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Tesla will launch an “unsupervised, no one in the car” robotaxi service in Austin, Texas, in June, Elon Musk said in an earnings call Wednesday. “We just want to put a toe in the water, make sure everything’s okay, put a few more toes in the water, with safety of the general public and those […]
The VergeFor years, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been promising an affordable electric vehicle, likely priced at $25,000, as a way to broaden the appeal of plug-in vehicles. He first mentioned it in a 2018 interview with YouTuber Marques Brownlee, saying “a $25,000 car, that’s something we can do.” Then in 2020, at the company’s first […]
The VergeMeta agreed to a $25 million settlement over a 2021 lawsuit President Donald Trump brought against Meta for suspending his accounts after the January 6th insurrection at the US Capitol. The Wall Street Journal was the first to report the news, and Meta spokesperson Andy Stone confirmed the settlement to The Verge. It’s a step […]
The VergeBig players, including Microsoft, with Copilot, Google, with Gemini, and OpenAI, with GPT-4o, are making AI chatbot technology previously restricted to test labs more accessible to the general public. How do these large language model (LLM) programs work? OpenAI’s GPT-3 told us that AI uses “a series of autocomplete-like programs to learn language” and that […]
The VergeGemini has some new abilities that could make it more helpful in Sheets, Google announced in a post on the Workspace blog. Now, Gemini can respond to questions about your data with details about trends or by creating static charts that you can insert into your spreadsheet as images. The new capability is rolling out […]
The VergeMicrosoft’s cloud and AI businesses are doing pretty well — and their impact is being felt across the company. In its Q2 2025 earnings, Microsoft announced revenue of $69.6 billion for the quarter, up 12 percent year-over-year, and net income of $24.1 billion, which is up 10 percent year-over-year. As for the AI business, CEO Satya […]
The VergeBig players, including Microsoft, with Copilot, Google, with Gemini, and OpenAI, with GPT-4o, are making AI chatbot technology previously restricted to test labs more accessible to the general public. How do these large language model (LLM) programs work? OpenAI’s GPT-3 told us that AI uses “a series of autocomplete-like programs to learn language” and that […]
The VergeBungie and LucasFilms are bringing Star Wars armor sets and other items into the Destiny universe, so you can dress your Guardian like a stormtrooper. As part of Destiny 2: Heresy, Act I, which launches next week, you’ll be able to access outfits, accessories, and emotes that come straight out of the Star Wars universe […]
The VergeWhile Nvidia’s RTX 50-series graphics cards weren’t the zaniest devices at CES 2025, they stole the show with their promised groundbreaking performance breakthroughs. The RTX 5070, in particular, made headlines as a card that can supposedly rival an RTX 4090 for just $549. We later learned it uses DLSS 4’s AI-powered multi frame generation to […]
The VergeIt’s one week into Elon Musk’s new role as chief cost-cutter for the Trump administration, but today, his side hustle as CEO of Tesla takes center stage with the release of the company’s latest earnings report. During the fourth quarter of 2024, Tesla said it earned $2.3 billion in net income on $25.7 billion in […]
The VergeAmerican Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), the union representing 750,000 federal employees, told members Wednesday to not resign via an email sent to them by the US Office of Personnel Management. The email sent on Tuesday prompted employees to resign from service by accepting a “deferred resignation” offer in which they would be exempted from […]
The VergeThis month, JetBlue announced it has added Venmo as a payment option for booking a flight on jetblue.com. The company says the feature will come to the JetBlue mobile app later this year. Now, instead of entering your card details or using PayPal, you can choose to pay for your ticket with your Venmo balance or with the bank […]
The VergeLittle by little, Apple has been lessening the restrictions it previously put on iPhone customizations. For example, you can now change all of your homescreen icons to the same color and stick widgets on the lockscreen. Until recently, though, you didn’t have a lot of choice when it came to default apps. Every operating system […]
The VergeNASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission was launched in September 2016, and seven years later, its capsule landed in the Utah desert for NASA to collect and analyze its first-ever samples collected from an asteroid. Now, NASA scientists are ready to show off what it collected and share what they found out during their first tests. NASA administrator […]
The VergeScientists from NASA and other institutions who have been analyzing the Bennu asteroid sample that returned to Earth last September found molecules, including amino acids, which are essential ingredients of life as we know it. The sample also included “evidence of an ancient environment well-suited to kickstart the chemistry of life,” according to a NASA […]
