Illustration: The Verge Ilya Sutskever, the OpenAI co-founder and chief scientist who helped lead the infamous failed coup against Sam Altman and then later changed his mind, is officially leaving the company. Both Altman and Sutskever have farewell posts on X: Ilya and OpenAI are going to part ways. This is very sad to me; Ilya is easily one of the greatest minds of our generation, a guiding light of... Read more âș
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Illustration: The Verge Google has announced that the code for Project Gameface, its hands-free gaming âmouseâ that you control by making faces, is now available open-source to Android developers on Tuesday. Developers can now integrate the accessibility feature into their apps, allowing users to control the cursor with facial gestures or by moving their heads. For example, they can open their mouth to move the cursor or raise their eyebrows... Read more âș
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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Meta is throwing in the towel on Workplace, its Facebook-based alternative to office communication platforms like Slack and Microsoft Teams alternative, as reported earlier by TechCrunch. Meta spokesperson Ashley Zandy confirmed to The Verge that it will be available to customers for use through August 31st, 2025. Formerly known as Facebook @ Work, it was used internally for two years before its public... Read more âș
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Marvel You can never be sure what to expect out of Disneyâs upfront presentation, but this yearâs showcase of the studioâs new projects brought a slew of news about Disney Plusâ upcoming WandaVision spinoff series. While thereâs been a bit of confusion about what the Agatha Harkness-focused series would ultimately be called, Kathryn Hahn, Patti Lupone, and Joe Locke revealed today that it will, in fact, be titled Agatha All... Read more âș
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Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The just-released iPad Pro and iPad Air have a new Battery Health menu option that includes an optimized charging option and provides more data about the battery. As reported by MacRumors, the new menu matches the settings introduced on iPhone 15, which lets users set their device to not charge past 80 percent, which can help extend the usable life of the... Read more âș
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Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos from Getty Images Eight TikTok creators are suing to stop a law that would ban the app unless its Chinese parent company divests it, arguing that the measure would strip them of their livelihoods and creative outlets. The suit is similar to the companyâs own challenge to the law in that it leans on First Amendment arguments, calls lawmakersâ concerns around the app... Read more âș
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Photo: Sonos A week after introducing a redesigned, sleeker app that omitted many core features, Sonos held an Ask Me Anything event on its forums today. The purpose was partly to make it clear that customer frustrations are being heard. But as has been the case since last week, the feedback skewed overwhelmingly negative. This companyâs community remains pretty damn angry over losing software capabilities like local music search, sleep... Read more âș
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Illustration: The Verge Google says its new AI model, LearnLM, will help students with their homework. LearnLM, a family of AI models based on Googleâs other large language mode, Gemini, was built to be an expert in subjects, find and present examples in different ways like a photo or video, coach students while studying, and, in Googleâs words, âinspire engagement.â Google has already integrated LearnLM into its products, bundling it... Read more âș
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The billboard ads contained messages that seemingly mocked celibate women. | Image: The Verge Dating app company Bumble has issued an apology for running an ad campaign that seemingly shamed women for not being sexually active and mocked people for choosing celibacy instead of dating. After updating its app and brand design in April to try to attract new users who are âexhausted from the dating scene,â Bumble ran a... Read more âș
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Google made a lot of noise about its Gemini AI taking over search at its I/O conference today, but one of its flashiest demos was once again marked by the ever-present fatal flaw of every large language model to date: confidently making up the wrong answer. During a sizzle reel for âSearch in the Gemini era,â Google demoed video search, which allows you to search by speaking over a video... Read more âș
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I thought Google killed its augmented reality glasses after they couldnât live up to the promise of real-time translation. I thought Project Iris was vaporware after the company shed its AR leaders and downsized the division that was reportedly facing internal turmoil. But we may have written off Googleâs Glasses too soon â because Google just revealed a new prototype pair in a blink-and-you-missed-it moment at Google I/O. In the... Read more âș
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Well, thatâs one way to kick off a developer-focused tech event. | Image: Google Developer conferences arenât exactly known for having an energetic, party-like atmosphere, but thankfully, that didnât stop Googleâs latest hype man. The companyâs I/O event this year was kicked off by Marc Rebillet â an artist known in online spaces for pairing improvised electronic tracks with amusing (and typically loud) vocals. He also wears a lot of... Read more âș
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Barrels stored at the Energy Fuels White Mesa Mill uranium production facility in Blanding, Utah, US, on Monday, June 12, 2023. | Photo: Getty Images President Joe Biden signed a new law that bars the US from importing uranium from Russia, in the hopes of jumpstarting domestic mining to fuel nuclear reactors. The law also unlocks $2.7 billion in federal funding to shore up that domestic supply chain, which Congress... Read more âș
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Image: Google Google I/O just ended â and it was packed with AI announcements. As expected, the event focused heavily on Googleâs Gemini AI models, along with the ways theyâre being integrated into apps like Workspace and Chrome. If you didnât get to tune in to the event live, you can catch up with all the latest from Google in the roundup below. Google Lens now lets you search by... Read more âș
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The new Blink Mini 2 adds weather resistance so you can use it indoors and outdoors. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge If youâve got vacation plans for Memorial Day weekend, a security camera can help you keep an eye on valuables back home so you can really relax during your time off. And right now, one of the least expensive options on the market is even... Read more âș
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Illustration by Haein Jeong / The Verge Among Googleâs swath of new AI models and tools announced today, the company is also expanding its AI content watermarking and detection technology to work across two new mediums. Googleâs DeepMind CEO, Demis Hassabis, took the stage for the first time at the Google I/O developer conference on Tuesday to talk not only about the teamâs new AI tools, like the Veo video... Read more âș
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Image: The Verge Google is adding a bunch of new features to its Gemini AI, and one of the most powerful is a personalization option called âGemsâ that allows users to create custom versions of the Gemini assistant with varying personalties. Gems lets you create iterations of chatbots that can help you with certain tasks and retain specific characteristics, kind of like making your own bot in Character.AI, the service... Read more âș
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The dream of contextual search is alive. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Google is updating Gemini on Android to let its AI better tap into whatâs on your screen. The update should allow Gemini to lean into one of its best use cases, helping you make sense of a limited set of data as you go about your day. If you set Gemini as the default... Read more âș
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Google might tell you f = ma, or something. I havenât been to school for a long time. | Image: Google Google is enhancing Androidâs Circle to Search â the feature that lets you literally circle something on your Android phoneâs screen to search it on Google â with a new ability to generate instructions on how to solve school math and physics problems. Using an Android phone or tablet,... Read more âș
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Image: The Verge Google is building its Gemini AI into Chrome on desktop. During its I/O event on Tuesday, Google announced that Chrome 126 will use Gemini Nano to power on-device AI features, such as text generation. Gemini Nano is the lightweight large language model Google introduced to the Pixel 8 Pro last year â and, later, the Pixel 8. To get Gemini Nano on Chrome, Google says it tweaked... Read more âș
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