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Google has started to roll out the first update for the Pixel Watch 4 since the wearable launched last August. WearOS 6.1 is available for the Pixel Watch 2, 3, and 4 models, but only the Pixel Watch 4 will be getting a pair of new one-handed gestures, while improvements made to smart replies are [...]

OpenAI is bringing Slack CEO Denise Dresser on board to serve as the AI giant's chief revenue officer. In an announcement on Tuesday, OpenAI says Dresser will oversee the company's global revenue strategy, while helping "more businesses put AI to work in their day-to-day operations." Dresser has worked at Slack's parent company, Salesforce, for 12 [...]

Welcome to the end of 2025. Given all the AI announcements in supercomputing, data centers, and company investments, one might say this was "the year of AI," but this was also the year where we saw design upgrades come to so many smartphones and laptops that 2025 could be called "the year of the flippable, [...]

Over the past 18 months, the largest AI companies in the world have quietly settled on an approach to building the next generation of apps and services - an approach that would allow AI agents from any company to easily access information and tools across the internet in a standardized way. It's a key step [...]

Razer is returning to its roots and relaunching the world's first gaming mouse that debuted over 25 years ago before there was even a gaming peripheral industry. The original Karna Razer Boomslang was best known for its encoding wheel that could more accurately track a mouse's movements at 2,000 DPI. The new Razer Boomslang 20th [...]

An open licensing standard that aims to make AI companies pay for the content they vacuum up across the web is now an official specification. Really Simple Licensing 1.0 - or RSL for short - gives publishers the ability to dictate licensing and compensation rules to the web crawlers that visit their sites. The RSL [...]

Today, AMD is soft-launching its latest suite of graphics and performance-enhancing tech, FSR Redstone - and it might take a second to wrap your head around. It certainly did for me. The good news is that in just three months, AMD has more than doubled the number of games that support the flagship machine-learning version [...]

Figma is launching three new AI-powered creative tools to help users edit their images without jumping to another platform. The new tools are available in Figma Design and Figma Draw, and can be used to quickly remove objects from an image, isolate objects so they can be repositioned, and extend images beyond their previous dimensions. [...]

Adobe is giving ChatGPT users some new capabilities for designing and editing their work without having to switch apps. New apps for Photoshop, Acrobat, and Adobe Express are launching today directly in ChatGPT, allowing users to create designs or adjust photos and PDFs by describing what they want. The Adobe apps are free to use, [...]

This is an excerpt of Sources by Alex Heath, a newsletter about AI and the tech industry, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. Reinforcement learning (RL) is the next frontier, Google is surging, and the party scene has gotten completely out of hand. Those were the through lines from this year's NeurIPS [...]

Future Call of Duty releases will no longer include back-to-back launches of Modern Warfare or Black Ops games, Activision announced on Tuesday. The past four releases in the series have been Modern Warfare II (2022), Modern Warfare III (2023), Black Ops 6 (2024), and Black Ops 7 (2025), but moving forward, Activision wants to offer [...]

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If you're having a stressful holiday season, the answer is McDonald's - at least, that's what a now-removed AI-generated ad suggested, as reported by Futurism. Set to a song calling the holiday season "the most terrible time of the year," the ad shows AI-generated people falling victim to a slew of wintery woes, including family [...]

Over two films, Rian Johnson's Knives Out series has offered something largely absent from the modern movie landscape: intricate murder mysteries full of humor and gasp-worthy moments. The original Knives Out started things off relatively small with a cozy whodunit, which then became a larger and more elaborate puzzle with the sequel Glass Onion. Both [...]

If you didn't catch the Black Friday deal on Apple's AirPods Pro 3, the good news is the price has dropped again ahead of the holidays. Right now, the noise-canceling earbuds are matching their all-time low price of $219.99 ($30 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. It's a great deal considering the AirPods Pro [...]

Google just launched its holiday sale, and it's basically Black Friday and Cyber Monday revived. From smartphones to smart security devices, plenty of great gifts have returned to their Black Friday prices, with some third-party retailers in some cases offering better deals than Google. Prices for a few of our favorite gadgets are even matching [...]

