Meta signs its first big AI deal for news
Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Meta’s AI chatbot will soon begin citing Reuters reporting while answering news-related queries. The two companies have struck what Axios describes as a…
Waymo just raised $5.6 billion to spread robotaxis to more cities
Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images Waymo just completed an oversubscribed funding round of $5.6 billion, its largest investment round to date. The company said it will use…
Amazon’s Like a Dragon works better as a mob drama than a Yakuza adaptation
Image: Amazon MGM Studios Like a Dragon proves that a quality adaptation doesn’t always have to be a faithful one. Continue reading…
The confusing state of Apple Intelligence
Image: Alex Parkin / The Verge The first bits of Apple Intelligence are starting to show up on people’s phones. The features in iOS 18.1 are fairly basic: summarizing messages,…
Adobe execs say artists need to embrace AI or get left behind
Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos by Getty Images Adobe is going all in on generative AI models and tools, even if that means turning away creators who dislike…
The company behind Arc is now building a second, much simpler browser
One of the many prototypes The Browser Company is building for its next browser. | Image: The Browser Company Stop me if this sounds familiar: The Browser Company is building…
OpenAI plans to release its next big AI model by December
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images OpenAI plans to launch Orion, its next frontier model, by December, The Verge has learned. Unlike the release of OpenAI’s last two…
Perplexity blasts media as ‘adversarial’ in response to copyright lawsuit
The Verge AI startup Perplexity, which offers an AI search engine, published a blog post today pushing back on News Corp’s lawsuit against the company. Perplexity has recently come under…
Scout Motors mounts an electric comeback with new SUV and truck concepts
Image: Scout Motors This is how you revive an iconic brand. Continue reading…
Apple Intelligence bug bounty invites researchers to test its privacy claims
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Apple is inviting investigations into the Private Cloud Compute (PCC) system that powers more computationally intensive Apple Intelligence requests. The company is also expanding…
