John Schulman, one of the co-founders of OpenAI, has left the company for rival AI startup Anthropic. The news comes as The Information reports that OpenAI’s president, Greg Brockman, has taken an extended leave of absence and Peter Deng, a product manager who joined OpenAI […]
Month: August 2024
South Korea’s Hybe IM raises $80M for games
Hybe IM, the interactive media and games arm of Hybe, has raised $80 million in funding to make games.
Google Search Is an Illegal Monopoly, US Judge Rules
Nearly a year after the US government took Google to trial, a judge has found that the tech giant violated antitrust laws. A new trial will determine how Google should be penalized.
Warner Bros launches Beetlejuice Roblox experience with virtual box office
Warner Bros brings Beetlejuice to Roblox in a new branded experience, along with a virtual Fandango box office for buying real tickets.
New Zelda footage features cute horseback riding and uh, smoothie shops
Nintendo just dropped a rather lengthy new overview trailer for The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom. That’s the top-down Switch entry that stars the titular princess instead of Link. The six-minute video focuses on “traversing Hyrule,” so there’s plenty of cool stuff here about […]
Donald Trump says Google ‘has to be careful’ or it will be ‘shut down’
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images Here at The Verge, we’ve been doing our best not to uncritically publish every random statement and half-cocked idea that comes out of Donald Trump’s mouth for several years now. He just says stuff, especially about tech, […]
MacBook Air deals keep cooking with the M3 model hitting a new low price
All colors of the M3 Air are on sale, including starlight. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Wow, it wasn’t long ago that the M2 MacBook Air dropped to its lowest price (and that deal is still kicking, by the way), but now […]
NVIDIA’s AI team reportedly scraped YouTube, Netflix videos without permission
In the latest example of a troubling industry pattern, NVIDIA appears to have scraped troves of copyrighted content for AI training. On Monday, 404 Media’s Samantha Cole reported that the $2.4 trillion company asked workers to download videos from YouTube, Netflix and other datasets to […]
Secretaries of state urge X to stop its Grok chatbot from spreading election misinformation
Grok — not to be confused with the homophonic AI startup Groq that this morning raised over $600 million — has been spreading false information about Vice President Kamala Harris on X, the social network formerly known as Twitter. That’s according to an open letter […]
Elon Musk sues OpenAI again, alleging ‘Shakespearean’ betrayal of AI mission
Elon Musk sues OpenAI and Sam Altman in federal court, alleging betrayal of AI’s founding mission, raising crucial questions about ethics, profit, and the future of artificial intelligence development.