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Sheena Vasani @ The Verge · 11/18/2025 18:49 EDT

The Apple deals worth shopping before Black Friday (and the discounts to expect)

Black Friday often brings the best Apple deals of the year, but not everyone wants to spend their Thanksgiving weekend shopping online (or in person). Thankfully, if you want to get a head start, you don’t have to wait. As is typical, the early Black Friday deals are already beginning to trickle in, including some [
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Lauren Feiner @ The Verge · 11/18/2025 18:45 EDT

Republicans are looking for a way to bring back the AI moratorium

House Republicans are looking to renew an effort to override state AI laws after a previous version came to a screeching halt earlier this year. House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) told Punchbowl News he’s considering adding language to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) effectively banning state AI regulations. Later on Tuesday, President Donald [
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Emma Roth @ The Verge · 11/18/2025 17:58 EDT

Cloudflare outages aren’t a matter of if — but when

Cloudflare has become the latest web infrastructure giant to collapse in the span of a month, replacing entire sites, including X, ChatGPT, Spotify, Canva, and even the outage-tracking DownDetector, with an error message for hours this morning. It's the latest in a string of outages that Mehdi Daoudi, CEO and co-founder of the internet performance [
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Quentyn Kennemer @ The Verge · 11/18/2025 17:30 EDT

The best Xbox controller to buy right now

Editor’s note: Black Friday doesn’t officially take place until Friday, November 28th; however, if you want to shop ahead of time, we’ve rounded up the best early Black Friday deals you can already get. We live in a golden age of controllers. The gamepads on the market now are of higher quality, more versatile, and more customizable than [
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Brandon Russell @ The Verge · 11/18/2025 15:22 EDT

The best early Black Friday deals we’ve found so far on laptops, TVs, and more

Black Friday is the most anticipated day of the year for bargain hunters. While there’s still some time to go before November 28th, we’re already starting to see a healthy selection of early discounts, allowing you to get a jump on your holiday shopping. Right now, for instance, Bose’s QuietComfort Ultra Earbuds are on sale [
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Quentyn Kennemer @ The Verge · 11/18/2025 14:21 EDT

The best Nintendo Switch controllers to buy right now

Editor’s note: Black Friday doesn’t officially take place until Friday, November 28th; however, if you want to shop ahead of time, we’ve rounded up the best early Black Friday deals you can already get. The Nintendo Switch 2 has arrived, but we’re not going to up and forget about the original Switch. We’ve still got love for the [
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Andrew Liszewski @ The Verge · 11/18/2025 13:37 EDT

Apple’s custom Wi-Fi chip gives the iPhone 17 a notable boost, according to speed tests

Ookla has found that Apple’s custom N1 networking chip that integrates the Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6, and Thread radios in the iPhone 17 family “delivers a clear step-change in real-world Wi-Fi performance” when compared to the Broadcom chip used in the iPhone 16 models. In North America, the iPhone 17 family also outperformed flagship Android [
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Lauren Feiner @ The Verge · 11/18/2025 13:25 EDT

Meta is not a monopolist, judge rules

Meta won a landmark antitrust battle with the Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday after a federal judge ruled it has not monopolized the social media market at the center of the case. US District Court Judge James Boasberg wrote that Meta had not unfairly cornered a market on “personal social networking,” a category that includes [
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Emma Roth @ The Verge · 11/18/2025 13:00 EDT

Senator Warren presses Trump admin on potential AI bailout plans

Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is pressing the Trump administration for more information on potential plans to “prop up” major AI companies with money from taxpayers. In a letter to David Sacks, the White House special advisor for AI and Crypto, and Michael Kratsios, the director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, Senator Warren [
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Sheena Vasani @ The Verge · 11/18/2025 11:52 EDT

The Apple Watch Series 11 has plunged to a record low price

The latest Apple Watch SE impressed us with all of its upgrades this year, but the Apple Watch Series 11 is still the better option if you’re an iPhone owner who requires more advanced health notifications. Thankfully it, like the SE,  is now down to a new record-low price, starting at $349.99 ($50 off) at [
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Andrew Liszewski @ The Verge · 11/18/2025 11:32 EDT

