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Richard Lawler @ The Verge · 08/08/2025 12:27 EDT

Instagram’s Map is here, and this is how you can turn it off

It’s only been a couple of days since the Instagram Map launched, and from the looks of our social feeds, people are not happy about it. Responses have ranged from being mildly annoyed that Instagram is ripping off Snapchat’s Snap Maps instead of offering a default feed that only contains your friends’ posts, to high […] Read more

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Jay Peters @ The Verge · 08/08/2025 11:42 EDT

Apple Intelligence’s ChatGPT integration will use GPT-5 starting with iOS 26

OpenAI just announced its GPT-5 AI model on Thursday, but you won’t be able to use it with Apple Intelligence’s ChatGPT integration until iOS 26, iPadOS 26, and macOS Tahoe 26, Apple confirmed to 9to5Mac. Apple Intelligence can rely on ChatGPT for things like helping answer certain Siri queries or alongside Apple’s Google Lens-like Visual […] Read more

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Cameron Faulkner @ The Verge · 08/08/2025 11:00 EDT

8BitDo’s Pro 3 is a super customizable controller that’s too limited on Switch 2 

As far as I'm concerned, 8BitDo's Pro 3 is the ultimate controller. You may already know that it makes a model literally called the Ultimate controller, but it plays second fiddle to the new Pro 3 in some key ways. It's highly customizable, allowing you to change the face buttons, joystick caps, and more. Let […] Read more

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Brandt Ranj @ The Verge · 08/08/2025 11:00 EDT

This three-pack of fast Wi-Fi 7 routers is under $200 for the first time

Having a solid set of Wi-Fi routers is essential, whether you’re working from home, playing online games , or streaming a movie. I’ve used this three-pack of TP-Link’s Deco BE26 Wi-Fi 7 Mesh Routers for months without any issues, and I’m eager to recommend them, especially since it’s currently on sale for $188.89 ($90 off) […] Read more

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Andrew Liszewski @ The Verge · 08/08/2025 10:55 EDT

Nintendo’s new Hello, Mario! mobile app lets kids play with Mario’s face

Nintendo has announced a new free mobile app coming to iOS, Android and the Switch. It’s called Hello, Mario! and was revealed alongside a new collection of Mario-themed products designed for kids and toddlers launching in Japan later this month. All of Nintendo’s mobile apps have been free to download so far, but while some […] Read more

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Andrew J. Hawkins @ The Verge · 08/08/2025 10:48 EDT

Tesla’s Dojo supercomputer is DOA — now what?

On Thursday, Bloomberg reported that Tesla CEO Elon Musk has ordered its Dojo supercomputer project to be disbanded after the project's leader and most of its employees left to join another AI project. The news marked a major setback to the automaker's efforts to develop its own in-house developed supercomputer to train AI models for […] Read more

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Emma Roth @ The Verge · 08/08/2025 10:07 EDT

The Google Finance page is getting an AI makeover

Google’s apparent quest to bring AI features across all of its apps has just extended to one of its most mundane: Google Finance. The company announced on Friday that it’s testing a “new, AI-powered Google Finance,” chatbot included. The revamp, which will roll out in the US in the coming weeks, will let you ask […] Read more

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Andrew Liszewski @ The Verge · 08/08/2025 09:54 EDT

Turn your AirPods Max into a masterpiece with Casetify’s new headphone wrap

Released as part of a new collection of smartphone, tablet, and earbud cases celebrating the Mauritshuis museum collection in The Hague, Netherlands, Casetify’s new AirPods Max accessory can turn you into a 360-year-old work of art. Made from a “silk-like textile,” according to Designboom, the headphone cover’s fabric has been finished with a pleated design […] Read more

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Tina Nguyen @ The Verge · 08/08/2025 09:51 EDT

What is Laura Loomer?

