Technology
Inside our months-long investigation into Kevin O’Leary’s Utah data center debacle
Today I’m talking with Josh Dzieza, a longtime features writer here at The Verge, about Kevin O’Leary’s plans to build a massive data center in Utah. The idea was to build the wo…
Nvidia-backed GMI Cloud raises $668m as contracted revenue tops $600m
GMI Cloud, a Mountain View company that rents out Nvidia GPU servers, has raised $668m in new financing, the company said on Wednesday. That is $223m of Series B equity and a $445…
Kiteworks patches max severity code injection vulnerability
Secure file-sharing software company Kiteworks has released security updates to address 126 vulnerabilities, including a max-severity flaw affecting its Email Protection Gateway (…
OpenAI’s 2017 plan to auction AGI to China and Russia, per The Atlantic
In 2017, OpenAI co-founders Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever proposed auctioning the rights to the company’s future AGI to governments, including the US, China and Russia. Kevin R…
What even is a ‘microdrama’?
On Monday, Variety reported that RoseBerry Media is recutting episodes of the Australian soap opera Neighbours "into microdramas." These clips will be available on Epis, a short-f…
McDonald’s uses AI to set an optimal price at each store, Reuters reports
McDonald’s is using an AI pricing engine to recommend what each of its nearly 14,000 restaurants should charge for every menu item, Reuters reported on Tuesday. The engine covers …
Samsung raised prices on the Galaxy S26 by $100
The base Galaxy S26 with 256GB of storage costs nearly $1,000 after Samsung raised prices in the US by $100 or more, Phone Arena reports. The Galaxy S26 and S26 Plus were already …
Hearing tech startup Legato launches its AI hearing glasses
The glasses stem from the startup’s goal of making hearing care more accessible by addressing the cost, comfort, and stigma associated with traditional hearing aids.
HP’s answer to the MacBook Neo is thinner, lighter, and comes with OLED
HP is announcing a new laptop that's squarely aimed at Apple's MacBook Neo. The 2026 HP OmniBook 5 14 starts at $699.99 with an Intel Core 5 315 "Wildcat Lake" processor, 8GB of R…
Amazon’s Carrie is a cyberbullying nightmare
Do we really need a new version of Carrie? That's the question that plagues any attempt to reimagine the classic horror tale. Stephen King's 1974 novel remains one of his most ico…
Amazon is launching colorful new Kindles — and a case with physical page-turn buttons
Kindles don't usually change much with each new version, but Amazon is launching next-generation models today that look and feel a whole lot nicer. The base Kindle, Kindle Paperwh…
Gears of War: E-Day is a great game launching at a terrible time
There are few blockbuster games that are as confident as Gears of War: E-Day. A prequel to one of Xbox's most transformative titles, E-Day knows exactly what it wants to be: a bru…
Amazon's latest Kindle accessories bring physical buttons back to its ereaders
BookTok will probably rejoice.
Neurable launches its newest brain-scanning headphones
Neurable is launching a new pair of EEG-equipped headphones to keep an eye on your brainwaves while you work, rest and play.
HP's Omnibook 5 features an OLED screen and costs $699
It also lasts up to 42 hours on a single charge.
Amazon introduces new Kindle Paperwhite, Colorsoft and entry-level models
Amazon's new Kindle e-readers come with flat-surface displays and new colors.
Amazon introduces Kindle Click, a $35 remote for turning pages
The compact Bluetooth remote is designed to let readers turn pages without touching their Kindle.
The new Kindle ditches the bezel in a push toward a smaller, lighter e-reader
The new Kindle lineup features its lightest and thinnest designs yet, with a sleek, front-flush display that eliminates bezels for good.
Audible’s new features let you explore book worlds — and use AI to talk to characters
Audible is rolling out new features that help listeners keep track of characters, explore places and imagery mentioned in books, and even interact with characters using generative…
Bank of England’s Bailey warns the AI boom could bring market shocks
AI could set off shocks in financial markets, and the UK has to be ready for them, Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey told the BBC on Thursday. He said the Bank is watching th…
OpenAI’s Greg Brockman drops his second $25m gift to an AI super PAC
OpenAI president Greg Brockman and his wife, Anna, have pulled out of a second $25m donation to Leading the Future, a super PAC that backs pro-AI candidates for Congress. Theodore…
Texas politics may delay Chevron data centre decision, Semafor reports
A final investment decision on Project Kilby, a huge gas-powered data centre in West Texas, could slip from the end of this year to 2027 because of state politics. Tim McDonnell r…
Meta tells the IRS its AI data centres are experiments, NYT reports
Meta tells the IRS that its AI data centres are an experiment that could fail, The New York Times reported on Wednesday. That lets Meta claim a research tax credit on the AI chips…
DeepSeek open-sources Huawei chip tools as a simpler alternative to CUDA
DeepSeek has open-sourced a set of programming tools for Huawei’s Ascend AI chips. They include a version of TileLang, a programming language DeepSeek offers as a simpler alternat…