“I cannot imagine having gone through figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT,” he said. While he does acknowledge that “clearly, people did it for a long time,” he says that he has “relied on it so much.”
Most of the interview was pretty boring, but the parents in The Verge’s Slack have been talking a lot about that part.
The platform had blocked access to users in Mississippi due to an age verification law, but in a post on Monday, Bluesky said it has upgraded its Age Assurance system to “restore access to people over 18 in Mississippi” and to comply with “upcoming laws in Australia and other regions.”
We’re still waiting for news about the remake of the first Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, but as part of a huge report digging into court filings about why KOTOR II for Switch never got its Restored Content DLC, Game File found mentions of a KOTOR II remake in development as recently as March.
In a TikTok video, Thompson, former editor-in-chief at Wired and a friend of The Verge, touches on things like the gap between AI’s capabilities and its impact, OpenAI competing with Apple on hardware, memory as OpenAI’s biggest moat, and more.
Here’s AdWeek’s headline:
EXCLUSIVE: Google Tells Advertisers It’ll Bring Ads to Gemini in 2026
But according to Google VP of Global Ads Dan Taylor:
This story is based on uninformed, anonymous sources who are making inaccurate claims. There are no ads in the Gemini app and there are no current plans to change that.
They’re available “starting today,” Google says. And system-level “autospatialization,” which turns 2D content into 3D, is coming next year, Google announced during its Android Show presentation.
To help address the issue of its robotaxis passing stopped school buses, Waymo plans to file a voluntary software recall with the NHTSA, Mauricio Peña, Waymo’s chief safety officer, says in a statement to The Verge.
