Can OpenAI’s ‘Master of Disaster’ Fix AI’s Reputation Crisis?
Global affairs chief Chris Lehane wants to tone down the debate over AI’s societal impacts—and get states to pass laws that won’t derail OpenAI’s meteoric rise.
Global affairs chief Chris Lehane wants to tone down the debate over AI’s societal impacts—and get states to pass laws that won’t derail OpenAI’s meteoric rise.
Today I’m talking with Liz Lopatto, who spent the last month covering the Musk v. Altman trial in all its chaos. You’ll hear her describe the courthouse as a “zoo” and explain that there were protests of one kind or another happening outside every day. Both Elon Musk and Sam Altman are big personalities, and […]
This is Lowpass by Janko Roettgers, a newsletter on the ever-evolving intersection of tech and entertainment, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. Hollywood is cooked – or so a growing number of people on social media would like you to believe. Their purported proof: AI-generated clips of Daniel Craig riding a Vespa […]
Studio by Spotify Labs is a new standalone AI app that generates a daily briefing, podcasts, and playlists on your PC using chatbot prompts. The AI-generated content draws from your Spotify listening history, as well as info from apps you connect to it, like your email inbox, calendar, and notes. Spotify says its AI can […]
Spotify and Universal Music Group (UMG) just announced a licensing deal that will allow users to prompt the creation of AI-generated remixes and covers for streaming songs. The tool will be a paid add-on for Premium subscribers. Artists will be able to opt out of the program, but those who do participate will collect royalties […]
I’m not sure anyone was really asking for an AI guitar pedal. But it was inevitable that someone would build one. One of the first to take the plunge is Polyend, a well-respected music gear maker with a reputation for building niche, idiosyncratic devices. The company has built grooveboxes around old-school trackers and a multi-effect […]
University graduates are booing and heckling corporate executives who praise AI during their commencement ceremonies, and the only people who seem to be genuinely surprised by this are the executives themselves. In a procession of viral videos, 2026 commencement speakers like former Google CEO Eric Schmidt face loud and sustained jeers from students after praising […]
One of the most promising introductions at Google’s I/O developer conference on Tuesday was a new way for consumers to use the web: AI agents. Unfortunately, it was also the most confusing.
The Path says its AI model has scored 95 on the mental health safety AI benchmark, Vera-MH. This compares to a top score of 65 for the consumer bots.
Hark expects to release its first multimodal models this summer, which it says will power a personal AI platform that works with existing products and services. The company expects to follow that with hardware devices built specifically for those systems.
Spotify will let you generate daily or weekly briefs based on your prompts
Spotify is releasing the new desktop app as a research preview in more than 20 markets.
The AI-powered audiobook generation won’t bind authors to an exclusive contract, meaning they are free to publish their generated audiobooks anywhere.
President Trump delayed signing an executive order that would have required pre-release government security reviews of AI models, citing dissatisfaction with the order’s language.
Google is about to look really different, and if you’re not a fan of the AI overview feature, then you’re not going to like what’s coming.
Spotify is partnering with Universal Music Group to let Premium subscribers create AI-generated song covers and remixes, with participating artists receiving a share of the revenue.
The Nvidia Vera chip is rarely the headline when earnings beat estimates, but it should be. When Nvidia reported Q1 revenue of US$81.62 billion on Wednesday, beating analyst estimates of US$78.86 billion, and guided Q2 at US$91 billion–well above Wall Street’s US$86.84 billion forecast–the numbers did what Nvidia numbers always do: dominate the room. But […]
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OpenAI launched a $4B+ Deployment Company and Anthropic closed a $1.5B joint venture with Blackstone and Goldman Sachs — both built around the Forward Deployed Engineer model Palantir pioneered. Here is what FDEs actually do, why standard SaaS fails for enterprise AI, and what skills early-career AI engineers need to break into this role.
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ByteDance’s Intelligent Creation Lab has released Lance, an open-source native unified multimodal model that handles image and video understanding, generation, and editing — all within a single framework, using only 3B activated parameters.
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AI lab set to hit milestone ahead of competitors OpenAI and xAI
Elon Musk’s rockets-to-AI conglomerate lays out its ambitions
Former Baillie Gifford fund manager says spoils of AI war will flow to hardware suppliers
The inside story on the Asia tech trends that matter, from Nikkei Asia and the Financial Times
If AI destroys job markets, governments will need to make up the resulting shortfall in labour income tax receipts
Productivity gains may be cancelled out by the public’s own use of the technology when interacting with authorities
The market has never before had to price a stock so speculative yet so large
The findings from our annual Crunchbase survey of where recently funded founders attended college or university found that alumni of the most selective U.S. schools secure a disproportionately high share of startup funding rounds.
New survey data suggests organizations remain stuck in reactive mode as CHROs face growing pressure to scale change across the enterprise.
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Every major technology shift creates the same temptation. Leaders want to move quickly, adopt the new system and prove that the organization is not falling behind. AI agents are no different. The conversation has already moved from experimentation to integration and companies are digging into where agents can support customer service, compliance, HR operations, marketing, […]
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With 10% of its workforce being cut this week, Meta is offering HR a case study in layoffs and restructuring at scale.
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“Much more work is needed to understand telemedicine's longer-term effects on quality of care, health outcomes and spending, and whether those effects differ across the diverse populations who depend on it,” said Dr. Katherine Kahn of the UCLA medical school.
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Plenty of managers enter the leadership pipeline, but poor onboarding and performance management can slow progression and reduce readiness.
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The rocket company has set aside more than $500 million for potential litigation losses, in part to account for complaints alleging that Grok created sexualized images.
The SpaceX IPO is here, and it’s more than just an historic public offering that could make Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire. It also reveals more ways in which Elon Musk’s companies interact and overlap with each other, shuffling money around in ways that are often difficult to keep track of. This is evident […]
Meta has reportedly notified thousands of employees that they’ve been laid off as the company attempts to compensate for its hefty AI investments. In an email from Meta management shared by Business Insider, impacted staffers were told that the planned headcount reduction was part of the company’s “continued effort to run the company more efficiently […]
Yesterday, I built my first Android app. Then, I made two more – three in one afternoon. For one, I literally typed 148 words into my web browser and walked away. Ten minutes later, I had an entire new app on my actual Android phone. I did have to prep that phone by enabling a […]