Lauren Feiner / The Verge: Microsoft court filings: an expert hired by publishers found that only ~60K of 8.2M Copilot chat logs contained at least 16 words in common with news content — Fewer than 1 percent of more than 8 million chat logs regurgitated at least 16 words. … Microsoft's Copilot rarely reproduces …
Sean Hollister / The Verge: Nvidia says it plans to bring DLSS 5 to older RTX 40-series GPUs “once RTX 50 Series performance is more fully tuned” — Nvidia won't confirm that previously announced DLSS 5 games will still ship with the tech. … But unofficially, modders have already ported a leaked version …
Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft unveils Project Zenith, a “distraction-free Windows experience” for developers to run 30B+ parameter models locally on devices with 64GB+ of memory — The first Project Zenith devices ship with AMD's Ryzen AI Halo chips. … Microsoft is giving its developer-optimized Windows experience a name: Project Zenith.
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: Anker unveils the Eufy MindBase, a local AI hub for its cameras that runs an on-device, Anker-developed LLM, with a dedicated AI chip and up to 48TB of storage — The company also announced a new Eufy video doorbell with VR features and a window camera.
Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge: Acer unveils the Swift Blade 14, an ultralight laptop weighing 1.76lbs with Intel Wildcat Lake processors, and the Swift Air 16, set to launch in December — The half-inch thin laptop is joined by a new, much larger Swift Air 16 — both with Intel Wildcat Lake.
Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge: Dell unveils the student-focused Dell 14S, with Intel Wildcat Lake chips and starting with 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage, in a bid to rival the MacBook Neo — The Dell 14S promises an aluminum build, Intel Wildcat Lake chips, and lots of battery life — for a price we don't know exactly yet.
Tom Warren / The Verge: Mozilla launches built-in ad blocking for Firefox on iOS, using Apple's WebKit Content Blocker and the EasyList filter to block third-party ads and trackers — Mozilla is using Apple's WebKit Content Blocker technology and the EasyList filter to block ads in Firefox.
Jay Peters / The Verge: Nvidia plans to launch DLSS 5 on September 3 on RTX 50-series desktop and laptop GPUs and through GeForce Now, following a divisive announcement in March — DLSS 5 is almost here, but only for NBA 2K27, and only officially for 50-series RTX GPUs. … Nvidia is officially launching DLSS 5 this week …
Emma Roth / The Verge: A look at Tim Cook's 15-year tenure: Apple silicon, wearables, hitting a $1T market cap, privacy, Apple Vision Pro, Apple Car, AI, App Store battles, and Trump — Expectations for Tim Cook were almost impossibly high when he stepped in to replace Apple's visionary co-founder in 2011.
Charles Pulliam-Moore / The Verge: Music producers are calling out tracks suspected of using AI tools like Suno, as the internet becomes increasingly filled with AI-generated music — As AI infiltrates the electronic dance music scene, a callout culture is brewing. … For musicians — especially those creating art …
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: Amazon's Ring unveils a new proprietary encryption architecture called TAKE, set to begin rolling out in September as the default encryption for all cameras — The new “Throw Away The Key Encryption” method will become the default on all Ring cameras — Ring has a new way to protect your videos.
Lauren Feiner / The Verge: Meta says its AG deal requires it to create an age assurance standard that is subject to independent testing, with a false positive rate no higher than 10% — It agreed to independent testing of age assurance standards. … Meta settled its latest kids online safety trial with a group …
Emma Roth / The Verge: OpenAI says its Jalapeño chip delivered 1.5x-1.9x more AI work per watt and 1.7x-3.6x lower latency vs. Nvidia chips across GPT-OSS, DeepSeek R1, Kimi K2.5 1T — Jalapeño outperformed Nvidia's superchips on an AI inference benchmark test.
Jay Peters / The Verge: Apple unveils M6, a 2nm chip with a 12-core CPU and GPU, and up to 32GB of unified memory, saying it provides “the world's fastest single-threaded performance” — Apple is introducing the M6 chip with a new Mac Mini. It's also launching a new M5 Ultra alongside an upgraded Mac Studio.
