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Stevie Bonifield

Stevie Bonifield

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    The Pebble Round 2 starts shipping next month.

    People who pre-ordered the Round 2 have been waiting months for their watches (or potentially over a year for those who switched a Pebble Time 2 pre-order to a Round 2 pre-order). Eric Migicovsky says he’s currently planning for all Round 2 pre-orders to ship by September.

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    Now you can use Google’s live AI translations just by holding your phone to your ear like you’re taking a call.

    The feature previously required a pair of headphones, but Google’s Gemini 3.5 Live Translate update is expanding support across more than 70 languages:

    For Android users, we’re also starting to roll out a new ‘listening mode’ with 3.5 Live Translate that lets you hear translations directly through your phone’s earpiece. Simply hold your phone to your ear just like a regular call, and the translated audio streams straight to you.

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    RAMaggedon’s making Xbox “rethink” its Helix console.

    During an interview with The Game Business at Summer Game Fest, Xbox strategy chief Matthew Ball admitted to “underestimating” the RAM crisis, saying that demand for Xbox consoles “exceeds supply.” It’s pushing Xbox to re-evaluate its plans for its next-gen Helix console:

    “We are working very hard to rethink everything that we can about Helix, which is a console we are committed to shipping, and we are very cognisant of the ways in which we need to change as a company to make sure it is affordable, to make sure that it’s flexible.”

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    Microsoft lost “millions” of subscribers after its Game Pass price hike.

    Xbox chief strategy officer Matthew Ball acknowledged during a The Game Business Live interview at Summer Game Fest that the wave of cancellations happened over just a few months after the October price hike. Ball also admitted that “the value of the offering has now changed,” since Call of Duty games won’t be available day-one on Game Pass anymore.

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    Stevie Bonifield
    AMD’s RDNA 5 graphics cards might not be here anytime soon.

    PC Gamer points out a report from Dutch outlet Tweakers claiming that several GPU manufacturers aren’t expecting AMD’s next-gen GPUs to arrive until at least the second half of 2027. Some are saying the wait for RDNA 5 could be even longer, until early 2028.

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    Stevie Bonifield
    Google is reportedly turning to Intel to make its AI chips.

    Following capacity shortages at TSMC, Intel will “manufacture more than three million Tensor Processing Units in 2028,” half the estimated 6 million TPUs Google’s expected to make in the next two years, The Information reports. Nvidia and SK Hynix are also reportedly testing Intel’s tech for manufacturing their chips.

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    “Chat is dead.”

    That’s according to a “senior OpenAI employee,” speaking to the Financial Times. The FT reports that OpenAI’s frequently-rumored “superapp” overhaul of ChatGPT is rolling out in the “coming weeks,” and “will initially appear as changes to ChatGPT’s website and mobile apps, encouraging customers towards using coding, image-generation and apps from external partners.”