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Google hires Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan, co-founder Douglas Chen, and some of Windsurf's R&D employees to focus on agentic coding efforts at DeepMind (www.theverge.com)
9 hours ago Google

HMD says it will “scale back” US operations, citing “a challenging geopolitical and economic environment”, and appears to have stopped US sales of Nokia devices (www.theverge.com)
14 hours ago Nokia

Missouri AG Andrew Bailey is investigating Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Meta, claiming the companies' AI chatbots are discriminating against President Trump (www.theverge.com)
1 day ago Trump Google Microsoft AI chatbot

Bluesky rolls out age verification in the UK to comply with the Online Safety Act; users under 18 or those opting out of verification will get limited access (www.theverge.com)
1 day ago

Sources: some AI researchers rejected Meta's offers to stay at jobs that align with their values; far fewer defected from Anthropic and DeepMind than OpenAI (www.theverge.com)
1 day ago AI

OpenAI closes its nearly $6.5B acquisition of Jony Ive's startup, which it refers to as io Products after a trademark lawsuit from hearing device startup Iyo (www.theverge.com)
1 day ago Startup

OpenAI officially closes its ~$6.5B acquisition of Jony Ive's startup, which it refers to as io Products, after a trademark suit from hearing device startup Iyo (www.theverge.com)
2 days ago Startup

Sources: OpenAI plans to launch an open-weight model as soon as next week on Hugging Face and other platforms, its first open-weight release since GPT-2 in 2019 (www.theverge.com)
2 days ago

Google adds new AI and gaming features to Android's Circle to Search, and Gemini Live support for foldables and third-party apps, starting with Samsung devices (www.theverge.com)
2 days ago Android Google Samsung AI

Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 hands-on: vastly thinner and lighter than the Fold 6, wider display format, no S Pen support, and feels like a normal phone when closed (www.theverge.com)
2 days ago Samsung

Ikea plans to relaunch its smart home line with 20+ new Matter-over-Thread devices, set to release in January 2026, and updates its Dirigera smart home hub (www.theverge.com)
2 days ago

Google rolls out a new Gmail feature to manage subscriptions, showing a list of emails delivered via active subscriptions, sorted by the most frequent senders (www.theverge.com)
2 days ago Google

Waymo introduces teen accounts in Phoenix, allowing teenagers aged 14-17 to use its Waymo One ridehailing service alone with parental approval (www.theverge.com)
3 days ago

Bluesky rolls out Activity Notifications, letting users receive notifications of new posts and replies from selected accounts, as it expands its sports presence (www.theverge.com)
3 days ago

OnePlus launches five products: the midrange €449 Nord 5 smartphone, the €349 Nord CE 5, a smaller €299 Watch 3 wearable, the €119 Buds 4, and the €229 Pad Lite (www.theverge.com)
3 days ago

Epic reaches a settlement with Samsung, which it sued over allegedly conspiring with Google to undermine third party app stores (www.theverge.com)
4 days ago Google Samsung

Xbox says Arrowhead's Helldivers 2 will arrive on the Xbox Series X and S on August 26 for $40, the first PlayStation-published title to launch on Xbox (www.theverge.com)
8 days ago Xbox

ICEBlock, an app for reporting sightings of ICE officials, was the top free app in the US App Store on Tuesday; the app claims to collect no personal data (www.theverge.com)
9 days ago

AT&T launches Account Lock to protect wireless users against SIM swapping attacks, following similar features from T-Mobile, Verizon, and Google Fi (www.theverge.com)
10 days ago Google Mobile AT&T

Threads launches DMs for users aged 18 and older, without support for E2EE, and announces a “highlighter” feature to emphasize trending topics (www.theverge.com)
10 days ago

Q&A with Matt Mullenweg on licensing deals with AI companies, putting Tumblr's backend migration to WordPress “on hold”, fediverse, content moderation, and more (www.theverge.com)
11 days ago WordPress AI

Rapid7 finds eight vulnerabilities, including one remotely-exploitable flaw that cannot be fixed via firmware patch, affecting 689 models of Brother printers (www.theverge.com)
11 days ago

How performers on OnlyFans and other adult sites are using LLMs for creative inspiration, amid a rise of adult-specific LLMs like sex worker chatbot GPTease (www.theverge.com)
11 days ago chatbot

AI-generated images of fake, otherworldly-looking houseplants are proliferating online and misleading consumers, as AI slop extends to plant care advice (www.theverge.com)
12 days ago AI

Meta and Anthropic prevailed in copyright suits against them, but the rulings have major caveats and don't address when AI output might infringe copyright (www.theverge.com)
13 days ago AI

Tesla says a Model Y drove itself from Gigafactory Texas to a buyer's home 30 minutes away, marking its first fully autonomous vehicle delivery (www.theverge.com)
13 days ago Tesla Autonomous Car Texas

SCOTUS upholds a broadband subsidy program for low-income users, schools, and others, rejecting claims that its funding mechanism is unconstitutional (www.theverge.com)
14 days ago

At an all-hands, Andrew Bosworth says Sam Altman is not happy about Meta getting OpenAI talent and is “being dishonest” about Meta offering $100M bonuses (www.theverge.com)
15 days ago

Microsoft plans to replace the Blue Screen of Death in Windows 11 with a simplified black screen “providing better information” in an update “later this summer” (www.theverge.com)
15 days ago Microsoft

How online fandom communities are advocating against AI, including protesting companies scraping fanfic content for AI training and opposing AI-generated fanfic (www.theverge.com)
16 days ago AI

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