The Echo Aviation Controller puts a flight simulator in your hands

Honeycomb Aeronautical, a company that makes flight simulator accessories like flight sticks  and pedals that can turn your desk into a cockpit, has announced a compact alternative for PC pilots with limited room. Its upcoming Echo Aviation Controller is about the size of a console gamepad but squeezes standard features like joysticks and buttons to [
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Tom Warren @ The Verge · 11/18/2025 11:00 EDT

Microsoft is turning Windows into an ‘agentic OS,’ starting with the taskbar

Microsoft is trying to transform Windows into a “canvas for AI,” with new AI agents integrated into the Windows 11 taskbar. These new taskbar capabilities are designed to make AI agents feel like an assistant in Windows that can go off and control your PC and do tasks for you at the click of a [
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Emma Roth @ The Verge · 11/18/2025 11:00 EDT

Google is launching Gemini 3, its ‘most intelligent’ AI model yet

Google is beginning to launch Gemini 3 today, a new series of models the company says is its “most intelligent” and “factually accurate” AI systems yet. They’re also a chance for Google to leap ahead of OpenAI following the rocky launch of GPT-5, potentially putting the company at the forefront of consumer-focused AI models. For [
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Dominic Preston @ The Verge · 11/18/2025 11:00 EDT

Google Antigravity is an ‘agent-first’ coding tool built for Gemini 3

Alongside today’s announcement of Gemini 3 Pro, Google has revealed Antigravity, a development tool that uses Gemini 3 Pro, along with other third-party models. Google says that Antigravity, which supports multiple agents and gives them direct access to the editor, terminal, and browser, is designed for an “agent-first future.” One of the key components of [
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Tom Warren @ The Verge · 11/18/2025 11:00 EDT

Microsoft Agent 365 lets businesses manage AI agents like they do people

Microsoft is racing towards building an AI “agent factory” that lets businesses build and manage their own AI agents. While Microsoft was founded on the idea of being a software factory, it’s quickly being transformed into an era where AI agents will increasingly take on more human work. Now, Microsoft is launching Agent 365 as [
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Tom Warren @ The Verge · 11/18/2025 11:00 EDT

Microsoft’s Office apps are getting even more free AI features

Microsoft is adding even more AI features to Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. While the software maker has been adding plenty of features to its paid Microsoft 365 Copilot over the past year, a range of free additions are coming to its Office apps in early 2026 that don’t require the $30 per month, per [
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Andrew Webster @ The Verge · 11/18/2025 11:00 EDT

The Analogue 3D is the perfect console for N64 collectors

I've developed a sixth sense for old video game cartridges. I can spot them at flea markets and thrift stores, spy them hidden behind stacks in used book stores. It happened after I first bought an Analogue Pocket, when the hunt for new and interesting Game Boy games became as important as actually playing them. [
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Tom Warren @ The Verge · 11/18/2025 10:20 EDT

Microsoft’s new Anthropic partnership brings Claude AI models to Azure

Microsoft is announcing a strategic partnership with Anthropic today that will bring the AI startup’s models to Microsoft Foundry for the first time. As part of the deal, Anthropic is also committing to purchasing $30 billion of Azure compute capacity and “to contract additional compute capacity up to one gigawatt.” Microsoft Foundry customers will now be able [
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Brandt Ranj @ The Verge · 11/18/2025 10:00 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 [
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Cameron Faulkner @ The Verge · 11/18/2025 09:52 EDT

I tested 15 cases for the Switch 2 and these are the best

Editor’s note: Black Friday doesn’t officially take place until Friday, November 28th; however, if you want to shop ahead of time, we’ve rounded up the best early Black Friday deals you can already get. You might find it kind of sad to put your hard-earned Switch 2 into a protective case. To me, it’s freeing. Using a case [
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