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  • Judge dismisses Sam Altman’s sister’s sexual abuse lawsuit
    The Verge [ai] - 23:04 Oct 20, 2026
    On Tuesday, US District Judge Zachary Bluestone dismissed the lawsuit Ann Altman filed last year alleging that her brother, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, had sexually abused her throughout her childhood. As reported earlier by The Guardian, the judge wrote that over the past year, Ann had failed to appear for an independent medical examination or […]
  • Google’s more personalized Gemini AI is heading to your car
    The Verge [ai] - 22:11 Oct 20, 2026
    Google is bringing Personal Intelligence to Gemini AI in your car. With this update, Gemini in Android Auto and cars with Google built-in can tap into your information across Google apps, including Gmail, Calendar, Maps, Photos, YouTube, and Search. As an example, Google says you can ask Gemini about your flight status if you're driving […]
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  • Meta pauses Muse sharing after researchers find AI chats on the web
    The Verge [ai] - 18:07 Oct 20, 2026
    Meta says it paused a Muse feature that lets you share conversations with the AI assistant after researchers found the URLs publicly available on the web, as reported by Ars Technica. In a report published this week, researchers at the security firm Claroc say they found more than 6,800 Muse links through public DNS records. […]
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  • Spotify pulled 50 million AI slop and spam tracks from its recommendations
    The Verge [ai] - 14:18 Oct 20, 2026
    Spotify says it has removed more than 50 million songs considered AI-generated slop or spam from user recommendations over the past year. That's according to an announcement on Tuesday that says Spotify has also made changes to its recommendation system to highlight more music made by human artists. "Our editors hold the same standard and […]
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  • Adobe Lightroom mobile can now open closed eyes in photos with a simple tap
    The Verge [ai] - 13:06 Oct 20, 2026
    Adobe announced yesterday that the mobile version of Lightroom, available for iOS, iPadOS, and Android, can now open closed eyes in photos using generative AI with just a single tap. When the app detects a person, or a group of people, have their eyes closed in a photo it will automatically present users with a […]
  • The fossil fuel comeback is here
    The Verge [ai] - 21:48 Oct 19, 2026
    The US is building more fossil fuel infrastructure than it has in a decade while renewable energy growth slows down, a new report shows. Electricity demand is also climbing faster than it has in more than a decade with more data centers, factories, and electric vehicles plugging into the grid. Despite those growing demands, the […]
  • CoreWeave’s debt is becoming the whole AI industry’s problem
    The Verge [ai] - 21:28 Oct 19, 2026
    CoreWeave had a bad week last week. Its bonds slipped into distressed territory by a common definition - when investors demand 1,000 basis points more in yield than they'd get from government bonds. Last Tuesady Chamath "SPAC King" Palihapitiya noticed the distressed debt, and also asked whether the AI buildout was a private credit bubble. […]
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  • JB Pritzker thinks AI could help us live to 100 — or threaten us like nukes
    The Verge [ai] - 14:30 Oct 19, 2026
    Today, I’m talking with Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, who has a lot of thoughts about AI, tech, and privacy. If you’ve been listening to the show, you know that one of my running theories is that those issues are driving a big and maybe kind of unexpected political realignment — and with the midterms coming […]
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  • A hacker broke into John Deere and SharkNinja with an army of AI agents
    The Verge [ai] - 13:58 Oct 19, 2026
    A hacker broke into more than 100 websites using an army of AI agents that mostly operated on their own, according to findings from the AI security firm Norforge. Though Norforge doesn't name the targets, Reuters reports that the victims included companies like John Deere, SharkNinja, and Cummins. Concerns over AI-powered cybersecurity breaches have grown […]
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  • Democrats think cracking down on AI could give them an edge
    The Verge [ai] - 12:00 Oct 19, 2026
    Democrats could win back control of Congress this November, and if they do, they'll need to decide how to approach one of the country's newest and thorniest political issues: AI. Polls predict Democrats will flip at least one chamber of Congress in the midterm elections, which would put committee leadership back in their hands. That […]
