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A data breach involving government-issued ID documents affects over three million people in Texas.
Biggest AI firms will likely recoil at Bernie Sanders' AI wealth fund.
Karamo Brown, famous for his pep talks on Netflix’s “Queer Eye,” has jumped into the wellness and AI space with his new app, Kē. After spending a year and a half focusing on his own journey—from fitness and nutrition to meditation, sobriety, relationships, and personal growth—Brown wants to help others do the same.  Kē offers […]
The software engineers filed a complaint with Seattle’s civil rights office accusing Amazon of illegally retaliating against them for expressing their personal political beliefs.
When three Amazon software engineers testified earlier this month at Seattle City Council hearings about data centers, they started their testimony by citing a city law barring employment discrimination over political speech. Now, they're accusing their employer of breaking that law by retaliating against them. On June 10th - one week after the hearing, and […]
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Apple’s grip on iPhone app distribution is loosening in another major market: Brazil.
MapTap is a phone game that will make you feel smarter after you play it.
This is Lowpass by Janko Roettgers, a newsletter on the ever-evolving intersection of tech and entertainment, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. When Fox announced its acquisition of Roku earlier this week, executives of both companies were quick to promise that not much would change in the near future. Sure, getting its […]
The startup trains embodied AI and world models using Medal’s dataset of 2 billion videos per year from 10 million monthly active users.
Guardrails positions itself as a populist political movement that runs on small donations from people in the trenches of the AI boom.
We can't blame the Neolithic Transition for the plague anymore.
The rich are getting richer. Here’s what wealth advisers are telling their tech clients right now.
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Running out of color options for events in Google Calendar shouldn't be an issue going forward. The previous limit of 11 predefined colors has now been expanded to give users access to up to 200 custom colors for individual events across the native Calendar web and mobile apps, and the Calendar API. This started rolling […]
One messy database is threatening to disenfranchise thousands or even millions of registered voters, while leaving even more at risk of intimidation or data breaches, in the name of solving a problem that barely exists. As the 2026 midterm elections approach, election and privacy experts are sounding alarms about the Department of Homeland Security's Systematic […]
Amazon Prime Day 2026 lifts off on June 23rd and will hopefully deliver the best deals of the summer. We’ve been covering the most notable pre-Prime Day discounts happening, and come next week, we’ll be bringing you many more deals — ones we can’t tell you about just yet. As usual, expect to see price […]
Spotify is launching "Reserved," a new system that will hold two concert tickets for an artist's superfans before they're on sale to the public.
If you’ve been wanting to buy a robot vacuum but have been put off by how much it can cost to get a good one, now is not a bad time to start looking. Prime Day is next week, but many retailers are offering early deals on several models we’ve tested from brands like Roborock, […]
On today’s episode of Decoder, my guest is Hayden Field, senior AI reporter for The Verge. Often when Hayden comes on the show, it’s because something has gone wrong in the world of AI. Last weekend, that something was a pretty intense mix of Anthropic, the Trump administration, and Anthropic’s new AI model, Fable 5.  […]
Akai updates the MPC One and Key 37 with better processors, additional RAM and more storage.
Pre-orders for Grand Theft Auto 6 open in just one week.
Now bring back the Microsoft Zune, I double dare you.
Amazon’s Kindle Colorsoft Essentials Bundle is on sale for $182.97 (originally $334.97) as an early Prime Day deal, the lowest price we’ve seen for the combo. Unlike other Kindles, the Colorsoft’s color E Ink screen is great for comic books and graphics novels, illustrated books, or just perusing book covers while deciding what to read […]
The digital era gave the advertising and marketing industry speed; the AI era is giving it autonomous operations. For companies building next-generation technologies for advertising and marketing, the question is no longer whether to adopt AI but whether their infrastructure can support it at the speed and scale the industry demands. At Cannes Lions, running […]
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Adobe is updating its Firefly AI assistant with new chops, and adding it to Premiere, Illustrator, InDesign and Frame.io.
