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Liz Hamren, the CEO of Amazon’s Ring camera business, often wonders whether her husband remembered to grab the package of frozen goods that is regularly delivered to their home. She could nag him, or she could check the footage from their Ring.

Historically, the latter option required her to tediously swipe through a video timeline in Ring’s app to identify if and when the box was picked up and by whom. But in recent weeks, Hamren has been able to let AI do the searching. She types “package today” into the app and right away can see the clip of her husband completing his duty, assuming he has.

Things like this don’t happen on Letterboxd. It’s supposed to be a place where movie nerds share their love of cinema, a throwback to the internet’s pre-Facebook halcyon days. But lately, it’s been reeling from a disagreement between the site’s users and staff that got so big, major directors started weighing in. To make matters worse, it wasn’t some argument about Marvel movies or Martin Scorsese. It was about anime.

Today, after a month-long suspension, X is now live again in Brazil. The platform had been suspended since late August after a showdown with the country’s Supreme Court, in which X refused a court order to remove certain right-wing accounts and content that the court said violated Brazilian law. After weeks of not complying, it seems Elon Musk has caved.

Brazilian Supreme Court justice Alexandre de Moraes authorized X’s return after the company blocked profiles accused of disseminating false information, reappointed a legal representative in the country, and paid fines that amounted to 28.6 million reais ($5.1 million).

Last week, the US Food and Drug Administration announced that tirzepatide is no longer in shortage. It has been a long time coming: The active ingredient in the weight-loss drug Zepbound and diabetes medication Mounjaro has experienced runaway popularity, along with other GLP-1 meds like Ozempic. This unprecedented demand sent it into shortage in December 2022. The end of drug shortages are usually a good thing—but for many people currently taking tirzepatide, this is a moment of fear and uncertainty rather than celebration. For them, this means the meds they are accustomed to taking may be harder to get.

Less than two weeks after Hurricane Helene tore through the American Southeast, hospitals and health care providers in Florida are preparing for yet another destructive storm as Hurricane Milton hurtles toward the state’s west coast.

The National Hurricane Center described the storm, currently a Category 5 hurricane, as “extremely dangerous” late Tuesday morning. As it makes landfall late Wednesday or early Thursday near Tampa, Milton is predicted to bring high winds and storm surges of 10 feet or higher to parts of Florida’s west coast and heavy rains throughout most of the peninsula.

Amazon might not have ChatGPT, but it has a roadmap that includes developing even more advanced forms of artificial intelligence—including AI agents that are hell-bent on helping you buy stuff.

The ecommerce company is already sprinkling ChatGPT-like AI over its website and apps—today announcing, among other enhancements, AI-generated shopping guides for hundreds of different product categories. Executives at the company say its engineers are also exploring more ambitious AI services, including autonomous AI shopping agents that recommend goods to a customer or even add items to their cart.

With Alfonso Cuarón, you never know what’s next—and sometimes neither does he. The director leaps from genre to genre: from a Dickens adaptation, to a sensual road movie about two teenage boys, to a blockbuster Harry Potter sequel, to a dystopia about infertility, to a thriller set in low Earth orbit, to a meditative drama about the housekeeper in a wealthy Mexican household, filmed in black and white. What unites these stories is Cuarón’s particular sensibility, or what he calls his “cinematic language.” His camera rarely stops moving. His films regularly deliver tiny, unexpected moments—a woman shyly revealing herself to be pregnant in Children of Men; a stranded astronaut making radio contact with an Inuit man and his dogs down on Earth in Gravity—that feel intimate and grand at the same time.

Peter Todd is standing on the upper floor of a dilapidated industrial building somewhere in Czechia, chuckling under his breath. He has just been accused on camera of being Satoshi Nakamoto, the Bitcoin creator, whose identity has remained a mystery for 15 years.

In the final scene of a new HBO documentary, Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery, documentarian Cullen Hoback confronts Todd with the theory that he is Satoshi. In a previous work, Hoback unmasked the figure behind QAnon. Here, he tries to repeat the trick with Bitcoin.

Katsura Hashino is what you’d call a nervous guy.

“It is every day for me,” he says. “I’m completely filled with anxiety.”

A longtime designer of the role-playing video game series Persona, he has good reason to be. After moving away from the series in 2016, he eventually took the helm of a new game, Metaphor: ReFantazio, which aims to not just be the culmination of developer Atlus’ most-beloved RPG series, but also an introduction to a brand-new fantasy world that he hopes players will respond to as well as they have with his past games. No pressure.

Politicians and right-wing influencers have spread conspiracy theories online suggesting that Hurricane Milton has been geoengineered by nefarious forces, with the end goal of preventing Republicans from voting in the presidential election.

“Milton looks like another man-made storm, and it looks like Trump voters are victims. Is this really what’s happening?” wrote one user on X. “Biden and Harris are messing with the weather! Hurricane Milton was sent to Florida just like the other hurricane to wipe Florida out!! They know those are mostly Trump supporters who live in that state, so 85% of them won’t be able to vote next month,” wrote another.