In its Q4 earnings report, the audio streaming service said it’s gained 38 million monthly active users (MAU) and nine million paying subscribers since its last quarter. Spotify now has 751 million MAUs and 290 million subscribers globally.

We’d heard its devices could arrive this year, but in a court filing OpenAI vice president Peter Welinder said they won’t reach customers before March 2027.

Presumably this tweet was timed before Elon Musk’s Grok posted an estimated 3 million sexualized images onto the platform, including 23,000 of children, averaging an estimated 190 images per minute over an 11-day sample period:

Support for voice and video calls between individual chats is now available to some beta testers, allowing web users to place and receive calls without giving Meta so much personal data via the WhatsApp desktop app. It’ll roll out to more users “over the coming weeks,” according to WABetainfo.

Finally! This has annoyed me for a long time.

Car and Driver doing the important tests of the new EV’s Jony Ive-designed interior.

Amazon’s live-action God of War series starring Ryan Hurst as Kratos has found its Atreus in Callum Vinson (Poker Face, Chucky.)

Following the disastrous launch of FBC: Firebreak which resulted in former CEO Tero Virtala stepping down, there’s a new name in charge. Jean-Charles Gaudechon joins Remedy after previously working at EA and CCP Games, and says that his “commitment is to protect what makes it special, deliver exceptional games, and scale Remedy in a way that builds lasting value.” For more on Remedy, check out this profile I wrote last year.

The two companies have collaborated on a new timepiece commemorating Sega’s 65th anniversary last year. Available in a black or silver finish the watch’s face features the hours in a font matching the Sega logo found below Seiko’s, with a Sonic silhouette can be found on a subdial. They’re 71,500 yen each, or around $458.

Workers at Build A Rocket Boy, developer of the troubled game MindsEye, saw that management installed monitoring software on their machines “without their knowledge or consent” and only admitted to it later, according to GamesIndustry.biz.

Horizon franchise creator Guerrilla Games is mostly focused on Horizon Hunters Gathering, its just-announced co-op title, Kotaku reports. One source suggested to Kotaku that the third mainline entry in the series could be three to five years away.

Instead of just notifying your friends or family members when you safely return home, Snapchat now allows you to send recurring alerts when you reach other locations you frequent, like a class or workplace.

“SpaceX has already shifted focus to building a self-growing city on the Moon,” Musk said on Sunday, just a week after merging SpaceX and xAI. It’s a notable change in plans from a little over a year ago when Musk insisted that, “we’re going straight to Mars. The Moon is a distraction.”

The next four episodes of Sesame Street are dropping soon on Netflix and will include a cameo from Miley Cyrus.

This is a great read about Runna — a popular running app that was bought by Strava last year. While many runners swear by it, several reported injuries from using the AI-powered running coach. (Including yours truly.) Runna’s now rolling out easier programs, which I’m going to start testing once this horrible cold snap lets up.

This Politico story is a fascinating deep dive into Oura cozying up to the government. What caught my eye is a tidbit that Oura is lobbying lawmakers for a “digital health screener” device classification process that would sidestep the more intensive FDA clearance process for medical devices.

First announced last month, the Anbernic RG G01 is now available for preorder through the company’s online store for $39.99, but discounted to $35.99 until February 10th. The heart rate monitoring feels gimmicky, but according to an early review from Russ Crandall, the RG G01 is a solid offering with a useful configuration screen.