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Meta announces that it will be updating its glasses with a new feature that disables the camera if someone tampers with the glasses' privacy LED light (Victoria Song/The Verge)

Victoria Song / The Verge : Meta announces that it will be updating its glasses with a new feature that disables the camera if someone tampers with the glasses' privacy LED light —…

Memo: Microsoft is laying off ~4,800 employees, or ~2.1% of its workforce; most layoffs are in Xbox, where ~20% of jobs are set to be cut by the end of FY 2027 (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Tom Warren / The Verge : Memo: Microsoft is laying off ~4,800 employees, or ~2.1% of its workforce; most layoffs are in Xbox, where ~20% of jobs are set to be cut by the end of FY …

Mamdani’s $126B budget soars nearly 10% from last year, leaving NYC on verge of fiscal crisis

The budget, which includes no significant cuts, ballooned from last year's roughly $116 billion spending plan, for an approximate 8.5% increase.…

OpenAI teases a device it is launching in partnership with keyboard maker Work Louder on July 15, saying "Your favorite Codex shortcuts are getting an upgrade" (Emma Roth/The Verge)

Emma Roth / The Verge : OpenAI teases a device it is launching in partnership with keyboard maker Work Louder on July 15, saying “Your favorite Codex shortcuts are getting an upgra…

Bullish Bitcoin RSI divergence has analysts calling for 2022-style bear market bottom

Bitcoin RSI bullish divergences formed the basis for the new bull case, but some market takes warned that new BTC price lows were still to come.…

24 Prime Day deals Verge readers are grabbing before Prime Day ends

There are an overwhelming number of Prime Day deals to sort through, which is why we spend so much time highlighting products we’ve already tested and can stand behind. But our rec…

Vaibhav Sooryavanshi on the verge of breaking Sachin Tendulkar's 36-year-old India record

All eyes are on 15-year-old Vaibhav Sooryavanshi as India faces Ireland in Belfast. The teenage sensation, who had a stellar IPL 2026 season with Rajasthan Royals, could make histo…

Small-Cap Price Leadership Diverges From Small-Business Fundamentals

The Russell 2000 has been the leadership story of June. Through the early sessions of the month the index gained roughly 14.2 percent year to date.…

The Verge’s Father’s Day 2026 gift guide

With Father's Day on the horizon, happening June 21st, it's time to start thinking about what kind of gifts you want to buy for the fathers you care about. You know your dad best -…

My favorite Qi2 power bank is cheaper than ever for Verge readers

I recently published a buying guide on the best Qi2 power banks. Out of seven feature-packed batteries, I really dug the Baseus AM52 10,000mAh power bank that has a built-in USB-C …

Data Center Civil War Leaves Virginia on the Verge of a Shutdown

Virginia is on the verge of its first shutdown in modern history, and it all comes down to data centers and Democratic Party infighting. Democrats control the governor’s mansion, t…

Deezer launches an AI music detection tool for users of 20 services, including Spotify and Apple Music, after no company licensed its AI detection tech (Terrence O'Brien/The Verge)

Terrence O'Brien / The Verge : Deezer launches an AI music detection tool for users of 20 services, including Spotify and Apple Music, after no company licensed its AI detection te…

Microsoft limits employee use of Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 over data retention concerns, The Verge reports

Microsoft limits employee use of Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 over data retention concerns, The Verge reports

June 10 : Microsoft is limiting employees' use of Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 because of the AI startup's new data retention requirements, The Verge reported on Wednesday, citing so…

82-0 is the best basketball game, to hell with NBA 2K

82-0 marries the stat nerd fun of fantasy basketball with instant gratification and a bit of dumb luck. The goal is to draft a team of players that could (theoretically) have a per…

I customized a MacBook Neo with colorful spare parts

The MacBook Neo is Apple's cheapest laptop, its most colorful, and its easiest to repair in years. That means owners can buy replacement parts in all four of its available colors a…

Yes, the Oura Ring 5 is noticeably smaller

This is not an Oura Ring 5 review. That's coming later, once I've had enough time to really test the new durability and battery life claims, plus the new software updates that star…

Amazon unveils its next-gen Proteus warehouse robot, adding AI-powered language capabilities to let workers assign tasks, rolling out in Europe in H1 2027 (Robert Hart/The Verge)

