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Sources detail Google's struggles to monetize Google TV, which has been costing the company hundreds of millions of dollars annually and has yet to break even (www.theverge.com)
2025-8-8 Google

OpenAI releases GPT-5, its new flagship model, to all of its ChatGPT users and developers, available in three flavors via the API (www.theverge.com)
2025-8-8

A now-deleted GitHub blog post reveals GPT-5, available as gpt-5, gpt-5-mini, gpt-5-nano, and gpt-5-chat with “major improvements” in reasoning, code, and more (www.theverge.com)
2025-8-7 GitHub

Lenovo ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 review: a unique $3,300 laptop with a rollable 120Hz OLED display that can expand from 14" to 16.7", but is heavy and has few ports (www.theverge.com)
2025-8-7 Lenovo

Google DeepMind releases its Genie 3 model, which can generate 3D worlds from a prompt and has enough visual memory for a few minutes of continuous interaction (www.theverge.com)
2025-8-7 Google

WhatsApp will now show users a “safety overview” when a user not in their contacts adds them to a group, with key info and safety tips to help counter scams (www.theverge.com)
2025-8-7 WhatsApp

Grok's new “spicy” option on its generative AI video tool Imagine produces nude deepfakes of celebrities like Taylor Swift, even without explicit user prompting (www.theverge.com)
2025-8-7 AI

Instagram now lets users repost public Reels and grid posts from other accounts, collected in a designated tab, and adds a Snapchat-like, opt-in maps feature (www.theverge.com)
2025-8-7 Snapchat Instagram

Reddit pauses plans to let users make subreddits with content behind a paywall, as it focuses on other priorities, including “accelerating international growth” (www.theverge.com)
2025-8-2 Reddit

Nintendo plans to raise the price of original Switch “family of systems and products” and some Switch 2 accessories in the US; Switch 2 price won't change (www.theverge.com)
2025-8-2 Nintendo

Reddit wants to become “a go-to search engine” for users; its core search has 70M+ weekly active unique users and AI-powered Reddit Answers has 6M weekly users (www.theverge.com)
2025-8-2 AI Reddit

Microsoft plans to end support for Windows 11 SE next year, five years after launching the OS on low-cost laptops designed to compete with Google Chromebooks (www.theverge.com)
2025-8-1 Google Microsoft

Uber Eats adds AI tools to generate for menu item descriptions, enhance food images, and more; it will pay customers in some countries for uploading food photos (www.theverge.com)
2025-7-31 Uber AI

Microsoft Q4: Windows OEM and Devices revenue up 3% YoY, gaming revenue up 10%, Xbox hardware revenue down 22%, and Xbox content and services revenue up 13% (www.theverge.com)
2025-7-31 Microsoft 4Q Xbox

YouTube will now allow videos with strong profanity in the first seven seconds to be fully monetized, reversing previous restrictions that limited ad revenue (www.theverge.com)
2025-7-30 YouTube

Yelp is making AI videos about restaurants, using AI generated scripts and voice-overs based on reviews, incorporating pictures and videos posted by users (www.theverge.com)
2025-7-30 AI

Adobe rolls out new generative AI features for Photoshop to let users more easily add or remove people and objects, including “Harmonize” compositing, in beta (www.theverge.com)
2025-7-29 AI Adobe

Core Devices CEO says the company has recovered the Pebble trademark, allowing it to rename its new smartwatches as Pebble 2 Duo and Pebble Time 2 (www.theverge.com)
2025-7-26

Microsoft previews Copilot Appearance, a virtual character with real-time expressions, voice, and conversational memory, for some users in the US, UK, Canada (www.theverge.com)
2025-7-26 Microsoft Canada

Microsoft's Recall is meeting a lot of resistance from app developers, with Brave and AdGuard joining Signal in blocking the controversial Windows AI tool (www.theverge.com)
2025-7-25 Microsoft AI

Starlink says it's experiencing a network outage and is “implementing a solution”; NetBlocks reports that connectivity dropped to “16% of ordinary levels” (www.theverge.com)
2025-7-25

Apple releases the first public betas of iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS Tahoe 26, watchOS 26, and tvOS 26, with its new Liquid Glass design language (www.theverge.com)
2025-7-25 IOS Apple

Google will officially deprecate links generated with its goo.gl URL shortener on August 25, 2025; the company stopped generating goo.gl URLs in March 2019 (www.theverge.com)
2025-7-25 Google

Source: OpenAI is planning to launch GPT-5 in early August, complete with mini and nano versions that will also be available through its API (www.theverge.com)
2025-7-25

Figma makes its prompt-to-app coding tool Figma Make available to all users, after initially launching it in beta for Full Seat users earlier in 2025 (www.theverge.com)
2025-7-25

Gamefound, a board game crowdfunding company, acquires Indiegogo, which has 38M members and will change its pricing to be in line with Gamefound's flat 5% fee (www.theverge.com)
2025-7-25 Crowdfunding

Amazon updates its color screen Kindle Colorsoft with a cheaper 16GB model for $250 and a kids-focused bundle with one year of Kids Plus for $270, available now (www.theverge.com)
2025-7-24 Amazon

Indie open gaming marketplace Itch.io abruptly deindexes NSFW content from its browse and search pages after payment processors raised concerns, following Steam (www.theverge.com)
2025-7-24

The Wireless Power Consortium launches faster Qi2 25W wireless charging, with “major Android smartphones” finally adopting the standard alongside the iPhone (www.theverge.com)
2025-7-24 Android iPhone

T-Mobile's Starlink-powered satellite service T-Satellite is now generally available as a standalone subscription for US users, not just T-Mobile customers (www.theverge.com)
2025-7-24 Mobile

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