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The Musk versus Altman trial continued this week, and perhaps the most unexpected subplot is Microsoft emerging as something close to a sympathetic figure. Their opening statement read less like a legal argument and more like a product catalog, but the subtext was clear — Microsoft would rather be selling software than sitting in a San Francisco courtroom explaining its relationship with OpenAI.
Meanwhile, Kickstarter has announced a ban on adult content, and the decision appears to have come not from the platform itself but from the payment processors it depends on. It's a familiar pattern — Visa and Mastercard quietly reshaping what's permissible online without ever making a public policy announcement of their own. Creators are left holding the consequences.
And Google DeepMind is apparently rethinking one of computing's most durable inventions — the mouse pointer. Details are thin, emerging mainly through a social media post, but the suggestion is that AI-driven interfaces may change how we think about pointing, clicking, and navigating screens entirely. Whether that's a genuine breakthrough or a research demo remains to be seen.
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