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  • OpenAI finally launches hardware… for Codex
    The Verge [ai] - 16:00 Jul 15, 2026
    OpenAI is finally releasing some hardware. No, it isn't the mysterious AI-powered device the company is developing with former Apple designer Jony Ive, a project already tangled up in a messy lawsuit. Instead, it's a product designed to be used with its coding platform, Codex. The device, a square-shaped block of buttons called Codex Micro, […]
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  • OpenAI may announce a ChatGPT smart speaker this year
    The Verge [ai] - 21:26 Jul 14, 2026
    OpenAI's first device is set to be a smart speaker that lets you talk with ChatGPT, according to a report from Bloomberg. The device apparently won't have a screen, but will use a camera and additional sensors to "understand" your environment. The report comes just days after Apple filed a lawsuit against OpenAI that accused […]
    Tags: ChatGPT OpenAI
  • SpaceXAI’s Grok programming tool was uploading its users’ entire codebase to cloud storage
    The Verge [ai] - 19:25 Jul 14, 2026
    SpaceXAI's Grok Build AI coding tool was spotted uploading users' entire codebases to Google Cloud before it was reported, and the company turned it off. The Register reports that Cereblab published findings on Monday showing how the Grok Build CLI was packaging and uploading entire code repositories, "including files it was told not to open […]
  • Meta accused of using biased AI targeting for mass layoffs
    The Verge [ai] - 17:18 Jul 14, 2026
    A group of 26 former Meta employees is suing the company over claims that it used AI tools to unfairly target workers on leave with layoffs, as reported earlier by Reuters. In the lawsuit, the employees allege Meta determined which workers to dismiss based on performance data collected by a "constellation" of internal AI tools, […]
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  • The Google Images homepage will recommend photos even before you search
    The Verge [ai] - 16:00 Jul 14, 2026
    Google is announcing a big change to the Google Images homepage in honor of the platform's 25th anniversary this week. Instead of a mostly blank page with a search bar, the homepage will soon show you a bunch of images that it thinks you might like before you even start searching. The company says the […]
  • Spotify is now an AI chatbot, too
    The Verge [ai] - 15:47 Jul 14, 2026
    Spotify is experimenting with a new AI feature that allows Premium subscribers to play and explore music, audiobooks, and podcasts by having conversations with a chatbot. The "Talk to Spotify" feature appears across the Home and Now Playing view on Spotify's mobile app. You can interact with the chatbot by typing your request in the […]
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  • Sam Altman didn’t need another lawsuit
    The Verge [ai] - 14:01 Jul 14, 2026
    OpenAI has spent the better part of the year involved in lawsuit after lawsuit, including one from the world's richest man. But last Friday, the company was hit with one of the highest-profile legal actions yet - from Apple. OpenAI's expensive hardware bet is what's on the line. Apple's lawsuit against OpenAI, filed in Northern […]
  • Google’s Demis Hassabis says it’s time for a global AI watchdog — led by the US
    The Verge [ai] - 11:43 Jul 14, 2026
    Demis Hassabis thinks the world needs an AI watchdog with the power to hit the brakes if frontier models become too dangerous. Writing in a blog post, the Google DeepMind CEO and cofounder said the US should lead the initiative, arguing that the country is the best place to set global standards "given its economic […]
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  • New York becomes the first state to enact a data center moratorium
    The Verge [ai] - 09:00 Jul 14, 2026
    New hyperscale data centers can't set up shop in New York for up to a year now that Governor Kathy Hochul (D) has signed the nation's first statewide moratorium. But a bill passed by the state legislature that could restrict even more developments still awaits her signature. The order blocks new environmental permits for data […]
    Tags: New York
  • Siri AI is already changing how I use my iPhone
    The Verge [ai] - 20:43 Jul 13, 2026
    iOS 27 escaped the developer world today with the launch of the first public beta. I've been testing the new operating system since early June, looking for quirks and seeing if it can live up to the hype Apple promised in the keynote. This year's iOS upgrades are what one might call a Snow Leopard […]
  • The 6 wildest claims in Apple’s lawsuit against OpenAI
