Universal Music Group is launching a new AI-powered platform that will allow users to draw from its catalog of licensed music to create song remixes, mashups, and new takes on tracks, according to an
LG strongly denies TV spying claims, says tracking and snooping concerns 'not true' — online investigation claims 216,000,000 TVs spy and record audio
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Elon Musk’s tunneling play, The Boring Company, has raised a $3 billion Series D funding round that pushes its valuation to $23 billion.
The round was led by the United Arab Emirates. The Boring Compa
Marvel's Wolverine captures just how angry its lead character is. The latest PS5 exclusive from Spider-Man developer Insomniac , Wolverine is a straightforward action game that is at its best when you
I turned my Muse assistant into a purple cat. | Screenshot: The Verge Meta has launched its new Muse assistant, marking the company's first real foray into AI-powered productivity tools. The company s
As AI makes it easier to fill forms and file complaints, public services around the world are seeing enormous jumps in applications and other requests.
In the United Kingdom, complaints to the housing
Jimmy Kimmel will be interviewing Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico "under unusual circumstances," posting the interview directly to YouTube, rather than airing it on TV during Jimmy Ki
Bending Spoons is continuing its trend of buying once-sought-after software companies for pennies on the dollar. This time, the Italian company is buying Miro for $1.36 billion in cash (equity value o
With the iPhone Duo , Apple has pulled off a familiar trick. It arrives into a mature Android foldable market with a handful of hardware features we've mostly already seen elsewhere, but paired with a
In 2024, Maven Robotics was brand new, and they had nothing—”a cartoon of a robot and a team of people,” CEO and co-founder Hamza Derbas told TechCrunch.
Still, they heard a large consumer goods compa
The Apple iPhone Duo features a passport-style folding hinge. | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge Apple's foldable phone is finally here - well, almost . The iPhone Duo, coming October 23rd,
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This is Optimizer , a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they're going to change your life. Opt in for
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Google has agreed to buy 1 million carbon credits from Indian climate-tech startup Mitti Labs through 2030, in what the companies say is the largest publicly announced deal to date for credits generat
ID verification service IDScan has confirmed that a data breach involved the theft of driver’s licenses from its systems, a week after a report said the identity document checker had been breached dur
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Plan your next event with friends without ever leaving the app. | Image: Snap Snapchat is launching Plans, a new suite of features designed to help turn the plans already being made in group chats - e
Snapchat announced on Thursday that it’s launching “Snapchat Plans,” a suite of features for creating, sharing, and managing real-world events with friends. The new event-planning features allow users
Defense tech startup Mach Industries has raised a fresh $600 million in capital in a Series C extension round that has doubled its valuation to $3.7 billion, the company announced on Thursday. It anno
Europe could soon have its own equivalent of the Delaware C Corp, but its advocates aren’t releasing the pressure on lawmakers. In an open letter released on Thursday, a who’s who of Europe’s startup
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Austin-based Tern has won a contract from the U.S. Army to deploy the startup’s low-cost GPS alternative tech.
