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Jay Peters is a News Editor at The Verge. He covers breaking news in consumer technology, social media, video games, virtual worlds, streaming, and more. He’s appeared on CNBC, NPR, BBC News, WNYC, and other broadcast outlets to discuss technology news.

Before joining The Verge as a News Writer in 2019, Jay worked for Techmeme, where he helped curate the most important technology news of the moment. He actually started his career in technology public relations, working in the field for more than five years. He graduated from the University of Oregon’s School of Journalism and Communication.

When he’s not writing, Jay really likes running. But he prefers to run far, not fast.

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Two senators have questions about the big AT&T breach.

Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Josh Hawley (R-MO) sent a letter to AT&T CEO John Stankey with several questions about the cybersecurity attack that resulted in customer data being downloaded from the company’s Snowflake workspace, The Record reports. The senators requested answers by July 29th, and AT&T will respond, according to Reuters.

The senators also sent a letter to Snowflake’s CEO.


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Anthropic launched an Android app for its Claude AI chatbot.

You can grab the app from Google Play right now. It’s free and “accessible with all plans, including Pro and Team,” the company says in a blog post.

Anthropic released an iOS app in May.


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The Netflix-ization of Disney.

The Wall Street Journal reports that Disney is trying to make its streaming platforms work and feel more like Netflix. For example:

New features in the works at Disney include a more-personalized algorithm to power content recommendations, customized promotional art for new shows and movies based on subscriber’s tastes and usage history, and emails sent to viewers who stop watching in the middle of a series reminding them to finish, according to people familiar with the matter.

There’s lots more in the full story.


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Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen.

That’s a new limited series coming to Netflix from Haley Z. Boston and Upside Down Pictures (the production company launched by Stranger Things co-creators Matt and Ross Duffer).

“According to the logline, the series will follow a bride and groom in the week leading up to their ill-fated wedding,” says Netflix. “And obviously, it’s not a spoiler to share that not all goes right with the nuptials.”


Andrej Karpathy’s next venture: “a new kind of school that is AI native.”

In a long post on X, the former OpenAI and Tesla employee discussed Eureka Labs and his vision of how AI could help with education.

Sounds interesting, but maybe his post shouldn’t have featured art where the people have extra arms and legs?


An illustration of a futuristic school with people walking around it.
Image: Andrej Karpathy
Google’s iOS app now lets you set alternate app icons.

There are light and dark versions of the icon with a colorful G and with a monochrome G.

If you have version 324.0 of the app or newer (it’s currently on 325.0), you can set your app icon from Settings > General > Change app icon. (To get the option to appear, I had to force-close the app and reopen it.)


A screenshot featuring the four different app icon options for Google’s iOS app.