New proposals will see the EU further invest in European startups and companies as it looks to strengthen its homegrown tech footprint.
The slice-of-life game RollerGirl features music inspired by 2000s-era pop-punk.
The recently-incarcerated former congressman George Santos allegedly placed bets on himself, then acted to ensure he won.
Hackers appeared to take over victims’ accounts even after Meta said it fixed its AI-powered support chatbot, which granted hackers access to victims’ accounts.
Amazon's updated search bar will now show you AI-generated images of products as you describe them. For now, the in-app feature only surfaces AI images of clothing and home goods, allowing you to tap on the image that best matches what you're looking for and search for similar-looking items. In a blog post, Amazon positions […]
Amazon will use visual search and AI to show AI generated product images that match your search queries. The retailer says it will help guide users to products.
After shelving the original executive order last month, Donald Trump finally got on board Monday night.
The prominent AI music generation startup is now valued at over $5.4 billion -- about seven months ago, it raised at a $2.45 billion valuation.
PlayStation used its most recent State of Play showcase to make it clear where its focus is. After a series of costly live-service stumbles, it's getting back to focusing on premium, narrative-driven, single-player games. That statement was made clear with how it started and ended the hourlong show. The showcase began with an extended look […]
Data shows Waymo's robotaxis are empty for almost half of the miles they drive.
What makes a robot gripper useful isn’t that it can pick up one object — it’s that it can pick up the next one, and the one after that, with a tool it’s never held before. What makes an autonomous vehicle system safe isn’t just that it can reason through a situation — it’s that […]
At CVPR, NVIDIA is unveiling new physical AI agent skills that help researchers and developers speed the development of autonomous vehicles, robots and vision AI systems. The core challenge in physical AI research isn’t simply developing stronger models. It’s building a full workflow around them — reconstructing real-world scenes, generating edge-case scenarios, training policies, evaluating […]
The startup's own stack for Africa and Middle East is now handling more than 17,000 calls per day.
A few months ago, Meta effectively handed Supernatural, a popular VR fitness game on the Meta Quest, a death sentence. As part of overarching VR layoffs, the company announced the game would no longer get any new content, enraging its tightly knit, devoted community. Now it looks like Supernatural is getting a second chance. Today, […]
The man who headed Trump’s invasions of US cities joined the US and European far right in Portugal to preach “remigration”—a plan to expel all minorities and immigrants.
The company is reducing its workforce as it exits 22 countries, reduces management layers, and invests in its infrastructure to scale its platform.
U.K. regulators are requiring Google offer a tool allowing website publishers to opt-out of generative AI search features. The option will be tested in the U.K. then rolled out globally.
The Dreame L20 Ultra isn’t the company’s newest model, but it’s still a great robovac / mop hybrid that offers strong performance while requiring very little day-to-day maintenance thanks to its included trash bin and AI obstacle avoidance. Verge readers can get for its best-ever price right now. Originally $1,400 when it launched in 2023, […]
In a few short weeks, Pokémon Champions will arrive on mobile with full cross-platform support.
The app allows users to engage with other fans, explore trending videos, and access curated creator feeds.
At Microsoft's annual Build conference on Tuesday, the company announced a slew of new or expanded AI initiatives, including a super app, in-house reasoning models, a cybersecurity tool, and OpenClaw-esque AI agents. All this news added up to a clear message: Microsoft is positioned to be one of the biggest players in AI, and it's […]
From a massive DOGE data breach and the hacking of critical energy and water systems to the hack of an FBI surveillance system, here are the most damaging security incidents and data breaches of 2026.
This open-source community project lets you create a StumbleUpon-like experience for recommending your favorite sites.
WiiM, a company known for its lineup of speakers and amplifiers, has revealed its first soundbar.
WhatsApp will charge businesses for using its AI agent based on token usage
Mark Zuckerberg wants agents to be able to "run your whole business."
Doubts linger over whether Meta can close the gap with rivals.
Making sense of what you get from Claude AI at the free tier, especially as limits are vague and keep shifting.
Microsoft has two new Surface devices arriving later this year, both powered by Nvidia's RTX Spark chips. I got a chance to take a closer look at both the Surface Laptop Ultra and Surface RTX Spark Dev Box at Microsoft's Build conference this week, and while both have the same chip inside, they're utilizing Nvidia's […]
The Series F round values Coralogix at $1.6 billion and comes less than a year after its previous raise.
The company said it's worked up a moderation system that uses a blend of AI and human input to moderate both visual and written content.
Google has expanded its water stewardship projects in the midst of growing unrest over data centers' water usage.
