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A federal judge has dismissed a pair of antitrust lawsuits filed by Chegg and Rolling Stone parent company Penske Media Corporation, which accused Google of driving away web traffic with its AI-powered search features, as reported earlier by Reuters. US District Judge Amit Mehta takes Google's side in a ruling on Wednesday, writing that PMC [...]
Read source →At OpenAI's annual DevDay conference, the company pulled out all the stops to compete with its rivals - primarily Meta, whose Muse AI agent platform has seen early runaway success. CEO Sam Altman walked onstage to cheers and announced Dots, a "real-deal AI" agent powered by GPT-6 Astra, "inspired by the cool agents that we [...]
Read source →Today I’m talking with Josh Dzieza, a longtime features writer here at The Verge, about Kevin O’Leary’s plans to build a massive data center in Utah.  The idea was to build the world's biggest data center — a 40,000-acre AI campus with nine gigawatts of power, or more than double the average power usage of [...]
Read source →Grokipedia, SpaceXAI's AI-powered competitor to Wikipedia, recently started incorporating edits again, and today, it got some design tweaks as part of a v0.3 update, including a new logo and refreshes to its homepage and live edits page. SpaceXAI head of design Benji Taylor calls it a "newly refreshed Grokipedia." Grokipedia's old homepage was pretty much [...]
Read source →Google today revealed its next AI frontier model, which it's calling Gemini 4 Argon. The new model delivers "frontier performance in complex workflows across real-world software engineering, enterprise knowledge work like legal and finance, and cybersecurity defense," according to chief AI architect and Google DeepMind SVP Koray Kavukcuoglu. But the company is limiting access at [...]
Read source →While AI has made plenty of inroads on people's phones and computers, it's largely failed in dedicated devices. But over the next year, two major AI companies, Meta and OpenAI, will attempt to change that. And they're apparently betting on a similar path: testing appetites for physical hardware with their cutesy software agents. "Hardware is [...]
Read source →After hosting a meal with Big Tech leaders on Tuesday, President Donald Trump responded to journalist questions about his artificial intelligence announcements in typical fashion. He said his previous claims regarding fears around AI safety being a "hoax" cooked up by Democrats no longer apply now that he's renamed the technology to "Super Intelligence." He [...]
Read source →Meta launched a new Muse AI agent it claims can help you with everything from firing off emails to buying stuff online. Muse can be surprisingly effective at delivering on those promises — if you’re willing to trust Meta with your data and hand Muse your credit card. Since the launch, Meta’s also announced plans [...]
Read source →Google has launched a pilot program that pays publishers for their contributions to its AI-powered search features, according to a report from The Information. The pilot program reportedly includes around 100 publishers and comes as Google faces scrutiny over the impact of its AI features on web traffic. Digiday first reported on the pilot program, [...]
Read source →Instagram is the latest social media platform to add built-in AI-powered features that will give users feedback on their posts. The company announced Wednesday that its standalone Edits app will now include an AI "creative assistant" that pulls in data from a user's Instagram account and offers suggestions on what to change. Using the new [...]
Read source →OpenAI has parted ways with three safety researchers after an internal investigation found they mishandled sensitive company information, report says.
Read source →Opus 5.5’s biggest tell is the word “dependable,” which pops up 23 times more often than in human samples.
Read source →Amazon Web Services' Strand Labs has released the latest Jevalike decision model, Strands Decider 2B.
Read source →Shopify’s new Canvas site builder lets merchants create and customize their online stores by chatting with its AI agent Sidekick, while watching the changes happen in real time.
Read source →Brian Chesky on making Airbnb agent-friendly, the state of consumer AI, and why the world needs an AI-native operating system.
Read source →Google's AI-powered search features are driving away web traffic, leading to antitrust lawsuits.
Google's Gemini 4 Argon model
AI agents are becoming increasingly popular, with companies like Meta and OpenAI competing to create the best agents.
Meta's Muse AI agent and OpenAI's Dots agent
AI-powered devices are becoming more popular, with companies like Meta and OpenAI testing the waters with cutesy software agents.
Meta's AI Tamagotchis and OpenAI's AI Tamagotchis
AI safety is becoming a major concern, with President Trump renaming the technology to "Super Intelligence" and launching a meal with Big Tech leaders.
President Trump's new safety plan
AI-powered decision models are becoming increasingly popular, with companies like Amazon and Shopify using them to build online stores and make decisions.
Amazon's Strands Decider 2B and Shopify's Canvas site builder