Robert Hart / The Verge : Amazon unveils its next-gen Proteus warehouse robot, adding AI-powered language capabilities to let workers assign tasks, rolling out in Europe in H1 2027…

In policy paper, OpenAI diverges from White House on AI safety - SiliconANGLE

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OpenAI diverges from Trump's AI EO in a new policy paper, proposing cyber risk evaluations for advanced AI systems be mandatory and led by CAISI, not the NSA (Brendan Bordelon/Politico)

Brendan Bordelon / Politico : OpenAI diverges from Trump's AI EO in a new policy paper, proposing cyber risk evaluations for advanced AI systems be mandatory and led by CAISI, not …

OpenAI diverges from White House on AI safety rules

OpenAI diverges from White House on AI safety rules - Politico

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Meta is spinning off Supernatural into an independent company, Supernatural Health, after earlier saying the VR fitness game would stop getting new content (Victoria Song/The Verge)

Mustafa Suleyman says Microsoft aims to become "one of the top four labs in the world", and "the pivotal moment was renegotiating our contract with OpenAI" (The Verge)

The Verge : Mustafa Suleyman says Microsoft aims to become “one of the top four labs in the world”, and “the pivotal moment was renegotiating our contract with OpenAI” — At Microso…

Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman says there are three labs that matter — and he wants Microsoft to be the fourth. - The Verge

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Google unveils five AI data center water commitments, including becoming water positive by 2030, local infrastructure investment, and transparency about usage (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)

Lauren Feiner / The Verge : Google unveils five AI data center water commitments, including becoming water positive by 2030, local infrastructure investment, and transparency about…

Microsoft unveils the Surface Laptop Ultra, with an Nvidia RTX Spark SoC, a 15" mini-LED touchscreen, and up to 128GB of unified memory, coming this fall (Sean Hollister/The Verge)

Sean Hollister / The Verge : Microsoft unveils the Surface Laptop Ultra, with an Nvidia RTX Spark SoC, a 15" mini-LED touchscreen, and up to 128GB of unified memory, coming this fa…

Nvidia announces the RTX Spark, an Arm-based consumer PC chip family that it says is "the most efficient PC chip ever built", made in partnership with MediaTek (Sean Hollister/The Verge)

Sean Hollister / The Verge : Nvidia announces the RTX Spark, an Arm-based consumer PC chip family that it says is “the most efficient PC chip ever built”, made in partnership with …

AMD unveils the $330 Ryzen 7 7700X3D CPU, relaunches the 5800X3D as a $349 10th-anniversary edition, and plans to support the AM5 motherboard socket until 2030 (Sean Hollister/The Verge)

Sean Hollister / The Verge : AMD unveils the $330 Ryzen 7 7700X3D CPU, relaunches the 5800X3D as a $349 10th-anniversary edition, and plans to support the AM5 motherboard socket un…

Dell introduces the $699+ Dell XPS 13, starting with 8GB of RAM, a six-core Intel Core 5 320 chip, and a 13.4-inch touchscreen, rivaling the MacBook Neo (Antonio G. Di Benedetto/The Verge)

Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge : Dell introduces the $699+ Dell XPS 13, starting with 8GB of RAM, a six-core Intel Core 5 320 chip, and a 13.4-inch touchscreen, rivaling the M…

On-loan Barcelona star on verge of permanent exit

A member of the loan ranks at La Liga champions Barcelona is close to bringing a permanent close to his time on the books of the club.The player in question? Ansu Fati.Wide-man Ans…

Trump claims to be on verge of approving peace deal with major Iranian concessions

Tehran denies deal has been reached that would open strait of Hormuz and eliminate country’s nuclear programme…

EverGen Infrastructure Corp. (EVGN:CA) Q1 2026 Earnings Call Transcript

EverGen Infrastructure Corp. (EVGN:CA) Q1 2026 Earnings Call May 29, 2026 11:00 AM EDTCompany ParticipantsChase Edgelow - CEO & DirectorMaria O'Sullivan...…

The Verge’s 2026 high school graduation gift guide

High school graduation is a time of change that might be felt more deeply by family members than by the grads themselves. While some grads may immediately embark on a career path, …

AI startup Shift launches a free home cleaning service in NYC to record first-person video with a camera-equipped cap and use it to train robots (Robert Hart/The Verge)

