In 2024, Elon Musk filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman, accusing them of abandoning the company's original non-profit mission to benefit humanity in favor of pursuing profits. After …
Mozilla is redesigning Firefox under the name "Project Nova," featuring rounded UI elements, bubble-like tabs, and a refreshed color palette, with a rollout planned for later this year. The overhaul w…
University graduates at 2026 commencement ceremonies are openly booing and heckling tech CEOs like former Google chief Eric Schmidt who praise AI as inevitable, reflecting deep anger over a bleak job …
A New York judge ruled that some evidence in the Luigi Mangione murder case cannot be shown to a jury, while controversy emerged after three supporters of Mangione, known as "The Mangionistas," were i…
The Philips 24B2D5300 Business Monitor is a dual-sided display featuring back-to-back 23.8-inch LCD panels, allowing users to mirror content or use each side as a separate screen. Designed for scenari…
Meta settled a lawsuit with Kentucky's Breathitt County School District, which sought compensation for mental health harms linked to social media, following similar settlements by YouTube, Snap, and T…
Bungie announced that the final major update for *Destiny 2* will launch on June 9th, after which the game will remain playable but will no longer receive new content. The studio stated that its focus…
Polyend's Endless is a $299 programmable guitar pedal that uses an ARM processor and a web-based AI platform called Playground, which allows users to generate custom guitar effects by entering text pr…
Uber is deploying its own autonomous vehicles again through a new AV Lab project, but these cars will not operate as robotaxis; instead, they will collect driving data for Uber's dozens of robotaxi pa…
Smart home companies like Google and Amazon have struggled to profit from the industry, but now see AI-powered subscriptions as a potential solution. Google is expanding its Gemini AI tools to third-p…
Spotify and Universal Music Group have announced a licensing deal to launch a paid add-on for Premium subscribers that allows users to create AI-generated remixes and covers of streaming songs. Artist…
Spotify has launched a new standalone AI app called Studio, which generates daily briefings, podcasts, and playlists on PC by using chatbot prompts and drawing from users' listening history and connec…
AI video generation is evolving beyond short, low-quality clips toward "agentic" systems that assist with the entire filmmaking process, from concept and character development to maintaining visual co…
Musk v. Altman trial, which journalist Liz Lopatto covered for The Verge. While the case nominally concerned whether OpenAI's conversion to a for-profit entity violated a charitable trust, the jury ul…
According to SpaceX's IPO filing, Anthropic has agreed to pay $1.25 billion per month (totaling $15 billion annually) through May 2029 for access to SpaceX's Colossus AI training data centers in Memph…
Announcement from *The Verge*'s smart home reviewer, who is hosting a subscriber AMA (Ask Me Anything) to answer questions about robot vacuums. The reviewer, who tests a dozen robot vacuums at home, o…
Author's experience using Google AI Studio to rapidly create three Android apps in a single afternoon by simply typing prompts, with the AI generating functional code in minutes. However, the resultin…
Meta has laid off approximately 8,000 employees, or about 10% of its workforce, as part of a cost-cutting effort to offset its massive investments in artificial intelligence. The company plans to spen…
Google announced a new family of Gemini 3.5 AI models, new Search and Gmail features, and updates to its Project Aura smart glasses during its I/O 2026 keynote. The announcements were the focus of the…
At Google I/O, DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis claimed the company aims to "reimagine the drug discovery process with the goal of one day solving all disease," referencing AI tools like Gemini for Science…