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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 […]
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  • 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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  • ChatGPT’s Computer History tracks your clicks and keystrokes
    The Verge [ai] - 14:56 Aug 16, 2026
    ChatGPT's desktop app on macOS has a new feature called Computer History that turns your actions into training data, learning how you work, suggesting automations, and even picking up tasks you left half done. It uses your activity to build a timeline that ChatGPT and Codex can reference when you make a request. The feature […]
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  • Rogue AI aren’t science fiction anymore
    The Verge [ai] - 12:00 Aug 16, 2026
    This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on AI safety, follow Robert Hart. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started It all started in July, when one of OpenAI's autonomous AI agents […]
  • Have a laugh at AI’s expense by roleplaying as a chatbot
    The Verge [ai] - 20:45 Aug 15, 2026
    Your AI Slop Bores Me is brilliant in its simplicity. There are two tabs: human and LARP as an AI. On one side you enter a request. On the other, you submit an answer. But the important thing is that there's a human on both sides of the equation. Prompts can request a response as […]
  • Mark Zuckerberg has an Instagzam
    The Verge [ai] - 16:54 Aug 14, 2026
    Instagram's wordmark is iconic. Well, was iconic. Apparently Instagram thought it looked old, so the company rolled out a new one this week. It doesn't look like the old Instagram wordmark. It doesn't even look like it spells Instagram anymore. And we cannot figure out why Instagram decided to do this. On this episode of […]
  • You can now turn off Google Gemini’s visible watermarks
    The Verge [ai] - 16:39 Aug 14, 2026
    Google will now allow you to remove visible watermarks from the images, videos, and music made with AI tools. With the update, you can toggle off a new "Media watermark" setting in Gemini and Google's AI video generator, Flow. When toggled off, Google will remove the "sparkle" watermark that appears in the bottom-right corner of […]
  • Apple trained its own AI model for China with help from Alibaba
    The Verge [ai] - 09:21 Aug 14, 2026
    Apple has reportedly trained a custom AI model for the China market alongside domestic tech giant Alibaba, a rare cross-border partnership that cuts across growing tensions between Beijing and Washington. The China-focused large language model was developed in partnership with Alibaba and trained with the company's support, Reuters reports, citing three unnamed people familiar with […]
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  • Microsoft’s Clippy-like Mico character is no longer the face of Copilot
    The Verge [ai] - 21:42 Aug 13, 2026
    Microsoft Copilot will no longer show its emotive yellow blob, Mico, when you use the chatbot's voice mode. In a support page, Microsoft says it's going to move Mico to its Learn Live platform, where the avatar will have "more to react to," as reported earlier by GeekWire. Mico launched in Copilot's voice mode last […]
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  • OpenAI is losing its second executive this week
    The Verge [ai] - 19:28 Aug 13, 2026
    Another OpenAI executive is departing. Denise Dresser, who joined OpenAI as its chief revenue officer in December after serving as CEO of Slack, will be leaving in the "coming weeks" to "pursue other opportunities," she said in a team note posted to LinkedIn. Dali Rajic, president and COO of Wiz, will be taking over the […]
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  • Suno is trying to look more like a real music production tool
    The Verge [ai] - 16:00 Aug 13, 2026
    Suno is releasing Studio 2.0 with significant upgrades that push it closer to an actual digital audio workstation (DAW), rather than a bare-bones audio editor with generative AI features. The biggest addition is undoubtedly MIDI support. Suno says that MIDI was its most requested feature, and it's basically a prerequisite for any modern DAW. Unfortunately, […]
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  • I looked inside an AI generated movie, and the best parts were all human
    The Verge [ai] - 15:30 Aug 13, 2026
    Imagine a trio of bumbling, English lads who fantasize about becoming megastars while knocking back a few pints in a grimy pub somewhere in London. Picture the guys chortling and trying to one-up each other's idealized visions of the future with a series of increasingly glitzy fantasies in which their fame leads to access to […]
  • Does Google even want to win at AI?
    The Verge [ai] - 14:10 Aug 13, 2026
    Today on Decoder, I’m talking with Hayden Field, The Verge’s senior AI reporter, about a question that’s been rocketing around the tech industry for the past week: Is Google losing the AI race? That’s because last week Google announced a bombshell reorganization of its AI division, Google DeepMind. Jeff Dean, the company’s chief scientist, is […]
  • Microsoft is combining its Copilot apps ahead of a ‘super app’
    The Verge [ai] - 13:30 Aug 13, 2026
    Microsoft is finally beginning to combine its consumer and commercial Copilot AI assistants into a single "super app" interface, starting with the Copilot and Microsoft 365 Copilot apps. Both personal and work accounts will be moved to the new unified app, which recycles the "Microsoft Copilot" name but features an updated app icon. The single […]
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  • Twitch streamers can now opt out from training Amazon’s AI
    The Verge [ai] - 17:29 Aug 12, 2026
    Twitch users can now opt out of allowing their content to be used to train Amazon's generative AI models. Opting out means that "your streams, VODs, clips, stream chats, and pictures and text on your channel" won't be used in "future training" of an Amazon AI model "whose purpose is to generate or synthesize text, […]
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  • Guitar company D’Addario admits that AI music was used in a promotional video
    The Verge [ai] - 15:52 Aug 12, 2026
    After weeks of controversy and speculation, music company D'Addario has admitted that AI, specifically Suno, was used as part of a recent promotional video. For nearly two weeks, the company has denied the allegations, even as evidence piled up against it. It offered various explanations, from low-quality exports, to combinations of plug-ins like Autotune introducing […]

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