If you're tired of controlling Stream Deck devices by manually pushing buttons, then good news: Elgato will now let you delegate that task to a chatbot instead. The Stream Deck 7.4 software update released today introduces Model Context Protocol (MCP) support, allowing AI assistants like Claude, ChatGPT, and Nvidia G-Assist to find and activate Stream Deck actions on your behalf.
"You still set up actions in Stream Deck app the same way you always have. MCP adds a new way to trigger them," Elgato said in its announcement. "Once everything is connected, you can type or speak requests and your AI tool will trigger the matching Stream Deck act …
A Baidu Apollo robotaxi in Wuhan, China. | Image: Bloomberg via Getty Images
Numerous robotaxis operated by Chinese tech giant Baidu froze in a major city on Tuesday, reportedly trapping passengers inside, stranding them on highways, and causing at least one accident in snarled traffic.
Police in Wuhan confirmed receiving multiple reports of Baidu's Apollo Go robotaxis stopping in the middle of streets and being unable to move. Police said no injuries have been reported and that preliminary investigations suggest an unspecified "system failure" is responsible for the outage.
NEW: Dozens of robotaxis by Baidu stopped on the road in Wuhan, causing crashes on highways and trapping passengers in the cars-some for mo …
After Anthropic released Claude Code's 2.1.88 update, users quickly discovered that it contained a package with a source map file containing its TypeScript codebase, with one person on X calling attention to the leak and posting a file containing the code. The leaked data reportedly contains more than 512,000 lines of code and provides a look into the inner workings of the AI-powered coding tool, as reported earlier by Ars Technica and VentureBeat.
ChatGPT is now accessible from your CarPlay dashboard if you have iOS 26.4 or newer and the latest version of the ChatGPT app, 9to5Mac reports. Apple's recently launched iOS 26.4 update added support for "voice-based conversational apps" in CarPlay, opening the door to let you use AI chatbots with voice features through Apple's in-car platform.
When using ChatGPT through CarPlay, the app doesn't show text conversations, according to 9to5Mac - instead, you can only have conversations with the app using your voice. (Apple's developer guidelines ask that apps don't show text or imagery as responses.) The CarPlay app isn't completely devoid of …
This is wearable maximalism but subtract two smartwatches and smart glasses, and this could be you in three years.
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I had a major problem during the unboxing of my Meta Ray-Ban Display review unit. To control the glasses' Display, you need to wear a separate neural band on your dominant wrist. That isn't a problem for most people, but I test wearables for a living. I'm always double-wristing smartwatches. That particular day, my dominant wrist was …
Big week for OpenAI! The company is running basically every tech industry playbook, all at the same time, and it actually seems to be working. The company is adding apps to ChatGPT, in an effort to turn the chatbot into something more like an operating system. It's offering developers new tools to add ChatGPT into their existing apps. It's making huge, somewhat circular deals with every chip company everywhere. And, oh yeah, it's basically building ChatGPTikTok.
On this episode of The Vergecast, we talk through everything OpenAI is up to. The Verge's Hayden Field was at the Dev Day event this week, and takes David and Jake on a tour of the …
Essentially, you make the product, you should be forced to use it—which Graphite apparently enacts by randomly deleting employee accounts on a daily basis, a process it refers to as "onboarding roulette".
The facepalms, they are not big enough. Anyway, the whole idea is to test the onboarding process for its AI code review software, a traditionally difficult problem to solve due to the userbase being your primary test subjects. Fear not, however, as apparently dogfooding is the way forward. As co-founder and CTO Greg Foster explains:
"Our solution at Graphite has been to run a roulette script, randomly deleting one of our engineers' Graphite accounts every day at 9 a.m. We don’t just reset onboarding—we delete their account, tokens, configured filters, uploaded gifs, and more."
"Isn't that frustrating? Sure." continues Foster. "Folks on our team come to work to code new features, not to find themselves logged out and forced to recreate their accounts from scratch. We were cautious when first trying the technique, but the benefits became clear immediately."
(Image credit: Tim Clark)
I presume those benefits don't include members of your team immediately searching for a new job when they realise they were screwed with deliberately, but still. Foster seems remarkably chipper about the whole affair, continuing:
"Like most products, Graphite aims for fast, bug-free, and painless onboarding. The best way for us to ensure this is to suffer through onboarding once every day ourselves. Across our full Eng-product-design team, any individual only gets deleted once a month on average. But one teammate a day hitting a sharp edge has proven enough to find and motivate fixing issues.
"Deleting employee accounts has created dogfooding on one of our most critical and hard to test surfaces. We’ve caught tens of bugs, and created user empathy in a traditional blindspot. I’d strongly recommend other product teams consider automatically deleting employee accounts for the same benefits."
Somehow I don't see "onboarding roulette" catching on, despite the supposed benefits. I can only imagine the emails I'd send if my job deliberately kicked me out of the platform I was building for the sake of testing, although I'd guess that some choice language would be involved. And as for "dogfooding?" I'll leave the Pedigree Chum to the pooches, thanks.
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