For the uninitiated, watching a Jeffrey Epstein truther such as Laura Loomer have such influence over the White House's decisions is nothing short of baffling. ABC News attributes "the ouster of at least 15 individuals from Trump's second administration" to Loomer's influence - partially, at least. For Washington veterans who grew up in quote-unquote normal […] Read more

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Emma Roth @ The Verge · 08/08/2025 09:35 EDT

Tesla shuts down the team behind its Dojo supercomputer

Tesla is dissolving the team that was developing its Dojo supercomputer, according to Bloomberg. The change, which reportedly includes the departure of Dojo head Peter Bannon, marks a notable shift away from using in-house technology to train the AI models powering Tesla’s self-driving features and its Optimus humanoid robot. Tesla CEO Elon Musk first introduced […] Read more

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Marina Galperina @ The Verge · 08/08/2025 09:30 EDT

Why I love my Soviet Labubu

Marina Galperina is a senior tech editor at The Verge who works with staff writers and freelancers on reports and theme weeks. She recently started a new newsletter called The Stepback, which breaks down one essential story from a writer of the week every Sunday. (From Marina: “Please subscribe!”) During a recent discussion of Labubus […] Read more

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Jacob Kastrenakes @ The Verge · 08/08/2025 09:30 EDT

GPT-5’s big new feature: less lying?

Here's the tricky part about assessing an AI system's deception rate: if the system is really good at deceiving you, you might not notice. This week on The Vergecast, Adi Robertson and Alex Heath join me to discuss the launch of GPT-5 and GPT-OSS… and the strange charts we saw along the way. GPT-5 is […] Read more

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Dominic Preston @ The Verge · 08/08/2025 08:22 EDT

Everything we think we know about the Google Pixel 10 phones

Google is readying its next set of hardware announcements, and has already confirmed that the Pixel 10 series is launching this month. We even know what one of the phones looks like, thanks to the official image up above. But beyond the few tidbits Google has shared officially, there’s an awful lot more we think […] Read more

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Tom Warren @ The Verge · 08/08/2025 07:00 EDT

Microsoft’s new Copilot 3D feature is great for Ikea, bad for my dog

While Microsoft was busy updating Copilot yesterday with OpenAI's new GPT-5 model, it also quietly launched Copilot 3D. It's a free-to-use feature that can transform a regular 2D image into a 3D model that can then be used in game creation, animation, 3D printing, VR / AR, and much more. Copilot 3D just needs a […] Read more

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Dominic Preston @ The Verge · 08/08/2025 06:17 EDT

Sony insists Xperia phones are ‘very important’ to it

CFO Lin Tao mentioned Sony’s beleaguered phone brand at the company’s recent financial results presentation, calling it “a very important business for us,” according to CNET Japan. You could have fooled me. Sony’s last two Xperia 1 flagships have skipped the US market entirely, and it appears to be pulling back in Europe too. It […] Read more

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Jess Weatherbed @ The Verge · 08/08/2025 04:15 EDT

Apple’s lock on iPhone browser engines gets a December deadline

We might finally see the first iPhone browsers built on top of third-party engines now that Japanese regulators have taken up the issue.  Apple’s malicious compliance in the EU has so far prevented Chrome, and its Blink engine, for example, from coming to iOS, but recently published guidelines related to Japan’s Smartphone Act could change […] Read more

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Alex Heath @ The Verge · 08/08/2025 00:23 EDT

OpenAI gives some employees a ‘special’ multimillion-dollar bonus

The day before the launch of GPT-5, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman surprised employees with a message in the company's Slack. "As we mentioned a few weeks ago, we have been looking at comp for our technical teams given the movement in the market," wrote Altman, according to a copy of the message that was shared […] Read more

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Jay Peters @ The Verge · 08/07/2025 17:33 EDT

OpenAI gets caught vibe graphing

During its big GPT-5 livestream on Thursday, OpenAI showed off a few charts that made the model seem quite impressive — but if you look closely, some graphs were a little bit off. In one, ironically showing how well GPT-5 does in “deception evals across models,” the scale is all over the place. For “coding […] Read more

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Emma Roth @ The Verge · 08/07/2025 17:30 EDT

The Browser Company’s AI browser now has a $20 subscription

The Browser Company — the makers of the Arc browser — just launched a $20 per month subscription to its new AI-powered web browser, Dia, as reported earlier by TechCrunch. The new Dia Pro subscription comes with unlimited access to the browser’s chat feature, which lets you ask questions about the content in your tabs. […] Read more

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Sheena Vasani @ The Verge · 08/07/2025 16:18 EDT

The latest iPad Air is cheaper than ever 

Laptops are great, but sometimes it’s simply just more convenient to use a tablet like the iPad Air. The Air’s easier to carry, after all, and still powerful enough to handle everything from streaming to taking notes and reading. And right now, the latest version of the Air is down to a new low price. […] Read more

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