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"What did Ilya see?" Two years ago, it was the meme seen 'round the world (or at least 'round the tech industry). OpenAI CEO Sam Altman had been briefly ousted in November 2023 by members of the company's board of directors, including his longtime collaborator and fellow cofounder Ilya Sutskever. The board claimed Altman "was [...]

ESPN Bet is winding down in favor of a new integration with DraftKings. In an announcement on Thursday, ESPN revealed that it will shutter the standalone betting app in December, while also cutting ties with Penn Entertainment, the company it worked with to develop ESPN Bet. In its place, ESPN will introduce DraftKings' betting features [...]

Though my 100-plus-hour completed save file would beg to differ, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is an unfinished game. Think of it like Korean barbecue. Without the kimchi, rice, sprouts, or sauce, it's just meat - tasty meat to be sure, but not a complete (or healthy) dinner. Hyrule Warriors: Age of [...]

Typically, the long-running MAGA influencer feud between white supremacist streamer Nick Fuentes and Jewish conservative podcaster Ben Shapiro - who despise each other for obvious reasons - would have been contained within the internet. Last week, it ratcheted up when Fuentes, an unrepentant antisemite who has said that "Hitler was really fucking cool", suddenly achieved [...]

Ring is introducing a new AI-powered feature that consolidates multiple alerts from a camera about a single event into one notification. Single Event Alert is launching on November 6th and is designed to reduce the barrage of notifications from a video doorbell or camera. Building on Ring's AI Video Descriptions that send a summary of [...]

Peloton is recalling roughly 833,000 of its original Bike Plus machines, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. The reason being that the seat post can break and detach during use, with Peloton receiving three reports of breakages and two reports of injuries resulting from falls. The affected Bike Plus units were sold between [...]

Hi everyone! I'm John Higgins, the new senior reviewer of TVs and audio here at The Verge. I joined the team just over a month ago, and am raring to go. I've been in tech publishing in some capacity for a little over 20 years, starting at Home Theater Magazine back in 2003 as I [...]

Lego's Star Wars partnership helped the company endure financial uncertainty in the late 90s, but for the first time it's announcing a collaboration with that other iconic space franchise. Lego's first Star Trek set is a 3,600 piece replica of the USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D from Star Trek: The Next Generation measuring nearly two-feet long. It [...]

The government shutdown-spurred airport chaos is about to get a whole lot worse. The Federal Aviation Administration said Wednesday it will reduce flight volumes by 10 percent across 40 major airports in response, a move that could threaten 3,000 to 4,500 flights daily. The cuts will affect high volume" markets, including in Atlanta, Dallas, New [...]

After teasing its development last year, Foursquare co-founder Dennis Crowley has now launched BeeBot: an AI-powered social app for iPhones that talks to you about what's happening nearby. In his blog announcement, Crowley says BeeBot behaves like a personalized radio DJ" that provides location-based audio updates through your headphones, telling you about what friends are [...]

Huawei is the latest phone manufacturer to release a thin phone: the Mate 70 Air. That's our third Air for the year - after the iPhone and ZTE's Nubia Air - to only two Edges, suggesting Apple's influence still reigns supreme over Samsung's. At 6.6mm thick, the Mate 70 Air isn't quite as slim as [...]

Countless cars have received military-grade marketing over the years, their performances likened to some form of ordnance or another. Saab was notorious for leaning on its aeronautical origins, and it's hard to imagine what kind of state Jeep would be in today without literally parading its olive drab roots at every opportunity. But not since [...]

Ikea announced 21 new Matter-over-Thread devices that can connect with a wider range of devices and platforms, making it easier for customers to build a smart home across different brands." The collection includes both entirely new products and updates to existing offerings introducing new functionality and features. The new collection was teased by Ikea's David [...]

On Thursday, Tesla shareholders will vote on whether to grant Elon Musk an enormous pay package, the largest ever awarded to a chief executive by orders of magnitude, or risk him leaving the company in a huff. If this sounds weirdly familiar, it's because the same thing unfolded nearly a year ago. At the 2024 [...]

Ikea just announced a bunch of super cheap, colorful Matter-over-Thread devices that will work with any platform, and it feels like Christmas came early for the smart home. The 21 new products include a line of smart bulbs starting at just 4 and two new remote controls that start at just 3 (US pricing is [...]

Tinder is testing an AI-powered Chemistry" feature that learns about your interests and personality by analyzing your camera roll. In its latest earnings report, the dating app's parent company, Match Group, described it as an interactive matching feature that's designed to combat swipe fatigue" by surfacing fewer, more compatible matches. Chemistry requires the user's permission [...]

