Yesterday the company announced longtime COO Jeff Williams is retiring. Bloomberg has a good rundown of Williams’ responsibilities at Apple, and where they’ll go next — from supply chains to pet projects like the Apple Watch.

The OpenAI CEO wore a pair of bold glasses while talking to reporters at the Sun Valley conference, and he says they aren’t smart glasses and that he doesn’t like the form factor. Altman briefly teased OpenAI’s upcoming hardware, but only to say that “it’s going to be great.”

Warner Bros. Discovery had said the switch would happen sometime this summer, and now Variety, Deadline, and The Hollywood Reporter all say the move is imminent.

Someone impersonating the Secretary of State sent AI text and voice messages to foreign ministers, a US governor, and a Congress member, according to a report from The Washington Post. The person contacted the officials on the encrypted messaging app Signal and over text.

The attorneys defending MyPillow founder Mike Lindell in a defamation case (which he lost) were ordered to pay $3,000 each for putting AI-generated misquotes and “citations of cases that do not exist” in a brief submitted in February, as reported by ArsTechnica.

It won’t be called Dune: Messiah even though it’s an adaptation of that book, Variety reports. The movie is set to release in December 2026.

House Democrats are holding a science fair of canceled grants in Washington, DC today to call attention to research projects that the Trump administration has defunded.

Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Tim Sheehy (R-MT) have introduced the Warrior Right to Repair Act of 2025, which would force contractors to give the Department of Defense “fair and reasonable” access to repair parts, tools, and information.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai has announced that users in India will now be able to access AI Mode in Search, a chatbot-style search feature that provides AI-generated responses based on sources across the web. The feature is still only available in English for now.

Ahead of season five which is set to premiere on September 24th, 2025, Apple TV Plus has announced that Slow Horses will be returning for a six-episode seventh season that will be based on Mick Herron’s Bad Actors — the eighth novel in their Slough House series.

...until the just-announced July 31st release date of Time Flies, a game where you cause mischief as a fly. I tried a demo last year and it’s very silly.