Nilay Patel / The Verge: Q&A with Docusign CEO Allan Thygesen on Docusign's workforce growing to 7,000 staffers, its Intelligent Agreement Management system, AI hallucinations, and more — Docusign's Allan Thygesen says 'not providing an AI service isn't really an option.' — Today, I'm talking with Allan Thygesen, who is the CEO of Docusign.
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Nintendo says the Switch 1 sold 155.37M units as of December 31 since its 2017 launch, topping the DS' 154.02M units, becoming its best-selling console ever — The DS has been overthrown, 12 years after it was discontinued. … The original Switch is officially Nintendo's best-selling console …
Dominic Preston / The Verge: Nothing CEO Carl Pei says the company's flagship Phone 4 won't launch in 2026: “We're not just going to churn out a new flagship every year for the sake of it” — CEO Carl Pei says there's no new flaghip on the way, but teased improvements for the 4A series instead.
Mia Sato / The Verge: ADL study of Grok, ChatGPT, Llama, Claude, Gemini, and DeepSeek: Grok performed worst at identifying and countering antisemitic content, while Claude was best — In a study, the Anti-Defamation League fed Grok, ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, DeepSeek, and Llama antisemitic, anti-Zionist …
Mia Sato / The Verge: Cate Blanchett, Cyndi Lauper, and 800+ creatives launch “Stealing Isn't Innovation” to protest unauthorized AI training, backed by RIAA, SAG-AFTRA, and others — Cate Blanchett, Cyndi Lauper, George Saunders, and other creatives say that AI companies are …
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Sony and TCL sign a non-binding agreement to spin off Sony's TV and home audio hardware business into a new joint venture, aiming to finalize the deal by March — The two companies are planning to form a new joint venture that will carry the ‘Sony’ and ‘Bravia’ branding.
Sean Hollister / The Verge: Meta will discontinue Workrooms, its VR space for workers, on February 16; Quest headsets and Horizon services will not be sold to businesses as of February 20 — Meta continues to trickle out the bad news for VR. … Today, the company announced it's shutting that space down …
Emma Roth / The Verge: Wikimedia celebrates Wikipedia's 25th anniversary, marking its growth from 100 pages to 65M+ articles with nearly 15B monthly views, and releases a docuseries — The online encyclopedia is releasing a mini docuseries that puts faces to the editors behind an array of Wikipedia articles.
Emma Roth / The Verge: The Wikimedia Foundation says Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Perplexity, and Mistral joined Wikimedia Enterprise to get “tuned” API access; Google is already a member — The companies have joined Google as the latest members of the Wikimedia Enterprise program.
Tom Warren / The Verge: UK police say they banned Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from a soccer match in 2025 after Copilot hallucinated a fake West Ham-Maccabi match in an intelligence report — Copilot invented a nonexistent football match that was included in an intelligence report.
Tom Warren / The Verge: IDC: in Q4 2025, global PC shipments rose nearly 10% YoY to 76.4M units, helped by Windows 10 end-of-support and OEMs pulling forward inventory amid tariffs — IDC expects the PC market to be volatile this year ahead of anticipated price increases. … The PC market is bracing …
Jay Peters / The Verge: Google rolls out an AI Inbox view for Gmail, showing users to-dos and summaries of topics rather than a traditional email list, first for US “trusted testers” — The new AI Inbox replaces the traditional list of emails with a personalized summary of what to do and what to catch up on.
Jay Peters / The Verge: Roblox expands mandatory age estimations for chat features to all regions using Persona's tech, after a rollout in Australia, New Zealand, and the Netherlands — After a user's age has been verified, they'll be able to chat with others in similar age groups.
Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge: HP unveils the Eliteboard G1a, a compact desktop PC in the form of a keyboard, powered by an AMD Ryzen AI 300-series chip, set for March launch; pricing is TBC — The HP Eliteboard G1a packs an AMD chip into a keyboard with either an attached or detachable USB-C cable.