The $11.26 million contract will see the Army use Tern’s navigation tech in vehicles, tho
The commander and pilot of NASA's Artemis II mission have gained a new distinction five months after splashing down from the Moon: They're not fully retiring from the space agency. Reid Wiseman and Vi
Another researcher is challenging OpenAI about the data driving its increasingly impressive array of mathematical discoveries. Just days after a bitter row erupted over whether the company's models be
On July 22, 2026, a transmission line fault in Ashburn, Virginia—the heart of the world’s largest data center cluster—knocked more than 3 gigawatts of load off the grid in seconds. And it wasn&#
A San Francisco nonprofit has published a detailed road map of the experiments, studies, and infrastructure that it says would be needed to make informed decisions about the use of solar geoengineerin
The iPhone 18 Pro’s triple camera setup with a variable aperture in the main (bottom) camera. | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge Apple always makes a big show of the latest cameras in its ph
The US is hitting records for the rapid growth of its energy storage market. That’ll go a long way to shoring up the grid, increasing reliability and also cutting emissions, since batteries can help s
It’s going to take a lot more gold coins to buy the Trump Phone now. | Photo: Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Bad news if you didn't lock in a Trump phone at launch: It now costs $749, a $250 incre
Nintendo always promised that the Switch 2 would support variable refresh rate (VRR) when docked, but the console launched without this key feature. A new 23.0.0 firmware update now adds VRR support t
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The entrance of major AI companies into healthcare is a meaningful and welcome development, accelerating the technical foundation available to the industry. Their models are increasingly capable of pr
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Xbox will now publish Physint , an upcoming game from Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima, after PlayStation decided to cancel it. The unexpected swap came in a flurry of announcements from PlayStation ,
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It's been about three years since Volvo discontinued its plug-in hybrid XC40. The mild hybrid version remains on sale in the US and elsewhere, alongside the electric EX40. Today, Volvo announced it wa
Listen Labs, a market research startup that uses voice AI to conduct customer interviews, recently signed a term sheet for a $125 million Series C at a $1.5 billion valuation, with Menlo Ventures set
伴随着苹果新 CEO 约翰·特努斯富有磁性的声音,我们终于迎来了「2026 年全世界期待度最高的手机」—— iPhone Duo。 图|Apple 作为或许是过去几年爆料最多、最密集,也最反复无常的科技产品,iPhone Duo 的配置、形态和各项功能基本与我们想象中的相同: 钛金属中框、大 R 角机身、镜头高原(plateau)上的横向双摄、合上像护照展开像 iPad mini 的机身比例……
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Async GRPO with LoRA across HF Jobs: a bucket, a proxy, and no NCCL
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Matt Mullenweg, the founder and CEO of Automattic, best known as the parent company of WordPress.com, has been put on a leave of absence by his board against his will, according to a Slack message see
New AirPods Pro with cameras were thankfully not announced at the September Apple event. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge September Apple events are always a swirl of information and new,
Black is back. | Photo: Nilay Patel / The Verge Apple has seen reason: It has a black model in the iPhone Pro lineup again. Last year, Apple went bold with its colors for the iPhone 17 Pro, offering a
Paul Christiano, an influential AI researcher focused on keeping AI systems aligned with human interests and under human control, is joining the OpenAI Foundation board, the frontier lab said Wednesda
Apple announced the company's first device with a folding screen today, the iPhone Duo , but that's where the firsts end. The Duo is not only far from the first foldable on the market thanks to the ef
Matt Mullenweg, the CEO of WordPress.com owner Automattic, has been placed on a paid leave of absence, according to a report from 404 Media . In an internal announcement viewed by the outlet, Mullenwe
Paying more for a new phone seems almost unavoidable after Apple's event today. The new iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max start at $1,199 and $1,299, respectively - a $100 price hike over their predecessors.
Massachusetts became the latest state to force data centers to bring their own power, but this time there’s a twist. A new state mandate would require developers building data centers larger than 25 m
Suno's new v6 AI music model is its first made with support from the record industry. Suno's Jack Brody told The Verge that v6 was "trained from the ground up, with a new set of data that does not inc
Open AI CEO Sam Altman speaks during the G20 Innovation Ministerial. | (Photo by Matt RAMEY / AFP via Getty Images) OpenAI's announcement Tuesday that it has solved one of mathematics' legendary Mille
Apple CEO John Ternus wants you to know that the iPhone isn’t going anywhere.
Ternus threw his weight behind the venerable device on Wednesday during his first keynote as CEO, placing it firmly at the
A nearly identical exploit kit that targets critical vulnerabilities in both Chromium-based browsers and older versions of Windows is being actively used by at least four hacking groups, some of which
At Wednesday's iPhone Duo launch event , Apple announced a handful of new Siri AI Audio Intelligence features , including Siri Recap, Live Rewind, Sound Recognition, and Music Recognition. Alongside i
The new Apple Watches come in a variety of material and strap combinations. Apple rolled out the Apple Watch Series 12 and Apple Watch Ultra 4 at the "Surprise and shine" event. The new watches featur
All of a sudden, French entrepreneur Hèlene Huby is seemingly everywhere. This week she is serving as one of two envoys, alongside astronaut Thomas Pesquet, at a high-profile International Space Summi
Apple is trying to get consumers to accept, and even welcome, a new reality: Your tech is always listening.
At Wednesday’s “Surprise and Shine” iPhone event, where the company introduced its new hardw
The United States has now named six Chinese AI firms accused of waging industrial-scale attacks distilling US frontier AI model capabilities and perhaps sparing billions in Chinese development costs.
