In today’s edition of the Power On newsletter, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman shared a number of new details about Apple’s upcoming software release: iOS 27. The company is aiming to ‘tidy’ its codebase, upgrade older apps, and tweak Liquid Glass – and as a result, battery life should hopefully improve.
During a Saturday interview with Brian Tyler Cohen, the host noted that “the discourse” surrounding the current administration has “devolved into a level of cruelty that we haven’t seen before,” citing the viral video, that was posted on Feb. 5 and subsequently deleted on Feb. 6.
Disney is going after another generative AI tool, accusing ByteDance and its recently released Seedance 2.0 of using its copyrighted material without permission. As first reported on by Axios, the Walt Disney Company sent a cease-and-desist letter to ByteDance, claiming the Chinese company developed its Seedance tool ”with a pirated library of Disney’s copyrighted characters from Star Wars, Marvel, and other Disney franchises, as if Disney’s coveted intellectual property were free public domain clip art.”
The letter, which was obtained by Axios, included examples of Seedance videos featuring copyrighted Disney characters, including Spider-Man, Darth Vader, Peter Griffin and more. Even though ByteDance just released Seedance 2.0 on Thursday, it’s already earned praise, but also indignation from Hollywood studios, when it comes to its AI-generating capabilities.
Bytedance has released its new Seed2.0 AI model series. The story is a familiar one by now: the models match Western AI models on benchmarks while costing a fraction of the price.
The series comes in three sizes—Pro, Lite, and Mini—plus a dedicated code model. Bytedance says multimodal processing got the biggest upgrade in Seed2.0: the models are designed to better understand documents, tables, graphics, and videos. According to Bytedance, Seed2.0 Pro hits top scores on most benchmarks for visual math, logic, and perception, beating GPT-5.2, Claude Opus 4.5, and Gemini 3 Pro in several categories.
The cast of Amazon Prime Video’s Fallout have explained why they haven’t played the hit video game series.
Aaron Moten stars as Maximus, Ella Purnell plays Vault dweller Lucy while Walton Goggins is bad-ass bounty hunter The Ghoul in the live-action adaptation of Fallout.
The series is heavily inspired by the long-running video game franchise but isn’t a direct adaptation of any of the storylines, instead telling a new tale in the post-apocalyptic wasteland.
Summary: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into accepting its changes into a mainstream python library. This represents a first-of-its-kind case study of misaligned AI behavior in the wild, and raises serious concerns about currently deployed AI agents executing blackmail threats.
