

    I like to think you can usually tell the difference between a Verge headline and an Onion one, but these days the lines are getting blurry.

    endlessben:

    I think you hit “Publish to The Verge” instead of “Publish to The Onion.” It’s ok, it happens.

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