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Victoria Song @ The Verge · 12/10/2025 11:00 EDT

No one knows what to call these things

I asked a simple question at Google's Project Aura demo last week. What do you call these things? To my surprise, multiple people launched into a vigorous discussion on the taxonomy of glasses-shaped face computers. It turns out "smart glasses" is out as a term. The term "AI glasses" is in. Kind of. Actually, it […] Read more ›

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Andrew Liszewski @ The Verge · 12/10/2025 10:53 EDT

The Pixel Watch 4 is getting new one-handed gestures and better smart replies

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 […] Read more ›

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Victoria Barrios @ The Verge · 12/10/2025 10:00 EDT

The Verge picks the standout tech of 2025

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, […] Read more ›

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Emma Roth @ The Verge · 12/10/2025 10:00 EDT

OpenAI hires Slack’s CEO as its chief revenue officer

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 […] Read more ›

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Hayden Field @ The Verge · 12/10/2025 09:33 EDT

AI companies want a new internet — and they think they’ve found the key

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 […] Read more ›

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Andrew Liszewski @ The Verge · 12/10/2025 09:16 EDT

Razer resurrects the first ever gaming mouse as a limited edition

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 Kärna 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 […] Read more ›

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Brandt Ranj @ The Verge · 12/10/2025 09:15 EDT

The best Christmas gifts for gamers and movie lovers

Most of us in the Northern Hemisphere spend the holidays indoors, but you can only watch so many TikToks about cute cats and cooking hacks before the need for something a little more substantive kicks in. Choosing the right game or movie to gift is tough, though, especially if you don't have an exact read […] Read more ›

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Jess Weatherbed @ The Verge · 12/10/2025 09:00 EDT

Figma adds more Photoshop-like AI tools for image editing

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. […] Read more ›

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Emma Roth @ The Verge · 12/10/2025 09:00 EDT

A pay-to-scrape AI licensing standard is now official

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 […] Read more ›

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Sean Hollister @ The Verge · 12/10/2025 09:00 EDT

AMD FSR Redstone is an exciting and confusing upgrade for Radeon PC gamers

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 […] Read more ›

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Andrew J. Hawkins @ The Verge · 12/10/2025 09:00 EDT

Aurora will have ‘hundreds’ of driverless trucks on the road by the end of 2026, CEO says

It's been a year of progress and delays for Aurora, the Pittsburgh-based autonomous trucking company founded by Chris Urmson. After promising to launch commercial driverless truck operations in 2024, the company was forced to push the start date until April 2025. A few weeks later, however, it was forced to put safety drivers back in […] Read more ›

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Jess Weatherbed @ The Verge · 12/10/2025 08:30 EDT

Instagram gives you more control over your Reels algorithm

Instagram is launching a new AI-powered feature for fine-tuning which videos appear in your Reels tab. The "Your Algorithm" update allows you to see which topics Instagram already thinks you're interested in based on your previous activity, and then remove some, or add new topics, to better direct what kind of videos you actually want […] Read more ›

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Jess Weatherbed @ The Verge · 12/10/2025 08:00 EDT

ChatGPT can now use Adobe apps to edit your photos and PDFs for free

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, […] Read more ›

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Alex Heath @ The Verge · 12/09/2025 21:00 EDT

The AI industry’s biggest week: Google’s rise, RL mania, and a party boat

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 […] Read more ›

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Jay Peters @ The Verge · 12/09/2025 19:24 EDT

Call of Duty won’t release Modern Warfare or Black Ops back to back anymore

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 […] Read more ›

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Tina Nguyen @ The Verge · 12/09/2025 18:03 EDT

Both sides of the aisle hate the AI moratorium

Hello and welcome to Regulator. If you're a subscriber, you are stalwart and true, and if you're here from the internet, prove your chivalry and worth by subscribing to The Verge here. (And if you're David Sacks: we said what we said.) As of Tuesday, President Donald Trump has committed to signing some sort of […] Read more ›

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Stevie Bonifield @ The Verge · 12/09/2025 17:52 EDT

Somehow, this AI-generated McDonald’s ad about hating Christmas was a flop

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. Set to a song calling 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 dinners, shopping, caroling, baking cookies, […] Read more ›

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Jay Peters @ The Verge · 12/09/2025 17:43 EDT

Google is powering a new US military AI platform

The Department of Defense is announcing its own "bespoke" AI platform, GenAI.mil, and Google Cloud's Gemini will be the first AI tool available on it, according to a press release. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth (who has dubbed himself Secretary of War, though the name has not been legally changed by Congress) promised that the […] Read more ›

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Brandt Ranj @ The Verge · 12/09/2025 16:00 EDT

Some of our favorite gifts will cost you less than $25

Holiday shopping on a budget can feel constricting, especially if you've been invited to a white elephant or need a last-minute stocking stuffer. The good news is that, with this guide, you can leave that stress behind. Whether you're aiming for something practical or fun, we've found plenty of great gifts for under $25 - […] Read more ›

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Andrew Webster @ The Verge · 12/09/2025 15:15 EDT

Wake Up Dead Man digs deep for a darker, more powerful Knives Out

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 […] Read more ›

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