FTC investigating Microsoft, Amazon, and Google investments into OpenAI and Anthropic
FTC investigating Microsoft, Amazon, and Google investments into OpenAI and Anthropic The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) opened an inquiry into the investments of Big Tech companies that provide cloud services to smaller AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic. The FTC sent letters to Alphabet, Amazon, Anthropic, Microsoft, and OpenAI, requiring the companies to explain the […]
The most powerful Ryzen Zen 3 processor receives its biggest discount yet
The most powerful Ryzen Zen 3 processor receives its biggest discount yet This is the fastest AM4 processor you can upgrade to if you’re not ready to buy into AM5. AMD made bank on its Ryzen chipsets on the strength of bored pandemic-era gamers who spent their stimulus checks on new PC builds. Ryzen CPUs […]
Google’s Hugging Face deal puts ‘supercomputer’ power behind open-source AI
Google's Hugging Face deal puts 'supercomputer' power behind open-source AI Google’s Hugging Face deal puts ‘supercomputer’ power behind open-source AI Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google Cloud’s new partnership with AI model repository Hugging Face is letting developers build, train, and deploy AI models without needing to pay for a Google Cloud subscription. […]
Apple is finally allowing full versions of Chrome and Firefox to run on the iPhone
Apple is finally allowing full versions of Chrome and Firefox to run on the iPhone Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge With iOS 17.4, Apple is making a number of huge changes to the way its mobile operating system works in order to comply with new regulations in the EU. One of them is […]
Apple opens App Store to game streaming services
Apple opens App Store to game streaming services Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge Starting today Apple is opening up its App Store to allow game streaming apps and services. This means that services like Xbox Cloud Streaming and GeForce Now, which previously were only accessible on iOS via a web browser, will be […]
Apple is bringing sideloading and alternate app stores to the iPhone
Apple is bringing sideloading and alternate app stores to the iPhone Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge The iPhone’s app ecosystem is about to go through its biggest shake-up since the App Store launched in 2008. Today, Apple announced how it plans to change the rules for developers releasing iOS software in the European […]
Trolls have flooded X with graphic Taylor Swift AI fakes
Trolls have flooded X with graphic Taylor Swift AI fakes Many of the posts circulating the offending images are still live. | Illustration: The Verge Sexually explicit AI-generated images of Taylor Swift have been circulating on X (formerly Twitter) over the last day in the latest example of the proliferation of AI-generated fake pornography and […]
I love my GPT, but I can’t find a use for anybody else’s
I love my GPT, but I can't find a use for anybody else's I love my GPT, but I can’t find a use for anybody else’s Image: OpenAI When OpenAI announced other people could build their own custom versions of ChatGPT-style chatbots, I was initially only interested in a journalistic way. I knew this was […]
It’s important that this camera exists
It's important that this camera exists It’s important that this camera exists Hasselblad’s latest digital camera is the 100-megapixel 907X & CFV 100C. The resurgence of film photography has shown me that casual photographers are looking for a different experience and a different photographic look from what our phones or traditional mirrorless cameras are offering. […]
Blizzard cancels survival game following layoffs
Blizzard cancels survival game following layoffs Image: Blizzard Entertainment In 2022, Blizzard announced that it was making a survival game, which would’ve marked its first new property since Overwatch debuted in 2016. Now, as part of a recent round of layoffs at Microsoft, the game has been canceled. This morning, Microsoft laid off 1,900 employees […]