Adobe's plan to stick AI assistants into all of its Creative Cloud suite is now fully underway, with new chatbots now rolling out to its biggest editing and design apps. As part of a public beta launching today, Photoshop, Premiere, Illustrator, InDesign, and Frame.io now each have a bespoke AI Assistant that can be used […]
Adobe is introducing some new capabilities for its Firefly AI assistant, alongside a "reimagined" AI studio that lets you edit and generate new designs from a single interface. The new Firefly experience launching today in private beta is designed to give you "persistent context, reusable assets, and organized workflows" across your projects, according to Adobe, […]
XGIMI's MemoMind One is a good pair of smart glasses blighted by a creepy AI that spies on you.
Ultrahuman's M2 Live uses Abbott's cheaper Lingo sensors to help keep track of your blood sugar.
Adobe has added its Firefly AI tool to some of its most important apps.
The company's latest recall of 3,871 vehicles follows incidents of its autonomous cars prioritizing other hazards or failing to recognize closed construction zones altogether.
The Frame Pro 2026 benefits from meaningful tweaks. AI audio and picture tuning work in tandem with a new anti-glare coating to deliver impressive benefits.
Forget stickers, GIFs, and emoji reactions. Pixi is betting that the next evolution of messaging is interactive augmented reality (AR).
The company has identified at least 13 instances where its robotaxis drove into highway sections closed for construction.
In a Truth Social post, Trump said Apple and Intel have already finalized an agreement to manufacture chips for the former's devices stateside.
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Waymo is recalling over 3,800 of its self-driving taxis due to a software issue that could cause them to enter closed freeway construction zones at speed.
I tested over a dozen top home diffusers for scent strength, longevity, special features, and more. The Urpower Aroma is my favorite option for most people.
Artist Morry Kolman will be livestreaming feeds of the NBA champions’ ticker-tape parade from NYC’s traffic cameras—and this time, the city’s Department of Transportation isn’t demanding he stop.
By focusing on sleep, ScreenZen’s app-blocking Halo gadget is downright dreamy compared to the rest.
NASA has teamed up with Eric Schmidt's Relativity Space for a 2028 Martian mission.
The 2026 World Cup promises a global celebration. Many Arab fans may find themselves locked out.
Sennheiser joins the open-ear earbud craze with its first clip-on design.
VSCO's new Studio Pro app can batch edit photos and match the style of a reference image.
Wellness influencers have stumbled onto a huge issue when it comes male fertility, though not every solution they're pitching is good advice.
Peter Parker to Bruce Banner: "I didn't know you could get that big."
Relativity Space—a rocket maker acquired by former Google executive chair Eric Schmidt last year after stumbling on the path to orbit—might just beat SpaceX to Mars.
Midjourney has announced its first hardware project, and it can do more than make cute AI pet photos.
A year ago at NVIDIA GTC Paris at VivaTech, France laid out plans to advance local AI — from new AI factories and national compute capacity to open frontier models and industrial platforms. Now, that AI infrastructure is coming online. AI agents are running in production, startups are deploying applications and the French AI ecosystem […]
Internal Home Office tests of age-verification technology show the risks of life-altering errors. It’s moving forward anyway.
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Here's what you need to do to get those pesky "write with Gemini" pop-ups to go away.
CEO Tim Cook said in a recent interview that the situation is "unsustainable."
Days before Anthropic took its most advanced AI models offline, the White House ordered the company to revoke SK Telecom’s access to Claude Mythos over claims of alleged ties to China.
RAMaggedon claims another one.
Maggot therapy lacks robust data, but it has fans and a fail-safe "bacon therapy."
Chi-Hua Chien has spent more than two decades as a venture capitalist, but he thinks like a cultural anthropologist.
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TIL you can schedule prompts in ChatGPT.
Elsewhere, beyond-classical quantum hardware, plus classical computing fires back.
The former Sequoia Capital leader is filling an "existing vacancy" on SpaceX's board, days after the company went public in the largest IPO ever.
Snap's long-awaited smart glasses debut hasn't exactly done wonders for the company's stock.
Tokenmaxxing was the hottest trend in Silicon Valley earlier this year, with CEOs encouraging employees to push AI usage as far as it would go. Then the bill came due. Uber reportedly blew through its annual AI budget in a few months, some companies cut Claude licenses for parts of their org, and Meta killed its internal leaderboard.  This tension between […]
Epic Games is making generative AI a big part of upcoming versions of Unreal Engine.
FCC considers AT&T petitions to preempt state rules and discontinue phone service.
