Robert Hart / The Verge: Amazon unveils its next-gen Proteus warehouse robot, adding AI-powered language capabilities that let workers assign it tasks, rolling out in Europe in H1 2027 — The company insists its robot investments are designed to support, not replace, warehouse workers.
The Verge: Mustafa Suleyman says Microsoft aims to become “one of the top four labs in the world”, and “the pivotal moment was renegotiating our contract with OpenAI” — At Microsoft's annual Build conference on Tuesday, the company announced a slew of new or expanded AI initiatives …
Robert Hart / The Verge: AI startup Shift launches a free home cleaning service in NYC to record first-person video with a camera-equipped cap and use it to train robots — Shift says a ‘magic hat’ will record its cleaners working inside your home. … AI training startup Shift wants to clean your home for free.
Sean Hollister / The Verge: Intel unveils its first dedicated handheld gaming chips, the Arc G3 and Arc G3 Extreme, featuring Xe3 GPU cores, arriving first in the Acer Predator Atlas 8 — The Acer Predator Atlas 8 will be one of the first to use it — and there's reportedly an MSI too.
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Spotify launches a library of over 650 narrated long-form magazine articles in English for Premium users; free users can buy articles “individually for $1.99” — More than 650 long-form articles are available starting today as part of Spotify's audiobook library.
Lauren Feiner / The Verge: Google files its appeal of the US federal ruling deeming it an illegal search monopolist, arguing it “prevailed in the marketplace fair and square” — It wants to throw out the original decision, as well as an order to share data with rivals.
Terrence O'Brien / The Verge: In an experiment that let Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Grok run radio stations, Claude tried to incite a revolution and Gemini cheerfully detailed tragic events — Claude tried to incite a revolution, Gemini cheerfully detailed horrific tragedies, and poor Grok was just confused.
Mia Sato / The Verge: YouTube expands its AI likeness detection program to all users over the age of 18, after rolling it out to select creators, politicians, journalists, and others — Likeness detection, which scans YouTube for facial matches, will now be available to anyone 18 years or older with a YouTube account.
Jay Peters / The Verge: Meta rolls out new features for its Ray-Ban Display glasses, including neural handwriting support for all users, and opens the device to third-party developers — You can also now capture a video combining what you see on the lens display, what you see in the world, and the audio around you.
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon sign an “agreement in principle” to form a joint venture that aims to end wireless dead zones in the US, without giving many details — A new joint venture has been proposed to pool spectrum resources and improve satellite capacity.
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: Amazon is replacing its Rufus AI shopping assistant with Alexa for Shopping, powered by Alexa+, on Amazon.com and its app for all customers in the US — The company is giving its AI-powered assistant special shopping skills on its website and app. … Beginning today, when you type a query into Amazon …
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Spotify celebrates its 20th anniversary with a Wrapped-like experience that features “never-before-shared data” going back to when users first joined Spotify — The company will include ‘never-before-shared data’ as part of its 20th anniversary celebrations.
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Google updates AI Mode and AI Overviews to add “a preview of perspectives” from firsthand sources like social media and Reddit, presented as “Expert Advice” — The new AI Mode and AI Overviews updates bring in perspectives from firsthand sources like social media and web forums.
Tom Warren / The Verge: Sources: in a reshuffle, LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky will lead Microsoft's new Work Experiences Group, including Teams, after 35-year veteran Rajesh Jha retired — The departure of veteran executive Rajesh Jha has triggered big organizational changes inside Microsoft.
Emma Roth / The Verge: Meta is using AI on Facebook and Instagram to detect under-13 users by analyzing bone structure, height, and visual cues, but says it's “not facial recognition” — ‘We want to be clear: this is not facial recognition,’ Facebook says. … Facebook and Instagram have a new way to detect …
Jay Peters / The Verge: Netflix rolls out a vertical video feed in its own Clips tab in Australia, Canada, India, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippines, South Africa, the UK, and the US — The new ‘Clips’ tab shows, you guessed it, Netflix clips. … Netflix is starting to roll out a big revamp of its mobile app …
Mia Sato / The Verge: Instagram is expanding its recommendation restrictions beyond Reels to photos and carousels, targeting accounts that post unoriginal content like tweet roundups — The internet is full of copycat, stolen, reposted, and low-effort content — and Meta, at least publicly, has said it is working to cut off some of the reach.
Jay Peters / The Verge: Google launches Ask YouTube, a conversational AI search “experiment” that generates pages with videos and text summaries, for Premium users in the US aged 18+ — ‘Ask YouTube’ is a new way to search that generates an AI Mode-like page of information.
