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  • Over 1 million people have clicked LinkedIn’s AI slop button
    The Verge [ai] - 21:25 Aug 21, 2026
    LinkedIn actually announced a "Seems like AI slop" button on July 30th, and the company says that a lot of people have already used it. According to a Thursday post from chief product officer Hari Srinivasan, "over a million people" have clicked on the button, which is accessible from the three dots menu on a […]
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  • Major YouTube creators are facing backlash for accepting AI money
    The Verge [ai] - 13:37 Aug 21, 2026
    Over the past few days, a number of prominent filmmaking content creators including Matti Haapoja and Sam "Kold" Kolder have posted videos of themselves demonstrating what's possible with AI platform Higgsfield. The videos highlight Higgsfield's recently added Seedance 2.5 functionality and pitch these technologies as the future of video production. In response to these videos, […]
  • Google Discover is getting an AI chatbot-tuned feed
    The Verge [ai] - 21:50 Aug 20, 2026
    Google will soon allow you to customize your Discover feed by describing what you want to see. The new feature, rolling out to the Google app in the "coming days," will use AI to automatically tweak your feed and "remember" your preferences for future visits. You'll find the option within the three-dot menu on your […]
  • It’s Greg Brockman’s OpenAI now
    The Verge [ai] - 15:45 Aug 20, 2026
    OpenAI has had a hell of a year. The company spent months battling former co-founder Elon Musk in a sensational jury trial, was hit with a high-profile trade secrets lawsuit from Apple, and faced widespread scrutiny after an unreleased model hacked another AI company. As it prepares for an IPO, a steady string of executives […]
    Tags: OpenAI
  • Welcome to the AI crisis in math
    The Verge [ai] - 14:00 Aug 20, 2026
    Today on Decoder, I’m talking with Robert Hart, The Verge’s London-based AI reporter, about what AI is doing to the field of mathematics and the existential crisis many lead mathematicians are having about it. OpenAI just published a set of solutions to longstanding problems in math that went off like a bombshell in the field. […]
  • Slack is launching collaborative vibe coding channels
    The Verge [ai] - 12:00 Aug 20, 2026
    Slack is introducing dedicated channels where teams can vibe code together with AI agents instead of jumping between different tools and conversations. The Slack Code launch includes open, project-specific code channels with dedicated user tabs, alongside features that compare coding changes and preview HTML output before the project is shipped. "With Slack Code, when you […]
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  • Google Gemini is getting a dedicated student hub
    The Verge [ai] - 19:00 Aug 19, 2026
    As we're gearing up for back-to-school season, Google is rolling out a new dedicated student hub in Gemini. It's a one-stop repository for collecting research in a study notebook, creating flashcards, taking practice quizzes, and more. Google is also enhancing its study notebooks with support for graphs and images. It can even add test dates […]
  • OpenAI hit the brakes. Now what?