The affected include Oracle, Lenovo, FedEx, a NATO contractor, and Fortinet.
A new FTC lawsuit reveals how sophisticated subscription app operators can allegedly use shell companies and payment infrastructure to stay active on app stores despite mounting consumer complaints.
Tesco claimed Broadcom hiked its VMware prices by about 175 percent in UK court filings.
Nvidia's self-improvement program for robots enlists teams of AI coding agents.
French President Macron and Indian PM Modi raised alarms at the G7 summit that the U.S. could cut off access to American AI overnight — a fear the Anthropic blackout just made real.
Anthropic's tools are getting chummy with each other.
Here's what to expect when the manufacturer stops supporting your smart fridge.
In Shenzhen, workers at IO-AI Tech control humanoid robots using a VR rig reminiscent of Ready Player One.
From Amazon’s Off Campus to Netflix’s upcoming Icebreakers, the recent spate of hetero hockey romances shows Hollywood learned the wrong lessons from Heated Rivalry.
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The highest capacity Optimus GX Pro 850P drive for the PS5 almost tops the $3,000 mark.
Trump administration officials tell WIRED that if Anthropic wants to rerelease Fable 5, it will need to ensure the model's guardrails can't be circumvented. Security experts say that can't be done.
Google's new smart speaker is more about Gemini than audio quality.
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Arriving six years after Google’s last smart speaker, the new HomePod-style device was redesigned to play host to Gemini’s chatbot.
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Smart mowers are an expensive alternative to old-fashioned yard work, but they’re finally good enough to consider if you’d rather sip an iced tea and watch a robot tame your lawn.
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AI runs at the speed of light. More and more, that light is made in Texas. Coherent broke ground today on an expanded manufacturing building in Sherman, Texas. The company makes the lasers, optical components and compound semiconductors that wire AI systems together — and runs what it calls the world’s first 6-inch indium phosphide […]
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Enterprises are moving agentic AI from proof of concept to production — and the next generation of AI factories are built for the era of agents. At HPE Discover Las Vegas, running through Thursday, June 18, NVIDIA and HPE are expanding the HPE AI Factory with NVIDIA, including NVIDIA Vera CPU and NVIDIA Agent Toolkit […]
Every breakthrough AI model starts the same way: with a training run. The infrastructure running those training jobs shapes everything: how fast teams can iterate, what scale of model they can build and whether those jobs complete reliably. As models grow in size, complexity and intelligence, the demands on training infrastructure are also rising. In […]
AgentPerf from Artificial Analysis, the industry’s first agentic AI benchmark, gives developers, enterprises and infrastructure providers a clear way to compare systems for agentic AI. In the first round of published results, the NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra NVL72 platform delivers leading performance across the agentic AI workloads tested, running 20x more agents per megawatt than NVIDIA […]
The GeForce NOW summer sale kicked off today with limited-time savings of up to $70 off a 12-month membership, making now the perfect time to upgrade to get the best of the cloud and see just how far Ultimate gaming can go. PC gamers are driven by one thing: the love of the game. But […]
A car pulls up to the curb. The app says, “Your ride is here.” No one’s in the driver’s seat. For people who live in one of the dozens of cities now hosting robotaxi services, this is already a reality. The robotaxi industry has moved from prototype milestones to commercial operations, with an expanding ecosystem […]
Today, Google DeepMind released DiffusionGemma — an experimental open model built for exceptionally fast text generation. NVIDIA has optimized DiffusionGemma to run even faster across NVIDIA GeForce RTX GPUs, the NVIDIA RTX PRO platform and NVIDIA DGX Spark systems, from local PCs to the cloud. Rather than generating text one word at a time, DiffusionGemma generates multiple words in parallel to output whole blocks of text, opening a new, low-latency frontier for the kind of single-user workloa
NVIDIA GPUs with Confidential Computing are now used for confidential inference in Apple’s Private Cloud Compute (PCC), as it expands beyond Apple’s data centers to Google Cloud. Unveiled during Apple’s annual WWDC gathering for developers from around the globe, NVIDIA GPUs will support server-side inference for Apple Foundation Models, custom-built by Apple and Google, leveraging […]
A year ago at London Tech Week, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang and U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer made a declaration: the U.K. would be an AI maker, not an AI taker. At this year’s event, NVIDIA and its partners are showcasing how that commitment is producing real momentum across the nation’s infrastructure, startups […]