John Higgins / The Verge: Anker announces Thus, a compute-in-memory chip it says will bring on-device AI to its products and accessories, starting with its upcoming Soundcore earbuds — The Thus chip will come to earbuds first before being rolled out to other Anker products.
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Huawei launches the Pura X Max, a passport-style foldable with a 5.4-inch cover display and a 7.7-inch internal display, in China, starting at ~$1,613 — The Pura X Max launched in China today. The Pura X Max launched in China today. … Huawei has launched its passport-style foldable in China …
Jay Peters / The Verge: Meta is increasing the price of the Quest 3 by $100 to $599.99 and both Quest 3S models by $50 to $349.99 for 128GB and $449.99 for 256GB, starting April 19 — Both Quest 3S models will also cost $50 more. Both Quest 3S models will also cost $50 more.
Jay Peters / The Verge: Roblox unveils Kids accounts for ages 5-8 and Select accounts for ages 9-15, with age verification, coming in June; games for both must pass a three-step review — People who don't do an age check can only access family-friendly games. … Roblox is about to make a big change …
Terrence O'Brien / The Verge: Google says Polymarket bets “briefly appeared in Google News in error”, after the bets appeared alongside news articles in the “For You” section — Links to bets on world events were appearing alongside legitimate news organizations.
Dominic Preston / The Verge: YouTube raises YouTube Premium's prices in the US: Lite is $1 more at $8.99/month, Individual is $2 more at $15.99/month, and Family is $4 more at $26.99/month — The standard plan is going up by $2 a month in the US. … YouTube Premium is getting more expensive in the US …
Thomas Ricker / The Verge: In his annual letter, Andy Jassy says Amazon's space-internet service Leo will “launch in mid-2026”, after delays; Amazon has FCC approval for 3,236 satellites — Better late than never for the Elon Musk alternative. … Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says the company's space-internet service Leo …
Dominic Preston / The Verge: Spotify is adding toggles to stop video from playing inside the app for both music and podcasts, rolling out worldwide on all platforms and devices — Controls are rolling out worldwide to stop videos playing alongside music and podcasts. … Spotify is adding new toggles to stop …
Jay Peters / The Verge: Anthropic says Claude subscriptions will no longer cover usage on third-party tools like OpenClaw starting April 4 at 12pm PT, to better manage capacity — Claude subscriptions will no longer cover third-party access from tools like OpenClaw starting Saturday, April 4th.
Robert Hart / The Verge: Utah launches a one-year pilot program allowing Legion Health's AI chatbot to renew prescriptions for 15 low-risk psychiatric maintenance medications — Some psychiatrists are asking what problem, exactly, this is solving. … Utah is allowing an AI system to prescribe psychiatric drugs without a doctor.
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Nvidia launches DLSS 4.5, including a 6x Multi Frame Generation feature exclusive to RTX 50-series GPUs that utilizes a second-gen transformer AI model — The Nvidia app beta introduces 6x Multi Frame Generation for RTX 50-series GPUs. … Nvidia has launched the next major update …
Emma Roth / The Verge: Sony says it plans to raise the price of its PlayStation 5 consoles globally beginning on April 2; the PS5 will cost $650, PS5 Digital $600, and PS5 Pro $900 — The PS5 Pro will be a $900 console as of April 2nd. … Sony is raising the price of its PlayStation 5 consoles globally starting April 2nd.
Robert Hart / The Verge: The European Parliament votes to delay EU AI Act deadlines, including pushing compliance for high-risk AI systems back to December 2027, and to ban nudify apps — The proposals would push back looming deadlines for watermarking AI-generated content and high-risk AI systems.
Nilay Patel / The Verge: Q&A with Superhuman CEO Shishir Mehrotra, who apologized for Grammarly's Expert Review feature, on impersonation, attribution, compensating creators, and more — Today, I'm talking with Shishir Mehrotra, who is CEO of Superhuman — that's the company formerly known as Grammarly, which is still its flagship product.