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  • A woman was arrested in Philly for blocking a delivery robot
    The Verge [ai] - 18:28 Oct 18, 2026
    Carolyn Marvin was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct after blocking the path of an Uber delivery robot and refusing to get out of the way. Marvin told Philadelphia's ABC13 "I know they're taking the jobs of human delivery workers and so, I have been protesting them whenever I saw them by standing in front […]
  • Meta removes language that may have allowed it to scrape news sites
    The Verge [ai] - 15:04 Oct 17, 2026
    After backlash, Meta is updating its terms again to remove language that suggested it could scrape content from sites, including news sites, to train its AI. Specifically, the following language no longer appears on the commercial terms page: … Meta may use any content from such domains, web pages, or URLs to provide, develop, improve, […]
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  • Websites are closing their doors to AI agents
    The Verge [ai] - 13:00 Oct 17, 2026
    Autonomous agents are the hottest thing in AI. OpenAI, Meta, Google, Instinct, and others promise their agents can scour the internet on your behalf, doing anything from booking a dinner reservation and cleaning out your inbox to buying new shoes. But what happens when the rest of the internet won't play nice? In recent weeks, […]
  • A week with RTX Spark: everything we’ve learned using Nvidia’s new laptops
    The Verge [ai] - 15:00 Oct 16, 2026
    Nvidia's RTX Spark N1X processor is finally here, and we've been collectively testing a small fortune's worth of powerful laptops sporting this new "superchip." RTX Spark is designed to be a high-performing Arm-based SoC for laptops and small desktop computers, rivaling the best from Apple, Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm. It has loads of cores, Nvidia […]
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  • Meta’s new terms may allow it to train AI on news sites for free
    The Verge [ai] - 14:02 Oct 16, 2026
    Meta's new terms appear to give it permission to crawl and scrape websites "associated" with the businesses that use its platforms - including online publishers, according to a report from Nieman Lab. The new terms, which go into effect on October 30th, say Meta can use this outside content to "develop, improve, research," and "train" […]
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  • ChatGPT can peek at your Chrome tabs now
    The Verge [ai] - 22:43 Oct 15, 2026
    OpenAI's ChatGPT Atlas browser is gone, but now ChatGPT's Google Chrome extension is getting some upgrades that allow it to use the browser tabs you already have open. With the extension installed, OpenAI says ChatGPT can now view your browser tabs when you tag Chrome in ChatGPT's web or desktop app, posting a demo video […]
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  • Sega pulls Total War: Shogun 2 remaster from sale following disastrous launch
    The Verge [ai] - 22:35 Oct 15, 2026
    Sega is removing Total War: Shogun 2 - Complete Edition from storefronts following a disastrous launch where users complained about issues like bugs and upscaling that appears to have been done by AI. Complete Edition, a remaster of the 2011 strategy game, launched on Tuesday, and it bundled the main game and all of its […]
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  • The tech backlash is now in theaters
    The Verge [ai] - 21:39 Oct 15, 2026
    Though movies about disruptive tech founders are nothing new, 2026 has been unusually stacked with features that take a much more critical look at how Silicon Valley is reshaping our reality. Aaron Sorkin's The Social Reckoning frames Mark Zuckerberg as a robotic villain whose ambitions are destabilizing society. Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim's You Can […]
  • Trump posts AI-edited photo to brag about White House restoration work
    The Verge [ai] - 21:09 Oct 15, 2026
    President Donald Trump posted a series of photos on Truth Social showing off renovations to the White House - but one of them appears to be modified with AI. The picture, which compares an old White House column to a "restored" one, has several discrepancies and was flagged by Google's AI detector as "made or […]
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  • Bluesky’s AI tool now lets you make games and apps to share on social
    The Verge [ai] - 19:57 Oct 15, 2026
    Bluesky's Attie AI tool, which initially launched earlier this year as a way to use AI to build your own feeds, now lets you make "small" social apps like games, polls, and dashboards that you can then share with others as their own websites. In an interview at TechCrunch Disrupt, Bluesky CEO Toni Schneider said […]

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