Richard Lawler

As Deadline notes, the cross-platform viewer number that (HBO) Max just released for last night’s finale is down from the season premiere’s 5.3 million, but the company expects that “The audience will grow significantly due to low viewing levels over the Memorial Day holiday weekend.” According to the press release, the show’s global audience now numbers more than 90 million.

That’s gotta be a bizarre thing to wake up to, but at least it didn’t block the Suez Canal?

That was a message Akasha Song, aka Joseph Clements, shared with customers in April 2022 on the closed dark web profile pages for his DMT storefront, Shimshai, as the feds were closing in on his operation.

The Verge team has a few guesses about the first hardware release from the OpenAI and io combination. Let us know yours in the comments.

The last question during the AI fireside chat at I/O 2025 was an invitation to make headlines, and the Google co-founder did his best, saying... something about reality and our existence. Listen in for yourself.

Brin showed up to crash Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis’ fireside chat at I/O 25, where he laid out what he does all day when asked by host Alex Kantrowitz.

The Google co-founder has said he was “pretty much retired right around the start of the pandemic,” but came back to the company to experience the AI revolution.

Despite replies from Intel’s X account telling gamers to “stay tuned,” there won’t be any news on that front, as Intel’s Thomas Hannaford sent over a statement saying, “The social media posts were in reference to Arc Pro news we plan to share at Computex. We are not sharing any future products or plans.”

As reported by Reuters, the job cuts in its devices and services group were part of a “regular business review.” CNBC noted the company has laid off 27,000 employees since the start of 2022, with cuts impacting this group in 2022 and 2023.