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    Peacock adds 3 million subscribers as losses grow.

    As part of Comcast’s latest earnings report, the company said that its streaming service now has 44 million subscribers, while losses increased to $552 million in the last three months of 2025 — up from $372 million at the same time last year.

    (Disclosure: Comcast is an investor in Vox Media, The Verge’s parent company.)

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    Emma Roth
    Clawdbot’s bad day.

    Peter Steinberger, the creator of the trending Moltbot (former Clawdbot) AI agent, talks to TBPN about how Anthropic contacted him to rebrand the project, which he named after Claw’d, the Claude Code mascot.

    Steinberger also recounted how crypto scammers took advantage of the name change to push a phony crypto coin. “Everything that could have gone wrong today went wrong,” he said.

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    Emma Roth
    Instacart’s “Preference Picker” lets you choose how ripe you’d like your bananas.

    You can tell your Instacart shopper whether you prefer not ripe, almost ripe, or ripe bananas, as well as receive a photo of the bundle your shopper picked out.

    Instacart says it will explore expanding this feature to avocado ripeness and deli meat thickness in the future, and it’s showing off a “Bananas” Super Bowl ad with Ben Stiller and Benson Boone to highlight the feature.

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