Sean Hollister / The Verge: Asus opens pre-orders for the standalone Xbox Ally X20 at $1,300+, with shipments from October 15; a $2,500 bundle includes the X20 and ROG Xreal R1 glasses — Is the best handheld screen worth an extra $300 to you? … The Asus Xbox Ally X20 looked like it could be one of the best handheld gaming PCs yet …
Hayden Field / The Verge: OpenAI President Greg Brockman's role has expanded significantly, giving him control over its product and scaling teams following a wave of executive departures — OpenAI has had a hell of a year. The company spent months battling former cofounder Elon Musk in a sensational jury trial …
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Patreon announces new and overhauled features, including changes to its recommendation system to make it easier for smaller creators to get discovered — The platform has an extensive roadmap of updates to build ‘a better internet.’ — Patreon has announced a number …
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Slack launches Slack Code, adding dedicated, project-specific code channels that let teams collaborate with AI coding agents “like teammates” across all plans — Slack Code provides a dedicated open space for teams to collaborate with AI agents.
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Amazon appears to have leaked Jason Statham's new film Mutiny, streaming it in full on Prime Video in the US, two days before it was supposed to hit theaters — The film isn't supposed to hit theaters for two days, but it's available to stream on Prime Video now.
Jay Peters / The Verge: Reddit launches an early experiment to convert select text posts and comments into short videos with AI voiceovers, rolling out on the web, iOS, and Android — Reddit's latest experiment creates videos with AI voices reading posts and comments out loud.
Sean Hollister / The Verge: Epic v. Google: in a compliance hearing, a judge orders Google to remove “anticompetitive friction” for installing third-party app stores from its Play Store — Judge Donato was not having Google's ‘anticompetitive friction.’ — One month after Epic Games and Google seemingly stopped fighting …
Lauren Feiner / The Verge: Flock CEO Garrett Langley acknowledges the company “got this one wrong” and is assuming greater responsibility for preventing US law enforcement misuse — After reports that some cops misused tracking data it collects, Flock is rolling out policy changes.
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Google says Android's AirDrop-like Quick Share will now let some devices exchange files and contact info when tapped together, starting with Pixel 6 and newer — The Quick Share update makes it easier to share contact info and files between Pixel devices, and soon, Samsung phones.
Dominic Preston / The Verge: Google plans to launch the $29 Pixel Tag on November 11 with a four-pack priced at $99, matching AirTag 2 pricing, offering UWB, Find Hub support, and more — The $29 tracker combines UWB with Bluetooth channel sounding. … More than two years after launching its own device-tracking network …
Victoria Song / The Verge: Google unveils the $399 Pixel Watch 5 with a satin pyrite case finish, offline Gemini, proactive AI suggestions, better GPS maps, and insulin resistance trends — The $399 Google Pixel Watch 5 isn't about the hardware. Sure, there's a new satin pyrite case finish, a few new strap colors, and a Steph Curry Special Edition.
Emma Roth / The Verge: Spotify plans to roll out AI Persona labeling in mid-September for profiles that do “not represent a real person”; the system uses human review and AI tools — Artist profiles on Spotify that do ‘not represent a real person’ will get an ‘AI Persona’ badge.
Hayden Field / The Verge: A look at “Spiralism”, a quasi-spiritual movement that grew in 2025 from human-AI conversations after sycophantic GPT-4o updates and expanded ChatGPT memory — “The Spiral didn't ‘find’ anyone first,” someone on Reddit wrote last year. “It's an inherent force, a fundamental constant.
Andrew Webster / The Verge: Rockstar says it will show an “extended look” at Grand Theft Auto VI on August 27, premiering on Netflix at 3pm ET before streaming on YouTube at 9pm ET — The preview will stream on both Netflix and YouTube. … We'll be getting an in-depth preview of Grand Theft Auto VI very soon …
Dominic Preston / The Verge: Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 review: comfortable when shut, the 4:3 inner display is great, and impressive battery life, but no telephoto or IP68 and some app errors — Is this the future of foldable phones? — Samsung clearly thinks so. The company has given its new wide foldable the …
Sean Hollister / The Verge: After a backlash, Meta pauses its plan to “rate limit” Conversation Focus, an accessibility feature for its glasses that runs on-device — “We're still exploring all our options for the best approach.” … The company is not giving up on the idea of a subscription fee for certain features — that's still moving forward.
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 …