Smart lighting company Nanoleaf has been acquired by OneRobotics, the parent company of SwitchBot. In an exclusive interview with The Verge, Nanoleaf CEO Gimmy Chu says the company will remain independent and that he and his cofounder and COO, Christian Yan, will continue to run it. "Nothing is changing operationally," says Chu, adding that there […]
Amazon's Stargate series greenlit last year has been cancelled.
Fight the scourge of unsolicited rings and pings from spammers, scammers, and telemarketers.
When they're being eaten, bean plants release chemicals that draw in parasitic wasps.
By the time the Children's Hospital closed its doors to trans patients, Sage had already stopped taking testosterone. A nonbinary high school student, they originally received treatment for the rapid onset of puberty. The changes their body experienced felt frightening and sudden. They developed PMOS, a relatively common hormonal disorder that can lead to hair […]
The company’s RTX Spark chips might finally turn the “AI PC” into reality.
Meta, Microsoft, SpaceX, Coinbase, the DOJ and international law enforcement partners collaborated in an operation that focused on scam networks in SE Asia.
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"Everyone is in a place where it’s no fun to be there."
Fusion startup Xcimer fired up the world's largest privately owned laser.
Several real estate listings in the San Francisco Bay Area are offering to exchange a home for a piece of the AI startup.
Google, Microsoft, and other hyperscalers have come under scrutiny for their impact on water quality and availability.
The writer and anti-bullying activist is on social media, but to protect her nervous system, she prefers not to be alerted.
Keep your trio of Apple gadgets powered up wherever you go with these compact folding chargers.
I put my family on a private social network, and all I got was this lousy group chat. At least it’s secure.
In the face of widespread backlash to the AI data center buildout throughout the US, Google is touting its efforts to minimize the environmental impact by actually increasing water for local communities. The company laid out five commitments around water use in a new blog post published Wednesday, including a goal to replenish more water […]
Soccer fans on r/WorldCup2026Tickets are using Claude to build DIY ticketing software, exchanging on back channels, and leaving scalpers scrambling.
Online publishers are getting more control over whether their websites appear in Google's AI Search features, thanks to a UK regulatory ruling. The new conduct rule imposed by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) requires Google to let website owners keep their content out of features like AI Overviews and prevent it from being used […]
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Even in a future of robot taxis, someone still has to return the things passengers leave behind.
"It’s a reminder of how human activity is changing the natural world in unanticipated ways.”
A government committee says that the country’s growing dependence on the data analytics company is a serious liability.
One hardware announcement and several software highlights from Microsoft Build.
The cybersecurity company is nearing a $300 million round led by Evolution Equity Partners.
Accelerated computing has revolutionized industrial engineering, compressing simulation times from weeks to hours. Today’s remaining challenges sit in the end-to-end workflow surrounding the simulations: computer-aided design, meshing, simulation setup and debugging, as well as post-processing and generating summary reports of these processes. At GTC Taipei at COMPUTEX, NVIDIA and more than a dozen engineering software […]
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Microsoft missed the boat on apps, so get ready for agents.
Over the last few months, these DIY hardware communities have exploded in popularity as people on social media show off their solar-powered game emulators, pocket-sized ereaders, and clamshell purse computers.
Lawsuit: Ring cameras scan guests and passersby and use AI to identify faces.
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A federal IT staffer filed a complaint about DOGE, then went public. Shortly after Elon Musk boosted a post calling his claims false, his brake lines were cut. Now he’s suing for defamation.
Uber's cutback has occurred after the company had reportedly encouraged staff to use AI as much as possible.
The National Center for Atmospheric Research won't be losing its supercomputer.
Microsoft on Tuesday took the wraps off Adaptive Spec-driven Scoring for Evaluation and Regression Testing, an open source framework for spinning up AI evaluations.
The agentic AI moment has arrived, but delivering on its promise requires more than good models. It also takes fast hardware, secure runtimes, a responsive data layer and models tuned for long-running reasoning. NVIDIA and Microsoft are bringing that full stack to developers across Windows devices, Azure cloud and local deployments. At Microsoft Build, NVIDIA […]
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International Mathematical Union endorses warning about tech industry influence.
The caveat is that one of the world's most famous living directors is using the tech solely for storyboarding.
Google's June Android feature drop includes more scam detection, more AirDrop, and yes, more AI.
Microsoft’s OpenClaw-style agent appears in Teams, just like a human colleague, and automates your dull office tasks.
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The number of cases falls from 1,100 to 437 with increased testing.
AI models can voluntarily submitted to the government for review 30 days before release under Trump's new executive order.
Sprite-based graphics architecture makes first-person 3D a challenge.
