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Nvidia announced another record revenue figure after market close on Wednesday, but forecasted that revenue growth would slow in the following quarter.

Elon Musk's xAI said it will buy $2.8 billion worth of natural gas turbines over the next three years, according to SpaceX's IPO filing.

Elon Musk's xAI surprised the AI world when it made a deal to sell compute to Anthropic. Now we know how much it's worth.

Altman offered to have OpenAI invest in every single startup in this Y Combinator class: tokens for equity.

Slapping “AI” on your startup’s pitch deck is basically table stakes right now. When a founder raised $20 million from Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest for an eSports gamification loyalty startup without those two letters in the spotlight, it got us wondering how the conversation even started — especially when ARK had already been burned by a company operating in the same space. On this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Julie […]

Microsoft is responsible for over 90% of the carbon-removal market, and reports suggested the company was pausing purchases entirely. This new deal should help assuage the fears of CDR startups.

OpenAI claims its reasoning model disproved a geometry conjecture unsolved since 1946 — and this time, the mathematicians who exposed its last embarrassing claim are backing it up.

Initially billed as an "AI butler," Iris watches what happens on a user's desktop and automatically learns how to do tasks for them, its co-founder says.

First came the Netherlands, now it's Lithuania. And more European countries appear to be in the queue for Tesla's driver-assistance system.

Airbnb will soon let you book luggage storage and car rental services on its app.

EV sales have surged worldwide in every region but the U.S., posing risks for legacy and startup automakers.

A day after Elon Musk lost his lawsuit that threatened OpenAI's structure, leadership, and finances, OpenAI is reportedly back to prepping for its IPO.

"Why is a nurse in Queens who makes $75,000 a year paying more than $1,000 a month in taxes?" Bezos said Wednesday morning on CNBC. "That's $1,000 that could help with rent, or groceries, or anything."

Trump Mobile is leaking customers’ email and home addresses but has not responded to people alerting the company of the data exposure, according to two YouTubers who said they verified that their leaked data is authentic.

In a memo to employees, CEO Sasan Goodarzi said the layoffs are meant to reduce complexity, simplify the company's corporate structure, and deliver better AI products.

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Google says its Gemini 3.5 Flash model can complete tasks in a "fraction of the time" of other frontier models.

The newly "all-Apple district" will replace 30,000 Windows and Chromebook devices across its public schools.

Play Games Sidekick is also getting a wider rollout.

Google's most expensive AI plan is now a little cheaper.

Google Pics isn't Photoshop, but it could be better than what's in Google Photos.

Universal Cart will make it easier to buy from inside YouTube and Gmail.

Ground your snow-globe worlds in real-life locations from Google Maps.

Matthew Ball is the new chief strategy officer for Xbox ahead of Project Helix.

Airbnb is adding thousands of boutique hotels, new services and experiences to its app.

The e-paper slate has a built-in voice recorder to save you having to take meeting minutes.

Even though Disney really wants you in its own app, it isn't killing off Hulu.

Google is bringing its AI-detecting feature to more of its products to make it easier for people to verify if something was generated or edited with AI.

You can kiss the classic Google Search goodbye.

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Xbox's new "goal post" thumbstick topper joins six other designs for people with disabilities.

Coming to your homescreen soon: your own app. | Photo: Allison Johnson / The Verge "There's an app for that" was the promise of the App Store from the very beginning. The app that will get your phone to do the thing you want it to? It's just a few taps away. The tagline wasn't strictly true - I'm still waiting for that one perfect grocery list app . Still, apps shaped the modern smartphone into what it is today. We spend all day, every day inside of apps - scrolling, listening, and tapping until we find what we want.

Volvo once had ambitions to fully exit the gas car business . Now it's trying to keep its tenuous foothold in the EV market. It's not an understatement to say that Volvo's EV journey has been a bumpy one. The compact EX40 has been a consistent winner, but the Swedish brand's other EVs have been plagued with problems. The EX90 was supposed to be a bold statement for the future , but persistent software bugs have forced Volvo into an expensive hardware replacement. The tiny EX30 faired no better, with tariffs upending the rollout of the brand's first mass-market affordable

Google announced a new YouTube Shorts Remix feature that lets users restyle clips or even insert themselves into other people's videos using Gemini Omni . Now, at the bottom of a YouTube Short, when you click the remix icon, you'll see an option to "reimagine" it. Here, you can prompt Gemini to turn a video into pixel art, an anime, or a found-footage horror film. But, beyond that, you can also alter the contents by, say, inflating heads, inserting background actors, dressing people in pirate costumes, or even putting yourself in the clip. Creators can enable or disable the ability

