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  • Midjourney bought the astrology app Co-Star
    The Verge [ai] - 19:06 Jul 24, 2026
    Midjourney, which has gone from generating AI cat images to full-body ultrasound scans, is getting into a new field: astrology. The AI startup announced on Thursday that it has acquired the personalized astrology app Co-Star, as reported earlier by Bloomberg. Co-Star is a free app that offers daily horoscopes and allows you to check your […]
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  • You can’t ignore Google Zero anymore
    The Verge [ai] - 17:29 Jul 24, 2026
    The web and Google once had a deal: Google collects data and indexes webpages and in exchange sends oceans of traffic to websites. The deal wasn't perfect and certainly made Google more money than it made the websites, but it worked for a long time. Now, however, the deal seems to be dead. And the […]
  • Anthropic releases Opus 5 with ‘close’ to Fable 5’s capabilities
    The Verge [ai] - 17:00 Jul 24, 2026
    Weeks after Anthropic's latest toe-to-toe with the US government, and days after an OpenAI security incident that dominated tech industry discussions, Anthropic on Thursday released its newest model, Claude Opus 5. The company said in a release that Opus 5 "comes close to the capabilities of Claude Fable 5 in many domains" and is much […]
    Tags: Anthropic Opus
  • Meta is making its AI chatbot more like an assistant
    The Verge [ai] - 17:00 Jul 24, 2026
    Meta is upgrading its AI chatbot with new productivity features in a bid to compete with rivals like Gemini, ChatGPT, and Claude. The update will allow Meta AI to tap into your calendar to help you plan events and generate daily briefings, as well as perform in-depth research that you can steer as it progresses. […]
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  • The tech-broification of American science has officially begun
    The Verge [ai] - 14:43 Jul 24, 2026
    The Trump administration unveiled the first "Genesis Mission" grants on Thursday, directing $5 billion toward hundreds of AI-driven science projects in an effort the White House has described as "comparable in urgency and ambition to the Manhattan Project." At roughly the same time, Trump's science adviser Michael Kratsios was on Capitol Hill selling lawmakers on […]
  • Alexa Plus is getting an AI update to handle more complicated instructions
    The Verge [ai] - 21:15 Jul 23, 2026
    Amazon is launching an update to its Alexa Plus assistant that will allow it to connect to smart home devices in new ways. With the update, which is currently in preview, Alexa Plus can link up with tech from Bosch, Delta, Ecovacs, iRobot, Yale Home, Whirlpool, Tapo, Eufy, and others, while automatically routing requests to […]
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  • Claude’s voice mode is now available for Opus and Sonnet
    The Verge [ai] - 19:00 Jul 23, 2026
    Until now, voice mode has only been available on Claude Haiku, Anthropic's faster but less powerful model. Now the company is making its Opus and Sonnet models available in voice mode, and extending its reach into apps like Gmail, Slack, and Canva. When Anthropic launched voice mode last year, it was primarily focused on delivering […]
    Tags: Sonnet Opus
  • Patreon is laying off 20 percent of workers
    The Verge [ai] - 18:20 Jul 23, 2026
    Patreon is laying off 20 percent of its workers, or around 93 employees, as reported earlier by 404 Media. In a memo to employees, Patreon CEO Jack Conte writes that the company isn't making these changes "because we believe AI replaces humans," but says AI has "fundamentally transformed the tech industry, including how we work, […]
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  • OpenAI is making big claims as it rolls out ChatGPT Health to everyone
    The Verge [ai] - 17:00 Jul 23, 2026
    OpenAI is rolling out ChatGPT Health to everyone in the US on Thursday, allowing more people to connect their medical records and health-tracking information to the chatbot. During a briefing, Ashley Alexander, OpenAI's vice president of health product, says the company's models "are now capable of reasoning at levels that are better than clinician level." […]
    Tags: ChatGPT Health OpenAI
  • Lawmakers prepare bill requiring AI ‘kill switch’
    The Verge [ai] - 14:13 Jul 23, 2026
    Lawmakers are preparing to introduce an "AI Kill Switch Act" that would require AI companies to shut down or throttle their systems on orders from the Department of Homeland Security, according to a report from Politico. Reps. Ted Lieu (D-CA) and Nathaniel Moran (R-TX) are expected to introduce the legislation on Thursday. The news of […]
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  • Apple’s OpenAI lawsuit is about who gets to define the post-smartphone era
    The Verge [ai] - 14:00 Jul 23, 2026
    Today on Decoder, I’m talking with Hayden Field, The Verge’s senior AI reporter, about the major trade secrets lawsuit between Apple and OpenAI and what this tells us about OpenAI’s future. By now I’m sure most Decoder listeners are familiar with Apple’s allegations in this case. The company says a number of ex-Apple employees at […]
    Tags: Apple OpenAI
  • The right-wing boomers protesting data centers have a lot in common with the left
    The Verge [ai] - 12:00 Jul 23, 2026
    On a gray, humid Saturday morning in central Florida, a little under a dozen people gathered outside the Spring Hill Branch Library to protest the construction of a hyperscale data center in their community. There was no immediate threat - the Hernando County commission had unanimously approved a one-year moratorium on such developments in June […]
  • Here’s what Samsung’s smart glasses actually look like
    The Verge [ai] - 16:35 Jul 22, 2026
    Samsung has given us our first chance to check out its upcoming smart glasses in person, revealing two new designs and the first specs in the process, including an impressive 9-hour battery life. The glasses, developed in collaboration with Google and the eyewear brands Gentle Monster and Warby Parker, are due to launch this fall. […]
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  • AMD commits up to $5 billion to Anthropic
    The Verge [ai] - 14:44 Jul 22, 2026
    AMD says it's going to invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic, while helping to expand the AI company's computing power, according to an announcement on Wednesday. As part of the new partnership, Anthropic will deploy up to 2 gigawatts of AMD's Instinct MI450 AI GPUs using the chipmaker's new Helios rack-scale system, as reported […]
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  • Meta made its own AI detection system. It should have just used Google’s
    The Verge [ai] - 11:00 Jul 22, 2026
    IIn March, Meta's Oversight Board called on the company to "meet its public commitments and employ its own tools" to help quell the spread of deceptive generative AI content across platforms. Meta responded in July by introducing Content Seal - an invisible watermarking technology that flags images generated by the company's new AI model. But […]
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  • Utility companies promise to spare us from AI’s energy bill
    The Verge [ai] - 10:12 Jul 22, 2026
    In the face of backlash to concerns the AI boom will increase consumer electricity bills, the largest utility companies and data center developers in the US are now promising to do something about it. The Wall Street Journal reports that nearly 200 organizations have signed President Donald Trump's "rate payer protection pledge" that's meant to […]
  • Neill Blomkamp’s new zombie AI ‘film’ is just slop warmed over
    The Verge [ai] - 22:06 Jul 21, 2026
    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 characters whose voices and faces are modeled after human actors. But […]
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  • OpenAI says it accidentally hacked Hugging Face with a new AI system
    The Verge [ai] - 21:48 Jul 21, 2026
    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 within their sandboxed testing environment, allowing them to gain access to the internet and target Hugging Face. On July 16th, […]
    Tags: Hugging Face OpenAI
  • Substack adds an AI detector to help spot blogs written by no one
    The Verge [ai] - 19:22 Jul 21, 2026
    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 published on Tuesday. The […]
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  • Anthropic’s $1.5 billion book piracy settlement approved by judge
    The Verge [ai] - 16:53 Jul 21, 2026
    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 "meaningful relief," offering authors around $3,000 for each book […]

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