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Trump’s attempt to rename AI is looking awfully artificial
President Donald Trump has a knack for turning words against his enemies. His first successful presidential run was built on monikers like "Little Marco" and "Crooked Hillary"; he changed "fake...
Instinct was the buzziest AI agent around — can it survive Muse?
Instinct’s agent is always just a text away. Before there were cute little guys, there was Instinct. In August, the startup got its AI agent to market with an unusual playbook: invite-only, no...
A week with Googlebooks: four notes from our testing so far
Software, software, software. | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge Google's new operating system is off to a rocky start. The five newly launched Googlebook laptops have hardware that ranges...
Meta is banning TikTok ads across its platforms
Meta has banned ads from TikTok's Chinese parent company ByteDance across the US and several other countries as the rivalry between the major social media operators heats up, as reported earlier by...
The humble Playdate has become one of gaming’s best deals
The Playdate, Panic's tiny yellow handheld that launched in 2022, has slowly but surely become a great deal - which is a good thing, because everything else in gaming has only gotten more expensive....
Anthropic now offers a free vulnerability-finding service for open-source software
Anthropic is offering open-source projects a new way to check for vulnerabilities with its OSS Scanner.
Netflix releases trailer for its miniseries about Sam Bankman-Fried’s scandal-ridden crypto exchange
Watch the trailer for Netflix's The Altruists, a mini-series about the rise and fall of cryptocurrency exchange FTX.
Antarctica’s penguins are sending us a distress signal
Chinstrap and macaroni penguins nesting on the volcanic slopes of Zavodovski Island. | Nicole Richters via British Antarctic Survey This story was originally published by The Guardian and is...
Antarctica’s penguins are sending us a distress signal
Chinstrap and macaroni penguins nesting on the volcanic slopes of Zavodovski Island. | Nicole Richters via British Antarctic Survey This story was originally published by The Guardian and is...
Are the AI industry’s apocalyptic warnings just a marketing ploy?
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei told the UN that if “managed poorly,” AI models “could be a risk to humanity as a whole.” | John Lamparski/Bloomberg via Getty Images Silicon Valley has long warned that...