Look, I'm as fed up as the next guy with AI chatbots stuffed into every app. I don't want to brainstorm coverage options with an LLM every time I renew my car insurance. I'd much rather message a human than a robot to pester FedEx about my missing package. But I have found one scenario [...]

The Nothing Phone 3A Community Edition revamps Nothing's usual monochrome look with a 90s-inspired design infused by pops of color. It's updating the basic 3A's transparent backplate with a teal tint, plus yellow and magenta buttons. They're also throwing in an accessory too, for the first time, adding a limited edition set of six-sided dice [...]

Continuing CEO Mark Zuckerberg's plan to make Facebook "way more culturally influential than it is today," Meta is announcing a bunch of new updates to help you "cut through the clutter" and make content in the app. The changes include tweaks to how you see and interact with photos in your feed that could make [...]

Australia is joining a wave of governments around the globe in regulating how kids spend their time online. On December 10th, most major social media platforms will boot children in the country under 16 from their services. Under the law, social platforms will also need to implement a "reasonable" age verification method there - while [...]

More than 230 groups including Food & Water Watch, Physicians for Social Responsibility, and Greenpeace are demanding a pause on the construction of any new data centers in the US until stronger regulations are in place to prevent soaring electricity rates, water use, and pollution. "The rapid, largely unregulated rise of data centers to fuel [...]

As AI tools continue to rise in popularity, it's easy to forget the satisfaction of using something that doesn't need an update or a prompt to help you get things done. I'm talking about tools. They're simple and rugged, and they don't make things needlessly complicated. And now that the holidays are approaching, these tools [...]

YouTube is giving more creators a way to test how different titles perform on their videos. After rolling out the ability to test and compare video titles to a "small percentage" of creators in July, YouTube has now expanded the tool in YouTube Studio to "all creators with access to advanced features," making it easier [...]

When Ikea announced its collection of 21 new Matter-over-Thread devices last month, it wasn't expecting the new hardware to be available in the US until January 2026. Over the past month the devices have started showing up across Europe, but a handful of them are now available through Ikea's US website and some of its [...]

Spotify is launching its beta music videos feature to Premium subscribers in the US and Canada today, over a year after it rolled out to Premium users in other regions. If you have a Spotify Premium subscription, you should now begin seeing an option to "Switch to video" on some tracks on the iOS, Android, [...]

Eric Migicovsky, the founder of Pebble and the person leading its recent comeback, is very much in the business of making gadgets for himself. And he seems extremely into the one on his finger: It's called the Pebble Index 01 (but we'll just call it Index), and it's a $75 ring meant to be worn [...]

Amazon is launching Alexa Plus shopping features that make it easier to track your orders and avoid missing out on deals. The AI-powered Alexa Plus assistant - like Amazon's Rufus chatbot - can proactively track products to tell you when they've dropped to a specific price, and automatically purchase them when they fall below the [...]

Ford is teaming up with France's Renault to design and produce affordable electric vehicles for the European market, with the goal of turning around the Blue Oval's struggling business on the continent. The move comes as cheap Chinese-made EVs have flooded Europe, snatching away market share from long-established players. Ford will use Renault's Ampere platform [...]

Google announced a new "extended repair program" for the Pixel 9 Pro and Pixel 9 Pro XL smartphones yesterday after it confirmed display issues with a "limited number" of devices, as spotted by 9to5Google. The company is doing the same for the Pixel 9 Pro Fold, although Google didn't specify what's wrong with it other [...]

When we look back on 2025, at least in tech, we'll remember it mostly as a year about AI. We had a race between OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and others to build the best model for the most things. Nvidia became the most valuable company in the world, data centers started to spring up everywhere, and [...]

About a year ago, we said you probably don't need the Remarkable Paper Pro. The e-ink device is equal parts outrageous and luxurious; it's not ideal for consuming books, and the screen can sometimes feel painfully slow. Then there's the starting price, which is, quite frankly, ludicrous at $629 (up from $579 thanks to US-induced [...]

