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With its Vision Pro headset suddenly even more expensive, and plans for smart glasses apparently in the works, Bloomberg reports Apple is losing Paul Meade, the hardware VP who was in charge of those projects. The report says he’ll reunite with former Apple designers, including Jony Ive, Tang Tan, and Evans Hankey, at OpenAI, which purchased their startup last year, as the executive shakeup under new Apple CEO John Ternus continues.

Agents walked into a polling place on primary Election Day to demand that one of the workers, Paigelynne Gonyea, delete her post, claiming she “may be in violation of federal law.” The post contains the name of Jonathan Ross, the agent who shot and killed Renee Good in Minneapolis, who has been named by a number of media outlets, including The Verge.

Neil Vogel, CEO of the publisher formerly known as Dotdash Meredith, brought up his company’s AI licensing deals with Meta, OpenAI, and Microsoft in an Axios interview this week. He noted that while it blocks other unlicensed AI crawlers, it can’t block Google’s since it’s the same one used for Google Search.

In addition to the anime series that’s been running for 25 years and its own live-action adaptation, Netflix will premiere its The One Piece anime series in February 2027. While showing off the first trailer (and a trailer for Cyberpunk Edgerunners S2 that will apparently debut on the 29th), Netflix said global anime fandom on the service grew to 1.5 billion views in 2025.

In 2022, LastPass’ breach coughed up encrypted customer passwords spurring some crypto heists later.
Now it says a breach at Klue gave attackers access to its Salesforce data, along with that of other companies who, according to reports, are being extorted by “Icarus.” For LastPass, the stolen data includes customers’ names, phone numbers, and other data, but not the actual password vaults this time.

Anthropic’s most recent update on the outage is from about 10:25AM ET, saying “The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented,” but that’s all we have for now, other than a dropping number of reports noted by Down Detector.

Japanese AI startup Sakana has posted benchmark results and beta tester impressions saying that its Fugu models compare favorably with or beat the likes of Fable 5, Gemini 3.1 Pro, and GPT-5.5.

One way that Sony Pictures’ Klara and the Sun (due in theaters on October 23rd) sticks out among the crowded field of dystopian AI companion flicks is that it’s an adaptation of a book from Never Let Me Go author Kazuo Ishiguro. Waititi is writing the screenplay and directing, with a cast including Natasha Lyonne, Amy Adams, and Steve Buscemi.