Technology
Google is giving college students a free year of A...
Google is rolling out a wave of study tools across Search and Gemini for the new school year. It is ...
A British AI-chip startup is raising at $6.5bn aft...
Fractile, a British startup building chips for artificial intelligence, is in advanced talks to rais...
Google Gemini is getting a dedicated student hub
As we're gearing up for back-to-school season, Google is rolling out a new dedicated student hub in ...
Researchers expose a worryingly simple trick to ma...
This new study reveals how patient, step-by-step manipulation can trick AI agents into ignoring thei...
Meta launched a Mac app to put its AI to work for ...
Meta has released a dedicated Mac app for Meta AI, its chatbot. The company is pushing to turn the a...
Uber’s first European AV rides go live in Zagreb, ...
Uber has begun offering autonomous rides in Europe for the first time, in the Croatian capital, Zagr...
Samsung hiked foundry prices up to 15%, with China...
Samsung has raised prices for some of its advanced contract chipmaking by as much as 15 percent for ...
Watch Valve set up the Steam Frame in its own leak...
Valve just leaked several new videos showing the Steam Frame's unboxing, setup process, and various ...
Stripe seals its OpenRouter deal for a reported $7...
Stripe has agreed to buy OpenRouter, the startup whose software helps companies route their spending...
I underestimated the Pixel 11, and now I’m eating ...
The Pixel 11 may look familiar, but after a week of using it, a few clever features have completely ...
The wearable future is stuck in weird, experimenta...
This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects a...
Rivian spinout Also raises $150m, and the e-bike i...
Also, the micromobility startup that spun out of Rivian last year, has raised $150 million in a Seri...
Grab an iPad Air M4 for its lowest price since the...
Almost everything with high-end memory or storage is more expensive these days, and tablets are no e...
Marvell hands Google a $12.2bn share option in a c...
Marvell Technology has agreed to give Google the right to buy up to $12.2 billion of its shares. In ...
OpenAI hit the brakes. Now what?
With a looming IPO, intense competition from Anthropic, and Chinese and open-weight rivals nipping a...
Flock built an AI tool that lets police search for...
The surveillance firm Flock Safety has told the public for years that its cameras “cannot recognize,...
GTA VI keeps leaking ahead of its gameplay premier...
Clips of what appears to be Grand Theft Auto VI have hit the internet, possibly spoiling aspects of ...
Meta AI is getting a Mac app
Meta is launching a new Mac app dedicated to its AI chatbot. In an announcement on Wednesday, Meta s...
Tesla asked Las Vegas for 5,000 robotaxis and Neva...
Tesla asked Nevada regulators for permission to run up to 5,000 robotaxis across Las Vegas. It was g...
OpenAI puts a 20% compute cost on its new AI safet...
OpenAI has put figures and detail on the slowdown it signalled this week. It paused some frontier tr...
Amazon is adding Alexa Plus to Fire TV devices wit...
Amazon is upgrading eligible Fire TV devices with Alexa Plus at no extra cost, and you do not need a...
A watchdog says Meta pays influencers to fight tee...
Meta is running a global campaign to push back against laws that would ban teenagers from social med...
We reviewed the new Pixel lineup, ask us anything
The embargo has lifted on Google's Pixel 11 series, as well as for its Pixel Watch 5. Now we get to ...
China lands a rocket booster on the ground for the...
The Chinese startup LandSpace recovered the first stage of its Zhuque-3 rocket on Wednesday. It is o...
The Pixel 11 isn’t the best Pixel of 2026, but it’...
It'd be easy to overlook the Pixel 11. Want the best cameras? The Pixel 11 Pro is your answer. Want ...
Google’s Pixel Watch 5 is promising — but it isn’t...
The Google Pixel Watch 5 has, in many ways, been the hardest Pixel Watch to accurately review. Barel...
Google’s Pixel 11 Pro Fold feels like the end of a...
The foldable phone market is in the middle of a huge transformation, but no one told Google. Last ye...
The Pixel 11 Pro is a great phone, no thanks to it...
Google is trying to get you off your phone. The Pixel 11 Pro is "A Phone Designed to Help You Use It...
PlayStation is reportedly overhauling Horizon Hunt...
PlayStation is reportedly overhauling Horizon Hunters Gathering, stripping its live-service model af...
Nebius is raising $4.5bn in convertible bonds to b...
Nebius Group said on Wednesday that it plans to raise $4.5 billion by selling convertible bonds. It ...
Temporal is in talks to raise $500mn at a $12bn va...
Temporal Technologies is in talks to raise around $500 million, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday. The r...
The $2.1 Billion “worst idea ever”: How Gamma buil...
Grant Lee still remembers the investor’s verdict. “Yeah, so the investor said it was the worst idea ...
Anthropic says Claude designed working protein bin...
Anthropic says its Claude models designed working protein binders and ran a chemical-analysis job in...
Amazon Fire TV devices are getting a free Alexa Pl...
Amazon is bringing Alexa Plus to Fire TV device owners in the US for free. Starting today, users in ...
Rillet raises $100mn at a $1bn valuation to put AI...
Rillet, a startup that rebuilds corporate accounting around AI, has raised $100mn at a $1bn valuatio...
Einride is buying 500 Tesla Semis, and Amazon owns...
Einride is buying 500 Tesla Semis, and Amazon quietly owns a slice of the company that will run them...
One of the most controversial federal agencies is ...
ICE has banned Meta smart glasses from federal workplaces over privacy concerns, even as DHS seeks f...
Most Americans under 30 are now more worried than ...
Pew found that 55% of Americans under 30 are now more concerned than excited about AI, the first maj...
Amazon really, really wants to make drone deliveri...
Amazon plans to expand Prime Air drone delivery to nearly 500 cities by 2026, a sixfold jump, despit...
Anthropic’s revenue passed OpenAI’s for the first ...
OpenAI grew more slowly than Anthropic last quarter, and for the first time its rival’s sales came i...
India’s Murf AI launches Falcon 2 to challenge voi...
Bangalore-based Murf AI is releasing its Falcon 2 voice model on 20 August at $0.01 per generated mi...
63% of Europe’s new data centre capacity is now go...
Europe’s data centre capacity will reach 13 gigawatts by the end of 2026, a fifth more than last yea...
This robot vacuum solves my kitchen stool problem
Robot vacuums are great at keeping your floors clean, but there are a few areas they fall down on th...
Amazon’s drone fleet is expanding sixfold in Ameri...
Amazon says it will offer drone delivery in nearly 500 US cities and towns by the end of 2026, six t...
Anthropic’s AI watermark has already spawned tools...
Anthropic’s push to label AI-written text has produced an immediate counter-move. Developers have st...
$100 smart glasses can now see, listen, and transl...
A new pair of $99.99 AI smart glasses combines a 12MP Sony camera, visual recognition, live translat...
Waymo pioneer Sebastian Thrun is building a stealt...
Sebastian Thrun, one of the pioneers of self-driving cars, is building a new robotics startup called...
Anthropic is preparing supervoting shares for its ...
Anthropic is preparing to give its founders shares with extra voting power before it goes public, ac...
ADAC tested five EVs for charging losses. One wast...
Germany’s ADAC measured charging losses on five EVs and found that a household socket wastes between...
California’s new tyre standard is stricter than Eu...
California’s Energy Commission has unanimously approved the first US efficiency standard for replace...
