1 · TechCrunch
When it came to Cal AI’s viral success, a small army of influencers paid off
Cal AI, founded in 2024, generated over $30 million in revenue in two years and was acquired by MyFitnessPal in March for an undisclosed amount.
Daily digest · Thursday, October 15, 2026
From Steam’s new achievement “sets” to OpenAI’s ChatGPT Chrome tab access, apps and platforms kept rolling out—and tweaking—features. Other headlines covered Withings’ Apple Health sync paywall, Sega pulling a troubled remaster, the CGPM ending leap seconds, the UK’s possible BBC streaming fee, Plex adding theater ticket sales, and a US Supreme Court case on video privacy.
1 · TechCrunch
Cal AI, founded in 2024, generated over $30 million in revenue in two years and was acquired by MyFitnessPal in March for an undisclosed amount.
2 · The Verge
Steam is adding “achievement sets,” letting developers group a base game’s and each DLC’s achievements into separate lists with their own progress bars and a visible “set complete” trophy on profiles.
3 · Engadget
Withings says that accounts created after October 13 require a Withings+ subscription ($100/year) for automatic syncing to Apple Health or other third-party apps.
4 · The Verge
OpenAI’s ChatGPT Chrome extension can view your already-open Chrome tabs when you tag Chrome in the ChatGPT web or desktop app, and it can update ChatGPT in the sidebar to use your full conversation history in Chat or Work without leaving the page.
5 · CNET
The CGPM voted to abolish the leap second, and continuous UTC without any future leap seconds becomes effective on May 20, 2027.
6 · The Verge
Sega is pulling Total War: Shogun 2 — Complete Edition from storefronts after its Tuesday launch drew an “Overwhelmingly Negative” Steam rating amid complaints about bugs and AI-like upscaling.
7 · The Verge
2026’s slate of Silicon Valley backlash movies includes The Social Reckoning (Aaron Sorkin) portraying Mark Zuckerberg as a threat to democracy, Alex Gibney’s Musk documentary facing X blocking its ads and threats of legal action, and Guadagnino’s Artificial shifting from Amazon’s planned distribution to wide release in theaters on December 25.
8 · Engadget
The UK government is considering extending the BBC license fee so it applies to streaming video services—including Netflix, Amazon, Disney+ and YouTube—potentially bringing the total cost to about £180 (~$239) a year to watch YouTube in the UK.
9 · Ars Technica
Plex has partnered with Fandango to help users sell and buy movie theater tickets through the Plex platform, adding a new monetization path from content discovery to purchase.
10 · CNET
A US Supreme Court case, Salazar v. Paramount Global, asks whether the Video Privacy Protection Act applies to sharing a person’s online video viewing history for targeted advertising without consent, after 247Sports (owned by Paramount Global) shared Michael Salazar’s video-watching history with Facebook via a tracker.
