Details OpenAI's first hardware product might be a phone rather than a mysterious Jony Ive gadget. According to MacRumors, supply‑chain analyst Ming‑Chi Kuo sh...

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Breach Overview Education tech giant Instructure has confirmedhttps://status.instructure.com/incidents/9wm4knj2r64z a data breach affecting students’ private i...

Meta will start using AI to scan photos and videos for visual clues to see if a user is under 13 and should be removed from Facebook and Instagram, the company...

Agreement Overview Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and Elon Musk's xAI have agreed to allow the U.S. government to review new AI models before they are released to...

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Funding round and new investors Voice AI company ElevenLabs announced new investors as part of its $500 million Series D fundraise, which was first announced i...

Funding round and new investors Voice AI company ElevenLabs announced new investors as part of its $500 million Series D fundraise, which was first announced i...

AI Agents Inside Apps: CopilotKit’s Vision and Funding Many companies today provide AI simply as a chatbot inside their apps: you type or dictate what you want...

Still fresh off its recent $375 million jury verdict against Meta, New Mexico Attorney General Raul Torrez's office began arguing for even greater asks in the s...

The cars rolling off production lines right now are filled with old ideas. From beginning to end, the creation of a new vehicle can take five years or longer —...

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Krutrim, India’s first GenAI unicorn, is shifting from AI model development to cloud services after months of relative quiet on product updates—a move that refl...

Overview Anthropic has spent years building its reputation as a “safe AI” company. New security research shared with The Verge suggests that Claude’s carefully...

About a week into the Musk v. Altman trial, we've heard from some of the most powerful people in tech — including OpenAI president Greg Brockman, Elon Musk's fi...

Moment Energy CEO Edward Chiang believes demand for power in North America is infinite — and that his startup has the solution. The company, which has headquart...

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Overview Facebook and Instagram are introducing a new method to detect and remove users under the age of 13: AI bone‑structure analysis. In a blog post publish...

Background Staffers at Google DeepMind's headquarters have voted to unionize in an effort to prevent the AI firm’s technology from being used by Israel and the...

Whether it's managing a busy home or looking out for everyone around them, moms spend a lot of time every day caring for others. Mother’s Day, May 10th, is an o...

Image model releases are driving growth for AI mobile apps, generating 6.5× more downloads than traditional model updates, according to a new report from app‑in...

Funding Announcement Former Andreessen Horowitz investor Katie Haun announced on Monday in a press releasehttps://www.haun.co/writing/fundii that her firm has...

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Background Colin Angle, co‑founder of iRobot, helped bring robot vacuums into millions of homes. He has now unveiled a new venture focused on robot companions...

Voting for the Next Map The traffic‑management sim Mini Motorways is once again asking players to vote for its next city map. Developer Dinosaur Polo Club has...

Funding round Bret Taylor’s AI startup Sierra is raising a $950 million funding round led by Tiger Global and GV, the company announced Monday blog posthttps:/...

May the Fourth be with us all on this Star Wars Day! While things have been relatively quiet in the galaxy far, far away—aside from murmurs about upcoming movie...

Anthropic launches enterprise AI joint venture Anthropic announced a joint venture focused on deploying enterprise AI services. Founding partners include Black...

Acorn — A Decentralized Community‑Building Platform A new project called Acornhttps://acorn.blacksky.community/ lets organizations and creators build their own...

Offer Overview GameStop has made an offer to acquire eBay for $56 billion, as part of CEO Ryan Cohen's plan to transform the online marketplace into a “legit c...

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Barocal can cool your food and drink by squeezing a hunk of plastic crystals Refrigerators today run on the same basic technology as they did more than 100 year...

AI‑Powered Merchant Onboarding DoorDash added new AI‑powered tools that let merchants speed up onboarding, edit photos to make dishes look better, and create w...

AI‑Powered Merchant Onboarding DoorDash on Monday added new AI‑powered tools that let merchants speed up onboarding, edit photos to make dishes look better, an...

Homebridge 2.0 and Matter Support Homebridge, the popular software solution that lets you integrate non‑HomeKit devices such as Ring cameras into Apple Home, i...

Nicolas Sauvage believes it takes four years for the best bets to look obvious — a point he made on stage last week at StrictlyVC’s San Francisco event, which T...

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A new study examines how large language models perform in a variety of medical contexts, including real emergency‑room cases — where at least one model seemed t...

Way back in the DS era, Nintendo stopped selling its consoles to Amazon. During a recent lecture at NYU, former Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils‑Aimé e...

The Shokz OpenRun Pro 2 come in a variety of colors, including a traditional black hue. Photo by Victoria Song / The Verge Mother’s Day Sale Shokz is running a...

Love at First Sight with the Xteink X3 It felt like scouring the mall—dipping in and out of sprawling department stores in search of a specific, elusive item—on...

How it started The use of generative AI in pop music started almost as a gimmick. There was a sense of experimentalism to 2018's I AM AI by Taryn Southern and...

New Oscar Rules on AI The organization behind the Academy Awards released new Oscar rules on Friday, including several that address the use of generative artif...

Overview OpenAI has added AI‑generated pets to the Codex app, its agentic tool that assists with coding. These optional animated companions act as a floating o...

Mark Zuckerberg. Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez won a historic sum of $375 million in a landmark child‑s...

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Audiences will have to wait a few months longer to see “Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew,” with the release date pushed back from Thanksgiving to February 12, 2027...