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I turned my Muse assistant into a purple cat. | Screenshot: The Verge Meta has launched its new Muse assistant, marking the company's first real foray into AI-powered productivity tools. The company says its AI agent can "take the busywork off your plate" by helping you with…
“The vast majority of cases we find are people who are entitled to claim for something, claiming for that thing,” the researcher told TechCrunch.
Maven Robotics emerged from stealth today with a $100 million Series A and active deployments.
This interview has been lightly edited for length and clarity. Nick Statt: Hello and welcome to Decoder, Nilay’s show about big ideas and other problems. This is Nick Statt, senior producer. And I’m joined by our brand-new supervising producer, Greg Ott. Greg Ott: Good day,…
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. God told them to sell crypto. Their investors lost everything. When Eli Regalado first heard God speak to him, he wondered whether he was…
Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI, during a media tour of the Stargate AI data center. | Bloomberg via Getty Images Another researcher is challenging OpenAI about the data driving its increasingly impressive array of mathematical discoveries. Just days after a bitter…
On July 22, 2026, a transmission line fault in Ashburn, Virginia—the heart of the world’s largest data center cluster—knocked more than 3 gigawatts of load off the grid in seconds. And it wasn’t the first time. Two years earlier, a single failed surge arrester dropped roughly 60…
Listen Labs walked away from a signed Series C term sheet from Menlo Ventures, sources say.
Paul Christiano, an influential AI researcher focused on alignment, is joining the OpenAI Foundation as a member of its board.
Massachusetts has become the third state in as many months to slap new restrictions on data center development.
Suno's new v6 AI music model is its first made with support from the record industry. Suno's Jack Brody told The Verge that v6 was "trained from the ground up, with a new set of data that does not include the same data that our previous models were trained on." The data includes…
Open AI CEO Sam Altman speaks during the G20 Innovation Ministerial. | (Photo by Matt RAMEY / AFP via Getty Images) OpenAI's announcement Tuesday that it has solved one of mathematics' legendary Millennium Prize problems should have been a moment of triumph. The result is both…
Monumental’s Pisa robot, which is in charge of laying bricks and mortar. | Source: Monumental Currently, 92% of contractors have a difficult time filling roles in construction, according to the Association of General Contractors. At the same time, the U.S. is short 4.5 million…
At Wednesday's iPhone Duo launch event, Apple announced a handful of new Siri AI Audio Intelligence features, including Siri Recap, Live Rewind, Sound Recognition, and Music Recognition. Alongside its announcement, Apple released a document laying out how it plans to balance AI…
Apple says its new watches won’t save raw audio, but features that can transcribe recent speech and summarize ambient conversations raise new questions about consent, privacy, and how people behave when they know they could always be recorded.
The main event was the tech giant's highly anticipated first foldable phone, the iPhone Duo.
Unitree offers its G1 humanoid robot for $13.5K. | Source: Unitree Shares of Unitree Robotics have fallen nearly 40% from their first-day closing price on Aug. 19 2026, erasing roughly $20 billion in market value from that point and about $35 billion from their peak. The…
Apple is launching a new way to prove that the picture you took isn't manipulated by AI. A new feature, called "Reference Image," will arrive with the iPhone 18 Pro lineup later this month and is supposed to use the device's new camera sensor to "sign every pixel it sees." The…
Apple says it used AI and 3D printing in the manufacturing process for its long-awaited foldable phone.
The update uses Apple Intelligence to make better sense of your health data.
Apple introduced Apple Reference Image to help users determine whether photos have been edited, including alterations made by AI.
The company also argued that its on-device models offer consumers more privacy.
Microsoft agreed to a set of safety and privacy principles for AI in schools a week after two major school systems announced a ban on student-facing AI. In a new agreement with the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the second-largest teachers union in the US, and its New…
AGIBOT’s semi-humanoid robot working in a pilot at Longcheer Technology’s Nanchang factory. | Source: AGIBOT While generative AI has redefined the digital world, the true frontier lies in the physical realm in translating embodied AI into scalable, commercial reality. For global…
AI companies have been talking about superintelligent AI like it’s inevitable, but recent safety incidents like OpenAI’s Hugging Face breach are demonstrating the potential dangers of deploying AI systems that are more…
AI companies have been talking about superintelligent AI like it’s inevitable, but recent safety incidents like OpenAI’s Hugging Face breach are demonstrating the potential dangers of deploying AI systems that are more…
Vention and its partners have invested in space and equipment for its new physical AI lab. Source: Vention To generate high-quality data for training the AI models that operate next-generation robots, you need scale. Vention Inc. today opened its Physical AI Lab in Montreal. The…
Instinct’s new email feature lets the AI agent create and manage accounts, contact businesses, handle support requests, and do more on users' behalf.
Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigned over AI extinction fears, calling for pacing agreements between labs.
Users can ask the assistant to do things like "Create a cart for my Saturday tailgate for 25 people and include some brunch items," or "Build a cart for easy school lunches and after-school snacks," Shipt says.