It's now easier for friends and family who aren't tech savvy or are struggling with app fatigue to share images via your Aura digital photo frame. As the name of the new "text to frame" feature implies, photos can now be shared to an Aura frame through a text message, and they will be automatically [...]

DIY repair site iFixit has launched its own app for iOS and Android, featuring its extensive library of repair guides and resources, a battery health monitor, and a new AI "FixBot" tool that's been trained on those same guides to help with repairs. The heart of the new app is the company's existing library of [...]

As he called the House Judiciary Committee into session on a cold and snowy February day in Washington, DC, Chairman Jim Jordan was ready to take a victory lap. American free speech had been critically threatened, and now it was saved - in large part thanks to him and his committee. "What a difference a [...]

Nvidia has received White House approval to start exporting its H200 AI GPU chips to "approved customers" in China and other countries, according to President Donald Trump. In a Truth Social post on Monday, Trump said the deal comes with "conditions that allow for continued strong national security," and that the US will take a [...]

Memory suppliers just blew a hole in the PC gaming industry - and they're about to do the same to everything else. For weeks, PC enthusiasts have borne the brunt of skyrocketing memory prices, but the shockwaves will soon impact a wider range of products as suppliers pour resources into a far bigger and more [...]

Google is under investigation by the European Union over concerns that it breached competition rules by imposing restrictions on web publishers and YouTube creators to gain an unfair advantage over other AI companies. Concerns outlined by the European Commission include using content from web publishers for features like AI Overviews and AI Mode in Search, [...]

Over two years after Fairphone introduced its first pair of modular and repairable wireless headphones, the company has announced an upgraded version. The new Fairbuds XL look similar to the originals but feature an updated design with more comfortable fabrics and improved sound thanks to new drivers. What's most interesting about these is that thanks [...]

We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but apparently not. Right now, you can snag Apple's Watch Series 11 in the 42mm configuration with GPS for a new all-time low of $299 ($100 off) at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy. That beats the $70 discount we saw [...]

Slack users can now access Anthropic's Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research preview. When Claude is tagged, it will now automatically scan the message to see if it's a coding task and, if so, route it to [...]

Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device you can buy. It has a built-in mechanism that expands the screen vertically to give you more screen real estate for typing and scrolling. However, [...]

At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to be recouped, and historically the way publishers have done that is by being comically risk-averse. Hence the glut of semi-realistic rocky wastelands that look like [...]

Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House "Border Czar" Tom Homan, and other federal officials over the Trump administration's "unlawful threats" made against Aaron and its actions to pressure Apple to pull the app [...]

Teased at Google I/O, Project Aura is a collaboration between Xreal and Google. It's the second Android XR device (the first being Samsung's Galaxy XR headset) and is expected to launch in 2026. Putting it on, I get why the term "smart glasses" doesn't exactly fit. Is it a headset? Smart glasses? Both? Those were [...]

You know what I love more than OLEDs? Cheap OLEDs. And that's exactly what drew me to the 14-inch HP OmniBook 5. It's a $700 Windows laptop with a Snapdragon X Plus processor and an OLED screen. That means it should have great battery life and a beautiful screen. I consider these important in any [...]

As if the Analogue 3D wasn't nostalgic enough, the 4K N64 emulator will soon be available in a handful of transparent "Funtastic" limited editions going on sale on December 10th at 8AM Pacific/11AM Eastern. The vibrant transparent models will be available "in highly limited quantities," and they'll cost more than the standard model at $299. [...]

Skate Story is two very different things simultaneously. On the one hand, it's a visceral take on skateboarding, providing a tight, fast, ground-level view as you brute-force your way through tricks and combos. But it's also a surrealist trip through the underworld where you control a skateboarding demon who faces off against the devil. Think [...]

Meta will soon give Instagram and Facebook users in the European Union the option to limit personalized ads, in an effort to comply with the bloc's tech rules. The European Commission announced that the new advertising options will be rolled out in January 2026, and that this is "the first time that such a choice [...]

We're one year into the experiment of running The Verge with subscriptions, and so far things are going quite well - but we've heard a lot of feedback so far, and we've got some exciting changes in store to try and make this thing even better. We hit our subscriber goals for 2025, and an [...]