44 – Breaking News & Latest Updates 2026
Skip to main content

Dominic Preston

Dominic Preston

News Editor

News Editor

    More From Dominic Preston

    Nothing spins off its budget brand CMFNothing spins off its budget brand CMF
    Dominic Preston
    Dominic Preston
    Dominic Preston
    Could an AI CEO do this?

    Disney has had a tumultuous couple weeks. It pulled Jimmy Kimmel off the air, suffered a widespread boycott, then reinstated Kimmel’s show last night. Sounds like the perfect time to raise prices.

    supernova-high:

    Hiking prices a couple of days after the disastrous decision to cave to Trump and kick-off a boycott of your platform that lost you thousands of subscribers? This is the kind of business thinking that AI just can’t replace yet.

    Get the day’s best comment and more in my free newsletter, The Verge Daily.

    Dominic Preston
    Dominic Preston
    Gmail just fixed my biggest notification headache.

    Android users can finally (it only took them 17 years!!!) mark emails as read directly from the Gmail notification, clearing the alert at the same time. Meanwhile iPhone notifications now include the sender’s picture, another bafflingly basic feature Gmail hasn’t offered until now.

    Dominic Preston
    Dominic Preston
    Vivo’s teleconverter lens is sticking around.

    Vivo has confirmed that the 2.35x detachable lens it introduced with this year’s X200 Ultra is returning in the X300 and X300 Pro, which launch in October. I tested the original, which looks silly but took some exceptional shots — but how will the X300 Ultra outdo it next year?

    Render of the Vivo X300 with the teleconverter lens attached.
    Image: Vivo
    Dominic Preston
    Dominic Preston
    We met the old-fashioned way.

    And by “old-fashioned,” of course I mean the Facebook Dating AI assistant. I didn’t even know Facebook Dating was a thing, and it’s already worse than I could have guessed.

    Nicholi:

    I think “Meta’s dating assistant AI chatbot” might be the worst imaginable response to asking someone how they met their partner.

    Get the day’s best comment and more in my free newsletter, The Verge Daily.

    Dominic Preston
    Dominic Preston
    Rich people problems.

    Still trying to figure out why Nvidia just announced it’s investing $100 billion in OpenAI? The answer’s simple: it has too much money, and nothing else to spend it on. We’ve all been there.