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Like its U.S. counterpart, the European Chips Act aims to foster the semiconductor industry — in part thanks to state subsidies. One of the beneficiaries is QuantumDiamonds, a German startup that applies a novel approach to inspecting chips.

Manna is launching a U.S. operations and manufacturing facility in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that will eventually employ 1,000 people.

Elon Musk's tech company released the newest version of Grok on Wednesday, promising a cheaper, more efficient alternative to other powerful AI models.

This developer didn't expect his side project to grow to 300,000 users, but people love Roost because it's an alternative to an always-on, fast-paced online culture.

General Intuition is betting millions of hours of video game data can train the foundation models for physical AI, making it easier to build smarter robots with minimal real-world data.

X plans to send users direct messages when posts they’ve liked, replied to, or reposted receive Community Notes, an update aimed at addressing criticism that the platform’s crowdsourced fact-checking system often arrives too late to curb misinformation.

The feature can do things like apply cinematic relighting to brighten up a dark clip, swap out a plain background for something fun, or add artistic styles to videos.

When it comes to achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI), large language models just don’t have what it takes. Models like ChatGPT and Claude are great at text, but they’re less skilled at understanding how things actually move through space and time — an essential skill for producing intelligence that generalizes. That gap, it turns out, might be filled by gaming data. That’s the bet behind General Intuition, a […]

Meta is adding a new safeguard to stop people from secretly recording others with its AI glasses. But the update comes as the company continues to expand how much personal data its AI products collect and use.

OpenAI says its new voice mode can speak and listen at the same time, a key ability for live translation.

For Paradigm, the technical frontier will stretch beyond its cryptocurrency investment roots. This fund is expected to expand its investment focus to include robotics and AI.

Founded in 2024, Prime Intellect’s goal is to give organizations capabilities to train their own agentic systems without relying on frontier AI labs.

The cyberattack targeting a U.S. insurance giant is the largest known breach of driver's license numbers so far in 2026.

There are a lot of fast-growing AI startups, but some are growing even faster, they say.

Vermilion Cliffs Ventures announced Wednesday the close of a $25 million Fund II.

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PC shipments are falling, but revenue for manufacturers is still rising.

The Steam Machine isn't worth the price that Valve is asking.

The horror-comedy series Widow's Bay earned 19 Emmy nominations for its first season.

The company's streaming devices aren't quite keeping up with competitors in several important categories.

Waymo will ditch human supervisors in San Diego, Las Vegas, Tampa and Denver.

It allows you to reimagine videos stored in Google Photos using Gemini Omni.

OpenAI's new voice mode for ChatGPT will acknowledge you as you speak, and slow down if you ask it to.

Amazon is working on a project codenamed 'Moonraker' that would enable the AI assistant to handle multi-step tasks more effectively.

Renders of multiple new Samsung devices have arrived a few weeks before the company's next Unpacked event.

The company doesn't plan to release an offline version.

Apple's program to invest in US manufacturing sees it spend $30 billion on Broadcom chips.

If you indulge in late-night binge-watching on your Roku, Fire Stick or Google TV, you're going to want to enable this feature.

Fi's latest dog tracker uses Starlink satellites for rural areas.

DuckDuckGo will now block video ads by default in its browser.

Apple has lost its court challenge against EU rules forcing it to open up its platforms to third parties.

This week, Microsoft took a huge ax to its Xbox business. The company announced that it would be laying off 1,600 workers now, 1,600 more over the next fiscal year, and that it would be shedding four studios. Xbox CEO Asha Sharma hasn't been shy about why she's making such dramatic cuts, saying in a memo that the business is "not healthy." Speaking to Fortune , she said that "we simply spread ourselves too thin." Given the scale of the changes and Xbox's currently vague strategy of focusing only on big games , it's unclear just what the future of

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OpenAI is overhauling ChatGPT's voice mode with a new model that it says is more like "talking to another person." The new GPT-Live-1 is designed to interrupt you less and will also wait for you to continue speaking if you pause mid-conversation. During a press briefing, OpenAI research lead Kundan Kumar called GPT-Live-1 the company's "smartest voice model" yet. It will automatically pass your queries to its best text models, like GPT-5.5, when it needs to reason or search the web, allowing it to more quickly transition from researching the topic you've asked about to talking about its findings. The

The Mondo Robotics Beni. | Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge What if you had a drone that wasn't a buzzy, annoying fly people wanted to swat - but rather a cute dog that runs and jumps? What if it could do tricks on command and film your tricks as well? What if it could get right back up after a nasty-looking crash, dozens of times in a row? The first time I saw Beni on Instagram , I immediately thought it was AI video slop. Surely consumer robots aren't that smart and agile in 2026 ? Then I

The Google Pixel 10 lineup. | Photo: Allison Johnson / The Verge Google's upcoming Pixel lineup might cost more than last year's. A report from Dealabs spotted by 9to5Google suggests that Google could raise the starting price of its 41mm Pixel Watch 5 to $399, while adding LTE could bump the price to $499. That's a $50 jump from the base Pixel Watch 4, which starts at $349 for Wi-Fi and $449 for LTE. Meanwhile, the larger 45mm Pixel Watch 5 is rumored to cost $429 with Wi-Fi only, or $529 with LTE, marking a $30 increase from the previous

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As part of Meta’s Muse Image model rollout, Instagram users with public accounts need to opt out to block AI generations of their content.

Joshua Achiam spent nearly nine years at OpenAI researching AI safety and made a memorable appearance in the Musk v. Altman trial.

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