Apple on Wednesday unveiled its latest iPhones and Apple Watches at its first fall event under newly appointed CEO John Ternus. The main event was the tech giant’s highly anticipated first foldable ph
Apple on Wednesday unveiled its new iPhone 18 and its first foldable iPhone, the iPhone Duo. But amid all the attention on Apple’s newest and most expensive devices, there’s another change: Apple is r
Apple has just announced its first foldable iPhone, the iPhone Duo. The new phone has a 5.4-inch outer screen and a 7.6-inch inner screen, two back cameras, Touch ID for authentication, an IP68 rating
Apple ended today's hardware event with one of its classic "One more thing" reveals. Some smartphone makers have been offering foldable phones for the better part of a decade, but Apple has now joined
Scientists have an indisputable playful side, evidenced by frequent allusions to popular culture in their research publications. That includes popular song lyrics. And the most popular musical group,
Apple is launching a new way to prove that the picture you took isn't manipulated by AI. A new feature, called "Reference Image," will arrive with the iPhone 18 Pro lineup later this month and is supp
The 18 Pro in burgundy is ready for fall. We've just gotten our hands on the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max at Apple Park following the company's "Surprise and shine" presentation. The new phones look quit
Apple’s long-awaited foldable phone, the Duo, contains a number of surprises, including a critical hinge that was designed and built with the help of AI and 3D printing.
The new phone represents Apple
Amazon discriminated against pregnant warehouse employees by denying accommodations like bathroom breaks and the option to sit while working, according to a lawsuit filed yesterday by four women who w
Apple launched a meeting notetaker on Wednesday for the Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4, one of a series of new audio intelligence features that can listen to sounds through your Apple Watch.
The fe
Apple has debuted the new AirPods 5 with improved active noise cancellation and sound quality—aiming to provide improved listening and user features at a lower launch price than the predecessor AirPod
After Apple wrapped up its "Surprise and shine" event today, we were able to get a look at the new Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4. Both of the new watches launch September 18th, with preorders avai
Apple's release cadence for the latest iPhones is unusual. It'll start with the 18 Pro models , then with the foldable iPhone Duo releasing in October for $1,999. It hasn't confirmed when its base iPh
Apple announced the Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 today. Both include a new "Health Sensing System" and S11 chip that give the devices the “most accurate heart rate sensing in a wearable," Apple claimed
Labor Day is in the rearview mirror, kids are back to school, and a squall of pumpkin spice is upon us. It's that time again to prepare for the equally inevitable respiratory virus season with annual
The first foldable iPhone is finally here, and following its announcement, we got the chance to try the phone for ourselves. We've long been told that Apple would make a foldable iPhone once the tech
Harvey, the legal AI startup that VCs can’t get enough of, has raised another $550 million in funding, this time at a $15.5 billion valuation, the company announced on Wednesday.
The round was co-led
Following Apple's "Surprise and shine" event that saw the announcement of the iPhone Duo and the iPhone 18 Pro , the company increased the price on all of its last-gen iPhones that are still available
Apple just wrapped up its first iPhone launch event with CEO John Ternus at the helm, and it did not disappoint. We got a look at Apple's long-rumored foldable iPhone Duo, along with the next generati
The successor to the iPhone 17 isn’t arriving this fall. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apple is taking the unusual step of skipping the base iPhone 18 this fall. At its "surprise and s
The new ceramic colors: pearl white and night blue. | Image: The Verge via Apple The Apple Watch Series 12 is launching with a ceramic option, making it the company's first wearable since 2019's Serie
Alongside the new Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4, Apple on Wednesday introduced a redesigned Apple Health app that takes advantage of Apple Intelligence to make better sense of your health data. Th
Obviously, part of the appeal of a foldable phone is all that additional screen real estate. That gives you plenty of room for some serious multitasking that just isn't possible, or at the very least
Apple on Wednesday unveiled the Apple Watch Series 12 and Apple Watch Ultra 4 at its iPhone launch event in Cupertino. While the smartwatches aren’t getting a major hardware makeover, they are getting
In a world awash in AI slop, Apple wants you to trust what gets captured on its iPhones.
