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TikTok’s parent company ByteDance is fighting hard not to be banned in the US.

OpenAI executive Sam Altman said he hoped Elon Musk would not use his political influence to harm his competitors, saying such behaviour would be ‘un-American’.

Valve’s new venture is quite different from its Steam Machines experiment. This time, the company is capitalising on the popularity of Steam Deck and the performance of Proton, the compatibility layer that bridges the gap between Windows games and the Linux environment.

At the beginning of this year, Google DeepMind announced Genie, an artificial intelligence tool that can generate playable 2D games based on images generated from a text prompt or real images. Now it produces 3D games!.

WhatsApp has announced that it is working on a new feature to make cluster communication more efficient. The popular messaging platform, which is owned by Meta, is testing a ‘voice chat’ option that will make it easier and quicker to connect to voice in cluster chats.

OpenAI and Future, which owns some of the world’s most recognised media brands including Marie Claire, PC Gamer, TechRadar, Tom’s Guide, The Week, Who What Wear and Cycling Weekly, have announced a content partnership.

For more than three years, when Microsoft announced Windows 11, it became clear that many computers would not be able to officially use Windows 11.

Apple is offering a special iCloud Passwords add-on for the Mozilla Firefox browser. The add-on allows Firefox users to access passwords and logins stored in the Passwords app or iCloud Keychain while using the browser on the Mac.

Another accessibility-focused feature is an artificial intelligence update to the Lookout app. Powered by Google’s Gemini 1.5 model, the app explains photos in more detail for people with low vision. For example, it can recognise objects in the background of a photo or facial expressions of people in detail.

On Samsung phones, you can call Google Assistant or Gemini with a command like ‘Hey Google’ or a swipe gesture. However, it is not possible to call Gemini or Google Assistant by holding down the power key; only Bixby can be used in this form.