NVIDIA and LG Group are building an AI factory to accelerate LG Group’s next wave of AI-driven businesses, spanning robotics, autonomous driving, data center technologies and GPU cloud services. The AI factory will provide LG Group with accelerated computing infrastructure to train, simulate, validate and deploy AI-based applications across its key businesses. The collaboration brings […]
NVIDIA and Doosan Group are expanding their collaboration to advance new opportunities across physical AI, robotics and AI factory infrastructure, spanning Doosan Robotics, Doosan Bobcat, Doosan Enerbility and Doosan Corporation Electro-Materials BG. The collaboration will bring together NVIDIA’s full-stack accelerated computing platforms with Doosan Group’s capabilities in industrial automation, power generation and advanced electronics materials […]
At GTC Taipei at COMPUTEX last week, NVIDIA unveiled RTX Spark, the superchip that reinvents Windows PCs for the era of personal AI agents. On the heels of this announcement, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang headed to South Korea, where he introduced RTX Spark to the nation’s passionate gaming community. Leading game developers — […]
Home to cutting-edge sovereign AI infrastructure and robotics innovators, as well as one of the world’s most passionate gaming communities, South Korea is one of the world’s centers of AI. NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang is in Seoul this week to meet the partners and builders behind that work. Monday, June 8, 10:00 a.m. […]
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For a quarter century, the Google search box has been one of the most recognizable interfaces in computing: a thin white rectangle, a blinking cursor, a few typed words, and a list of blue links. On Tuesday, Google will formally retire that paradigm. At its annual I/O developer conference , Google announced a sweeping redesign of the search box itself — the literal text field where billions of queries begin every day — transforming it from a simple keyword input into a dynamic, AI-driven con
Railway , a San Francisco-based cloud platform that has quietly amassed two million developers without spending a dollar on marketing, announced Thursday that it raised $100 million in a Series B funding round, as surging demand for artificial intelligence applications exposes the limitations of legacy cloud infrastructure. TQ Ventures led the round, with participation from FPV Ventures , Redpoint , and Unusual Ventures . The investment values Railway as one of the most significant infrast
The artificial intelligence coding revolution comes with a catch: it's expensive. Claude Code , Anthropic's terminal-based AI agent that can write, debug, and deploy code autonomously, has captured the imagination of software developers worldwide. But its pricing — ranging from $20 to $200 per month depending on usage — has sparked a growing rebellion among the very programmers it aims to serve. Now, a free alternative is gaining traction. Goose , an open-source AI agent develope
Alfred Wahlforss was running out of options. His startup, Listen Labs , needed to hire over 100 engineers, but competing against Mark Zuckerberg's $100 million offers seemed impossible. So he spent $5,000 — a fifth of his marketing budget — on a billboard in San Francisco displaying what looked like gibberish: five strings of random numbers. The numbers were actually AI tokens. Decoded, they led to a coding challenge: build an algorithm to act as a digital bouncer at Berghain, the Ber
Salesforce on Tuesday launched an entirely rebuilt version of Slackbot , the company's workplace assistant, transforming it from a simple notification tool into what executives describe as a fully powered AI agent capable of searching enterprise data, drafting documents, and taking action on behalf of employees. The new Slackbot, now generally available to Business+ and Enterprise+ customers, is Salesforce's most aggressive move yet to position Slack at the center of the emergin
Anthropic released Cowork on Monday, a new AI agent capability that extends the power of its wildly successful Claude Code tool to non-technical users — and according to company insiders, the team built the entire feature in approximately a week and a half, largely using Claude Code itself. The launch marks a major inflection point in the race to deliver practical AI agents to mainstream users, positioning Anthropic to compete not just with OpenAI and Google in conversational AI, but w
Nous Research , the open-source artificial intelligence startup backed by crypto venture firm Paradigm , released a new competitive programming model on Monday that it says matches or exceeds several larger proprietary systems — trained in just four days using 48 of Nvidia's latest B200 graphics processors . The model, called NousCoder-14B , is another entry in a crowded field of AI coding assistants, but arrives at a particularly charged moment: Claude Code , the agentic programming t