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Sony is pushing back against a lawsuit in California with a striking argument: reasonable consumers, the company says, already understand they don't truly own their digital downloads. The case raises uncomfortable questions about what you're actually buying when you purchase a movie or game online, and whether that expectation has ever been clearly communicated.
Shifting to the creative space, Google has unveiled a tool called Google Pics, an AI-first design platform aimed squarely at Canva and Adobe. Rather than dragging elements around a canvas, users simply describe what they want and the AI builds it. It's a meaningful bet that prompting will eventually replace traditional design workflows entirely.
And in a story that carries real weight for workers, Meta is testing robotic arms inside its data centers to handle tasks like power cycling and network connections. One technician quoted in the reporting estimates the technology could eventually replace up to eighty percent of human workload at those facilities — a number that's hard to sit with.
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