This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent every Friday from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that...

X is fighting for its users' right to anonymity against the far-right influencers and accused human traffickers Andrew and Tristan Tate, who are seeking to unma...

Want to make money? Start building data centers. Or build batteries to power data centers. Or: pivot to defense. This is not financial advice, but it’s certainl...

Sonos has a new rival in town. Bose’s new Lifestyle Collection includes a $299 Lifestyle Ultra Speaker, a $1,099 Lifestyle Ultra Soundbar, and the $899 Ultra Su...

Meridian Ventures was born out of a shared experience: deferred MBAs. Now, founders Devon Gethers and Karlton Haney have raised a $35 million fund to back pre-s...

Meridian Ventures was born out of a shared experience: deferred MBAs. Now, founders Devon Gethers and Karlton Haney have raised a $35 million fund to back pre-s...

British online safety regulator Ofcom says it has accepted new commitments from X that aim to better protect UK users from seeing illegal hate and terror conten...

As AI models increasingly become commoditized, startups are racing to build the software layer that sits on top of them. One interesting entrant into this space...

!HMRC tax returnhttps://www.engadget.com/img/gallery/the-uks-tax-authority-is-turning-to-ai-to-help-identify-fraud/intro-1778846737.jpg Mehaniq/Shutterstock HM...

!Bose Lifestyle Ultra Speakerhttps://www.engadget.com/img/gallery/bose-lifestyle-ultra-speaker-review-versatile-home-audio-that-comes-with-caveats/intro-1778845...

Indian ride-hailing company Rapidohttps://www.rapido.bike/ said on Friday it had raised $240 million in fresh funding at a $3 billion valuation to compete bette...

!A lightbar on the new Googlebookhttps://www.engadget.com/img/gallery/the-morning-after-google-teases-the-android-based-googlebook/intro-1778842374.jpg Google G...

Last summer, Peter Degen's postdoctoral supervisor came to him with an unusual problem: One of his papers was being cited too much. Citations are the currency o...

!A person using a MacBook.https://www.engadget.com/img/gallery/security-researchers-aided-by-anthropics-mythos-claim-to-have-breached-macos/intro-1778841183.jpg...

!Intel's fab 52 in Chandler Arizona where the company manufacturers its 18A process chipshttps://www.engadget.com/img/gallery/apple-is-reportedly-testing-intel-...

!The ROG Xreal R1 AR glasses at CES 2026.https://www.engadget.com/img/gallery/the-rog-xreal-r1-ar-gaming-glasses-are-now-available-to-pre-order-for-849/intro-17...

!A screenshot of Grok Build.https://www.engadget.com/img/gallery/xai-introduces-its-coding-agent-called-grok-build/intro-1778825254.jpg xAI xAI has launched a c...

Nine California jurors are now deliberating over the future of OpenAI, the world-leading artificial intelligence lab. While the trial exploring Elon Musk’s case...

Honda revealed prototypes of two new hybrid models, an Accord sedan and the Acura RDX SUV, during its annual business briefing this week, built on a platform th...

Today was closing arguments in the Musk v. Altman trial, and I almost feel bad writing about the unbelievable demolition derby I just witnessed. Steven Molo, Mu...

!Photo of the bottom of a leaked Xbox Elite 3 Controller. The bottom of a black game controller showing two scroll wheels.https://www.engadget.com/img/gallery/x...

!An abandoned room and corpses from the first level of Doom 1993https://www.engadget.com/img/gallery/the-original-doom-soundtrack-is-officially-in-the-library-o...

The most graphically-impressive first-person shooter made for the Nintendo Switch is $20 off at Best Buy. Right now, you can buy the physical version of Metroid...

Elon Musk’s newly rebranded SpaceXAI is reportedly losing top talent, with more than 50 researchers and engineers departing since February, according to The Inf...

!Razer Blade 18 laptop sitting on a desk dramatic gamer lightinghttps://www.engadget.com/img/gallery/razer-updates-the-blade-18-with-new-chips-a-specced-out-mod...

