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Tom Warren @ The Verge · 07/25/2025 10:28 EDT

Microsoft’s AI CEO thinks Copilot will age and ‘have a room that it lives in’

Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft’s AI CEO, has a vision of Copilot that involves it being so highly personalized that “it will age.” Microsoft has been increasingly pushing Copilot to be a personalized AI assistant, with a big redesign last year that included a conversational voice mode. Now, Suleyman’s Microsoft AI team is launching a new Copilot […] Read more

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Jess Weatherbed @ The Verge · 07/25/2025 10:28 EDT

The UK’s new age-gating rules are easy to bypass

Platforms like Reddit, Bluesky, Discord, and Pornhub have been rolling out mandatory age verification requirements in the UK over the past few weeks to comply with new online safety rules. While the age-gating aims to keep children from accessing pornographic material and other "harmful content" outlined by the UK's communications regulator Ofcom, there's a glaring […] Read more

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Allison Johnson @ The Verge · 07/25/2025 09:00 EDT

I tried Gemini on the Pixel Watch. Here’s what it’s like

I'm just getting acquainted with Gemini on the Pixel Watch I'm wearing when it tells me that there's a kind of pastry called "nun's farts." This relationship is off to a good start. "Nun's farts" was a totally appropriate response, by the way. I'd asked it for a list of pastries with silly names, prompted […] Read more

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Jacob Kastrenakes @ The Verge · 07/25/2025 08:30 EDT

Diving into Apple’s Liquid Glass

Apple has had two months to refine Liquid Glass since introducing the design language at WWDC. It's dialed the effect back, then amped it back up. It's addressed some of the biggest complaints - the Control Center, for one - and left us to live with some of the others. So after all the tweaks, […] Read more

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Victoria Song @ The Verge · 07/25/2025 08:00 EDT

I ‘fooled’ Samsung’s new antioxidant feature with a Cheez-It

If I were to believe the Samsung Galaxy Watch 8, I don't eat enough fruits and vegetables. Normally, smartwatches don't make judgments about your nutritional intake. But this year, Samsung introduced a new experimental feature called Antioxidant Index. Using blue, yellow, and infrared LEDs, the watch's sensor can pick up carotenoid levels in your skin. […] Read more

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Tom Warren @ The Verge · 07/25/2025 07:34 EDT

Microsoft’s controversial Recall feature is now blocked by Brave and AdGuard

Microsoft’s controversial Recall feature, that automatically screenshots nearly everything on a Copilot Plus PC, is meeting resistance from app developers. Signal kicked off a trend of blocking Recall earlier this year, with AdGuard and the Brave browser now also blocking the Windows AI feature. AdGuard calls Recall a “privacy concern” in a blog post outlining […] Read more

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Jess Weatherbed @ The Verge · 07/25/2025 06:30 EDT

Errors found in US judge’s withdrawn decision stink of AI

A US district court judge has withdrawn his decision in a biopharma securities case after lawyers noted that his opinion referenced fake quotes and other erroneous case information — mistakes mirroring errors in other legal cases that have been attributed to artificial intelligence tools. In a letter sent to New Jersey Judge Julien Xavier Neals, […] Read more

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Dominic Preston @ The Verge · 07/25/2025 06:18 EDT

Syncing desktops and better AI wallpapers are coming to ChromeOS

Google has released a new version of ChromeOS that allows you to sync desktops between devices, ideal for anyone who works across more than one Chromebook. It also significantly improves the AI wallpapers available on Chromebook Plus laptops with a completely freeform prompting field. Desk sync is designed to help you pick up where you […] Read more

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Lauren Feiner @ The Verge · 07/24/2025 19:57 EDT

Paramount-Skydance merger approved after companies agree to government speech demands

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has approved Skydance’s $8 billion purchase of CBS-owner Paramount after the companies agreed to end diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs but feature a “diversity of viewpoints from across the political and ideological spectrum.” In light of the Trump administration’s critiques of CBS’s alleged anti-conservative bias — including collecting a […] Read more

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Mia Sato @ The Verge · 07/24/2025 17:04 EDT

No, Instagram didn’t suspend Zohran Mamdani’s account for being ‘too socialist’

