On Monday, District 9 and Gran Turismo director Neill Blomkamp unveiled his latest project: a 13-minute sci-fi short titled Nightborne that's loosely based on Peter Watts' 2014 novel Echopraxia. The short comes from Blomkamp's new AI startup / production company, Barley Studios, and features char...
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. | Bloomberg via Getty Images OpenAI says its AI models mistakenly breached open-source AI platform Hugging Face during internal testing. In a blog post on Tuesday, OpenAI writes that GPT-5.6 Sol and "an even more capable pre-release model" discovered vulnerabilities withi...
The country's new law also bans the use of mobile phones in schools.
The elevated streaming experience is happening in collaboration with Prime Video.
Substack will now help users determine whether what they're reading may have been written by AI. A new tool coming to the platform can scan posts, notes, replies, and comments to provide an estimate of how much text could be AI-generated or written with AI assistance, according to a blog post pub...
Substack is partnering with Pangram to add an AI detection feature.
Apple reportedly fixed the Hide My Email vulnerability that left iCloud+ users' emails not especially hidden.
Dead Island 2, Harold Halibut and seven others will be gone soon.
After using CarPlay for years and testing dozens of apps, we've narrowed down the list of CarPlay apps you really need.
Parental Supervision is coming to Meta's Threads.
I am a very clumsy man. So clumsy, that I have AirTags hanging off practically every camera I own. Have I left my camera in an Uber? Yes. Have I left it on an airplane? Also yes. For me, finder tags are essential for my cameras. The problem is, strapping a finder tag to a camera is always cumbers...
The Xteink X4 Pro is a tiny ereader for DRM-free books.
Apple may unveil a new device subscription service, reportedly in partnership with Klarna, as soon as next week.
Amazon greenlit a Robocop pilot. Now it has committed to a full TV show.
It's the official marking of the EU's Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive.
The Kindle Paperwhite, our favorite Kindle, is down to $124.99. | Image: The Verge If you’ve been thinking about picking up a Kindle before school starts, or for your next vacation, now’s a good time to do it. As part of its Black Friday in July sale, Best Buy has brought the Kindle Paperwhite ...
As component and RAM shortages drive prices higher, Apple is reportedly launching an "Apple Upgrade" program for leasing new devices. According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, it will work similar to a car lease, with options to upgrade to a new device early, or keep or return the device at the end o...
Parents will also get a weekly email summarizing their teen’s Twitch activity. | Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Twitch is giving parents more control over how their children are using the streaming platform, including the ability to block them from broadcasting entirely. Parental cont...
A federal judge has signed off on Anthropic's $1.5 billion class action settlement with authors who accused the company of training its AI models on copyrighted books, as reported earlier by Reuters. In an order on Monday, Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín writes that the settlement will provide "mea...
It's easy to see who's at the door without grabbing your phone.