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Archives for February 2026

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
From Crypto.com to AI.com.

Crypto.com CEO Kris Marszalek is getting in on the Super Bowl AI commercial break craze by launching his new AI.com website during the game. A press release describes the site as a way for users to “generate a private, personal AI agent that doesn’t just answer questions, but actually operates on the user’s behalf.”

Image: Kris Marszalek
Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
Alexa Plus tries to kill Chris Hemsworth in Amazon’s Super Bowl ad.

Hemsworth’s latest action scene isn’t in an Avengers movie, but a stand-off with Amazon’s AI assistant, which he fears is planning elaborate ways to kill him. Maybe Ultron is still fresh in the Thor actor’s mind. It’s far from the only ad for AI in this year’s Super Bowl.

How the men in the Epstein files defeated #MeToo

The emails show the “anti-woke” crusaders are afraid of accountability.

Elizabeth Lopatto
Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
America’s finest news source.

I like to think you can usually tell the difference between a Verge headline and an Onion one, but these days the lines are getting blurry.

endlessben:

I think you hit “Publish to The Verge” instead of “Publish to The Onion.” It’s ok, it happens.

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Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
Sony’s next flagship earbuds arrive next week.

A new teaser promises the “next generation of earbuds,” with a launch set for 8AM PT on February 12th. The brief glimpses in the video match leaks we’ve seen of the WF-1000XM6, the high-end sequel to 2023’s excellent XM5.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Apple has changed its AI health coach plans.

Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports that Apple is “scaling back” plans for the coach and will instead roll out some of what it had been working on into the Heath app over time. Maybe not the worst idea.

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Amazon plans to spend $200 billion in 2026.

CEO Andy Jassy told investors that the investment will go toward accomodating the “very high demand” for AI workloads on AWS. Amazon reported earning $213.39 billion in the last quarter of 2025, with AWS making up $35.58 billion.