    The Verge [ai] - 17:10 Aug 19, 2026
    With a looming IPO, intense competition from Anthropic, and Chinese and open-weight rivals nipping at its heels, OpenAI has plenty of reasons to move fast. Instead, it hit the brakes. On Tuesday, the company said it had slowed the pace of some AI development while it tightened security and safeguards. That included a two-week pause […]
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  • Meta AI is getting a Mac app
    The Verge [ai] - 17:00 Aug 19, 2026
    Meta is launching a new Mac app dedicated to its AI chatbot. In an announcement on Wednesday, Meta says you can share your window with its AI chatbot, which can provide suggestions, answer questions, or create content based on what's on your screen. Meta AI on the Mac also supports dictation across all apps. The […]
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  • Nvidia’s new financial strategy does not compute
    The Verge [ai] - 12:00 Aug 19, 2026
    April - 1805 Napoleon is master of Europe Only the British fleet stands before him Compute is now an asset class I see it is once again time to talk financial innovation. Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR are all working with Nvidia to put together $500 billion in financing to turn compute […]
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  • Robin Williams’ Instagram account brought back to fight ‘AI abuse’
    The Verge [ai] - 19:48 Aug 18, 2026
    Robin Williams' children are taking over their father's Instagram account after his daughter spoke out against the use of his AI likeness, as reported earlier by The Wrap. In a post on Tuesday, Zak, Zelda, and Cody Williams write that they want the late actor's Instagram profile to be a "safe, trusted place where the […]
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  • OpenAI lays out new security changes after its AI hacked Hugging Face
    The Verge [ai] - 19:28 Aug 18, 2026
    OpenAI is announcing security updates following the July news that its AI broke out of a sandboxed environment and accidentally hacked Hugging Face, including improvements to its research environments, monitoring, and alignment techniques. The company had already put the brakes on a new model, Astra, that it thinks could have "critical" cybersecurity capabilities, and the […]
    Tags: Hugging Face OpenAI
  • Firefox’s Smart Window promises a better AI browser
    The Verge [ai] - 13:00 Aug 18, 2026
    Starting today, AI chats in Firefox's Smart Window AI browsing mode can pull from current web info and show source links in chat responses through a partnership with Exa. Smart Window can also now automatically suggest tab groups and show visual previews of pages you previously visited when you search your browsing history using natural […]
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  • Google’s Pet Memory forgot who my cats are
    The Verge [ai] - 12:01 Aug 18, 2026
    One of the best things my smart home does is help me care for my pets, and security cameras are particularly useful for keeping track of my many critters. But the barrage of notifications they send often means I miss important ones. So, when Google announced its new Pet Memory feature for Gemini for Home, […]
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  • Elon Musk made flying even worse so Palantir could profit
    The Verge [ai] - 11:00 Aug 18, 2026
    On August 6th, the Minneapolis Air Route Traffic Control Center lost radar and communications for around two hours. The outage disrupted more than 1,100 flights across the center's 330,000 square mile, nine-state airspace sector. Two days earlier, on August 4th, President Donald Trump departed the White House inside his Marine One military helicopter. As Federal […]
  • ChatGPT is getting a dedicated mode for teens
    The Verge [ai] - 11:00 Aug 18, 2026
    OpenAI is introducing a dedicated ChatGPT mode for teenagers, combining existing youth safeguards and new safety features under one roof. The launch comes amid mounting public scrutiny over how AI tools affect younger users, as other platforms implement their own age checks and teen-specific protections. ChatGPT for Teens is "an experience designed to help teens […]
    Tags: ChatGPT
  • Apple’s camera-equipped AirPods appear in leaked video
    The Verge [ai] - 09:00 Aug 18, 2026
    We may have our first glimpse of Apple's rumored camera-equipped AirPods, thanks to a video that MacRumors found in the macOS Tahoe 26.7 Release Candidate. The short video clip features a man - who is wearing the new AirPods - holding up a book with the cover displayed, so that Visual Intelligence can see the […]
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  • Whisker’s AI-powered litter robot thinks my cats swapped bodies
    The Verge [ai] - 11:00 Aug 17, 2026
    The greatest invention in pet tech in recent years is the litter robot. A machine that scoops your kitties' poop so you don't have to - what else could a cat owner possibly want? How about insights into your kitty's litter box usage that could flag health issues? Sign me up. But I have two […]
  • Anthropic explains how Claude’s invisible text watermarks will work
    The Verge [ai] - 10:57 Aug 17, 2026
    Anthropic has clarified how it's planning to apply invisible watermarks to Claude-generated text in order to comply with Europe's AI transparency rules. On Friday, Anthropic announced that Claude's text marking system is "a version of the SynthID-Text approach" - an open-source watermarking technology developed by Google DeepMind that creates detectable patterns using wording probabilities. This […]
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  • OpenAI reportedly disbanded its preparedness team
    The Verge [ai] - 21:32 Aug 16, 2026
    According to the Financial Times, OpenAI disbanded its preparedness team at the end of last month. The job of the preparedness team was to assess if models posed serious risks and develop ways to mitigate those risks. (You know, like the possibility that it could go rogue and hack another company.) According to FT, responsibility […]
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