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  • NJ’s former Lt Gov is using AI to say he’s innocent of sexual harassment
    The Verge [ai] - 16:16 Oct 04, 2026
    New Jersey's lieutenant governor Dale Caldwell was forced to resign on September 25th after an investigation found he had sexually harassed a staffer and repeatedly violated ethics rules. The now-former Lt. governor has been making the media rounds trying to clear his name. But he took a particularly odd tactic during an interview on NJ […]
  • An AI couldn’t beat humans at StarCraft, so it decided to cheat
    The Verge [ai] - 15:21 Oct 04, 2026
    StarSkirmish pits AI-made StarCraft-playing bots against one another, as well as against human-made bots. OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5.5 were essentially tied as the best-performing AI-made bots, but they couldn't top Stardust, the top-rated human-made bot. On Friday, GPT was facing off against Claude and the human-created bot Pluto, but according to Kotaku, […]
  • Capcom is preparing for a ‘future where we create games together with AI’
    The Verge [ai] - 16:49 Oct 03, 2026
    Capcom's Pragmata might be all about the horrors of AI, but in practice the studio doesn't seem so down on the tech. During the Capcom Open Conference RE: 2026 programmer Satoshi Ishida gave a presentation with the mouthful of a title: "The Outlook and Future of the REX Project, Further Evolving the RE Engine for […]
  • Splice CEO Kakul Srivastava thinks AI emails are killing conversations
    The Verge [ai] - 15:00 Oct 03, 2026
    Kakul Srivastava is the CEO of Splice, the sample platform countless producers rely on for one-shots and melodic loops. Samples pulled from the service have found their way into massive hits like Lisa's "Money" and "Espresso" by Sabrina Carpenter. (The original samples are here and here, for the curious.) Before that, Kakul held executive roles […]
  • An OpenAI safety employee has quit and is sounding the alarm
    The Verge [ai] - 14:31 Oct 03, 2026
    David Robinson used to write the safety reports that accompanied every major model release at OpenAI. This week, he resigned from his position and is now speaking out in an editorial in The Atlantic. It's understandable if you're feeling a bit cynical about everyone suddenly coming out of the woodwork to warn about how dangerous […]
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  • Meta open sources code to let you make Muse AI gadgets
    The Verge [ai] - 21:08 Oct 02, 2026
    Meta now lets you make your own Muse gadgets that feature the company's new AI agent with code that the company open sourced. The company suggests projects like loading Muse on a color E Ink display to show reminders, adding it to an HDMI stick so you can display Muse on a big screen, or […]
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  • Apple will limit Mac disk access as AI agents ‘substantially’ increase risk
    The Verge [ai] - 20:08 Oct 02, 2026
    Apple will add new limits for "full disk access" on Mac in response to risks posed by AI agents, as reported earlier by TechCrunch. In an update on Friday, Apple says it's rolling out new controls to "ensure that users who genuinely wish to grant an app this extraordinary level of access can only do […]
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  • OpenAI’s Dot agent is enterprise software that can also order your dinner
    The Verge [ai] - 18:00 Oct 02, 2026
    It's a tale as old as last week: OpenAI's new agent platform, called Dots, is full of cute little guys who can do your bidding. But unlike the ultra-approachable Meta Muse, Dots feel very much like using workplace software that happens to be able to order you a burrito - emphasis on work. OpenAI announced […]
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  • Breaking up (with Elon Musk) is hard to do
    The Verge [ai] - 17:37 Oct 02, 2026
    In a throwback to MySpace-style internet drama, Shivon Zilis announced that she and the father of four of her children, Elon Musk, had broken up on X. To do so, she quote-tweeted a post from "Big Tech Alert," an account that, among other things, monitors what accounts are following and unfollowing each other. That post […]
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  • AI hallucinations are making entitled customers even worse
    The Verge [ai] - 12:00 Oct 02, 2026
    Madison, a server in New York City, greets every table by asking about each diner's allergies. Lately, there have been some close calls. "Sometimes people will tell me they have a shellfish allergy, and I'll come back, and they won't ask me any questions," says Madison, who asked that her last name be withheld to […]
  • If a data center is camouflaged in the woods, will anyone hate it?
