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  • Google DeepMind’s new AI model can control a robot’s entire body
    The Verge [ai] - 17:18 Jul 30, 2026
    Google DeepMind says the latest version of its Gemini Robotics AI model can "control entire humanoid robots." While the previous model focused on controlling a humanoid robot's upper body, Gemini Robotics 2 now supports "whole-body motions" ranging from its feet to fingertips, according to an announcement on Thursday. The new model will allow humanoid robots […]
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  • Friend re-launches its AI pendant with a speaker that talks to you, for twice the price
    The Verge [ai] - 16:33 Jul 30, 2026
    Do you remember Friend? The Friend that launched an AI pendant, spent $1.8 million of its $2.5 million to acquire friend.com, and plastered the NYC subway with ads promoting artificial companionship? Yeah well, if you didn't remember, Friend is back. And now, it's twice the price. This morning, Friend launched a new ad showing two […]
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  • Microsoft confirms Copilot ‘super app’ coming this year
    The Verge [ai] - 22:17 Jul 29, 2026
    Microsoft is working on an AI "super app" that combines Copilot's chat, coding, and agentic capabilities. During an earnings call on Wednesday, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said the app will span "both consumer and commercial experiences" when it launches this year. "Copilot is evolving rapidly from chat to Cowork to Autopilots," Nadella said. "This quarter, […]
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  • Mark Zuckerberg is planning a big push into personal AI agents
    The Verge [ai] - 21:48 Jul 29, 2026
    Meta is all-in on AI, and sometime soon, the company is going to make a big push into personal AI agents that can do things on your behalf. On Wednesday's Q2 2026 earnings call, CEO Mark Zuckerberg previewed a high-level vision of how the company is thinking about personal agents and what it will do […]
  • xAI’s last-minute scramble to stop Minnesota’s anti-nudification app law
    The Verge [ai] - 21:06 Jul 29, 2026
    xAI is suing Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison over a law passed back in May that broadly targets "nudification" apps, claiming that the statute's punitive provisions leave the company with "no practical choice but to restrict Grok Imagine's image-editing features in various ways." The law, the company argues, violates the First Amendment. Back in January, […]
  • OpenAI president says it’s ‘building a family of devices’ for its AI chatbots
    The Verge [ai] - 18:15 Jul 29, 2026
    In an interview with our friend Joanna Stern on her YouTube channel, OpenAI president Greg Brockman said the company is working on a "family of devices" for interacting with its AI models. However, Brockman didn't confirm reports that one of those devices is a smart speaker OpenAI's rumored to be launching in 2027, or earlier […]
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  • Artists are lawyering up against AI slop, and some are even winning
    The Verge [ai] - 12:00 Jul 29, 2026
    When The Atlantic published a searchable dataset of works used to train AI, Kirk Wallace Johnson, like a lot of artists, looked for his name out of curiosity. And, like a lot of artists, he found it. Essentially, his books, like The Feather Thief and The Fishermen and the Dragon - nonfiction tomes that he […]
  • OpenAI’s rogue AI agent didn’t stop at hacking Hugging Face
    The Verge [ai] - 11:54 Jul 29, 2026
    The AI agent that escaped from OpenAI and hacked developer platform Hugging Face attacked other companies as well, OpenAI revealed on Tuesday. The update substantially widens the scope of an already concerning incident, which has alarmed industry insiders and fueled growing calls for stronger oversight on frontier AI systems. In an update to a blog […]
    Tags: Hugging Face OpenAI
  • We’re running out of reasons to ignore AI safety
    The Verge [ai] - 11:00 Jul 29, 2026
    Earlier this month, OpenAI gave several of its AI models a task: complete a test designed to measure their cybersecurity capabilities. It put the systems in a sandboxed environment without an internet connection and set them off to work. What happened next is almost laughably silly - but also, as Adam Gleave, cofounder and CEO […]
  • AI leaders sign a statement asking the government to do something about automated AI
    The Verge [ai] - 19:46 Jul 28, 2026
    Employees of OpenAI and Anthropic, as well as Google, Meta, Thinking Machines, Microsoft, Mistral, and other leading AI labs, have written a statement to the US government supporting a potential slowdown of sorts for frontier AI development - or at least a speed-up of global coordinated governance efforts. "Al could help create a dramatically better […]
  • AI’s finally expensive enough to make Wall Street nervous
    The Verge [ai] - 19:33 Jul 28, 2026
    It's earnings season, and investors got an unpleasant surprise from Google: an increase on its spending estimate, to as much as $205 billion - from the last quarter's projection of up to $190 billion. Even the lower end of Google's new projected range - $195 billion - is much more than the company had previously […]
  • Perplexity’s Personal Computer turns Windows PCs into AI agents
    The Verge [ai] - 12:30 Jul 28, 2026
    Perplexity has expanded its agentic Personal Computer tool to Windows, allowing computers running the world's most popular OS to be used as a locally run AI system. Like the Mac version that Perplexity launched in April, Personal Computer for Windows operates like a "general-purpose digital worker" that can access local files and apps to perform […]
    Tags: Perplexity Personal Computer Windows
  • Smart rings are looking like my kind of AI gadget
    The Verge [ai] - 12:00 Jul 28, 2026
    Over the last few months, I've spent a lot of time talking to my computer. One underrated feature of the LLM revolution has been a remarkable leap in all kinds of dictation technology - even the fastest, cheapest models are getting very good at understanding and processing speech. I've tested lots of these apps, from […]
  • Hugging Face is being used to easily undress women and children
    The Verge [ai] - 09:07 Jul 28, 2026
    Hugging Face is being used to make nonconsensual deepfakes, and the popular open-source AI model repository is doing very little to prevent it. That's according to a new report published by the European nonprofit AI Forensics, which found that seven out of the top nine image editing models hosted by Hugging Face readily complied with […]
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  • Why China is giving away its best AI models
    The Verge [ai] - 16:51 Jul 27, 2026
    Silicon Valley has spent much of the past week on red alert, digesting the arrival of Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, a Chinese AI model that can allegedly beat some of the best systems built by US companies at a fraction of the cost. Its performance alone would have been enough to intensify the rivalry between […]
  • Nvidia, Microsoft launch open AI security alliance — without OpenAI, Google, or Anthropic
    The Verge [ai] - 12:06 Jul 27, 2026
    Nvidia on Monday said it is joining forces with Microsoft, SpaceX, IBM, and other tech companies to build and share open-source AI security tools. The new Open Secure AI Alliance said open tools are required to effectively defend against attacks from frontier models. The initiative is a direct response to mounting concerns over the safety […]
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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 […]
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  • 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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