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  • Apple’s plot to crush OpenAI
    The Verge [ai] - 17:41 Jul 17, 2026
    Apple is suing OpenAI. The complaint is readable and intense, as these things often are, though many experts seem to think many of the allegations are just the ways things are done. So what does Apple really want here, and why is it picking such a public fight with OpenAI? On this episode of The […]
    Tags: Apple OpenAI
  • New York governor says she’s using AI to analyze ‘every single rule’ in the state
    The Verge [ai] - 17:58 Jul 16, 2026
    New York Governor Kathy Hochul might have just signed a moratorium on new AI data centers in the state, but she's not against using the technology herself. During an interview with Bloomberg's Odd Lots podcast, Hochul said that her team is using "AI to analyze every single rule, regulation, [and] policy" to check for outdated […]
  • Google is renaming NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook
    The Verge [ai] - 16:00 Jul 16, 2026
    Google is giving its AI note-taking app a new name. The company announced on Thursday that NotebookLM is becoming Gemini Notebook, but will remain a standalone app even as it integrates more deeply across Gemini and Google Search. Google first revealed Gemini Notebook - then called Project Tailwind - in May 2023 before widely releasing […]
    Tags: Google Gemini Notebook NotebookLM
  • Claude can now use your 1Password credentials for you
    The Verge [ai] - 13:00 Jul 16, 2026
    1Password has launched a new browser integration for Claude that allows the Anthropic chatbot to access stored security credentials like usernames and passwords. The 1Password for Claude feature means that users can authorize Claude to complete multi-step tasks like booking travel and managing online accounts on their behalf without having to manually input their login […]
    Tags: Claude Password
  • Google ordered to open Android and Search to rivals in Europe
    The Verge [ai] - 12:06 Jul 16, 2026
    Google must give rival AI assistants and search engines greater access to key parts of Android and Google Search after the European Union ordered the company to comply with the bloc's digital antitrust rules. The two decisions, handed down Thursday, could weaken Google's control over two of the tech industry's most important platforms and have […]
    Tags: Google Android
  • COMPUTER COPS: Inside the big business of selling AI to the police
    The Verge [ai] - 11:00 Jul 16, 2026
    I stood before a hulking glass and brick structure in the heart of Fort Worth, Texas. Thousands gathered inside to see what had been billed as "the future of policing in the digital age." As press, I was prohibited from entering, but from a number of nearby locations, I met with attendees who told me […]
  • xAI sues a man for using Grok to generate CSAM ‘deepfakes’
    The Verge [ai] - 21:33 Jul 15, 2026
    The Elon Musk-owned xAI is suing a South Carolina man who allegedly used the company's Grok AI chatbot to generate child sexual abuse material (CSAM). In a lawsuit reported earlier by Reuters, xAI claims Terry Wayne Harwood "knowingly and intentionally used Grok to circumvent safeguards, alter nonconsensual images, and generate and distribute CSAM," breaching the […]
    Tags: CSAM Grok
  • AI slop movies are the new direct-to-video cash grabs
    The Verge [ai] - 20:00 Jul 15, 2026
    This weekend, cinephiles across the world will march to their local theaters to feast their eyes on Christopher Nolan's new adaptation of The Odyssey. It's on track to rake in anywhere between $80-$100 million in just a few days. People are clearly excited to see how Nolan uses cutting-edge filmmaking tech to make the Homeric […]
  • Suno snatched millions of songs from YouTube, Genius, and Deezer
    The Verge [ai] - 17:48 Jul 15, 2026
    Suno data obtained in a hacking incident has exposed that the AI music generator was trained by scraping millions of songs and lyrics from online audio platforms, including YouTube Music, Deezer, and Genius, 404 Media reports. Given that Suno has avoided revealing what's in its training datasets and how they were acquired, this a rare […]
    Tags: Suno Deezer Genius
  • 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, […]
    Tags: OpenAI Codex
  • 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, […]
    Tags: Meta
  • 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 […]
    Tags: Spotify
  • 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

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