    The Verge [ai] - 17:00 Jul 13, 2026
    When Apple employees interviewed for jobs at OpenAI, the AI startup's hardware head allegedly asked them to show up with something unusual: components they were working on and unreleased product samples. That's according to a blockbuster lawsuit filed by Apple, which accuses OpenAI of stealing confidential documents, spying on hardware prototypes, and tricking one of […]
    Tags: Apple OpenAI
  • Waze is getting a bunch of new AI-powered features
    The Verge [ai] - 09:00 Jul 13, 2026
    Waze is getting an AI makeover. Google is integrating its flagship AI assistant, Gemini, into the driving app with the goal of letting users personalize their trips a little more. Of the four new updates, only two are being described as involving Gemini. Waze says its updating its conversation reporting feature, first introduced in 2024, […]
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  • Lorde says Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses are ‘not sexy’
    The Verge [ai] - 20:10 Jul 12, 2026
    Lorde was performing at the Real Cool Festival in Madrid on Thursday and took some time during her set to speak out against AI glasses. While she didn't specify any brands in particular, it's likely she was taking a shot at festival sponsor Ray-Ban, which has collaborated with Meta on a pair of AI smartglasses. […]
    Tags: Lorde
  • Apple’s failed self-driving car program left a legacy of powerful AI chips
    The Verge [ai] - 16:27 Jul 12, 2026
    Apple's self-driving car program never really got off the ground, but it may have been what made the company's chips the powerful AI performers they are. Early in the development of the self-driving platform, Apple realized that it would need powerful on-device AI processing. While the car processor was never finished, as Mark Gurman details […]
    Tags: Apple
  • The fight against AI data centers is just beginning
    The Verge [ai] - 12:00 Jul 12, 2026
    This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on the data center buildout, follow Emma Roth. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes on Sunday at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started Years before the AI boom threatened local power […]
  • Meta turns off the Instagram feature that let users make AI deepfakes of public accounts
    The Verge [ai] - 23:49 Jul 10, 2026
    Following significant backlash, Meta is turning off the feature it announced this week that let users generate AI images based on content from public Instagram accounts just by tagging them. The feature, as originally set up, meant that content from any public Instagram account could be used in AI creations without the account owner's permission. […]
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  • Apple sues OpenAI for allegedly stealing hardware secrets
    The Verge [ai] - 21:36 Jul 10, 2026
    Apple has sued OpenAI, alleging that engineers stole Apple secrets to advance the AI startup's hardware plans. In its complaint, Apple says it uncovered "a pattern of theft of Apple's trade secrets by OpenAI employees who were formerly at Apple." In addition to OpenAI, the lawsuit also names IO Products - Jony Ive's hardware startup, […]
    Tags: Apple OpenAI
  • Instagram’s Adam Mosseri: If you don’t like AI, ‘then you shouldn’t have it in your feed’
    The Verge [ai] - 13:45 Jul 10, 2026
    Though Instagram head Adam Mosseri doesn't want to filter out AI content on the platform, he argues that you "shouldn't have it in your feed" if you don't like it. "I don't think we should filter out AI content," Mosseri said during an interview on Lenny Rachitsky's podcast. "I think we should let you know […]
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  • Would you host part of an AI data center in your home?
    The Verge [ai] - 13:20 Jul 10, 2026
    A solar and home energy storage company is expanding into AI data centers, but not by building one - instead, it's offering to pay its customers to put its compute units in their homes. Sunrun is launching a pilot program for a new "distributed AI compute" program that will "place numerous compute nodes in homes […]
  • Microsoft’s carbon emissions went up 25 percent last year
    The Verge [ai] - 00:04 Jul 10, 2026
    Microsoft may once again be struggling to keep up with its own climate goals, according to its 2026 sustainability report. As reported by GeekWire, the report states that Microsoft's carbon emissions increased 25 percent in 2025, totalling 34 million metric tons "without select interventions." Microsoft says this was "driven primarily by the expansion of our […]
    Tags: Microsoft

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