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Apple’s iOS 27.2 beta expands Dual Capture, a feature that lets users display front‑ and rear‑camera feeds simultaneously during FaceTime. Introduced in iOS 27, Dual Capture was limited to one‑on‑one calls; the new update enables it for Group FaceTime sessions. The feature requires an iPhone 17 or newer, and all participants must run iOS 27, iPadOS 27, or macOS 27 to view the dual streams. Apple is rolling out the update in stages, with the public release expected in the coming [...]

At Made on YouTube 2026, Google unveiled several YouTube Music enhancements slated for release later this year. The most visible change moves the Gemini‑powered “Ask Music” shortcut from a Home‑feed card to a permanent spark icon in the app’s top‑right corner, opening a sliding chat sheet with text and voice input. Suggested prompts let users create mixes, discover artists or find podcasts, and the tool will appear contextually when editing playlists or building mixes, offering deeper artist [...]

Helicon Industries, a Los Angeles startup, has emerged from stealth with $16 million in seed funding to automate carbon‑fiber composite manufacturing. The company is building a 36,000‑sq‑ft facility in Torrance that integrates robotics and autonomous systems to shrink lead times from six months to two weeks, targeting high‑volume markets such as drones, robotics and next‑generation aerospace. Co‑founder and CTO Edmundo Sanz‑Gadea brings experience from autonomous drones, Formula Student self‑driving teams and research at TU Delft, MIT and ETH Zurich. He argues [...]

Anthropic unveiled Claude Opus 5.5 on Tuesday, marking the first release in the new Claude 5.5 family and the company’s first major model launch since CEO Dario Amodei urged a slowdown in frontier AI development. The firm claims Opus 5.5 matches the performance of Claude Fable 5.1 on most tasks while cutting operating costs by roughly 40 percent compared with its predecessor, Claude Opus 5. Pricing is set at $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output tokens, down from $5 and $25 respectively, [...]

OpenAI announced the addition of two models, GPT‑6 Sol and GPT‑6 Luna, to its GPT‑6 lineup. Both models are now accessible through ChatGPT Work and Codex for Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise and Edu tiers. OpenAI also reduced API pricing for the new models by 50 percent relative to the promotional rates of GPT‑5.6. GPT‑6 Sol targets demanding professional workflows and coding tasks, reportedly outperforming Claude Opus 5 on AutomationBench while costing only 9 percent of the competitor per task, and achieving a 68.8 percent score on [...]

Microsoft announced the takedown of EvilTokens, an AI‑driven cybercrime platform that automated the full fraud pipeline from email compromise to financial theft. Launched in February 2026, the service sold access to compromised inboxes for a $1,500 initiation fee and $500 monthly, using a chatbot to scan victims’ mail, map organizational roles, pinpoint “money movers,” and draft convincing impersonation messages. Within months it breached more than 12,000 inboxes across over 10,000 organizations in the United States, Canada, the [...]

YouTube announced a suite of community upgrades at its Made on YouTube event, adding GIF support and voice‑driven commenting on TV screens. Creators will receive a new “personalized moderation” tool to fine‑tune comment filters, especially for live streams, and can invite fans into exclusive VIP‑style areas. The platform is expanding paid Channel Memberships with members‑only communities and a revamped discovery page. A revamped “Hype” feature now includes purchasable “Jewels,” a virtual currency that lets fans amplify video [...]

Tesla has secured the largest U.S. electric‑truck order ever, as the new shippers’ alliance ZET SCALE named the company its primary manufacturer for an initial purchase of 2,500 Class 8 electric trucks. The deal, selected through a competitive request‑for‑proposals that evaluated price, range, charging capability and production capacity, will almost double the nation’s electric heavy‑truck fleet. Secondary manufacturers Kenworth, RIDE and Volvo were also approved, though the split of the 2,500 units remains undisclosed. Financing will be provided [...]