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Jess Weatherbed

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    Dario Amodei’s date night with the President.

    Donald Trump reportedly hosted the Anthropic CEO at the White House for a private dinner on Sunday evening, after Amodei was notably not included among the Silicon Valley bigwigs at the state dinner for Xi Jinping. This is seemingly the first one-on-one meeting between Trump and Amodei, suggesting that their ongoing beef may finally be settling.

    Jess Weatherbed
    Jess Weatherbed
    Here’s the Apple Music Hall opening lineup.

    Ticket sales for the first shows at Apple’s new live music venue in London will open on Monday September 28th at 9AM GMT (4AM ET), but competition will be fierce — there’s only 600 seats to fight over. If you fancy your chances though, these are all the acts announced so far:

    Elton John: September 28th
    Baby Keem: October 2nd
    Skye Newman: October 7th
    Troye Sivan: October 13th
    Arlo Parks: October 22nd
    Burna Boy: October 29th
    Chase & Status: November 26th
    Charli XCX: December 3rd

    Jess Weatherbed
    Jess Weatherbed
    Photoshop and Lightroom tools are now in Gemini.

    After bringing its plugin to ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, and Slack, Adobe’s app is now available in Google’s chatbot too. Just tag “@Adobe” in Gemini with your request after installing the plugin, and it’ll surface the best Creative Suite tools for editing photos, generating marketing designs, and more.

    an image illustrating Adobe tools arriving in Gemini.
    Adobe is aggressively expanding it’s creative tool suite to third-party platforms.
    Image: Adobe
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    Jess Weatherbed
    Get ready for The Witcher 3 remaster.

    11 years after the game first launched, the free upgrade for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt hit RPG includes improved visuals, combat mechanics, UI designs, and more. It’s rolling out on September 29th, and you can now check the release map below for the exact global availability timings. Happy hunting!

    A global release map for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — Remastered.
    Mark your calendars for the exact release time in your region if you’re as excited as I am to jump back into Redania.
    Image: CD Projekt Red
    Jess Weatherbed
    Jess Weatherbed
    Here come those promised Pixel Watch health features.

    The blood pressure trends, insulin resistance trends, and sleep breathing quality metrics mentioned at the 2026 Made By Google event weren’t available when the Pixel Watch 5 launched last month, but now Google says they’ll start rolling out to Watch 3 models and later this week. You can set them up in the Google Health app, and trend reports will arrive in “early October.”

    Here’s the preview of the blood pressure trend feature we got last month.
    Here’s the preview of the blood pressure trend feature we got last month.
    Photo: Victoria Song / The Verge
    Jess Weatherbed
    Jess Weatherbed
    Ruby on Rails creator: ‘We’re done writing code by hand.’

    David Heinemeier Hansson, who also leads technology at Basecamp developer 37signals, announced the company is moving away from Ruby in favor of vibe-coding everything with AI agents. That’s despite admitting that attempts to do so with Basecamp 5 this spring provided “mixed” results, and claiming last year that he doesn’t use AI because he “can literally feel competence draining out of my fingers.”

    Jess Weatherbed
    Jess Weatherbed
    Here they grow again.

    The next Gremlins movie is now coming on October 6th, 2028, 38 years after the release of Gremlins 2. It’s been pushed back by a year since Gremlins 3 was first announced, but now we have a seven-second teaser as reassurance it’s actually happening — and it looks like real puppets are involved!

    Jess Weatherbed
    Jess Weatherbed
    YouTube is cooking up new Live features.

    The Watch With live reactions feature is being expanded to all long-form videos later this year. Additional features are coming in 2027, including livestreamer matchmaking, interactive fan funding on co-hosted streams, and automatic speech translation and dubbing.