The company announced Wednesday during its Surprise and Shine event that it is introducing Apple Reference Imag
Apple on Wednesday unveiled the latest generation of its wireless earbuds, the AirPods 5, introducing several upgrades like improved audio, stronger active noise cancellation, and expanded Siri and Ap
Apple has announced its long-anticipated foldable iPhone, the iPhone Duo, which arrives more than seven years after the first Samsung Galaxy Fold hit the market. The Duo will be available to preorder
Apple announced the next version of the rugged and durable Apple Watch Ultra at today's "Surprise and shine" event. The Apple Watch Ultra 4 features a design that's nearly identical to last year's App
Apple is launching its next iOS 27 update on Monday September 14th. The headline feature is Siri AI , the delayed AI-powered overhaul of the Siri assistant. Siri AI is rolling out with iOS 27 as a bet
CUPERTINO, Calif.—Apple's new iPhone 18 Pro is an iterative update that—as usual—focuses heavily on both performance and new camera features. This time around, many of the new camera features are orie
Apple announced the Apple Watch Series 12 at its September 9th launch event, with Siri AI-powered Audio Intelligence as the highlight features. The new abilities include a Live Rewind feature that all
Apple’s new CEO John Ternus used the opening of the company’s Surprise and Shine event Wednesday to make its AI strategy clear: the iPhone is already the best AI device out there, and Apple cares more
Today, Apple announced the AirPods 5, updates to the AirPods 4 series that was first released in 2024. The AirPods 4 series was the first time Apple's open-ear wireless earbuds came in a version with
Apple launched its latest Pro phones, the iPhone 18 Pro and the iPhone 18 Pro Max, today at its fall “Surprise and Shine” iPhone event. While the design of the phones remains the same as the earlier m
Plenty of people remain spooked by autonomous vehicles, or AVs. Some experts and policymakers have cautioned that AVs won’t necessarily make roads safer. When it comes to partial or full autonomy, the
Nearly every country represented in the United Nations General Assembly recently voted in favor of promoting world maps that more accurately show the size of various continents. But the UN resolution
Apple announced the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max at its event on Wednesday. The 18 Pro and Pro Max come in deep black, silver, "glacier," and burgundy, with color-matched back glass. They also
Microsoft agreed to a set of safety and privacy principles for AI in schools a week after two major school systems announced a ban on student-facing AI. In a new agreement with the American Federation
Apple's latest product event began with something the company hasn't seen in more than a decade: a new CEO at the helm. And he got a standing ovation. "First of all, thank you, it is great to be here,
When a prominent researcher quits a job at a frontier AI lab these days, it's often to pursue a new startup or protest a new business model . But AI researcher Jacob Coxon is using his departure from
Fox’s $22 billion plan to buy Roku has hit a new hurdle. The Justice Department sent Fox and Roku what’s known as a “second request” on Tuesday, asking the companies to turn over more data and documen
The physical copy of the upcoming Ocarina of Time remake with its sparkly cover. | Image: The Verge Nintendo announced a variety of new titles at its September livestream, but among the most talked-ab
I'm on record expressing a certain amount of skepticism about Mike Flanagan's rebooted Carrie miniseries for Prime Video. We don’t need another disappointing remake , so what story is there left to te
The CameraJet is an AI-powered toothbrush with a camera that detects gaps between your teeth and shoots mouthwash into them. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge Early users of Dyson's Camer
On Tuesday, Google announced AlphaGenome Atlas , a resource that attempts to predict the consequences of every possible single-base variant in the human genome. The human genome is about 3 billion bas
Microsoft is starting to test some new Xbox console features with Insiders. Testers will be able to try out custom Xbox boot animations from the past, more personalization options for badges, a new lo
Apple’s hosting its “Surprise and shine” launch event on September 9th at 1PM ET / 10AM PT, where it’s expected to announce the first phones in its iPhone 18 lineup — including Apple’s first foldable
John Ternus, now Apple’s CEO, at WWDC in 2019 as the company’s VP of hardware engineering. | Photo by Brittany Hosea-Small / AFP via Getty Images It's not just time for any old Apple event, but one th
AI companies have been talking about superintelligent AI like it’s inevitable, but recent safety incidents like OpenAI’s Hugging Face breach are dem
Go, go escargots! | Image: Google Google is introducing a new Live Game Feed to keep you updated on NFL games as the regular season kicks off tonight. Look for the red "Live" icon and you'll see a rec