    The Verge [ai] - 12:00 Oct 02, 2026
    San Antonio City Councilmember Ric Galvan remembers when data centers first arrived in his city in the 2000s, looking like relatively unassuming office buildings. But that's changed in recent years, as data centers have grown into massive "hyperscale" facilities spanning millions of square feet and housing the physical infrastructure for AI. There are now more […]
  • Amazon writes scary blog warning communities not to block data centers
    The Verge [ai] - 11:52 Oct 02, 2026
    Amazon is calling for people to support AI data center projects, or risk irreparable harm to the US economy and national security. In a more than 3,000 word blog posted today, Amazon web services CEO Matt Garman pushed back on public concerns around the impact that data centers may have on jobs, power demands, and […]
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  • AI music maker Suno now generates spoken words
    The Verge [ai] - 09:42 Oct 02, 2026
    Suno is branching out from the world of AI music, launching a new feature that generates spoken voices based on scripts or prompted descriptions. Speech is now available in public beta across Suno's web and mobile platforms, and allows you to simultaneously generate voiceovers and background music to accompany them. "Music will always be at […]
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  • Google’s new Guided Vision feature can help you read the fine print
    The Verge [ai] - 19:47 Oct 01, 2026
    Guided Vision is launching in Gemini Live on compatible Android devices today to use AI to give real-time audio descriptions of anything you point your phone's camera at. By sharing your camera in Gemini Live, you can have Google's AI help with things like reading small text, describing your surroundings, finding or identifying objects around […]
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  • Judge dismisses antitrust lawsuits over Google’s AI Overviews
    The Verge [ai] - 17:12 Oct 01, 2026
    A federal judge has dismissed a pair of antitrust lawsuits filed by Chegg and Rolling Stone parent company Penske Media Corporation, which accused Google of driving away web traffic with its AI-powered search features, as reported earlier by Reuters. US District Judge Amit Mehta takes Google's side in a ruling on Wednesday, writing that PMC […]
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  • OpenAI’s new agent is a shot at Meta — but can it compete with free?
    The Verge [ai] - 14:36 Oct 01, 2026
    At OpenAI's annual DevDay conference, the company pulled out all the stops to compete with its rivals - primarily Meta, whose Muse AI agent platform has seen early runaway success. CEO Sam Altman walked onstage to cheers and announced Dots, a "real-deal AI" agent powered by GPT-6 Astra, "inspired by the cool agents that we […]
    Tags: Meta
  • Inside our months-long investigation into Kevin O’Leary’s Utah data center debacle
    The Verge [ai] - 14:00 Oct 01, 2026
    Today I’m talking with Josh Dzieza, a longtime features writer here at The Verge, about Kevin O’Leary’s plans to build a massive data center in Utah.  The idea was to build the world’s biggest data center — a 40,000-acre AI campus with nine gigawatts of power, or more than double the average power usage of […]
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  • Elon Musk’s Grokipedia has a ‘newly refreshed’ design
    The Verge [ai] - 00:23 Oct 01, 2026
    Grokipedia, SpaceXAI's AI-powered competitor to Wikipedia, recently started incorporating edits again, and today, it got some design tweaks as part of a v0.3 update, including a new logo and refreshes to its homepage and live edits page. SpaceXAI head of design Benji Taylor calls it a "newly refreshed Grokipedia." Grokipedia's old homepage was pretty much […]
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  • Google announces Gemini 4 and says it’s so capable that only ‘trusted cyber defenders’ can have it right now
    The Verge [ai] - 20:41 Sep 30, 2026
    Google today revealed its next AI frontier model, which it's calling Gemini 4 Argon. The new model delivers "frontier performance in complex workflows across real-world software engineering, enterprise knowledge work like legal and finance, and cybersecurity defense," according to chief AI architect and Google DeepMind SVP Koray Kavukcuoglu. But the company is limiting access at […]
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  • The AI Tamagotchis are coming
    The Verge [ai] - 18:07 Sep 30, 2026
    While AI has made plenty of inroads on people's phones and computers, it's largely failed in dedicated devices. But over the next year, two major AI companies, Meta and OpenAI, will attempt to change that. And they're apparently betting on a similar path: testing appetites for physical hardware with their cutesy software agents. "Hardware is […]

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