The race to mine battery minerals from the ocean floor would create a new stream of waste that could rob sea life of a critical food source, according to new research published today in the journal Nature Communications. That could have far-reaching effects across the ocean, potentially reaching larger fish like tuna that people depend [...]

Canon is announcing the EOS R6 Mark III camera, its latest jack-of-all-trades full-frame mirrorless model for both stills and video. The new camera has a 32.5-megapixel sensor, improved autofocus, up to 7K video recording, and a new dual-card arrangement with a faster CFexpress Type B slot. It's set to launch November 25th and will sell [...]

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. At 8PM on election night in New York City, I arrived at an unmarked office building in the Meatpacking District. Inside, a few dozen young Kalshi employees moved between [...]

Rode has announced a new version of the Rodecaster Video portable production console it launched just over a year ago, but the Rodecaster Video S isn't a replacement. The Rodecaster Video S offers similar functionality to the original, including switching and mixing multiple video and audio sources and replacing blue or green screens, but with [...]

If you logged into your Movies Anywhere account in the past few days, you might have noticed some titles missing from your library, specifically content purchased on Google Play and YouTube. As of October 31st, movies from either platform are no longer available on Movies Anywhere. The change was announced on a brief help page [...]

Gemini can now draw from your emails and documents while performing deep research" queries. Google's announcement blog called this one of our most-requested features" for Gemini Deep Research, which is an agentic feature styled specifically for creating research reports rather than just answering questions. The chatbot starts by creating a multi-step research plan, then it [...]

If you've been holding off on getting a new laptop, now's a great time to pick one up. Ahead of Black Friday, you can snag the base 13-inch M4-powered MacBook Air for $749.99 ($250 off) in multiple colors at Amazon. That's the lowest price we've seen on Apple's slim laptop, letting you save more than [...]

If you've ever watched a synth video on YouTube, there's a decent chance you've seen the Arturia KeyStep at some point. The affordable keyboard and controller has been a steady presence since its release in January of 2016, especially in DAWless circles. Now Arturia is finally releasing a proper successor, the KeyStep mk2, and on [...]

With the swing of a bat, another October came and went for those of us who love baseball. As languid and habitual as the rest of the season can feel, October baseball at its best is pure chaos: Night after night, there's a promise of something new, that you might see something that's never happened [...]

Apple is preparing to power its AI-upgraded Siri with a custom version of Google's Gemini AI model, according to a report from Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. The iPhone maker will reportedly pay Google around $1 billion annually to gain access to the technology, which will generate summaries and perform planning-related tasks. As noted by Bloomberg, Apple [...]

Last week, Nintendo surprised everybody with an announcement: Over four years after its "last major free content update," Animal Crossing: New Horizons is getting a Switch 2 upgrade and a free update for all players. It's not often that an incredibly popular game goes years between updates, but since when has anyone been able to [...]

Third-party controller makers that have figured out how to wirelessly wake the Switch 2 from its standby mode are generally loud and proud about that feature. That's because there still aren't many controllers that can mimic one of the $89.99 Switch 2 Pro's biggest selling points, which is letting owners turn the console on from [...]

Amazon built a portal to Kraft Mac & Cheese, Goldfish crackers, and Nestle Drumsticks inside one of its Whole Foods stores - and it plans to do the same at others. In a blog post on Wednesday, Amazon details a Whole Foods concept store in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania, where shoppers can order grocery items from [...]

Unfair Flips is a game about flipping a coin. And despite being designed around random chance, it has a vibrant speedrunning community, racing to see who can get to 10 heads the fastest. That's the only goal. You earn money with each heads and can spend that on four things: a more valuable coin, a [...]

If you've ever had to leave your car parked for a few days while traveling - or returned to find a new dent that wasn't there before - Baseus' PrimeTrip VD1 Pro might be worth checking out. The dash cam records in 4K and keeps watch even when the car's turned off, and right now, [...]

Nintendo is stepping further away from its original Switch console, with the company now planning to dedicate most of its attention to its successor. In a financial results briefing on Wednesday, Nintendo said that going forward, we will shift our primary development focus to Nintendo Switch 2 and expand our business around this new platform." [...]

Discord is expanding the safety controls parents and guardians have access to in its Family Center, including increased visibility of their teens' activity, allowing guardians to control sensitive content filtering and data privacy settings, and giving them more control over who can DM their teens. New Social Permissions toggles will allow guardians to choose whether [...]

