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- Google’s AI search changes upended online publishingby Emma Roth (The Verge) on 25 October 2026 at 12:00
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- AgentGrid.ioby Avishay Cohen (Product Hunt — The best new products, every day) on 25 October 2026 at 05:39
Shared workspace for humans and agents Discussion | Link
- Blue Planet III is keeping the rough edges in the age of AIby Terrence O’Brien (The Verge) on 24 October 2026 at 21:29
BBC's Blue Planet III is looking to prove its authenticity by leaving in the less-than-perfect shots. Previous incarnations of the nature series were defined by their gorgeous, crystal-clear footage that seemed almost too good to be real. But one dead giveaway of AI is when things look too polished and seamless. To counter that, Blue
- Papermark Data Roomsby Iuliia Shnai (Product Hunt — The best new products, every day) on 24 October 2026 at 19:09
Secure data rooms your AI agents can run. Live in < 60 sec. Discussion | Link
- Pennsylvania will require labels on AI-generated adsby Terrence O’Brien (The Verge) on 24 October 2026 at 18:32
On Thursday, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro signed the Artificial Intelligence Deceptive Advertising Act into law, requiring disclosures on AI-generated ads. The law requires any ad - whether it's a still image, video, audio, or text - that "has been significantly modified or generated by artificial intelligence" to include a label in the same format as
- Fielded is obsessed with scammers and unhinged Japanese cyberpunkby Terrence O’Brien (The Verge) on 24 October 2026 at 15:00
Lindsay Powell, who releases records under the name Fielded, has spent most of her career subverting expectations and genre conventions. According to their Bandcamp page, Fielded started as an experimental noise project before growing into something closer to R&B. But from moment one, her take on the genre was restless, relentlessly playing with what R&B
- LG’s brilliant C6 OLED TV is already $400 off ahead of Black Fridayby Sheena Vasani (The Verge) on 24 October 2026 at 15:00
Black Friday is still over a month away, but if you’re hoping to upgrade your TV, you don’t need to wait until November. LG has already kicked off its early Black Friday sale, letting you save on the LG C6 and various soundbars through November 1st. Right now, for instance, you can snag a 55-inch
- Yourcast 2.0by Konstantin Kovalenko (Product Hunt — The best new products, every day) on 24 October 2026 at 14:42
AI summaries with tap-to-jump timestamps, right in Telegram Discussion | Link
- What to expect from Apple’s ‘Pro and tell’ eventby Terrence O’Brien (The Verge) on 24 October 2026 at 14:15
It feels like Apple's Welcome Home event just happened. And the iPhone Duo announcement isn't all that far in our rearview mirror, either. Yet, the company is back with another launch, focused on the MacBook Pro, it looks like. Its "Pro and tell" event is scheduled for October 28th at 1PM ET in Los Angeles.
- I hope Apple’s touchscreen MacBook takes some lessons from this Lenovo laptopby Antonio G. Di Benedetto (The Verge) on 24 October 2026 at 14:00
It looks like the long-rumored touchscreen MacBook might actually get announced next week, and after using the Lenovo Yoga 9n for our testing of Nvidia's RTX Spark platform, it got me thinking: this is a lot of what I want from a touchscreen MacBook. Like the Apple silicon in modern MacBook Pros, RTX Spark is









