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  • 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. […]
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  • 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 […]
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  • 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, […]
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  • 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 […]
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  • Fidji Simo steps down from leading OpenAI’s AGI work due to illness
    The Verge [ai] - 23:24 Jul 09, 2026
    OpenAI's Fidji Simo is departing her full-time role as the company's AGI chief and is transitioning to being a "part-time advisor," she said on X. The news follows Simo's original announcement in April that she would take a few weeks of medical leave due to a neuroimmune condition, shortly after she had taken on the […]
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  • The ChatGPT browser is already dead
    The Verge [ai] - 20:34 Jul 09, 2026
    OpenAI is already shutting down ChatGPT Atlas, its browser that could do tasks for you on your behalf, less than a year after launching it. Atlas was announced in October, but as part of its wave of news about ChatGPT Work today, the company confirmed that it will be "sunsetting" Atlas and is targeting an […]
  • Google will now tell you if an ad was made with AI
    The Verge [ai] - 20:11 Jul 09, 2026
    You can see if ads on Google Search, Google Discover, and YouTube were made or edited using AI from a new section in Google's "My Ad Center," as reported earlier by TechCrunch. The update, announced on Thursday, adds a "created or edited with AI" label under the "how this ad was made" tab. Users can […]
  • Microsoft’s patch Tuesdays are about to get bigger
    The Verge [ai] - 17:00 Jul 09, 2026
    Windows 11 updates could soon include fixes for more security issues at once. Microsoft said in a blog post on Thursday that it's now using AI to "identify potential issues earlier," which means "customers will see a higher volume of security updates included in each security release." Hackers, even amateurs, have increasingly been using AI […]
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  • OpenAI rolls out GPT-5.6 after government greenlight — and announces ‘ChatGPT Work’
    The Verge [ai] - 17:00 Jul 09, 2026
    About two weeks after OpenAI's GPT-5.6 was caught up in regulatory drama - rolled out only to government-approved organizations during a "limited preview" period - the company has received the Trump administration's greenlight for a public rollout of the model. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman called it "the best model we have ever produced." To celebrate, […]
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  • Meta says its new AI model is ready to compete on coding
    The Verge [ai] - 14:00 Jul 09, 2026
    After reentering the AI race with its first in-house Muse Spark model in April, Meta is now opening up the doors to developers with a new model that can plug into AI coding software with the new Meta Model API. Meta says that Muse Spark 1.1 is a "step-change" from the first generation, with improvements […]
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  • Say hello to Claude Wrapped
    The Verge [ai] - 13:30 Jul 09, 2026
    The popularity of Spotify Wrapped has kicked off a wide range of year-in-review features, on apps from YouTube to Uber - and now, the lookback trend has come to AI. Anthropic on Thursday announced a "reflect" feature for its Claude chatbot, allowing users to see an analysis of their usage data over the past month, […]
  • Character.AI wants a piece of the microdrama pie
    The Verge [ai] - 13:11 Jul 09, 2026
    Character.AI's plan to become more than just an LLM-powered chatbot platform is going beyond interactive books, comics, and audio dramas. Today, the company announced the debut of c.ai Series - short-form, episodic videos designed to be watched and interacted with - on your phone. Unlike traditional microdrama services that feature cheaply produced, live-action shows starring […]
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  • FL Studio 2026 turns its AI chatbot into your assistant engineer
    The Verge [ai] - 13:00 Jul 09, 2026
    Last year, Image Line introduced Gopher for FL Studio, an AI chatbot that was basically a glorified instruction manual. You asked it how to do something, and it would serve up the relevant instructions. It's the kind of thing I actually use AI for on a semi-regular basis. But in the new release, Gopher can […]
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  • ChatGPT’s upgraded voice mode is better at shutting up
    The Verge [ai] - 17:00 Jul 08, 2026
    OpenAI is overhauling ChatGPT's voice mode with a new model that it says is more like "talking to another person." The new GPT-Live-1 is designed to interrupt you less and will also wait for you to continue speaking if you pause mid-conversation. During a press briefing, OpenAI research lead Kundan Kumar called GPT-Live-1 the company's […]
  • Meta’s new Muse Image model can pull other Instagram users into AI photos
    The Verge [ai] - 20:31 Jul 07, 2026
    Meta is launching the first AI image generation model made by its Superintelligence Labs division. The Muse Image model now powers the image-making tools across the Meta AI app, Instagram, and WhatsApp, and it's coming soon to Facebook and Messenger, according to an announcement on Tuesday. It's part of the growing Muse family of AI […]
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