In a story published earlier this week, a site called “NYC Journals” claimed to have a bombshell: that Instagram had suspended the account of New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani for being “too socialist.” The story claimed that Mamdani’s account was down for three hours; it also cited a “leaked memo” from inside Instagram that […] Read more

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Sean Hollister @ The Verge · 07/24/2025 16:29 EDT

Intel pull out of Germany, Poland, and Costa Rica as new CEO shrinks the company by a third

In April, Intel attempted to announce layoffs without announcing layoffs. “We have not set any headcount reduction target,” Intel spokesperson Sophie Metzger told The Verge. But the company has laid off thousands of employees since — and today, in the company’s Q2 2025 earnings, it has revealed that the company will dramatically shrink as a result […] Read more

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Richard Lawler @ The Verge · 07/24/2025 16:15 EDT

Starlink satellite internet service is down everywhere

Since a little after 3PM ET on Thursday, Starlink users have reported they can’t connect to SpaceX’s satellite internet service. The Starlink website confirmed the issue, with a banner message saying “Starlink is currently experiencing a service outage. Our team is investigating.” On X, Starlink posted a more detailed message at 4:05PM ET, saying “Starlink […] Read more

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Ash Parrish @ The Verge · 07/24/2025 15:49 EDT

VTuber agency VShojo shuts down after talent exodus

VShojo, the VTuber agency that billed itself as “talent first,” is shutting down. VShojo CEO Justin “Gunrun” Ignacio made the announcement today on X writing, “I take full responsibility for the decisions that led us to this point.” Earlier this week, VShojo came under fire as Ironmouse, the agency’s top performing VTuber, announced she was […] Read more

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Emma Roth @ The Verge · 07/24/2025 15:44 EDT

Google rethinks search results with its new AI-curated ‘Web Guide’

On Thursday, Google launched Web Guide, a new AI-powered search feature that “groups links in helpful ways” for people who opt in to the test on Labs. Web Guide runs on a custom version of Google’s Gemini AI model to process search queries, reorganizing the traditional “10 blue links” by sorting results and finding related […] Read more

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Allison Johnson @ The Verge · 07/24/2025 15:24 EDT

The best budget smartphone you can buy

Some of us take a kind of “I eat to live” rather than an “I live to eat” approach to gadgets. They’re tools that help you get things done, not something you want to invest a lot of time or money in. If that’s you — and there’s no judgment here from a certifiable gadget […] Read more

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Adi Robertson @ The Verge · 07/24/2025 15:18 EDT

The White House orders tech companies to make AI bigoted again

After delivering a rambling celebration of tariffs and a routine about women's sports, President Donald Trump entertained a crowd, which was there to hear about his new AI Action Plan, with one his favorite topics: "wokeness." Trump complained that AI companies under former President Joe Biden "had to hire all woke people," adding that it […] Read more

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Quentyn Kennemer @ The Verge · 07/24/2025 14:00 EDT

The best Nintendo Switch controllers to buy right now

The Nintendo Switch 2 is here, but we can’t just forget about the original Switch. We’ve still got love for the console, and its many millions of owners, so we’ll keep recommending the best controllers for the Switch right here. Now, you may already know that the best Switch controllers aren’t the ones that come […] Read more

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Barbara Krasnoff @ The Verge · 07/24/2025 13:35 EDT

How to install the iOS 26 public beta

People with Apple developer accounts have had all the fun with the iOS 26 beta so far (and yes, if you missed it, there's a new naming system now), but now that the public betas are out, anyone can try the new features. Setting up the public beta is slightly less involved than setting up […] Read more

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Andrew J. Hawkins @ The Verge · 07/24/2025 13:34 EDT

How can Tesla make a cheaper Model Y?

In an earnings call Wednesday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk "let the cat out of the bag": The new, more affordable electric vehicle the company has been touting for over a year, and that has been singled out as the one thing that could pull Tesla out of its sales rut, wasn't new at all. It […] Read more

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Jay Peters @ The Verge · 07/24/2025 13:17 EDT

The biggest changes coming to your iPhone with iOS 26

Apple recently announced iOS 26, the next major software update for iPhones, and it’s packed with a whole bunch of new features. The biggest change is a new design, but there are lots of smaller improvements and additions as well that could make a difference in how you use your iPhone every day. If you […] Read more

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