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Amazon’s Smart Thermostat is on sale for just $58
Amazon’s Smart Thermostat looks surprisingly nice for such a cheap gadget. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge If your electricity bill climbs every summer, a smart thermostat could help...
All the news about Anthropic’s new AI fight with the White House
Anthropic was already navigating one dispute with the government in its standoff with the Pentagon, and then came an order on June 12th to block off foreign access to its most recently released AI...
Anthropic hit with lawsuit over its Claude Max usage limits
Anthropic is being sued over Claude Max usage limits
The best early Amazon Prime Day deals so far
The products pictured here aren’t on sale, but we certainly hope they will be soon. | Image: Alex Parkin / The Verge Amazon’s earlier-than-usual Prime Day doesn’t begin until June 23rd, but there...
xAI’s lawsuit accusing OpenAI of stealing trade secrets has been thrown out
A federal judge decided to dismiss an xAI lawsuit against OpenAI with prejudice.
Trump’s Anthropic shutdown just made the case for non-American AI
At Washington's request, Anthropic suddenly took its newest and most powerful AI models offline over the weekend. The American company said it had little choice after the White House demanded it...
Google Chrome is closing the loopholes that let old ad blockers keep working
Google Chrome version 150 and 151, expected in late June and July, respectively, will cut off support for the last remaining workarounds for running older ad blockers, 9to5Google reports. Google...
The Iran war’s end is being greatly exaggerated
President Donald Trump makes his way to board Air Force One before departing Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on June 15, 2026. | Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images One should never underestimate...
Facebook’s new AI tools offer more of the same, with photo-editing and question-answering capabilities
Don't worry, there's yet another chatbot you can ask for restaurant recommendations.
Big Tech’s desperate last push at AI regulation
U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) arrive for a news conference with bipartisan senators on passage of the Online Privacy Protection Act at the Capitol on...