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Cheap stuff that doesn’t suck, take 3
From fancy OLED TVs to robot vacuums with arms, we tend to cover a lot of cool stuff here at The Ver...
Smart glasses are finding a surprise niche — Korea...
These smart glasses are changing how we experience live theatre and even Korean dramas. Suddenly, la...
Dyson’s handheld fan is more powerful and louder t...
Two years ago I attended a picturesque outdoor wedding in August where the hot and humid weather had...
The AI apps are coming for your PC
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 124, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world....
There’s nothing like an RPG over vacation
With a vacation comes a big choice: What game should I focus on during the trip? I thought about gri...
Europe is pouring tens of billions of public money...
The European Investment Fund is raising a €15 billion fund of funds called ETCI 2 that aims to unloc...
Nvidia’s Huang warns DeepSeek running on Huawei ch...
In short: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang warned on the Dwarkesh Podcast that DeepSeek optimising its AI mod...
Anthropic’s Amodei meets Wiles and Bessent at the ...
In short: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei met White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and Treasury Secreta...
Palantir, Thales, and a startup are competing to b...
In short: The FAA is developing SMART (Strategic Management of Airspace Routing Trajectories), an AI...
Cursor is raising $2 billion at a $50 billion valu...
In short: AI coding startup Cursor (Anysphere) is in talks to raise at least $2 billion at a $50 bil...
Three more senior executives leave OpenAI as the c...
Summary: Three senior OpenAI executives, former CPO Kevin Weil, Sora head Bill Peebles, and enterpri...
NVIDIA didn’t invest in Xanadu, but it made its CE...
Christian Weedbrook, the founder and CEO of Toronto-based Xanadu Quantum Technologies, became a bill...
Google’s new desktop mode makes one thing clear: S...
Android 16 desktop mode finally gives Pixel users a real desktop experience, but the comparison with...
The MacBook Neo made me realize Apple still doesn’...
The MacBook Neo proves Apple knows how to build a great entry product, which only makes the iPhone 1...
3 underrated movies you can watch for free this we...
From a suffocating dinner party thriller to a feel-good story about a man and his cat, these three f...
3 underrated Apple TV shows you should watch this ...
From shifting realities to a show with no visuals at all, these three underrated Apple TV+ series de...
The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum – here’...
The Hunt for Gollum goes back to before the Ring consumed Smeagol, with a cast of returning legends ...
OpenAI’s former Sora boss is leaving
Last month, OpenAI gave up on its Sora video generation tool, and on Friday, the Sora team's leader,...
You can’t buy the Galaxy Z TriFold anymore: It’s o...
The Galaxy Z TriFold proved Samsung could build the future. It also proved that the future sells out...
Should you stare into Sam Altman’s orb before your...
Tinder users who prove they're a real person by visiting an identity-verifying orb will soon be able...
Anthropic’s new cybersecurity model could get it b...
The Trump administration has spent nearly two months fighting with AI company Anthropic. It's dubbed...
Anthropic’s Amodei heads to the White House as Was...
Summary: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is meeting White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles on Friday to n...
Zoom partners with Sam Altman’s World to verify th...
Summary: Zoom has partnered with World, Sam Altman’s biometric identity company, to let meeting part...
Betting on the news raises ethical questions for j...
Prediction market exchanges have created an environment where just about any piece of information is...
Uber launches $5 doorstep return pickups for Uber ...
Uber has launched a service that sends a gig worker to your door to collect items you want to return...
Intel’s new Wildcat Lake chips take aim at the Mac...
Intel has launched its Core Series 3 processors, codenamed Wildcat Lake, in what amounts to a direct...
Volvo’s parent Geely is selling a $15,000 electric...
In short: Geely, which owns Volvo, Polestar, Lotus, and Zeekr, has launched the EX5, a battery-elect...
This charming gadget writes bad AI poetry
I've never been as charmed and frustrated by one gadget as I have with the Poetry Camera. It's a del...
Canva becomes the design layer inside Claude with ...
In short: Canva and Anthropic have launched Claude Design, a new Anthropic Labs product powered by C...
Allbirds sold its shoe business for $39 million an...
In short: Allbirds is rebranding as NewBird AI and pivoting from sustainable footwear to GPU-as-a-se...
Our new favorite budget phones
Over the last few months, every phone maker under the sun has refreshed its lineups, especially at t...
Anthropic launches Claude design to simplify visua...
Anthropic has launched Claude Design, an AI tool that helps users create prototypes, presentations, ...
Dairy Queen is putting an AI chatbot in its drive-...
Dairy Queen is becoming the latest fast food chain to get in on AI, as it's bringing a chatbot to do...
Peloton, stay in your lane
This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent every Friday from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song th...
The South Korean president is doing quote-post dip...
"This is no different from Comfort Women or the Holocaust," wrote South Korean President Lee Jae-myu...
Ghost orchid in the machine
Vacuum cleaners, personal massagers, electronic baby rockers, and walking pads: These are the second...
Volvo’s parent just launched a $16,000 EV that loo...
Geely has opened presales for the Galaxy Starshine 7 in China, an electric sedan starting at around ...
The ‘AI is inevitable’ trap
In the latest sign of AI silly season, Allbirds, the shoe company, told the world it was now an AI c...
No More Office Fatigue: How The Welax S9 Redefines...
If you’ve ever wrapped up a long editing session with a stiff back, tight shoulders, and that slow, ...
The creative software industry has declared war on...
All empires eventually fall, and it seems the creative software industry has collectively decided th...
Xiaomi makes dirt-cheap gadgets, but its CEO just ...
Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun says the company has no plans to launch ultra-cheap EVs below 100,000 yuan, argui...
The new electric Mercedes C-Class puts its giant s...
Mercedes is teasing its electric C-Class with a dramatic new cabin, led by a giant display, richer m...
A giant cell tower is going to space this weekend
This weekend's scheduled Blue Origin rocket launch is rather momentous. Success would signal an end ...
Tesla’s rare Signature Edition cars come with a re...
Tesla's Signature Edition Model S and Model X come with a one-year resale ban, a $50,000 penalty, an...
Dropbox brings its files, Dash search, and Reclaim...
The storage company is launching a Dropbox file app, a Dropbox Dash enterprise search app, and a Rec...
DJI Osmo Pocket 4 takes aim at low-light video and...
DJI's Osmo Pocket 4 adds a 1-inch sensor, 4K at 240fps, smarter tracking, and built-in storage, givi...
ONWARD Medical raises €40.6M to advance its spinal...
The Eindhoven neurotechnology company is using the proceeds to fund its Empower BP pivotal trial, wh...
Apple could get a taste of sub-nanometer chips in ...
TSMC is already looking past the 2nm era, with a new report pointing to sub-1nm trial production by ...
EU awards its €180 million sovereign cloud contrac...
Post Telecom (with CleverCloud and OVHcloud), StackIT, Scaleway, and Proximus (with S3NS, a Thales –...
Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag Resynced leak hints a...
Ubisoft’s long-rumored Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag Resynced is reportedly set for a July 9 launch, ...
