Artificial intelligence is more a part of our lives than ever before. While some might call it hype and compare it to NFTs or 3D TVs, generative AI is causing a sea change in nearly every part of the technology industry. OpenAI’s ChatGPT is still the best-known AI chatbot around, but with Google pushing Gemini, Microsoft building Copilot, and Apple adding its Intelligence to Siri, AI is probably going to be in the spotlight for a very long time. At The Verge, we’re exploring what might be possible with AI — and a lot of the bad stuff AI does, too.
With the ChatGPT extension installed, it can pull information from your open tabs or bring the AI bot into the sidebar.
Total War: Shogun 2 — Complete Edition is being removed after users discovered bugs and upscaling that appears to have been done by AI.
“How do we build deeply personal experiences leveraging AI that help us all be more creative, be more productive, do whatever it is that we want to do,” Ternus says in an interview with TIME .
And his coffee order? “Americano, black.”
Between The Social Reckoning , You Can See Everything , Musk , and Artificial , filmmakers are taking Big Tech to task.
Meta just shipped a pair of smart glasses with no camera — a change that both David and The Verge ’s Victoria Song are excited about. But these glasses, like the new product from Amazon Bee and seemingly everything else now, are still ready and willing to record the world around you at all times. What do we do in a world where everything, everywhere, might be recording ? And can tech companies figure out a way to make us feel better about it?
It also demanded documents related to the AI companies’ safety practices , consumer privacy policies, and marketing materials, as part of “a probe focused on potential consumer protection violations,” Axios reports. Its sources also say the FTC “plans to compel top AI executives to testify about their products.”
The “Ask YouTube” feature, which pulls uses AI to generate a search results page populated with text and suggested videos to watch, popped up on mobile as an experiment in August . I tested the web version earlier this year , and in a few minutes using the mobile version, it’s pretty similar.
Six employees at the AI safety organization METR will gain access to hardware and internal tools “roughly on par” with what Anthropic’s own risk assessment team sees. While Anthropic says METR will publish reports about Anthropic’s risk levels, incidents, and practices, it can still instruct the safety evaluator to redact certain information, such as the inner workings of its models or customer data.
In a deep-dive profile of Marc Andreessen’s petty grievance bullshit , Bloomberg Businessweek gently points out that he is not exactly a member of the reality-based community . Since covid, that’s gotten worse, as he and his wife have cocooned themselves away from ever encountering a normal person.
The website decomp.dev published a big statement following the recent influx of AI-assisted decompilations of games:
decomp.dev was originally designed to gamify decompilation: watching the progress go up was a fun way to stay motivated when every fraction of a percent took real human effort. Today, that same idea has warped decompilation into a hollow numbers game, exacerbated by folks who just want to burn tokens to make number go up or “port game to PC”, all else be damned. While the increased attention has brought in genuine folks who want to learn and contribute meaningfully, I believe that decomp.dev serving as a public index and leaderboard is now causing more harm than good.
You may have consented to sharing with Muse, but all your friends sure didn’t.
The funding is part of a $15 million initiative led by the Simons Foundation, with Anthropic also contributing. It follows months of upheaval in the field as AI companies race to solve longstanding problems and comes just over a week after OpenAI dumped hundreds of preprints on the research community.
AI photos and videos of celebrities are racking up millions of views on social media.
The musician and YouTuber on investigating the surveillance state and becoming the face of the anti-Flock movement.
He claims in a post on X that it’s “never happened yet.” Musk didn’t go into details, but he’s made other promises before, like saying he would pay legal bills for people fired unfairly over tweets, or his many, many claims about robotaxis and Tesla’s new Roadster .
Former Boston Dynamics CTO Aaron Saunders, who joined Google in 2025, announced the project on LinkedIn. “We’re creating a first-class lab to house this team and take robotics to the next level,” he said. It comes as Google pushes deeper into robotics, including with Gemini Robotics AI models and absorbing Alphabet robotics moonshot Intrinsic .
Eiliko and its manufacturer, Energize Lab, are seemingly not to be trusted.
The chip manufacturer reported a net income of NT$763 billion (about $24 billion) for the quarter, up 69 percent compared to last year, and it’s predicting it’ll do even better in Q4. It’s a good time to make computer chips.
Shortly after US District Judge Edward Davila said he was “highly likely” to grant Apple’s injunction , OpenAI voluntarily conceded instead. It agreed not to use Apple’s proprietary information for product development while the rest of the lawsuit plays out, and will hand over forensic images of the drives of 14 employees who defected from Apple.
BofA CEO Brian Moynihan doesn’t want people turning to the banks when an agent screws up a transaction. He says the bank is working with the AI industry to argue for human payment authorization, at least until the risk of error is mitigated by “further development of the capabilities” of agents.
As spotted by Kotaku , some people are posting videos showing strange visual issues with the updated launcher that agents wrote code for . Right now, the launcher is in preview.
Yesterday, the DOJ and OpenAI revealed that Abdulrahman Alfozan, a 35-year-old Saudi national and former Facebook employee working for OpenAI, has been arrested and charged with installing a recording device behind a TV in an executive conference room.
Now Bloomberg points out court documents showing that the day before he was arrested, prosecutors asked to seal the information, arguing that “the defendant has the means—and will have an incentive—to flee the United States sooner if he learns about this case before he is arrested.”
The launch will include some of Apple’s earlier Apple Intelligence features, but not the just-launched Siri AI, according to Bloomberg . The update is set to release in December.
Here’s a tidbit in SpaceXSI’s announcement post for Grok Voice 3.0 today:
Starlink call centers use Grok Voice to answer 20,000 customer calls every day across multiple languages. Roughly 70% are resolved with no human in the loop, and one in four sales calls ends in a purchase before the caller hangs up. A single agent built on Grok Voice 3.0 verifies customers, troubleshoots hardware, issues credits, and ships replacement equipment.
The company’s unsecured debt due in 2032 is now trading below 80 cents on the dollar, Bloomberg reports. “ Yikes ” is right, Elon — if CoreWeave crumbles, other debt-laden neoclouds might be in trouble, too.
CoreWeave is in many ways the poster child of the current AI buildout, which may have disastrous consequences if things don’t go as planned.
A man named Mike Smith was recently sentenced to 18 months in prison, and a fine in excess of $8 million, for creating an AI system that faked billions of streams and earned him millions in royalties. Wired’s Kate Knibbs explains how Smith pulled it off , how he got caught, and what this case means for the internet’s growing slop problems.
US District Judge Edward Davila said during a hearing on Wednesday that he’s “highly likely” to grant Apple an injunction preventing OpenAI from using proprietary information allegedly shared by the iPhonemaker’s former employees, according to a report from Bloomberg .
At the same time, OpenAI is accusing an ex-employee of taking confidential product plans and presenting them to Apple execs.
AI data center projects are continuing to pop up across the US, with frequent opposition from locals concerned about their impact. Here are a few recent articles about the projects:
In return for feeding a ‘digital twin’ my metabolic data, it predicts how I’ll react to certain foods — and one day, maybe medicines.
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