Evening Scan

The day's biggest Apple story wasn't about a new product — it was a $250M check to settle a lawsuit over features that still don't exist. OpenAI's president spent another day reading his diary to a jury, which remains one of the stranger recurring news items of 2026.

Apple Settles Siri Class Action for $250 Million

Apple will pay up to $95 per device to settle the suit over AI features it advertised and never shipped — and the features are still not shipped. (9to5Mac)

OpenAI President Reads His Diary to a Jury

Greg Brockman's private journal entries about OpenAI's trajectory are now courtroom exhibits, the kind of discovery outcome that makes every exec reconsider their journaling habit. (Ars Technica)

SAP Bets $1.16B on an 18-Month-Old German AI Lab

SAP is acquiring Prior Labs and simultaneously restricting which AI agents can touch customer workflows — a pairing of offense and defense. (TechCrunch)

OpenAI Launches Self-Serve Ads Manager for ChatGPT

CPC bidding and conversion tracking inside ChatGPT — the "we're not building ads" era is over. (Search Engine Journal)

"OpenAI president has been stuck for days doing exactly that" — reading personal diary entries aloud in court. *— Ars Technica