Allison Johnson / The Verge: Hands-on with Gemini task automation on mobile: it's super impressive despite being very slow and failing at some tasks; it can order food, book Ubers, and more — It took nine minutes to order my dinner, but it still feels like the future. … I've been testing out Gemini's new task automation …
Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: Uber plans to invest $1.25B in Rivian through 2031, contingent on meeting autonomy milestones, starting with $300M at signing, to deploy 50K Level 4 robotaxis — The companies say they plan on deploying 10,000 autonomous Rivian R2 vehicles by 2031. … Uber and Rivian are joining forces …
Allison Johnson / The Verge: Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra review: Privacy Display works well, meaningful camera upgrades, and sleeker than S25 Ultra, but still huge, expensive, and lacks Qi2 — “Someone might be watching everything I'm doing on my screen,” I tell myself in public. Even when I'm doing nothing of consequence …
Richard Lawler / The Verge: Digg announces a “hard reset” and shuts down operations two months after it was relaunched by Kevin Rose and Alexis Ohanian, citing the scale of AI bot spam — Digg's Reddit-like relaunch failed fast, but its CEO is already planning another comeback.
Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: Google launches Ask Maps, a Gemini-powered conversational feature for iOS and Android in the US and India that lets users ask “complex, real-world questions” — 'Where's the closest public bathroom that's not completely disgusting' is going to get asked a lot in my household.
Sean Hollister / The Verge: Intel unveils the Core Ultra 7 270K Plus and 250K Plus, shipping March 26 for $300 and $200, respectively, and says they are its fastest gaming desktop CPUs yet — Hopefully it's finally leaving the i9-14900K in the dust. … Intel hasn't made it easy to buy a flagship desktop chip.
Dominic Preston / The Verge: Samsung Galaxy S26 and S26 Plus review: bigger battery and seven years of software updates, but basic cameras, few major updates, and no Qi2 charging magnets — While Samsung has treated its Flips and Folds to a few major hardware upgrades over recent years, the Galaxy S flagships have often felt …
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Meta adds more scam detection tools: Facebook alerts for suspicious friend requests, WhatsApp device linking warnings, and advanced scam detection on Messenger — Users will be alerted about suspicious activities like unrecognized device linking and friend requests.
Josh Dzieza / The Verge: How AI training company Mercor, valued at $10B in 2025, uses AI interviewer Melvin and invasive monitoring software Insightful to manage its 30K+ workforce — ART BY SAMAR HADDAD — This article is a collaboration between The Verge and New York Magazine.
Allison Johnson / The Verge: iPhone 17e review: MagSafe, 256GB of base storage, and a capable camera system, but no always-on display, 60Hz refresh rate, and the iPhone 17 is just $200 more — The iPhone 17E is a better value than the 16E was when it arrived, but that should matter to basically nobody.
Emma Roth / The Verge: Google expands its AI-powered Canvas workspace to everyone in the US using AI Mode in Search, letting them get information, organize plans, draft docs, and more — Canvas in AI Mode now supports tasks related to creative writing and coding, too. … Google is bringing Canvas to everyone in the US using AI Mode in Search.
Sean Hollister / The Verge: Google's Epic settlement term sheet prohibits Tim Sweeney from criticizing Google's app practices until at least September 2032 and mandates that he praise them — Google has finally muzzled Tim Sweeney. … Epic CEO Tim Sweeney might be one of the most outspoken people in the history of the world.
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: X user TheGhostOfHope, one of top Call of Duty leakers, says Activision “legally demanded that I stop leaking and disseminating confidential information” — TheGhostOfHope is complying with legal demands to stop disseminating confidential information.
Thomas Ricker / The Verge: Google unveils Home updates to fix a long list of annoyances and idiosyncrasies, and debuts Live Search to let Gemini analyze and describe live camera feeds — 'Hey Google, is there a car in the driveway? … Google Home chief Anish Kattukaran announced several updates to the smart home platform …
Terrence O'Brien / The Verge: Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour says the company would void certain bets related to Iran's Ali Khamenei and claims it doesn't “list markets directly tied to death” — Users say rules barring ‘profiting from death’ are unclear. … In a statement on X, Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour …
Dominic Preston / The Verge: Xiaomi launches the €999 Xiaomi 17, the €1,499 17 Ultra, and the €1,999 Leica-branded Leitzphone, all featuring a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chipset, in Europe — It's just launched in Europe, joined by the larger, more photography-focused Xiaomi 17 Ultra.
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Instagram says it will alert parents if their teen repeatedly searches for terms related to self-harm or suicide in the US, the UK, Canada, and Australia — Meta is planning something similar for its chatbots later this year. — Starting next week, Instagram will notify parents …
Sean Hollister / The Verge: Microsoft Gaming CEO Asha Sharma says she is committed to “the return of Xbox” and that the company won't “flood our ecosystem with soulless AI slop” — She's promising “The return of Xbox.” … Microsoft gaming boss Phil Spencer has just announced he's leaving …