SpaceX skeptics have added reason for concern after Musk comments diverge from IPO filing

In a post on X, Elon Musk offered details about SpaceX's deal with Anthropic that weren't included in the company's IPO prospectus.…

Asia faces ‘costly paradox’ over divergent AI rules in US and EU

Regional countries are adapting either the US or EU legal framework, while Asian tech firms risk incurring a ‘regulatory fragmentation tax’.…

First Quarter Earnings: Sharpening Sector Divergence

First quarter results point to sharpened sector divergence, separating AI-driven winners from those facing structural and geopolitical headwinds.…

Interactive anycast simulator — drop a PoP, watch BGP withdraw and traffic converge

Valve raises Steam Deck OLED prices due to "rising memory and storage costs"; the 512GB model is now $789, up from $549, and the 1TB model is $949, up from $649 (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Formalizing a Divergence Monitor: Stochastic Implementation of Phase Divergence and Invisible Moves

AI tried to bury this politician — now people have actually heard of him - The Verge

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Win cool gadgets we can’t keep because The Verge has ethics

When people learn I work for The Verge, they inevitably ask: “Do you get to keep the gadgets?” Now that I film Today I’m Toying With, a video series where I share the joy of tech, …

Centre fears ‘divergence of views’ among High Courts on new transgender law; asks SC to transfer cases to itself

Centre seeks Supreme Court intervention to unify divergent High Court views on the controversial Transgender Persons Amendment Act, 2026.…

A look at the Pentagon's embrace of autonomous weapons before its fight with Anthropic over "red lines", and the debate over AI use in military operations (Hayden Field/The Verge)

Open vs Closed LLMs in 2026: The Game-Changing Convergence [03:32:15]

An in-depth look at the AI agent revolution reshaping software development and business automation in 2026.…

Q&A with Sundar Pichai about reshaping the information ecosystem with Search changes, putting AI agents in everything, when AI will replace him as CEO, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

Nvidia officially retires its GeForce Control Panel app after 20 years, following the porting of all of its major features to the Nvidia app (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Spotify launches a library of over 650 narrated long-form magazine articles in English for Premium users; free users can buy articles "individually for $1.99" (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

Muslim pilgrims converge on Arafat for prayers and worship as Hajj reaches its peak

Muslim pilgrims have gathered on Mount Arafat in Saudi Arabia for the second day of Hajj, considered the pinnacle of the annual pilgrimage…

PRIMA: Operational Patterns for Resilient Multi-Agent Research with Verifiable Identity and Convergent Feedback

Operating LLMs as coordinated multi-agent research systems over multi-hour runs surfaces failure modes that single-shot evaluation cannot: upstream providers throttle without warni…

Knicks on verge of breaking 53-year championship drought after sweeping Cavs

The New York Knicks have a chance to accomplish something the franchise hasn't since 1973.…

The FTC settles with Cox, MindSift, and 1010 Digital Works for $930K over claims they falsely said they could use phone mics to spy on users for ad targeting (Adi Robertson/The Verge)

Adi Robertson / The Verge : The FTC settles with Cox, MindSift, and 1010 Digital Works for $930K over claims they falsely said they could use phone mics to spy on users for ad targ…

Las Vegas Sands Corp.’s SWOT analysis: stock faces regional performance divergence

BlockCon Punta Cana: The Global Business Retreat Where Web3, iGaming, and Finance Converge

Open roads, discovery and dining converge at Storm Troopers in Goa

This bike themed cafe set in a Goan-Portuguese home in Utorda, brings together motorcycles, heritage and global flavours under one roof…

Fortrea Holdings’ SWOT analysis: stock faces divergent views amid turnaround

Golden Knights Complete UNBELIEVABLE Comeback, on Verge of Western Conference Sweep

Following Friday’s Game 2 win, head coach John Tortorella took the podium and guaranteed that his Vegas Golden Knights would be ready for Game 3. He spoke with a steady confidence,…

Convergence Without Understanding: When Language Models Agree on Representations but Disagree on Reasoning

Large language models trained under diverse objectives and architectures have been shown to develop increasingly similar internal representations, an observation formalized as the …

On verge of being swept, Kenny Atkinson says Cavaliers are 'analytically' winning series vs. Knicks

The Cavs coach was right about one thing, at least: 'No one wants to hear that'…