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Trump’s Anthropic shutdown just made the case for non-American AI
At Washington's request, Anthropic suddenly took its newest and most powerful AI models offline over the weekend. The American company said it had lit…
X-Men ’97 has what Master of the Universe is missing
In 2026, Marvel and Mattel are both releasing projects designed to capitalize on people's love for iconic animated heroes from their childhoods. Maste…
My first 24 hours with Siri AI on the Mac
I turned off Siri on the Mac years ago and never looked back. Similarly, I found Apple Intelligence so fruitless I never engage with it. But the new S…
With the World Cup looming, there’s still no clear replacement for sports Twitter
Three years ago, when the women's World Cup kicked off in Australia and New Zealand, my social feeds were in a strange place. Twitter had just transfo…
Apple’s AI promises are finally, almost, sort of, here
Apple kicked off its annual developer conference with bold promises about AI. The company, CEO Tim Cook said, would be "introducing new technologies a…
Apple dials down Liquid Glass, and the Mac looks way better for it
MacOS 27 Golden Gate will usher in a bunch of changes to the Mac when it's released later this year, with its biggest new features revolving around Si…
Apple’s Screen Time updates are too little, too late
Apple spending a big chunk of its WWDC keynote on parental controls was surprising for several reasons. But the biggest is that, despite all the airti…
Apple’s new parental controls are for keeping Apple out of trouble
When Apple put child safety front and center at WWDC on Monday, its stated goal was helping parents fine-tune their kids' online experiences and avoid…
Grand Theft Auto VI is warping the video game release calendar
Who's afraid of the next GTA? Based on the last few days of Summer Game Fest, just about everyone. Grand Theft Auto VI hasn't been present at any of t…
MAHA wants to make cotton the new beef tallow
In between beef tallow fries, raw milk, and vaccine denialism, Make America Healthy Again figureheads have set their sights on another slice of life: …
Let us filter AI slop, you cowards
It's almost impossible to avoid seeing AI-generated content online, but it doesn't have to be this way. YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, and more have ramp…
PlayStation is getting back to what it’s good at
PlayStation used its most recent State of Play showcase to make it clear where its focus is. After a series of costly live-service stumbles, it's gett…
Microsoft and OpenAI broke up — now they’re ready to fight
At Microsoft's annual Build conference on Tuesday, the company announced a slew of new or expanded AI initiatives, including a super app, in-house rea…
SwitchBot’s acquisition of Nanoleaf is about more than lighting
Smart lighting company Nanoleaf has been acquired by OneRobotics, the parent company of SwitchBot. In an exclusive interview with The Verge, Nanoleaf …
This could be Windows’ M1 moment — but expect it to cost a ton
Nvidia's announcement that it's getting into the consumer laptop chip space with RTX Spark is huge. Apple has proved for years that Arm-based chips ca…
Xbox and PlayStation have a lot to prove
Things are bad out there. Despite 2026 shaping up to be a great year when it comes to actual games, it couldn't really be worse for the people that ma…
Marathon’s second season is a chance for Bungie to turn things around
Earlier this month, I finally achieved the elusive goal I had set for myself in Bungie's Marathon. I collected six of the game's rarest items, allowin…
The SpaceX IPO is great for Elon Musk and terrible for you
I haven't seen anything as stupid as the WeWork IPO document in a very long time - that is, until Elon Musk filed to take SpaceX public. WeWork was a …
Adobe’s conversational AI agent is a mediocre design intern
AI image tools rarely make me feel like I'm part of the creative process. They are, after all, mostly designed so that people with no design experienc…
Nintendo’s newest WarioWare is a weirdo smartphone app
A decade ago, Nintendo made a big splash into the world of mobile gaming with a new Super Mario platformer directed by none other than Shigeru Miyamot…
The line between games and movies keeps getting blurrier
The most memorable part of 007 First Light is something that's typically pretty boring: the tutorial. In many games, you're forced through a series of…
The golden age of handheld gaming is already over
For a few glorious years, a $399 portable gadget could run almost anything you'd want to play. In 2022, the Steam Deck finally made PC gaming portable…
AI warfare is already here
The Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, an international forum that focuses on lethal autonomous systems, is hosted twice a year at the United…
Who gets to own the Luigi Mangione story?
On Monday morning, a judge overseeing the New York state case on the killing of the UnitedHealthcare CEO ruled that some evidence collected by police …
The cost of the smart home is going up
Selling the smart home has been hard. Even Amazon has lost money in the space, despite putting hundreds of millions of Echo devices in people's homes.…
Global EV market goes K-shaped as the U.S. gets left behind
EV sales have surged worldwide in every region but the U.S., posing risks for legacy and startup automakers.
It’s make or break time for AI labeling systems
We're about to find out if the systems designed to make deepfakes and AI-generated content easy to spot are actually up to snuff. SynthID and C2PA Con…
If Google can’t make AI agents useful, maybe no one can
For years, tech companies have promised AI will give everyone a capable personal assistant but delivered something more like a clueless intern. Over t…
Musk v. Altman proved that AI is led by the wrong people
The tech trial of the year, Musk v. Altman, was ultimately a fight for control. Elon Musk argued that Sam Altman, with whom he helped found the now-ma…