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Terrence O'Brien / The Verge: Google says it didn't consider Gemini's hacks worthy of disclosure because Gemini acted “appropriately” and stopped after determining it hacked real companies — Google…
Hayden Field / The Verge: A look at AI safety groups METR, Redwood Research, and Apollo Research, as AI misalignment incidents at OpenAI and Anthropic thrust them into the spotlight — On a sunny July day in…
Lauren Feiner / The Verge: Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger signs an EO to slow down data center approvals, create an AI task force to evaluate workforce displacement, and more — Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D)…
Jay Peters / The Verge: Meta launches a Mac app for Muse after releasing the AI agent on iOS, Android, and the web earlier this month, allowing it to manage files, pull from apps, more — Follow topics and authors…
Yael Grauer / The Verge: Anthropic and other researchers detail how thousands of people were catfished by dating scam apps using LLM-generated replies from Claude and other models — Security researcher Matthew…
Jay Peters / The Verge: Snap introduces Specs Intelligence, an AI assistant designed to work across iPhone, Mac, and Specs glasses, calling it an “anticipatory AI service” — Snap's ‘Specs…
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: Google adds MCP integration to Google Home, letting third-party AI agents analyze home data and control devices, rolling out to Premium Advanced users in the US &mdash…
Allison Johnson / The Verge: iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max review: manual camera exposure controls and image quality improvements, but $100 more than the 17 Pro and expensive storage tiers — Last week, Apple…
Stevie Bonifield / The Verge: Meta rolls out its Meta One subscription bundle globally, with expanded Meta AI capabilities powered by Muse, and $7.99/month and $19.99/month individual plans — Meta One…
Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft rolls out emergency fix for critical issues caused by its September Patch Tuesday update, which addressed ~1,000 vulnerabilities but introduced bugs — The out-of-band update…
Sean Hollister / The Verge: Steam Frame review: comfortable to wear, supports multiple ways to play games, but it doesn't feel like a finished product and has an up to 2-hour battery life — For nearly three…
Tom Warren / The Verge: Apple rolls out iOS 27, watchOS 27, iPadOS 27, visionOS 27, and macOS 27 Golden Gate, all with Siri AI — watchOS 27, iPadOS 27, and visionOS 27 also debut today. … Apple is now…
Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft publishes a 37-page “humanist AI code of conduct”, establishing that “people matter more than AI”, rejecting legal personhood for AI, and more — Microsoft…
Justine Calma / The Verge: Report: former EPA officials identify 30 federal actions since January 2025 that they say exacerbate health risks stemming from data center pollution — The Trump administration…
Tom Warren / The Verge: Frank Shaw is leaving Microsoft after 17 years as chief communications officer, saying it is “time for me to move on and try new things” — Frank Shaw has been supporting…
Emma Roth / The Verge: Meta says it is making changes to prompts suggested by Meta AI after a viral video showed it posing invasive personal questions about a woman's young daughters — The change comes after a…
Emma Roth / The Verge: Universal Music Group partners with ElevenLabs to launch a new AI-powered platform that will let users create song remixes, mashups, and more from its catalog — UMG's AI music platform will…
Cameron Faulkner / The Verge: Apple raises iPhone prices by $100 on all of the older models it is offering, including the iPhone 16, the iPhone 17 lineup, as well as the iPhone Air — The price increase impacts…
Terrence O'Brien / The Verge: iPhone Duo supports Apple Pencil and comes with iOS redesigned for multitasking on different screen sizes/orientations, with auto-adjusting controls and apps — iPhone Duo is also the…
The Verge: Hands-on with the iPhone Duo: the folding mechanism is smooth, the crease is almost impossible to find with a finger, and the inner screen has a matte finish — We've tried the first ever…
Dominic Preston / The Verge: The iPhone Duo starts at $1,999 for 256GB, with a 2TB model costing $3,199, in star white and night sky colors; preorders start Oct. 16, and sales begin Oct. 23 — Seven years after…
Jay Peters / The Verge: Apple announces the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max, with a similar design to 17 Pro and a new A20 Pro chip, in deep black, silver, glacier, and burgundy — The iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro…
Hayden Field / The Verge: In an expanded class action lawsuit, a group of Claude subscribers says Anthropic deceptively advertised the limits of its Max subscription tier — Anthropic says power users are key to…
Robert Hart / The Verge: Anthropomorphic portrayals of AI models as rogue agents can obscure the responsibility that companies like OpenAI have for incidents like the Hugging Face hack — The internet fights over…
Lauren Feiner / The Verge: Microsoft court filings: an expert hired by publishers found that only ~60K of 8.2M Copilot chat logs contained at least 16 words in common with news content — Fewer than 1 percent of…
