Palmer Luckey, the Hawaiian-shirt wearing founder who sold Oculus VR for $2 billion before co-founding the military tech company Anduril, is back in the headset business — in a sense. Anduril has teamed up with Microsoft to embed its software into the Integrated Visual Augmentation […]
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The United Nations Wants to Treat AI With the Same Urgency as Climate Change
A UN report proposes that the organization take a much more active role in the monitoring and oversight of AI.
Why Jensen Huang and Marc Benioff see ‘gigantic’ opportunity for agentic AI
Already, progress in agentic AI is “spectacular and surprising,” moving faster and faster and getting into the “flywheel zone,” Huang says.
YouTube is adding ‘seasons’ to make your favorite channel more like Netflix
Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge YouTube creators can now break their videos up into different seasons and episodes to make them easier for viewers to navigate — and binge watch — on TV. The upcoming feature comes as YouTube has increasingly been pushing into […]
Get a good gawp at Ghostface’s fatality and some new animalities for MK1
A new update for Mortal Kombat I (MK1) is less than a week away from release that will add new character skins, new finishing moves and (eventually) new fighters to its “kombatant” selection screen. NetherRealm Studios released a preview of the “karnage” that’s “koming” around […]
How to choose which Apple Watch to buy
Photo illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Between the Apple Watch Series 10, the Ultra 2, and the second-gen SE, there are more options than ever. We’ll help you sort through them. Continue reading…
More electronic devices reportedly exploded in Lebanon a day after coordinated pager attack
An attack in Lebanon reportedly killed eight people and injured over 2,700. Hundreds of pagers belonging to Hezbollah members detonated simultaneously on Tuesday, leading the Iran-backed militant organization to blame Israel. The New York Times reported that Israel was behind the attacks and conducted it […]
Playtika acquires mobile game maker SuperPlay for up to $1.25B
Playtika has agreed to acquire SuperPlay, a mobile gaming company in Israel for a price ranging from $700 million to $1.25 billion.
YouTube Shorts to integrate Veo, Google’s AI video model
The main attraction of YouTube’s Made On event on Wednesday morning was, you guessed it, artificial intelligence. The company announced that it is integrating Google DeepMind’s AI video generation model, Veo, into YouTube Shorts, letting creators generate high-quality backgrounds as well as 6-second clips. At […]
Fal.Con 2024: CrowdStrike unveils resilient-by-design framework to bolster global cybersecurity
“It’s not only about bouncing back – it’s about staying ahead through a culture of resilience,” Kurtz emphasized during his keynote.