Meta is rolling out new features to its Meta Ray-Ban Display smart glasses, including bringing the ability to write messages just with hand gestures to all user...

Yesterday, in Musk v. Altman, before the jurors came in, Sam Altman's team passed up what looked - from a distance - like a little league trophy. It was not. Yv...

In Brief Posted: 1:58 PM PDT · May 14, 2026 !https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/App-view.png?w=1024Image Credits:OpenAI !Lucas Ropekhttps://secur...

!Meta's Ray-Ban Display glasses.https://www.engadget.com/img/gallery/meta-is-bringing-third-party-apps-and-games-to-its-display-glasses/intro-1778791911.jpg Kar...

Hours after a smaller Xbox Cloud Gaming controller appeared online, Brazil's Anatel regulator has also accidentally published images of what appears to be Micro...

Lovable, the AI-powered app-building platform, has backed a Danish hardware startup, Atechhttps://atech.dev/, that wants to introduce “vibe coding” to the proce...

!New World: Aeternumhttps://www.engadget.com/img/gallery/amazon-has-hurled-its-lord-of-the-rings-mmo-back-into-the-fires-of-mount-doom/intro-1778791894.jpg Amaz...

The Cerebras Systems IPO was a smash hit on Thursday, generating billionshttps://techcrunch.com/2026/05/14/cerebras-raises-5-5b-kicking-off-2026s-ipo-season-wit...

!OpenAI users can now access their Codex projects directly from the ChatGPT mobile apphttps://www.engadget.com/img/gallery/openai-brings-its-codex-coding-app-to...

OpenAI is going to let users access Codex, its desktop AI tool that can write code and use apps on your computer, from the ChatGPT app on your phone. Following...

Richard Socher has been a major figure in AI for some time, best known for founding the early chatbot startup You.com and, before that, his work on Imagenet. No...

!Photo of the exterior of the Netflix office in Los Angeleshttps://www.engadget.com/img/gallery/netflix-wants-to-use-generative-ai-to-make-animated-shorts/intro...

You can save over $50 on the latest pair of Ray-Ban Meta glasses, which offer improved video quality and battery life. | Photo: Photo by Colt Bradley / The Verg...

!the 2025 VW ID.Buzz with roof rack.https://www.engadget.com/img/gallery/the-vw-id-buzz-is-returning-for-model-year-2027-with-a-new-trim-for-camping/intro-17787...

!An HDMI port on the back of a TV.https://www.engadget.com/img/gallery/the-hdmi-arc-port-on-your-tv-has-a-very-specific-job/intro-1778711114.jpg Sina Salehian/G...

OpenAI is so frustrated with Apple over a ChatGPT integration that failed to deliver the subscribers and prominence it expected that the company is now actively...

Silicon Valley’s tokenmaxxinghttps://techcrunch.com/2026/04/17/tokenmaxxing-is-making-developers-less-productive-than-they-think/ era now has its own hardware....

Microsoft first started opening up access to Claude Code in December, inviting thousands of its own developers to use Anthropic's AI coding tool daily. It was p...

In January, Colorado lawmakers introduced a proposal to make operating systems collect users' ages and pass them to app developers. The bill, SB26-051, had clea...

Short-form video is a format that’s built for mobile — these vertically oriented videos are designed to fit the shape of a smartphone. But according to YouTube,...

Photos of an unreleased Microsoft Xbox Cloud Gaming controller have leaked online, thanks to a Brazilian website called Tecnobloghttps://tecnoblog.net/noticias/...

!The Spotify logo on a black background.https://www.engadget.com/img/gallery/spotify-and-its-hosting-platforms-are-adopting-apples-tech-for-video-podcasts/intro...

!Image of FoKus Apollo Pro headphones on a black background.https://www.engadget.com/img/gallery/noble-audio-to-launch-fokus-apollo-pro-headset-for-699/intro-17...