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New York Attorney General Letitia James revealed a years-long multi-state investigation against Character.AI as they now seek to require protections on consumer data sold through its bankruptcy proceeding.
James is among 40 bipartisan AGs who filed a notice of interest in Character.AI's bankruptcy case "to put all parties on notice of the regulatory issues that will need to be addressed in any sale or transfer of the Debtor's business or assets." Character.AI announced Tuesday it was filing for Chapter 11 and selling some assets to Disney. But the AGs warn there could be serious risk involved in the transfer of the technology due to the "hi β¦
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It's been four long years since the last Apple TV 4K was released, and in that time there have been lots of hopes and dreams for features in whatever comes next. A new chip, 4K/120Hz support, audio passthrough, a remote locator, better home control integration - the 2022 Apple TV 4K is a great box, but there's still plenty of room for improvement. With the fourth-gen Apple TV 4K announced on Tuesday, some of those hopes were met, while others were unfortunately left out.
Coloring the announcement is the device's price. Apple eliminated the cheaper 64GB, Wi-Fi-only model, leaving just the 128GB, Wi-Fi and Ethernet model - and bumped up its p β¦
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Hi HN!
Iβm Jason Thomas, one of the founders of CoScreen.
As some of you may know, Datadog sunset the CoScreen service on July 31st.
Four of us from the original CoScreen team have spent the last couple months building a free and open source pair programming tool inspired by those that came before us: Itβs called Petal (https://github.com/kiruna-labs/petal)
Some history first, because when we started CoScreen we had hoped to break the sad and established pattern of this industry.
Screenhero was an exceptional tool that a lot of us loved for pairing. Multiple cursors, low latency, you could click your partnerβs editor, and just start typing. It felt like magic while we had it. Then Slack bought it in 2015, and shut down the standalone app in December 2017.
When Till, Max, and I started CoScreen, we were aware of this history, and wanted to build an even more magical collaboration and screen sharing experience: the entire concept was βthrow a window from your laptop up on someone elseβs screen, and start collaborating with zero friction.β
Datadog acquired us in 2022, and thus began the great adventure of adapting our real-time technology into Datadog products, while also continue developing CoScreen as a standalone tool from the Datadog ecosystem. Datadog invested in the product for years and weβre thankful for that. But CoScreen itself proved, like so many other screen sharing tool acquisitions, to be too tangential from the customer base and core mission. We instead built other communication features in Datadog, the integrations with other video platforms, and also its wildly successful MCP server. We weren't the only ones. Around was bought by Miro and shut down in March 2025. Multi (formerly Remotion) was acqui-hired by OpenAI in 2024 and shut down about a month later. It's nearly always the same story: a small team builds something hard that people love, a platform buys it for the team or the feature, and the standalone product doesn't survive the integration. So we decided firmly to do things differently this time. Petal is completely free and open source and we aren't monetizing it. If we lose interest or get hit by a bus, you can self-host it or fork it, and nobody can sunset it on you. Honestly it's a love letter to everyone in this community that supported us, believed in us, and to liberate collaborative screen sharing from this vicious cycle.
We hope through this we can help foster a large and vibrant community around innovating in this product sector. What Petal does: shared windows show up as real windows on your desktop, movable and resizable, not tiles in a grid. Several people can share at once, everyone gets a labeled cursor, and you can click into any shared window to type and scroll. Rooms are persistent, so you click once to join "eng-sync" instead of passing links around. It runs on macOS and Windows (Linux is next, this time for real and you can help us!), plus a web app. Media goes over LiveKit. You can use our hosted instance with zero config, or point the app at your own LiveKit server with one docker-compose if you want the traffic to stay on your network or even use an entirely different video backend if you want to. The part that still feels strange to us: CoScreen took almost six years to build. The first version of Petal took under eight weeks, from scratch, with frontier models like Fable and Astra doing a lot of the work. Real-time video and window capture is some of the most unforgiving code we have ever written, so we didn't expect that. We will do a proper writeup on what worked and what didn't, and are happy to answer questions about it here. Till, Darren, Max and I will be in the thread.
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YouTube is adding a "Made with AI" label to tracks that were "altered or fully generated" using AI, with a similar approach to its existing process for applying AI labels to videos. It doesn't sound like this will apply to any and all use of AI tools in making music, but according to YouTube, it includes things like "using a generative model to create the composition and vocals." In its rules for music partners who upload their songs, YouTube lays out how to disclose generative AI use, and says that if there's no disclosure, it may use "other signals" to decide if a song is AI-generated.
The label is rolling out starting today in the YouTub β¦
While we cover a lot of deals on specific products, itβs rare that we find worthwhile savings on gift cards that let you save on essentially anything the store sells. However, until October 19th, you can save up to twenty percent on gift cards when you buy them through the Google Play store. There are a variety of discounts and retailers available, including 20 percent off $50 at Barnes and Noble, 20 percent off $100 at REI, and 10 percent off $100 at GameStop.
You donβt need an Android phone or tablet to save, but youβll need to sign up for a Google Play account if you donβt have one already. In addition to the gift cards, Google is offering discounts on subscriptions like Calm and DuoLingo, as well as bonuses on in-app purchases in games like PokΓ©mon Go and PUBG Mobile.
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