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 …
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.