If you've been reluctant to update to the new Apple Home architecture, you now have a few more months before Apple forces your hand. Apple has pushed back the deadline to February 10, 2026, rather than fall 2025. The refreshed version of Apple Home has been available for a couple of years now and adds [...]

Another AI-powered wearable is coming to market. It's not a pendant like Friend, nor a wristband like Amazon's Bee. This time, it's a smart ring called the Stream Ring from the company Sandbar founded by former employees of the neural interface startup CTRL-Labs that was acquired by Meta. Users can preorder the Stream Ring now [...]

Black Friday will bring huge discounts on all sorts of tech. But sometimes you just can't wait, especially if you just lost your last pair of earbuds, or perhaps they no longer hold a charge. If you need a great set of noise-canceling wireless earbuds - and you use an Android phone - you may [...]

OpenAI didn't plan to make a browser. Not at first, anyway. But ever since the company launched ChatGPT, it started to see lots of users do the same thing. "You'd have this tab open on chatgpt.com, and you'd be working on something else somewhere in your browser," says Adam Fry, a product lead on the [...]

Ever since Disney invested $1.5 billion in Epic Games to build a persistent universe," there's been very little indication as to what that may eventually look like. But the latest collaboration between the two companies might be the biggest hint yet - and it looks a lot like Disneyland. On November 6th, Disney is launching [...]

Elon Musk's AI company compelled its employees to submit their own biometric data to train its Ani" female chatbot, according to The Wall Street Journal. Ani, an anime avatar with blond pigtails and an NSFW setting, was released over the summer for users who subscribe to X's $30-a-month SuperGrok service. After testing it, The Verge's [...]

The Motion Picture Association - the trade group in charge of movie ratings - has asked Meta to stop using its PG-13" rating when referring to the type of content that teen accounts will see on Instagram. The MPA sent a cease and desist order to Meta on October 28th, saying Meta's use of the [...]

Google Maps is bringing Gemini's AI chatbot to more features, including more conversational" route planning and the use of landmarks and nearby business for navigation. Google has slowly been adding AI to many of its products, including Maps, which last year got an updated version of Immersive View that allows users to ask questions about [...]

PlayStation has announced that cloud streaming is officially rolling out to the PlayStation Portal, after a beta test period that started last year. Starting later today (November 5th) at 6PM PT / 9PM ET, PlayStation Premium Plus members will be able to stream select titles from their own library without the need to connect to [...]

Zohran Mamdani owes his win as New York City mayor substantially to his internet presence. Mamdani - as numerous writers have outlined - is good on social video. He picked a message, stuck to it, and adapted that platform to snappy soundbites across multiple mediums. But Mamdani's best trait as an online communicator wasn't knowing [...]

Nintendo has released an official Nintendo Store app, allowing more fans to access the eShop on iPhone, iPad, and Android devices. Five years after exclusively launching in Japan as the My Nintendo" app, Nintendo has now expanded the iOS and Android experience under a new name to other regions, including the US, UK, Canada, and [...]

On July 1st, Perez Hilton uploaded a YouTube video with breaking news. Hello everybody, it is Perez, the queen of all media, the original influencer, and allegedly, I have been subpoenaed by Blake Lively," Hilton said, stretching out the four syllables in the word allegedly" as far as they could go. Since the actress sued [...]

Stability AI, the creator of popular AI art tool Stable Diffusion, was largely victorious against Getty Images on Tuesday in a British legal battle over the material used to train AI models. The case originally looked set to produce a landmark ruling on AI and copyright in the UK, but it landed with a thud [...]

President Donald Trump has once again picked tech billionaire Jared Isaacman to be the next NASA Administrator, five months after pulling the initial nomination he made last year. Isaacman, an Elon Musk ally and commercial astronaut who has travelled into orbit twice as a civilian aboard SpaceX rockets, was reportedly withdrawn from consideration over previous [...]

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 a couple of millimeters off a phone's waistline? I asked pretty much exactly that when I first saw Samsung's Galaxy S25 Edge earlier this year. But the Motorola Edge 70 [...]

Just when we thought Epic v. Google might be over, just one Supreme Court rejection away from a complete victory for Epic, both sides have agreed to settle Tuesday evening. And if Judge James Donato, who ordered Google to crack open Android for third-party stores, agrees to the changes, it might turn Epic's victory into [...]

Google has dreamed up a potential new way to get around resource constraints for energy-hungry AI data centers on Earth - launching its AI chips into space on solar-powered satellites. It's a moonshot' research project Google announced today called Project Suncatcher. If it can ever get off the ground, the project would essentially create space-based [...]