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Google buys NYC-based cybersecurity company Wiz for $32B, its largest-ever acquisition, subject to approval; a $23B deal collapsed in 2024 over antitrust fears (www.theverge.com)
2025-3-18 Google

Amazon sues the US CPSC, accusing it of stretching consumer safety law by ruling Amazon responsible for recalling products sold by third parties on Amazon.com (www.theverge.com)
2025-3-18 Amazon

Snap updates Spectacles AR glasses to add GPS support for Lenses, improved hand tracking, an AR keyboard, and more (www.theverge.com)
2025-3-18 AR GPS

Roblox open sources Cube 3D, the first version of its foundational AI model for generating 3D objects, using licensed and public datasets and its own data (www.theverge.com)
2025-3-18 AI

Discord launches a Social SDK to let developers offer friends lists, cross-platform messaging, voice, and more, with console and mobile support “coming soon” (www.theverge.com)
2025-3-18 Mobile

Rep. Jim Jordan subpoenas 16 companies, including Apple, Meta, and OpenAI, over alleged Biden administration pressure to use AI to “censor lawful speech” (www.theverge.com)
2025-3-15 AI Apple

The GSMA announces that the latest RCS standard now includes E2EE, enabling encrypted messaging between platforms like Android and iOS for the first time (www.theverge.com)
2025-3-14 Android IOS

Google says Gemini can now personalize answers based on users' search history, available as an experimental feature to Gemini and Gemini Advanced subscribers (www.theverge.com)
2025-3-14 Google

Microsoft announces Copilot for Gaming, available through the Xbox mobile app initially for Xbox Insiders and designed to work as a companion or gaming coach (www.theverge.com)
2025-3-14 Microsoft Mobile Xbox

An arbitrator instructs a former Meta employee to stop promoting and publishing her book alleging company misconduct; publisher Flatiron Books earlier objected (www.theverge.com)
2025-3-13

Google calls the passage of Utah's app store age-verification bill “concerning” and part of an effort by Meta and others to “offload” kids' safety to app stores (www.theverge.com)
2025-3-13 Google

Sources: Sonos has abandoned plans to release a streaming video player, which was set to be the company's major hardware launch in 2025 (www.theverge.com)
2025-3-13

Sources: an Xbox-branded Asus handheld may debut this year as part of Microsoft's effort to unify Windows and Xbox into a universal library of Xbox and PC games (www.theverge.com)
2025-3-13 Microsoft Xbox

Google DeepMind launches two AI models, Gemini 2.0-based Robotics and Robotics-ER, to help robots “perform a wider range of real-world tasks than ever before” (www.theverge.com)
2025-3-13 Google AI Robot

Niantic Labs says it is selling its video game division, including Pokémon Go, to Saudi Arabia-owned developer Scopely for $3.5B, subject to regulatory approval (www.theverge.com)
2025-3-12 Arabia Saudi Arabia

Google updates Chrome extension policy to ban affiliate link injection without user action or benefit, after allegations Honey stole creators' affiliate revenue (www.theverge.com)
2025-3-12 Google Chrome Ban

OpenAI debuts a Responses API to help devs build agents that search the web, scan for files, and perform tasks on computers, and an Agents SDK for orchestration (www.theverge.com)
2025-3-12

Waymo expands its operating area around Silicon Valley to a 27 square-mile region, including Mountain View, Palo Alto, Los Altos, and parts of Sunnyvale (www.theverge.com)
2025-3-12

TikTok rolls out a new feature to show users under 16 a “wind down” reminder after 10PM, interrupting the feed and playing “calming music to help teens relax” (www.theverge.com)
2025-3-12

Leaked video: Sony is working on a prototype AI-powered version of a PlayStation game character that can interact with players through voice prompts (www.theverge.com)
2025-3-11 AI Sony

Bluesky adds support for three-minute videos, up from the previous one-minute limit, and a new “Chat Requests” feature to screen messages from unknown users (www.theverge.com)
2025-3-11

Apple has 90 days to allow app sideloading in Brazil (www.theverge.com)
2025-3-8 Apple Brazil

1Password adds a feature to help find a login, password, or access code by adding a specific physical location to items in a new Nearby section of the app (www.theverge.com)
2025-3-7

DuckDuckGo says AI answers are out of beta and now get info from across the web, not just Wikipedia; setting AI answers to “often” shows them ~20% of the time (www.theverge.com)
2025-3-7 AI

USCIS proposes to review social media accounts of people applying for US citizenship, green cards, and asylum or refugee status, to comply with Trump's EO (www.theverge.com)
2025-3-6 Trump Refugee

Utah becomes the first state to pass an app store age-verification bill and require parental consent for minors to download apps; the bill heads to the governor (www.theverge.com)
2025-3-6

Avride partners with Hyundai to jointly develop fully driverless cars for autonomous ride-hailing and aims to deploy 100 driverless Ioniq 5 SUVs this year (www.theverge.com)
2025-3-6 Autonomous Car

AMD Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT review: 16GB of VRAM, FSR 4, and lower power draw than prior Radeon cards, but no AMD reference design and they are bulky cards (www.theverge.com)
2025-3-6 AMD

Apple updates Mac Studio with an M4 Max for $1,999+ and an M3 Ultra for $3,999+, offering up to 32 cores, 24 of which are performance cores, shipping March 12 (www.theverge.com)
2025-3-6 Apple

Apple updates the $999+ 13-inch and $1,199+ 15-inch MacBook Air with M4, with a 10-core CPU and 8-core GPU, and a new sky blue color option, shipping March 12 (www.theverge.com)
2025-3-6 Apple MacBook

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