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Really, you made this without AI? Prove it

Human creators want an ‘AI-free’ label, but can’t agree which one.

Jess Weatherbed
Anker’s Nebula P1 projector is the portable sound king

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Verge Score

Too bad they forgot the battery.

Thomas Ricker
Jay Peters
Jay Peters
A company that makes AI training data has been hit by a security breach.

Meta has paused work with the company, Mercor (which The Verge has profiled), while OpenAI is investigating the security incident, Wired reports.

Sean Hollister
Sean Hollister
Apple approves driver that lets Nvidia eGPUs work with Arm Macs.

Did hell freeze over? Not quite: the driver belongs to Tiny Corp, not Nvidia, you’ll have to compile it with Docker rather than plug-and-play, and it’s designed for LLMs. But you no longer need to disable Apple’s System Integrity Protection (SIP), because Apple is letting that driver get signed, Tiny says.

Apple finally approved our driver for both AMD and NVIDIA,” Tiny writes.
Apple finally approved our driver for both AMD and NVIDIA,” Tiny writes.
Image: Tiny Corp
Hayden Field
Hayden Field
PSA: I am not Sam Altman’s sister.

But apparently when you write a story about something, sometimes your profile photo comes up in the image search results for it, and a major X account doesn’t bother clicking through to figure that out.

A tweet from X account Coinvo, reading “WILD: 🇺🇸 OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s sister, Annie Altman, has filed a ‘long-term sexual abuse’ lawsuit against him! 😳” There is an image of Sam Altman and journalist Hayden Field, who is not Sam Altman’s sister.
Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Take-Two’s head of AI and his team are no longer at the company.

Luke Dicken posted about the changes on LinkedIn, as reported by Game Developer, saying that the team’s time “has come to an end.” Before becoming Take-Two’s head of AI, he held the role of senior director of applied AI at Zynga, which is owned by Take-Two, for two years.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Windows 11 might give haptic feedback for things like closing a window.

Microsoft is testing a Windows 11 feature that would let users “feel haptic feedback effects on compatible input devices while performing certain actions, such as aligning objects in PowerPoint, window snapping, resizing, or hovering over the Close button,” according to the Windows Insider Blog. This could be really cool on a good trackpad.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Signs of life for State of Decay 3.

Xbox’s Undead Labs will be hosting alpha playtests for the zombie apocalypse game starting next month, according to a video. You can sign up for the waitlist now.

State of Decay 3 was first announced in 2020 and got a trailer in 2024.