Yes, of course there are pay package incentives in play for Musk. But that’s not all.
Musk is targeting 5 million annual vehicle deliveries by 2030, but after back-to-back years of falling sales, banking on unproven robotaxis instead of an affordable EV makes that goal look practically impossible.
“Everyone is just going to have to adapt,” CFO Susan Li said during Meta’s third quarter earnings call.
Tesla is manufacturing humanoid robots while still working out how to make them useful, reliable, and durable enough for customers.
Oppo’s Find X10 Pro Max benefits more from sensor size, dynamic range, and excellent software than sheer resolution.
AI agents are getting blocked left and right — but even when they work, it suggests a more annoying future for humans.
Thanks to a new jailbreak, a modder showed off a custom Mario Kart World featuring Peter Griffin and the red Angry Bird.
‘We’re going to build something that is indistinguishable from human performance … in the next couple of years,’ Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman tells The Verge.
We have Peter Thiel’s secret lectures about the Antichrist.
OpenAI is taking credit for finding the PHP2Shell vulnerabilities, but now someone has to apply all these patches.
Health tech companies want data from your blood in return for a vague promise of a longer life.
What three hours of a documentary looks like to someone who spent four months at the Holmes trial.
Nano-texture was the right move.
Many apps, including Netflix, Microsoft Word, and Zoom, are taking advantage of the Duo’s extra screen real estate.
Verge subscribers can get their burning questions answered.
Following Apple’s smart home-focused launch earlier in the month, Apple is hosting another product event soon.
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Etsy’s new AI policies, among other changes, require that a listing’s first photo is unedited.
And a red pill meme. You can see the post on X here.
Epic CEO Tim Sweeney said last week that the company is undergoing a “huge pivot” to “retool for maximum AI acceleration,” and it announced a “vibe coded” update to its PC launcher last week in preview that had some issues on the first day.
Spotify’s co-CEO said it will keep tweaking verification as people ‘find holes around’ methods like its new QR codes over time.
Didn’t Microsoft say the next Xbox needed to be affordable?
From July 21st to August 11th, two employees from METR and Redwood Research conducted a “pilot” to stress test the system, and METR published a high-level overview of their findings, as reported by CNBC. One exploit would have allowed agents to “prevent hundreds of recent actions (including the actions involved in the exploit itself) from being monitored.”
OpenAI “has stated” that the vulnerabilities identified “that impact their production safeguards stack” have been patched, METR says.
The app has a new, “simplified” top bar, where you’ll find tabs for things like subscriptions, Live, Music, and custom feeds, YouTube says. The custom feeds will stay in that top bar, according to YouTube Creator Liaison Rene Ritchie.
Trump asked Musk on Wednesday to fully roll back the interruptions that neither has publicly taken responsibility for, The Wall Street Journal reports.
Today, the WSJ says the system is working “more normally” after the call, citing US and Ukrainian officials.
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Canva Craft can generate images at up to 2K resolution and in more than 30 aspect ratios.
Counterpoint Research says higher prices are tanking demand for new PCs.
Tesla recently showed off a new version of its Roadster. Well, a new version of its old version of the Roadster, anyway. But this one flies! The Verge’s Andy Hawkins joins the show to explain the last decade of the Roadster saga, make sense of the flying and kickflipping new vehicle, and cast out into the future of Tesla’s cars for humans. If there even is one.
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Meta’s new business terms could still help it justify training AI on scraped sites.
“Tomorrow we’re bringing a new Threads layout to the foldable on iOS, with more of the conversation in view,” says Christopher Clare, Threads’ head of design. Sounds like things are getting better for Android foldables, too: “We’ve also been improving the Android experience, refining buttons and other elements so they fit the wider screen rather than simply stretching the experience.”
Clare also laid out a few other design tweaks, like links “in a new blue.”
Meta has given new URLs to shared Muse ‘artifacts’ after security researchers reported that public links could be easy to find.
The first exercise of a new FCC power.
TE’s EP-35 is a battery-powered speaker for your synths, guitar, and voice.
Google suggests a few fixes if your Android device is showing the incorrect time as a result of clocks not turning back.
As PCMag notes, Taiwan’s MSI has gotten conditional approval to bring two specific routers into the United States, pending certification: the Radix GRBE94 and GRBE34, which’ll likely have friendlier names when they go on sale. Netgear and Asus inexplicably got blanket approvals for all new routers earlier this year, while TP-Link is fighting for its Wi-Fi 8 ones.
Markdown files in Discord now render ‘all nice and neat’ thanks to a new update.
The discounted Fire TV Stick 4K drops external power and includes a redesigned remote.
Or, a fancier DualSense color scheme adds $23. Both the refurbished controller and console have a one-year warranty.
Delta 2.0 adds support for the iPhone Duo, Sega Genesis games, and more.
“Everyone is just going to have to adapt,” CFO Susan Li said during Meta’s third quarter earnings call.
A trailer for a game titled Mass Effect: Universe” popped up on Reddit, and it appears to be the real deal.
Police report dashcam footage confirmed attempts to brake and steer around the man before he was hit by the right front of the vehicle.
‘We’re going to build something that is indistinguishable from human performance … in the next couple of years,’ Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman tells The Verge.
Subscribers will now have access to more audiobooks, including some read by AI narrators.
Musk is targeting 5 million annual vehicle deliveries by 2030, but after back-to-back years of falling sales, banking on unproven robotaxis instead of an affordable EV makes that goal look practically impossible.
Nintendo Switch Sports Resort (thumb wrestling), and Final Fantasy Resonance (random battles to mash through) are both out today. They’re great, and they should help you stay busy ahead of the Ocarina of Time remake and GTA VI next month.
Thanks to a new jailbreak, a modder showed off a custom Mario Kart World featuring Peter Griffin and the red Angry Bird.
The state’s Attorney General Peter Neronha filed the suit in Providence Superior Court, accusing Meta of making billions in profits from scam ads, while simultaneously telling users it was working hard to protect them. The suit cites reporting on leaked Meta documents from Reuters that said:
… it was earning far more from high-risk scam ads than it expected to pay in fines for allowing them.
According to those documents, Meta displays around 15 billion “higher risk” scam ads to users every day, and earned roughly 10% of its 2024 revenue from fraudulent e-commerce, dubious health products and other banned marketing.
I feel like this is not how we would learn about such a thing — maybe he meant to say “Half-Life Alyx” — but you never know. Last year, Tyler McVicker (below) suggested the entire game was already playable end-to-end. Sounds like he’ll have extra scuttlebutt to share soon!
New feature development for the innovative web browser ended last year. Now, The Browser Company is telling users to try Dia, Arc’s replacement.
Semafor reports that, along with other investors like board member Laurene Powell Jobs, “Elon Musk has invested roughly $1 billion in Skydance, according to people familiar with the matter, providing a much needed financial injection as the company looks to cut costs and bolster its stock price.
The PHP Foundation says details about the bugs were leaked before it could release a patch.
With the new profile links feature, you can make buttons for links that sit above your posts. Links to payment platforms will be green.
Here’s what a couple of the buttons look like on my profile.
Instead, their money went to a political action committee that funneled the money to the reelection campaign of Colorado’s Democratic Senator John Hickenlooper. According to The Atlantic:
The mix-up wasn’t all AI’s fault. The link led to a misleading donation page that carried Talarico’s name and picture, and specified only at the bottom that the money would go to Hickenlooper. But Google’s AI tool evidently didn’t read the fine print. And perhaps no one would have clicked on it had Google not highlighted the page in an authoritative-sounding AI response.
