Mia Sato
“Who would be expecting Shrek?”
I will never get over this clip of Al Pacino laughing somewhat sinisterly while revealing his phone case to an interviewer. Enjoy.
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Andrew Liszewski
Quentyn Kennemer
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
Victoria Song
The Googlefication of Fitbit will continue until morale improves.
Google’s been absorbing Fitbit at a steady rate over the 18 months or so and now, it’s also retiring the OG Fitbit Twitter — er, X — account. It’s not at all surprising, but something about this really underscores that Fitbit is Google now.
Jay Peters
You can now make your longer Short.
You can now upload YouTube Shorts that can be as much as three minutes long.
They won’t immediately show up as Shorts, though, according to YouTube’s Rene Ritchie — the full rollout for that across YouTube will take a bit.
Sean Hollister
On Friday, we’ll hear whether Google can delay cracking open Android.
Last week, Judge Donato ruled that Google would have to open up Android to third-party app stores starting November 1st — but Google immediately filed an appeal and asked for an emergency stay.
Now, the judge will hear Google’s motion on October 18th. If he grants it, it could be years until Google makes changes, even if higher courts agree with his ruling.
Allison Johnson
“We are alive and well.”
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger is at Lenovo’s Tech World conference announcing a partnership with... AMD? We’ll hear more about the “x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group” that they’re founding, but for now he’s assuring us that rumors of the x86’s demise have been greatly exaggerated.
Photo: Allison Johnson / The Verge
Jess Weatherbed
Adobe looks to a new era for generative AI.
After joking about “AI” being a drinking game trigger at MAX, Adobe’s chief product officer Scott Belsky said the company is moving away from the “prompt era” of the tech — which “cheapened and undermined the craft of creative professionals” by generating anything from text descriptions.
Instead, the new “control era” aims to improve creative workflows with AI in more specific ways within Creative Cloud apps.
Charles Pulliam-Moore
Umar Shakir
The 2025 GMC Sierra EV Denali has a bit more range.
After delivering the limited 2024 “Denali Edition 1” in August, the GM brand is shipping the next model year version with a higher Max Range option that goes up to 460 miles on a single charge — same as the new Chevy Silverado EV RST.
GM also slightly lowered the starting price for the Denali: now $91,995, including destination charges but not other fees.
