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Super Bowl LX ads: all AI everything

2026-02-10T12:00:07-05:00

Super Bowl LX is nearly here, with the Seattle Seahawks taking on the New England Patriots. While Bad Bunny will be the star of the halftime show, AI could be the star of the commercial breaks, much like crypto was a few years ago.

Last year’s Super Bowl featured a Google Gemini ad that fumbled a Gouda cheese stat, and this year’s game is already slated to include an ad for Anthropic’s AI platform that takes jabs at its competitors, namely OpenAI. AI-generated ads could make an appearance, too.

Super Bowl LX is set to kick off at 6:30PM ET/3:30PM PT on Sunday, February 8th, and is being broadcast on NBC and Peacock.

Trump’s fundraisers asked Microsoft for its White House ballroom donation

2026-01-09T12:23:06-05:00

The Trump administration approached Microsoft for its donation to fund the White House's $300 million ballroom, documents released by Sen. Elizabeth Warren's (D-MA) office reveal.

In response to a Democrat-led letter questioning Big Tech's involvement in the ballroom's construction, Microsoft counsel Karen Christian writes that the company "was contacted by a fundraiser for the effort regarding a possible donation" around two months after President Donald Trump announced plans to replace the White House's East Wing with a privately funded ballroom.

"At that time, Microsoft was provided information concerning the Trust for the National Mal …

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Netflix signs a three-year deal to stream MLB live events and games

2025-11-20T05:31:51-05:00

Today, Major League Baseball announced new media rights deals with ESPN, NBCUniversal, and Netflix that run for the next three seasons. The Netflix deal brings live MLB games to its platform and continues to grow its library of sports programming in an arrangement that Front Office Sports reports is worth about $50 million per year.

Netflix will stream a single game on Opening Night of each season, the Home Run Derby, and one "special event game" each year. In 2026, that will cover the "Field of Dreams" game broadcast from Dyersville, Iowa, on August 13th, 2026, between the Minnesota Twins and Philadelphia Phillies.

The games signed up by …

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Comcast’s fix for streaming service overload is in your cable box

2025-07-25T17:46:52-04:00

Streaming has become a tangled web of subscriptions, and now Comcast says it can help by putting all your services into one hub. Comcast is launching a new hub on its set-top boxes, called the StreamStore, where you can buy and manage subscriptions for more than 450 streaming apps and channels.

The StreamStore lives within Xfinity's Xumo Stream Box and on X1 devices. It's also available on the web, and features a collection of more than 200,000 movies and TV shows to rent or purchase. Xfinity will let you add or drop channels through the store, while tacking on new subscriptions to your monthly internet or TV bill, further positioning the c …

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Comcast is simplifying its Xfinity internet plans and dropping data caps

2025-06-26T14:55:15-04:00

Comcast is changing its Xfinity plans nationwide to make them simpler - and it's dropping data caps so that the plans have truly unlimited data.

The company announced today that it will now offer four plans - 300 Mbps, 500 Mbps, 1 Gbps, and 2 Gbps - across three different pricing tiers: an "Everyday Price" paid per month without a price guarantee, a lower price per month with a one-year price guarantee, and a price per month with a five-year price guarantee that's slightly more expensive than the one-year option.

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The plans will include unlimited data with no data caps, spokesperson Joel Shadle confirms to The Verge. They'll also come with …

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Peacock’s NBA coverage will add an overlay with live shot stats

2025-05-09T17:06:51-04:00

Peacock’s homepage will display live NBA games with some stats. | Image: Peacock

The NBA is headed to Peacock this October, and with it a range of new features making the viewing experience distinct from watching basketball on cable and a flood of other sports-focused packages. For starters, Peacock is adding an optional "performance view" overlay that will show you player names and a live shot chart that can display percentages for different types of shots.

Peacock is "going to be refining this throughout the season," as well as testing and adding more types of data in the future, John Jelley, Peacock's senior vice president of product, said during a press briefing. The service also plans to make live games more promin …

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Comcast announces a five-year price lock for Xfinity internet plans

2025-04-15T13:01:06-04:00

Comcast has announced that new customers can choose a five-year, guaranteed price lock-in for its Xfinity internet plans. The plans won't require an annual contract, and range in price from $55 to $105 per month, according to a release emailed to The Verge. They also include unlimited data.

It's a nice thought, being able to put off the rigamarole of calling my ISP every year or two to beg them to bring me back down to the price that got me in the door in the first place. The plans come with a modem / router combo and a 12-month Xfinity Mobile cellular plan at no extra cost, with extra lines costing $20 per month.

In a separate email, Comc …

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Comcast and Spectrum join in on the satellite messaging wave

2025-03-20T16:46:22-04:00

Comcast and Charter's mobile services now offer access to satellite-based emergency messaging. The launch comes just one day after their network provider, Verizon, rolled out satellite messaging for Samsung Galaxy S25 and Google Pixel 9 devices.

Just like with Verizon, customers on Comcast's Xfinity Mobile and Charter's Spectrum Mobile will need a Galaxy S25 or Google Pixel 9 to access the feature, which is powered by the non-terrestrial network service provider Skylo. This is the same company that worked with Google to launch the Pixel 9's Satellite SOS feature.

For now, Xfinity Mobile and Spectrum Mobile will only let Galaxy S25 and Pixe …

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The Olympics will stay on NBC for at least another decade

2025-03-13T14:49:31-04:00

NBC will continue airing the Olympics in the US for the foreseeable future. Its parent company, Comcast, just announced a deal with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) that will keep the games on NBC's platforms, including Peacock, through 2036.

As noted by The Hollywood Reporter, NBC's previous agreement with the IOC gave it the rights to stream the Olympics through 2032. This new deal will take its place, with the extended media rights for the 2033 to 2036 Olympics cycle valued at $3 billion. The next Olympic games will take place in Italy next year.

The Olympics have played a major role in helping NBC drive subscribers and viewers …

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FCC to investigate Comcast for having DEI programs

2025-02-12T12:01:17-05:00

Federal Communications Chair Brendan Carr has asked his agency to investigate Comcast's Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) practices, as first reported by Newsmax. "We have received an inquiry from the Federal Communications Commission and will be cooperating with the FCC to answer their questions," Comcast spokesperson Joelle Terry confirms to The Verge.

Carr writes in the letter that the FCC is looking for signs that the company's initiatives have violated federal employment law, writing: "I expect that this investigation into Comcast and its NBCUniversal operations will aid the commission's broader efforts to root out invidious forms …

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