Samsung Electronics workers attended a rally outside the company's semiconductor plant in Pyeongtaek on April 23rd, ahead of the planned strike. | Photo by SeongJoon Cho/ Bloomberg via Getty Images More than 47,000 Samsung Electronics workers were gearing up for an 18-day strike after bonus payment negotiations between the company and its union collapsed. The strike was set to start on Thursday at Samsung's domestic chipmaking plants, raising concerns around the already constrained production of memory chips amid the ongoing shortage. Later on Wednesday, both parties announced that labor and management had reached a tentative agreement. On its website, the

Microsoft has recruited game industry analyst Matthew Ball as Xbox chief strategy officer. Ball publishes an annual state of video gaming report , which is a popular read across the game industry, and he's "widely respected across gaming, media, and technology," according to Xbox CEO Asha Sharma. Sharma announced Ball is joining Microsoft in a memo to Xbox employees this morning, seen by The Verge . She described Ball as a "longtime gamer," who has held strategy and leadership roles at Illumination, Amazon Studios, Otter Media, and Accenture Strategy. "Matthew has been partnering with us on strategy since day 10

Rick and Morty, The Boroughs, and Battlestar Galactica are just a few of the TV shows you should be watching right now.

The coding skills of AI models are about to make it much easier to build and deploy robots.

Climate change is helping create conditions that are driving the rodent boom—dubbed a ratada—in Argentina.

Attorney John Scola is representing a police officer who is suing over injuries allegedly sustained while working security at an MSG property in 2025.

With Trump nemesis Thomas Massie vanquished, Republican strategists are now eyeing races in Texas, California, and Maine.

One health provider who works on the ground says that basic medical equipment like masks and hand sanitizers are in short supply due to funding cuts.

This lightweight commuter ebike feels a lot like a regular bike would feel if I had bionic legs. I wish there were more mechanics for it.

With its clever new algorithm, the latest Hypershell exoskeleton powers your legs without making you feel like a puppet on a string.

You don’t need to buy a smart grill to make perfect meat. You can buy a dumb grill and send it to school with smart upgrades.

Shopping for a laptop can be infuriating. Here’s how to sift through the acronyms, storage options, and extra features to find the best one for you.

The White House says Trump’s pro-vape stance is based on “gold standard science.” It feels more like vice-signaling to a demographic that often doesn’t vote—over products that are widely available.

The Trump administration keeps threatening to send federal agents to oversee elections. State and local officials are preparing, and even gaming out what happens if they're arrested.

A new study finds AI companies, defense firms, and dating apps are among 38 data collectors allegedly using manipulative design to confuse users while collecting their data.

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Three of five regional winners of the prestigious Commonwealth Short Story Prize are suspected of relying on chatbots. They’re certainly not alone.

Major fires are threatening homes and ecologically sensitive areas following a hot, dry winter.

Google is sprucing up its Gemini models, revamping search, and enabling AI agents in everything. There are also some spiffy new smart glasses coming this fall.

On the eve of about 8,000 jobs being cut, employees are cashing in on headphone stipends and other perks while they still can.

The CEO of Google DeepMind tells WIRED that companies should use the productivity gains of AI to do more, not lay people off.

Google’s overhaul of its AI creation software, Flow, includes a new video model and a tool for generating selfie videos called avatars.

Vibe-coded results! Super widgets! Bots that never sleep! Google’s vision for the future of Search is hyper-personalized, automated, and extremely AI.

Here’s your first look at smart glasses coming from Warby Parker and Gentle Monster, powered by Google and Samsung’s XR platform.

Google’s always-running, data-hungry AI agent is designed to spend your money and send your emails.

The ex-employees, who cofounded a new AI watchdog group, say investors deserve more information about xAI’s safety practices before SpaceX goes public.

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Recreation.gov was supposed to make access to public lands more equitable and streamlined. Instead, it’s rife with bots and inequality, while a government contractor benefits.

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The hedge fund billionaire turned gubernatorial candidate wants to tax California’s ultrawealthy, regulate AI, and keep Silicon Valley happy at the same time. Good luck with that.

Follow our live coverage of Google’s annual developer keynote, where the company will announce updates to its Gemini suite of AI tools and more details about Android XR smart glasses.

Starting May 19, tech platforms in the US will have to comply with the Take It Down Act. Here’s how more than a dozen major platforms are handling takedown demands for your nonconsensual nudes.

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