China's open-weights AI strategy is winning as its companies take the lead, while America's closed-first, locked-down approach is doomed to failure, according to an analysis by Ben Werdmuller. Chinese…
The Verge's Installer newsletter No. 136 highlights the best apps, gadgets, and tools, including a new AI gadget called the Flipper Busy Bar, a major update to the Bear notes app (Bear 2.9), and Chris…
San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu ordered Apple and Google to remove at least 13 AI 'nudify' apps from their app stores that generate nonconsensual intimate deepfakes, warning the companies could…
TikTok is testing an opt-in tool that scans for unauthorized AI-generated likenesses and lets creators report them, initially with some US creators, TikTok US spokesperson Zachary Kizer confirmed to T…
Roblox will let people use AI to make games on their phone with a new feature called Build, which turns text prompts into basic games directly within the Roblox mobile app starting July 28th in public…
OpenAI released its first branded hardware, the $230 Codex Micro keyboard, a limited-run collaboration with Work Louder that adds frosted keys to show AI agent status, but the real prize is a screenle…
26 Meta employees have filed a lawsuit in Oakland, California, alleging that the company used artificial intelligence to select workers for mass layoffs, disproportionately targeting those on medical …
Nvidia's automotive head Xinzhou Wu revealed on The Verge's 'Decoder' podcast that the company's internal teams are competing for scarce GPU allocations as AI data center demand surges, with CEO Jense…
The Verge editor-at-large David Pierce, who has tested roughly 200 to-do apps, advises against trying to stay ahead in the AI era, calling the notion that everyone must adopt AI or be left behind 'per…
Twenty-six former Meta employees are suing the company, alleging it used AI tools including an internal assistant called Metamate and AI agents to unfairly target workers on medical or parental leave …
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis proposed a FINRA-style self-regulatory body for frontier AI models on July 14, calling for mandatory 30-day pre-release safety assessments. The framework would apply…
Google has added Gemini-powered features to Waze, including a 'less chatty' mode that reduces voice prompts, motorcycle mode for two-wheeler routes, conversational map editing, and Gemini-powered dest…
Meta has scrapped Instagram's AI feature that let users generate images using public profiles as references, just days after announcing it alongside Muse Image. The company said it listened to user ba…
Apple has sued OpenAI, alleging that former employees now working for the AI company stole trade secrets related to unreleased hardware technologies. The lawsuit names OpenAI's chief hardware officer …
OpenAI is shutting down its ChatGPT Atlas browser less than a year after launch, with deprecation targeted for August 9. The company is consolidating Atlas's features into a new desktop app called Cha…
OpenAI is shutting down its Atlas browser on August 9, 2026, and moving its agentic browsing features into the ChatGPT desktop app and a new Chrome extension, according to reports from The Verge and T…
Meta plans to start manufacturing its Iris AI chip in September 2026, working with Broadcom on design and TSMC on manufacturing, as part of a push to expand compute capacity from 7 gigawatts in 2026 t…
Meta is debating whether to keep the privacy LED off for always-on 'super sensing' AI glasses that would capture images every few seconds and use continuous audio for Meta AI, according to Financial T…
Microsoft announced it is expanding the use of AI across its Windows security update process to identify vulnerabilities earlier, resulting in a higher volume of updates per release. The June 2026 Pat…
OpenAI released GPT-5.6 and ChatGPT Work on July 9, 2026, making the Sol, Terra, and Luna model family available beyond preview and tying it to a work-agent product for documents, spreadsheets, presen…