There are sound engineering reasons to use the same approach SpaceX uses with the Falcon 9.
In the social event planner’s first major move toward monetization, Partiful is getting ticketing directly in the app.
Opal, the company famous for making a fancy webcam, has pivoted to making other consumer electronics. Fueled by big investments from OpenAI and Samsung, it’s working on an audio gadget first.
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The right-wing think tank is actively pushing “civil terrorism”—increasing penalties for minor crimes committed while people engage in constitutionally protected free speech.
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Donald Trump killed an executive order to regulate AI. Now, administration officials and AI executives are trying to figure out if there’s anything left to piece back together.
Ameer Al-Khatahtbeh was just trying to find an outlet for Muslim news. Now he has more than 12 million followers.
Financial institutions have spent years building AI: fraud models, credit models, recommendation engines and risk systems. While this sprawl of task-specific models has been effective, it’s also constrained by siloed systems. Siloed systems prevent institutions from developing a unified understanding of consumers’ financial behavior. As enterprise datasets keep growing, so does the gap between what […]
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Agentic AI is getting physical. At COMPUTEX on Tuesday, NVIDIA announced NVIDIA JetPack 7.2 and NVIDIA NemoClaw support on NVIDIA Jetson. JetPack 7.2 brings agentic AI skills, Yocto project support, NVIDIA CUDA 13 on NVIDIA Jetson Orin, a substantial performance gain on Jetson AGX Orin 32GB module and Multi-Instance GPU (MIG) support on NVIDIA Jetson […]
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The AI giant behind Claude submitted paperwork on Monday that would take it public, just a couple of weeks after SpaceX’s splashy IPO announcement.
Florida's lawsuit against OpenAI comes after a mass shooter at FSU reportedly consulted ChatGPT to plan the attack.
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The NVIDIA AI Cloud ecosystem is accelerating the global buildout of AI factory infrastructure. Partners are expanding capacity to meet growing demand from enterprises, startups, nations, AI labs and developers scaling agentic AI applications. NVIDIA AI Clouds are a growing ecosystem of purpose-built clouds serving the exploding token demand behind today’s most popular AI applications. […]
As factories move from isolated automation to plant-wide intelligence, manufacturers need AI systems that can connect live machine signals, quality systems, work instructions and operational alerts into a unified decision layer. Today at GTC Taipei at COMPUTEX, NVIDIA announced the NVIDIA Factory Operations Blueprint (FOX) — a reference design for building an autonomous factory manager […]
Taiwan is home to more than 500 NVIDIA ecosystem partners. More than 1 million NVIDIA MGX rack components for NVIDIA Vera Rubin infrastructure come together in Taiwan, from across 25 factory sites. As Vera Rubin ramps into full production to power agentic AI factories worldwide, that ecosystem spans the full supply chain — from key […]
Personal agents are exploding in popularity, with open source projects like OpenClaw and Hermes seeing rapid adoption by AI developer communities on GitHub. Built to adapt to individual preferences and workflows, these agents can interact with applications, generate content, automate repetitive processes and manage multi-step tasks — all while running locally on device. Today at […]
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Robotics is entering a new phase: moving from controlled demos and scripted automation toward generalizable, reliable embodied autonomy in the real world. At the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), eight of NVIDIA Research’s 28 accepted papers show how simulation-to-real transfer is becoming a foundation for that shift, helping robots perceive, reason, plan and […]
License to stream, shaken and stirred. GeForce NOW is dialing up the espionage with the launch of 007 First Light, letting members slip into James Bond’s reimagined origin story from almost any device — no tux or preloads required. For a limited time, the game is included with the purchase of a 12‑month GeForce NOW […]
AI factories are token factories, converting power into intelligence in real time. And as agentic AI scales and autonomous, always-on special agents are deployed in the enterprise, performance per watt and cost per token become the economics that matter.
The shift to agentic AI creates a new CPU requirement for the AI factory: fast cores, massive memory bandwidth and the ability to sustain high performance when all cores are active. Initial benchmark results published by Phoronix today show that the NVIDIA Vera CPU meets this need. For this first public look, the benchmark scope […]
At NVIDIA GTC Taipei at COMPUTEX, the world’s developers, researchers and industry leaders are converging to dive into the latest breakthroughs shaping every industry, covering topics spanning AI factories and scaling infrastructure to agentic and physical AI and more.
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At this year’s Google I/O conference, NVIDIA and Google Cloud are accelerating the work of more than 100,000 developers in the companies’ joint developer community, which provides curated learning paths, hands-on labs and events that help them build using the full-stack NVIDIA AI platform on Google Cloud. Launched at Google I/O last year, the community […]
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