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Jay Peters

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    HP settles over accusations of “false advertising.”

    The company has agreed to pay $4 million following a class-action complaint, reports Ars Technica. The second amended 2022 complaint, saved here by Ars, said that “to sell more products and maximize its profits, HP displays misleading strikethrough prices on its website and advertises fictitious savings based on those prices.”

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    Now this is podracing.

    Star Wars: Beyond Victory - A Mixed Reality Playset is a new podracing-focused experience for Meta’s Quest headsets that will be shown at Star Wars Celebration 2025.

    You won’t actually race from the cockpit of a podracer, but that’s probably a good thing to prevent the game from being a “puke factory,” as one of my colleagues eloquently put it.

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    Jay Peters
    Trump apparently wants to “just delay” a TikTok deal.

    That’s according to Semafor’s White House correspondent Shelby Talcott. The TikTok turmoil is just going to go on forever, huh?

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    Cursor’s AI support bot made up a policy.

    The bot, identified as “Sam,” invented a policy that said Cursor’s AI code editor tool could only be used by “one device per subscription,” causing users to say they were canceling their subscriptions, as reported by Ars Technica.

    A Cursor co-founder said that something “very clearly went wrong here” and that AI responses used for email support are “now clearly labeled as such.”

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    Here’s part of Google’s AI glasses demo from TED.

    The glasses do seem useful, and you should read my colleague Victoria Song’s experience with the glasses, too. But remember that this is a tightly-controlled demo and it may not represent reality.

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    Jay Peters
    Google criticized over its ‘sparse’ Gemini 2.5 Pro safety report.

    In its article about the criticisms, TechCrunch also pointed out that Google hasn’t released a report for its recently-announced Gemini 2.5 Flash model, but the company says the report is “coming soon.”

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    Jay Peters
    Tim Cook spoke with Howard Lutnick about tariffs.

    The Washington Post has a good article about Cook’s recent work with the Trump administration, including a conversation last week with the commerce secretary about how tariffs could impact iPhone prices.

    Cook’s playbook for dealing with the first Trump administration is being widely replicated with the second.