The VergeMicrosoft is bringing Chinese AI company DeepSeek’s R1 model to its Azure AI Foundry platform and GitHub today. The R1 model, which has rocked US financial markets this week because it can be trained at a fraction of the cost of leading models from OpenAI, is now part of a model catalog on Azure AI […]
The VergeBeyond: Two Souls, the Quantic Dream-made interactive thriller starring Elliot Page and Willem Dafoe, is being adapted for TV by Page’s Pageboy Productions, Deadline reports. The series is in early development and it’s “expected to explore the game’s non-linear narrative,” according to Deadline. In the game, you play as Jodie (portrayed by Page), and sometimes […]
The VergeThe White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is walking back the federal funding freeze memo that set off a day of chaos and confusion on Tuesday up until a judge paused the order right before it was set to take effect. “In light of the injunction, OMB has rescinded the memo to end […]
The VergeIt’s been more than two years since Elon Musk officially took over as the owner of Twitter — now X — and while a lot of platforms rushed in to try and be the next big microblogging service, many haven’t survived. Threads, Mastodon, and Bluesky have all proven to be viable alternatives, but places like […]
The VergeAmazon’s Prime Video is about to get a lot more Lionsgate films as part of a multi-year deal that will put the studio’s entire 2026 slate of films on the service. Under the agreement, Prime Video will exclusively stream Lionsgate’s upcoming films in the US after they first appear on Starz. The lineup includes titles […]
The VergeGarmin has shared new ways to fix its smartwatches that are stuck on the “blue triangle of death,” a boot-up error that’s been stopping owners from using their watches. The steps could get more watches working again — but some models will lose data in the process. There’s still no explanation as to what is causing […]
The VergeGoogle’s malware scanning Play Protect service will now automatically turn off an Android app’s permissions if it’s potentially harmful. The feature is designed to prevent malicious apps from having access to your phone’s storage, photos, camera, and more. Though you can still restore the permissions for these apps, Google will ask you to confirm your […]
The VergeNetflix users on iOS no longer need to download episodes of their favorite shows one by one. The streamer just introduced a way to download an entire season of a TV show with one click on iPhones and iPads. Netflix first let users download content to watch offline in 2016, and over time has added […]
The VergeSony announced Wednesday that it will change to “occasionally” including PS4 games as a PlayStation Plus benefit starting in January 2026. You’ll still have access to any of the monthly PS4 games you’ve already redeemed to your account after that date, however, and you can still play PS4 games that are available on the PlayStation […]
The VergeWaymo is sending autonomous vehicles to 10 new cities in 2025, starting with Las Vegas and San Diego, the company shared exclusively with The Verge. The vehicles will be manually driven, and the testing operations are not necessarily a precursor to the launch of a commercial robotaxi service. (They’re also not precluded from launching a […]
The VergeSony announced Wednesday that you won’t need to log in to a PlayStation Network account to play four of its single-player games on PC: Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 (which comes out tomorrow), The Last of Us Part II Remastered (which launches on April 3rd), God of War Ragnarök, and Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered. However, to incentivize […]
The VergeMGM Resorts International has agreed to pay $45 million to settle a lawsuit over data breaches that collectively exposed the personal information of 37 million customers. The case consolidated 22 class-action lawsuits filed over two security incidents: a data breach in 2019, and a ransomware attack in 2023. Lawyers for the victims said in district […]
The VergeWhen TikTok went off the air (to use a very old-fashioned phrase), there was a scramble to find an alternative to its shortform video feed — and a similar scramble by various social networks to provide that alternative. (In fact, while I was writing this, Tumblr launched its new Tumblr TV feature.) The question is: […]
The VergeYou can bet on seeing lots of AI ads during the Super Bowl LIX, according to Mark Evans, the executive VP of ad sales for Fox Sports. Evans told The Hollywood Reporter that AI “will be coming like a freight train,” and that some companies have paid over $8 million for 30-second spots during the […]
The VergeSpirit Airlines has rejected yet another acquisition bid from Frontier, which would’ve merged the two companies to create the fifth-largest airline in the US, as reported earlier by Reuters. In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Spirit called Frontier’s deal ”woefully insufficient financially” compared to the $2.9 billion agreement tossed out in 2022. […]