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Apple is planning smart glasses with and without AR https://www.theverge.com/news/663600/apple-smart-glasses-chips-ar-chip

OpenAI hires former head of the Facebook app https://www.theverge.com/news/663454/openai-fidji-simo-apps-ceo-facebook-instacart

Threads was originally going to live inside the Instagram app https://www.theverge.com/news/663390/threads-app-inside-instagram-mosseri

Trump cuts Energy Star program that saved households $450 a year https://www.theverge.com/news/662847/trump-ending-energy-star-program-could-cost-homeowners-450-annually

FTC loses appeal to stop Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard deal that already happened https://www.theverge.com/news/662883/ftc-appeal-microsoft-activision-deal-acquisition

States sue Trump over ‘existential threat’ to wind energy https://www.theverge.com/news/661318/wind-energy-electricity-states-lawsuit-president-trump

Google searches are falling in Safari for the first time ever —probably because of AI https://www.theverge.com/news/662725/google-search-safari-ai-apple-eddy-cue-testimony

A new bill would force Apple to allow third-party app stores https://www.theverge.com/news/662180/app-store-freedom-act-apple-third-party-app-stores

Amazon now has a ‘Get book’ button in its iOS Kindle app https://www.theverge.com/news/661719/amazon-app-ios-apple-iphone-ipad-kindle-buy-books

Microsoft announces a Gears of War remaster – and it’s coming to PlayStation, too https://www.theverge.com/news/661169/gears-of-war-reloaded-remaster-release-date

Trump DOJ goon threatens Wikipedia https://www.theverge.com/news/656720/ed-martin-dc-attorney-wikipedia-nonprofit-threat

Stripe already has a way for iOS developers to dodge Apple’s payment system https://www.theverge.com/news/660131/stripe-checkout-ios-transactions-outside-app-antitrust

Epic is offering developers an alternative to Apple’s in-app purchases https://www.theverge.com/news/659655/epic-games-store-revenue-share-webshops-apple-in-app-purchases

A judge just blew up Apple’s control of the App Store https://www.theverge.com/news/659246/apple-epic-app-store-judge-ruling-control

Mark Zuckerberg is planning a premium tier and ads for Meta’s AI app https://www.theverge.com/news/659242/mark-zuckerberg-is-planning-a-premium-tier-and-ads-for-metas-ai-app

Google’s Play Store lost nearly half its apps https://www.theverge.com/news/658932/google-play-store-lost-half-apps

Reddit bans researchers who used AI bots to manipulate commenters https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/657978/reddit-ai-experiment-banned

EA lays off staff and cancels a Titanfall game https://www.theverge.com/news/658468/ea-layoffs-respawn-entertainment-titanfall-canceled

Brendan Carr’s FCC is an anti-consumer, rights-trampling harassment machine https://www.theverge.com/tech/656653/brendan-carr-fcc-anti-consumer-harassment-dei-trump

America is living in tariff limbo https://www.theverge.com/tech/656695/trump-tariffs-china-canada-mexico-trade-war-anxiety