Tom Warren / The Verge: Nvidia announces native apps for its GeForce NOW cloud gaming service for select Linux distributions and Amazon Fire TV sticks, available in early 2026 — Nvidia is also adding joystick and yoke flight control support to GeForce Now. … Nvidia's RTX 5080 rollout for its GeForce …
Tom Warren / The Verge: Nvidia rolls out DLSS 4.5 with new 6x Multi Frame Generation for the RTX 50 series, and a second-generation Super Resolution transformer model for all RTX GPUs — All RTX owners will get DLSS 4.5 model and image quality improvements today. … Nvidia is announcing its next major update …
Sean Hollister / The Verge: AMD unveils the 12-core Ryzen AI Max+ 392, and the 8-core AI Max+ 388 processors, both with 40 graphics compute units and offering 60 TFLOPS of GPU performance — Will AI Max Plus chips make seriously powerful handhelds more affordable? … AMD's Strix Halo, aka “Ryzen AI Max,” …
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: Samsung upgrades its Family Hub refrigerators with AI features, such as voice control to open and close the door and Gemini-powered AI Vision to track inventory — Voice control opening and closing comes to Samsung's Family Hub smart fridges. … Samsung's latest update …
The Verge: What to expect at CES 2026: laptops with new chips from Intel, Qualcomm, and AMD, more AI integrations, smart home robotics, smart glasses, and more — Expect plenty of laptops, smart home tech, and TVs — and lots of robots. — The biggest tech show of the year kicks off next week …
Adi Robertson / The Verge: A look at US tech laws coming in 2026, like California's SB 53 AI transparency law and Virginia's new social media limits for minors, effective from January 1 — As usual, 2025 was a year of deep congressional dysfunction in the US. But state legislatures were passing laws that govern everything …
Emma Roth / The Verge: Framework says it is raising DDR5 RAM prices to charge $10 per GB, after a price hike earlier in December due to “substantially higher costs” amid the AI boom — The modular PC maker will now charge $10 per GB for its 8GB, 16GB, and 32GB DDR5 RAM modules.
Sean Hollister / The Verge: Google plans to charge developers $2.85/app and $3.65/game if a US user follows a link that takes them outside of the Play Store to install it within 24 hours — Google says it's complying with the Epic injunction by erecting new programs and fees. … Today was the deadline for Google …
Emma Roth / The Verge: OpenAI rolls out an update to let users adjust ChatGPT's characteristics, including how warm or enthusiastic it is, and its use of headers, lists, and emojis — OpenAI is making it easier to edit emails with ChatGPT, too. … OpenAI will now give you the ability to dial up — or down — ChatGPT's warmth and enthusiasm.
Justine Calma / The Verge: Study: AI's 2025 power demand could hit 23GW, above 2024 Bitcoin mining levels, and AI carbon emissions could hit 32.6M to 79.7M tons, compared to NYC's 50M — A new study estimates the environmental impact of AI in 2025 and calls for more transparency from companies on their pollution and water consumption.
Allison Johnson / The Verge: AI image generators like Nano Banana have increased realism by mimicking phone camera traits in contrast, exposure, and sharpening to avoid the uncanny valley — Remember the early days of AI image generation? Oh how we laughed when our prompts resulted in people with too many fingers …
Jay Peters / The Verge: Tim Sweeney: the Ninth Circuit's decision on Epic v. Apple contempt ruling appeal “completely shuts down” App Store rules allowing Apple to collect “junk fees” — In an interview, Epic Games' CEO says that an appeals court ruling in its case against Apple is ‘really awesome for all developers.’
Hayden Field / The Verge: A look at the Model Context Protocol and how it went from a passion project made by Anthropic employees to an industry standard managed by the Linux Foundation — Over the past 18 months, the largest AI companies in the world have quietly settled on an approach to building the next generation …
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Adobe launches free ChatGPT-integrated apps for Photoshop, Acrobat, and Express on desktop, the web, and iOS, after OpenAI added app integrations in October — Just describe your edits to ChatGPT, and the Photoshop, Acrobat, and Express apps will do it for you or surface the tool you need.
Nilay Patel / The Verge: Q&A with Square product chief Willem Avé on Block's restructuring in 2024, AI automation, investing in crypto, the Lightning Network, and more — Today, I'm talking with Willem Avé, who's head of product at Square. You know Square — it was started by billionaire Jack Dorsey …
Robert Hart / The Verge: Researchers claim that prompts framed as riddle-like poems could skirt AI chatbots' safety features designed to block production of explicit or harmful content — Riddle-like poems tricked chatbots into spewing hate speech and helping design nuclear weapons and nerve agents.
Sean Hollister / The Verge: Q&A with Valve executive Pierre-Loup Griffais, who helped build SteamOS and the Steam Deck, on quietly funding open-source tech to play Windows games on Arm — In an exclusive interview, Valve reveals it's the architect behind a push to bring Windows games to Arm.
Ash Parrish / The Verge: Discord now lets users buy, wishlist, and gift in-game cosmetic items directly within its platform, starting with a store within Marvel Rivals' Discord server — Starting with Marvel Rivals, users will be able to buy and gift in-game items without leaving Discord.
Nilay Patel / The Verge: An interview with IBM CEO Arvind Krishna on why there's no AI bubble, his view that Watson's healthcare push was “inappropriate”, IBM's quantum bet, and more — Today, I'm talking with Arvind Krishna, the CEO of IBM. IBM is a fascinating company.
Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: Uber starts deploying fully driverless WeRide robotaxis in Abu Dhabi, after launching its robotaxi service with safety drivers in the UAE in December 2024 — The robotaxis, which are designed by WeRide, will be restricted to Yas Island, a popular tourist destination in Abu Dhabi.
Justine Calma / The Verge: How a semiconductor investment boom is turning Arizona into “America's Semiconductor HQ”, attracting more than $200B in investments in the last five years — Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images … Arizona's economy was once dominated by the “five C's”: cotton, cattle, citrus, copper, and climate.
Jay Peters / The Verge: Meta rolls out link sharing to let users invite up to eight people into their Hyperscape virtual rooms via a Quest 3 or 3S headset, or the Horizon mobile app — The company is rolling out the ability to hang out in Hyperscape rooms with your friends.
Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft and Qualcomm launch Windows updates to improve Arm gaming, including a refreshed Xbox app; Qualcomm's new Snapdragon Control Panel optimizes games — Microsoft and Qualcomm have made important improvements to compatibility and performance for games on Snapdragon CPUs.
The Verge: The EU unveils proposed updates to GDPR, including simplifying cookie permission pop-ups, and plans to water down the AI Act, after US and tech company pressure — The EU folds under Big Tech's pressure. … After years of staring down the world's biggest tech companies and setting the bar …
Jay Peters / The Verge: Epic Games partners with Unity to bring games made with Unity Engine to Fortnite in 2026, part of Epic's longterm vision to make Fortnite into an open metaverse — Epic Games is teaming up with arguably its biggest game development rival. … Epic Games is teaming up with arguably …
Jay Peters / The Verge: Roblox plans to require all users to undergo an age estimation process to access chat features, starting January 2026, in an effort to enhance child safety — After scrutiny over its ability to protect children on the platform, Roblox is making a big change.
Thomas Ricker / The Verge: Meta plans to launch WhatsApp third-party app integration in Europe “over the coming months” as required by the DMA, starting with BirdyChat and Haiket — Coming ‘soon’ with end-to-end encryption enabled. — Meta is on the cusp of launching third-party integration …
Thomas Ricker / The Verge: Leaker Evan Blass offers details on Samsung's upcoming trifold phone: named “Galaxy Z TriFold”, 6.5" cover display and 10" total display, and 200MP main camera — The Galaxy Z TriFold could launch on December 5th. … Reputable gadget leaker Evan Blass has taken to X with …
Jay Peters / The Verge: Valve says the company is “no longer manufacturing” its high-end, PC-tethered VR headset Valve Index, released in 2019 for $999, after unveiling the Steam Frame — While showing its new Frame VR headset to The Verge, Valve confirmed that it's moving on from its previous one.
Dominic Preston / The Verge: Samsung rolls out its Vision AI Companion, a generative AI-powered upgrade to its Bixby assistant, across its 2025 TV lineup, with support for 10 languages — Vision AI Companion will let you ask questions about what's on screen in real time.
Dominic Preston / The Verge: Motorola Edge 70 review: the new £699 ultra-thin device has a silicone back and great battery life, but the OS is full of ads; the phone won't launch in the US — I've been as much of a thin phone skeptic as anyone. Why would I give up on camera specs and battery life just to shave …
Nilay Patel / The Verge: Q&A with Lyft CEO David Risher on the company's turnaround, AI, paying drivers more, Uber, partnership with Tensor for autonomous vehicle tech, and more — Today, I'm talking with David Risher, who is the CEO of Lyft. I'll just say from the jump: I think you'll like this one …
Nilay Patel / The Verge: Q&A with LexisNexis CEO Sean Fitzpatrick on AI reshaping legal workflows, document drafting, attorneys losing their licenses over “sloppy use of AI”, and more — Today, I'm talking with Sean Fitzpatrick, the CEO of LexisNexis, one of the most important companies in the entire legal system.
Janko Roettgers / The Verge: YouTube is revamping its TV app to mimic paid streamers like Netflix, organizing videos by seasons and episodes, blurring the lines between pro and user content — YouTube's TV app is starting to look a lot more like Netflix, further blurring the lines between traditional TV and creator shows.
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: WhatsApp launches passkey-encrypted backups for iOS and Android, letting users encrypt their stored message history using their face, fingerprint, or a code — Chat backup encryption will no longer require you to memorize passwords or lengthy encryption keys.
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: OpenAI's Sora app adds new features, including “character cameos” to create AI deepfakes of pets, illustrations, and more, clip stitching, and leaderboards — Users can now create character cameos and combine clips together to make longer multi-scene videos.