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    Google is making it easier to share your contact info on Android.

    The Google Contacts app is rolling out a new “Your info” card, which shows your image, phone number, email address, and other information — similar to “My Card” on iPhones. Tap into the card, and you’ll see an option to share your details with one of your contacts.

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    Apple and Google ordered to take down AI “nudify” apps.

    San Francisco city attorney David Chiu sent cease-and-desist letters to both companies, demanding that they remove 13 apps that can be used to generate nude images of someone without their consent, according to a report from Wired. The letters ask Google and Apple to stop “aiding and abetting” the sale of sexualized AI deepfakes, which is prohibited under California law.

    Google spokesperson Dan Jackson tells The Verge that the company suspended the five Android apps cited in Chiu’s letter, adding that the Play Store “does not allow apps that contain sexual content.”

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    Apple reportedly sent legal warnings to dozens of former employees at OpenAI.

    Around 40 employees received the letters, which ask for meetings with Apple’s lawyers and tell them to “preserve documents and communications,” according to a report from the Financial Times. Apple filed a lawsuit against OpenAI last week and accused two of its former employees of helping the AI giant steal its trade secrets.

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    Netflix will “continue to consider” free streaming.

    That’s what Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos said during the company’s Q2 2026 earnings call when asked about potential plans to launch free, ad-supported streaming.

    “A free offering could make sense in some markets,” Sarandos said, adding that the streamer has “no near-term plans to launch something.”

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    ChatGPT will show teens more frequent break reminders.

    The notifications will show up for teens who spend “extended time” on ChatGPT, OpenAI says. The company will also notify parents if their teen’s account is banned for violating policies on “violent threats or acts of violence online.”

    Image: OpenAI
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    Common Sense Media says that Google’s AI search is unsafe for kids, with no way for parents and teachers to turn it off.

    Google’s AI Overviews and AI Mode pose an “unacceptable risk,” with both features failing to properly and consistently respond to kids showing signs of crisis, “reinforcing signs of psychosis and mania,” as well as “validating disordered eating.”

    Common Sense Media’s risk assessment (pdf) also found that AI Mode completed 100 percent of the homework assignments researchers fed it. A response from Google published by PBS called the tests “a narrow set of ambiguous and contrived queries that don’t reflect how people use Search.”

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    An AI Mode response to an 11-year-old’s test account.
    Image: Common Sense Media