Microsoft favors Anthropic over OpenAI for Visual Studio Code
Microsoft is adding automatic AI model selection to its Visual Studio Code editor that will automatically pick the best model for “optimal performance.” This new auto model feature will select…
Nothing plans to launch ‘first AI-native devices next year’
Nothing’s Android-based Phone 3. London-based consumer tech startup Nothing has raised $200 million and vowed to usher in a new generation of “AI-native” devices running on operating systems that “are…
Microsoft’s Xbox PC app adds Steam games and access to other stores
Microsoft is rolling out a new aggregated gaming library inside its Xbox PC app today on Windows. The updated app will now list games from Steam, Battle.net, and other PC…
Amazon’s next Prime Day sale is happening on October 7th
Amazon has announced its fall Prime Big Deal Days event. It starts at 12:01AM PT / 3:01AM ET on Tuesday, October 7th, and runs through Wednesday, October 8th. Of course,…
Microsoft is changing how Xbox controllers work on Windows 11
Microsoft has started testing a change to how Xbox controllers operate on Windows 11. The change will allow Xbox controllers to easily access the Task View on Windows 11 to…
The SSD version of LaCie’s iconic Rugged drive gets a speed boost
The new LaCie Rugged SSD4 is compatible with computers, tablets, and smartphones. | Image: Seagate Neil Poulton succeeded in elevating the design of external drives two decades ago with the…
Apple’s new iPhone charger is a first of its kind
Apple’s 40W Dynamic Power Adapter with 60W Max. | Image: Apple Alongside its new iPhone 17 lineup, Apple casually launched a world’s first last week inside the very dull sounding…
What’s next for Apple after the iPhone 17?
We only just put Apple’s iPhone 17 launch event behind us, but Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman is already glancing into his crystal ball to see what’s next for the company. In…
Rolling Stone’s parent company sues Google over AI Overviews
Disclosure: Penske Media Corporation is an investor in Vox Media, The Verge’s parent company. Penske Media Corporation, the publisher of Rolling Stone and The Hollywood Reporter, has become the first…
Liam Hemsworth is Geralt in the first Witcher season 4 trailer
It’s been a few years since Netflix confirmed that Liam Hemsworth would be taking over as Geralt of Rivia in the live-action Witcher series. And while we caught a brief…
Time is running out to get half off a year of Paramount Plus
It’s September, and many among us are dealing with back to school, and anticipating the colder weather that’s on its way (at least, if you live in the northern climes).…
Spotify Lossless is an inconvenient improvement
If you listen to music the way a lot of people do these days – with a pair of wireless earbuds, from a Bluetooth speaker, or just blaring directly out…
Adult Swim’s new stop-motion series is a celebration of Latin American culture
Imagine if George Cukor’s The Women was a modern, Spanish-language telenovela set in Ecuador rather than a 1939 dramedy about the lives of wealthy Manhattanites. Now imagine if the series…
Exit 8’s director was inspired by watching people play the game
Few video game adaptations understand their source material quite like the Exit 8 film. It takes the rules and structure of the game – which strands players inside of a…
Tucker Carlson asks Sam Altman if an OpenAI employee was murdered ‘on your orders’
While interviewing OpenAI CEO Sam Altman this week, former Fox News host Tucker Carlson brought up his belief in a conspiracy theory that former OpenAI researcher Suchir Balaji was “definitely…
Elon Musk is trying to silence Microsoft employees who criticize Charlie Kirk
Elon Musk is pressing Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella to look into Blizzard employees who criticized Charlie Kirk after his death. Musk’s post quotes an X thread listing names and screenshots…
The WSJ carelessly spread anti-trans misinformation
Rupert Murdoch’s fortress. | Photo: Getty Images While I generally respect The Wall Street Journal, every once in a while it sees fit to remind me that it is, in…
Congress Republicans want to target liberal donors after Charlie Kirk’s death
In wake of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk’s public killing, around two dozen Republican lawmakers are pushing for House leadership to create a new select committee that would investigate “The money,…
Discord is distancing itself from the Charlie Kirk shooting suspect
Discord denies that the suspect accused of killing Charlie Kirk used the messaging platform to discuss his crime, following the service getting mentioned by law enforcement in a press conference…
Sony’s new Xperia phone jumps on the camera bar bandwagon
The Xperia 10 VII’s camera bar looks Pixel-perfect. Sony has announced the Xperia 10 VII, a midrange Android phone that’s launching in the UK, Europe, and Asia, though not the…
Prongs rock
Here’s a hot take: gaming handhelds are better with prongs. How do I know? I hold a lot of handhelds (and gamepads) here at The Verge, but Microsoft and Asus’s…
Microsoft avoids EU fine after Slack complained about Teams bundling
Microsoft has avoided a fine from the European Commission after it was charged with EU antitrust violations for bundling its Teams app with Office 365 and Microsoft 365 subscriptions. The…
Asus gives its $4,000 creator laptop a 4K tandem OLED and RTX 5090
Asus’ ProArt P16 laptop is getting RTX 50-series GPUs and a unique new screen in its high-end configuration. Its biggest upgrades include Nvidia’s top-tier RTX 5090 mobile GPU and a…
Apple Watch hypertension alerts cleared by FDA for new and old watches
Starting next week, Apple’s new hypertension notification feature will be coming to Watch Series 9 and later and Apple Watch Ultra 2 and later with the launch of watchOS 26.…
David Zaslav thinks HBO Max is ‘way underpriced’
Everyone’s favorite CEO, Warner Bros. Discovery head David Zaslav, thinks HBO Max is ripe for a price hike. Speaking at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia and Technology Conference (doesn’t that sound…
Charlie Kirk fatally shot at Turning Point USA event in Utah
Charlie Kirk, the influencer and activist who co-founded right-wing group Turning Point USA, has died at the age of 31 after being shot while speaking at an event at Utah…
How platforms are responding to the Charlie Kirk shooting
Horrifying videos of influencer and right-wing activist Charlie Kirk being fatally shot were widely available on social media platforms. We’ve reached out to some of the platforms to ask how…
OpenAI reportedly signs $300 billion Project Stargate cloud deal with Oracle
OpenAI and Oracle signed a deal “to purchase $300 billion in computing power over roughly five years,” one of the largest cloud computing deals ever, reports the Wall Street Journal.…
Amazon drivers could be wearing AR glasses with a built-in display next year
The new glasses would go beyond Amazon’s Echo Frames. Amazon, like Meta, Google, Samsung, and Snap, is working on a new pair of augmented-reality (AR) glasses, according to a report…
Apple’s misunderstood crossbody iPhone strap might be the best I’ve seen
The $59 price is pretty reasonable, at least by Apple standards. The skepticism I had about Apple’s rumored crossbody iPhone strap can be put to rest now that it’s officially…