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Comcast is breaking up with NBCU. Why did it ever buy it in the first place?
Today on Decoder, I’m talking with Peter Kafka, who is chief correspondent at Business Insider and host of Channels, a podcast about the media industry. And it’s a big week for the media industry —...
Sony brings back the superzoom RX10 with a stacked sensor and a high price
The big boy is back. | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge Sony is bringing back the RX10 superzoom camera after a nearly nine-year gap between models. The newly announced RX10 V retains the...
ICE agents are making house calls for online critics
A few hours after checking into a hotel in New York City, David Streever woke up to a call from the front desk saying someone was looking for him. Streever had just landed on a return trip from...
Say hello to Claude Wrapped
The popularity of Spotify Wrapped has kicked off a wide range of year-in-review features, on apps from YouTube to Uber - and now, the lookback trend has come to AI. Anthropic on Thursday announced a...
Claude’s new Reflect dashboard wants to help you log off of Claude
The Claude Reflect dashboard is like a mix of Spotify Wrapped and the screen time tool on your phone.
New York is the first US state to ban smart glasses in all its courthouses
New York has banned smart glasses in all 1,240 state, county, city, town and village courts.
Character.AI wants a piece of the microdrama pie
Character.AI's plan to become more than just an LLM-powered chatbot platform is going beyond interactive books, comics, and audio dramas. Today, the company announced the debut of c.ai Series -...
FL Studio 2026 turns its AI chatbot into your assistant engineer
Gopher can’t play the piano for you, but it can bury it in the mix. | Image: Image Line Last year, Image Line introduced Gopher for FL Studio, an AI chatbot that was basically a glorified...
I quite fancy a Slate EV in a Crayola crayon color
Slate's barebones EV trucks lack whimsy, which is why the company has teamed up with Crayola.
SpaceX is on track for record-setting Starlink deployments
Another 29 Starlink satellites were deployed last night. | Image: SpaceX SpaceX is currently ahead of last year's record-setting pace for Starlink satellite deployments. SpaceX launched 1,589...