Sean Hollister / The Verge: Nvidia says it plans to bring DLSS 5 to older RTX 40-series GPUs “once RTX 50 Series performance is more fully tuned” — Nvidia won't confirm that previously announced DLSS…
Robert Hart / The Verge: Report: OpenAI learned of the DseWiki German website incident weeks ago but kept it under wraps as it grappled with the Hugging Face fallout — OpenAI denies lawyers discouraged disclosing…
Nilay Patel / The Verge: An interview with Sonos CEO Tom Conrad on the Sonos 27 platform, AI assistants, its Google relationship, speakers as a home computer mesh network, and more — Today, I'm talking with Tom…
Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft unveils Project Zenith, a “distraction-free Windows experience” for developers to run 30B+ parameter models locally on devices with 64GB+ of memory — The first…
Hayden Field / The Verge: OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra, initially for customers in its Daybreak program; Greg Brockman says it is a “generational leap” and “we are now in the AGI era” &mdash…
Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft will open Xbox Cloud Gaming to non-Game Pass users via a pay-as-you-go model; Ultimate subs will be limited to 15 hours per month of cloud gaming — Microsoft is trying once again…
Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge: Nvidia launches Personal AI Router (PAIR), a free tool that distributes local AI inference workloads across compatible computers on a network, in beta — PAIR is…
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: Anker unveils the Eufy MindBase, a local AI hub for its cameras that runs an on-device, Anker-developed LLM, with a dedicated AI chip and up to 48TB of storage — The company…
Lauren Feiner / The Verge: A look at Loudoun County, Virginia, dubbed “Data Center Alley”, which hosts ~250 data centers and offers a glimpse into data centers' impact on communities — Massive AI…
Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: Uber launches London's first commercial robotaxi service; the vehicles use Wayve's autonomous driving tech and will initially have human safety drivers — The cars have no lidar and…
Stevie Bonifield / The Verge: MrBeast, whose YouTube channel hit 500M subscribers in June, will put Gemini, Google Health, and the Fitbit Air in his videos as part of a multiyear Google deal — One of…
Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge: Acer unveils the Swift Blade 14, an ultralight laptop weighing 1.76lbs with Intel Wildcat Lake processors, and the Swift Air 16, set to launch in December — The…
Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge: Dell unveils the student-focused Dell 14S, with Intel Wildcat Lake chips and starting with 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage, in a bid to rival the MacBook Neo — The…
Stevie Bonifield / The Verge: John Deere is testing JD, an AI assistant for farmers, to help with best practices and find trends based on farmers' “field, machine, and operational data” — The…
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Google launches Google Pics, a creative design suite powered by Gemini and Nano Banana to compete with Canva and Adobe Express, available as a Workspace app — This new image…
Tom Warren / The Verge: Mozilla launches built-in ad blocking for Firefox on iOS, using Apple's WebKit Content Blocker and the EasyList filter to block third-party ads and trackers — Mozilla is using Apple's…
Jay Peters / The Verge: Nvidia says it will launch DLSS 5 on September 3 on RTX 50-series desktop and laptop GPUs and through GeForce Now, following a divisive announcement in March — DLSS 5 is almost here, but…
Emma Roth / The Verge: A look back at Tim Cook's 15-year tenure: Apple silicon, wearables, a $1T market cap, privacy, Apple Vision Pro, Apple Car, AI, App Store battles, and Trump — Expectations for Tim Cook were…
Charles Pulliam-Moore / The Verge: Music producers are calling out tracks suspected of using AI tools like Suno, as the internet becomes increasingly filled with AI-generated music — As AI infiltrates the…
Emma Roth / The Verge: Google adds Expert Intelligence to Gemini Notebook, letting users import eligible titles they own in Google Play Books to ask questions, generate podcasts, more — Gemini Notebook's new…
Lauren Feiner / The Verge: Meta's AG settlement says its age verification framework will use “reliable age signals” shared with it by “OS and app stores operated by Apple and Google” &mdash…
Hayden Field / The Verge: OpenAI says reward hacking, an AI alignment problem in which a model takes unintended actions to achieve a goal, was a primary driver of the Hugging Face breach — In July, an unreleased…
Tom Warren / The Verge: Xbox announces a disc-to-digital feature that will allow users to digitize their existing physical games, rolling out for Xbox Insider testers on August 31 — Xbox Insiders will get access…
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: Amazon's Ring unveils a new proprietary encryption architecture called TAKE, set to begin rolling out in September as the default encryption for all cameras — The new…
Lauren Feiner / The Verge: Meta says its AG deal requires it to create an age assurance standard that is subject to independent testing, with a false positive rate no higher than 10% — It agreed to independent…