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Kensei Capital founder wants to help game makers scale up... View Source

Director James Cameron's third chapter in the blockbuster sci-fi franchise lands June 24... View Source

The wildfires that would come to engulf Los Angeles had just begun to burn when Frankee Grove finally admitted to herself that she needed a roommate. It was January 2025, and Grove, then 42, had recently broken up with her boyfriend of six years. They had lived together in a two-bedroom Spanish bungalow on a quaint street in Venice. For Grove, this rental — with its vegetable garden and hardwood f... View Source

Before vaccines, some parents intentionally exposed their children to the virus. In the internet age, that thinking is resurfacing... View Source

The shift is poised to be strongest in Europe and Asia... View Source

CAR-T cell therapy is already a potent treatment for certain cancers. Now, a small study is showing early promise for managing HIV... View Source

Big Pharma is pouring money into tech-devised treatments, but the verdict is out on whether they’ll actually work... View Source

The space industry's plans to launch millions of satellites worry scientists as the rise in high-altitude air pollution threatens to alter Earth's climate... View Source

Zero Parades: For Dead Spies wants you to question the price of forgiveness. After leading a crew of spies through a failed operation, protagonist Cascade is willing to pay whatever amount is needed to reestablish contact not just with fellow agents, but with the friends she let down. After being "frozen" for five years and forced to do desk work, Cascade is sent to the city of Portofiro with an a... View Source

With Congress largely stalemated, companies turn to states to gain leverage over regulations... View Source

Baidu Inc. revenue topped estimates, buying the search leader time as it seeks to catch up in AI services after losing an early lead to rivals such as Alibaba Group Holding Ltd... View Source

The work of Peter Aaby and Christine Stabell Benn has long been controversial. Until Robert F. Kennedy Jr. became US health policy chief, most vaccine scientists tended to ignore it. Now they can’t... View Source

Polymarket and Kalshi Inc. have been allowing customers in India to sign up and trade on their prediction markets even after the country’s technology ministry warned that the platforms are illegal... View Source

Elon Musk said he’s back in Texas working on plans for an initial public offering of SpaceX as the rocket and artificial intelligence company gears up for the largest listing of all time... View Source

Microsoft said 'Together' mode added too much 'implementation complexity' and will steer users toward the Teams' gallery view instead... View Source

Helios Towers Plc is committing $110 million of new investment in Democratic Republic of Congo, which it considers one of the most attractive growth opportunities across its nine markets... View Source

The slim arc of a two-day-old moon will pass Venus shining brightlyKeep an eye on the western sky after sunset this week to watch a beautiful sequence unfold over several evenings. A young crescent moon moves first past Venus and then Jupiter, creating a chance to track the moon’s movement through its orbit around the Earth.The chart shows the view on 18 May looking west from London at 22.00. The... View Source

Merryn Somerset Webb speaks to Pictet Asset Management Chief Strategist Luca Paolini about why markets remain remarkably resilient despite geopolitical turmoil, inflation fears and mounting fiscal risks. Paolini argues that the AI investment boom, strong corporate earnings and persistent US economic strength continue to support markets — but warns that the era of US exceptionalism may be fad... View Source

Samsung Electronics Co.’s shares jumped after company management entered make-or-break wage negotiations with its largest labor union aimed at averting a strike that could disrupt operations at the world’s biggest memory chipmaker... View Source

ChangXin Memory Technologies Inc. reported soaring revenue and profit in the first quarter and forecast higher earnings ahead, bolstering its financials ahead of a high-profile initial public offering later this year... View Source

Chinese e-commerce giant Shein is acquiring US apparel retailer Everlane from majority owner L Catterton, according to media reports... View Source

Australia’s central bank and financial regulators are laying the groundwork for a potential expansion of tokenized bond markets as policymakers seek to push the country’s wholesale financial system further into the digital era... View Source

Rakuten Bank Ltd. shares surged after Mizuho Financial Group Inc. said it is considering investing in the firm as one of the options for Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten Group Inc.’s planned reorganization of its financial businesses... View Source

Kioxia Holdings Corp.’s shares were untraded in a glut of buy orders Monday morning after the supplier of storage for AI data centers reported soaring profit and gave an outlook that trounced expectations... View Source

YouTube is pitching advertisers on a new slate of shows -- just like a TV network... View Source

Microsoft launched Teams' Together Mode during the pandemic to give the illusion of a bunch of people sitting in a conference room together, even if they were really sitting at home without pants on. But times have changed, and it's now being retired in favor of a more simplified Teams experience. The feature used AI to cut your head and shoulds out, and place you in a virtual space with others in... View Source

The movie officially hits theaters May 22... View Source

The game has sold 70 million copies over its 15-year run, Re-Logic said... View Source

The lawsuit claims that Amazon owes 'hundreds of millions' in refunds to its users... View Source

Apple is hoping that its record on privacy can be the differentiator on the AI front, and maybe even buy it a little slack as it continues to lag behind the competition. According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, the more chatbot-like Siri set to debut in iOS 27 will include the option to autodelete chat histories. Users will be able to save conversations for 30 days, one year, or forever. That's in st... View Source

The rumored movement shooter is still in pre-alpha and without a release date... View Source

Users can choose between keeping conversations for 30 days, one year or forever, according to Bloomberg... View Source

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt delivered the commencement address at the University of Arizona on Friday. And, as his speech veered into talk of AI, he was repeatedly drowned out by boos. AI is already a contentious topic, and it's not surprising that those about to enter a ravaged job market feel particularly negative about it. Schmidt acknowledged the anxiety, according to Business Insider, sayi... View Source

It's called Cats Lock, and it's kind of genius... View Source

NASA is testing the limits of future Mars aircraft as it works to develop a next-generation fleet of helicopters that will fly through the thin atmosphere of the Red Planet... View Source

Also: A Genmoji upgrade is coming in iOS 27... View Source

Look west after sunset to catch Venus shining beside a delicate crescent moon in the twilight sky... View Source

Kudos to the designer of that horrifying golem. | Image: Shudder Hokum recently hit theaters, and it's already outperforming box office expectations. If this Kubrick-referencing haunted hotel flick starring Adam Scott was your introduction to director Damian McCarthy, do yourself a favor and go watch his previous film, Oddity. If you prefer to go in blind - the ideal way to watch any movie - Oddit... View Source

A SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft delivered 6,500 pounds of science and supplies to the International Space Station on Sunday, May 17, 2026... View Source

Fujifilm’s X Half digital camera wasn’t designed to replace your main camera, though you’d be forgiven for assuming it was with its ludicrous $850 price. However, the company recently reduced the MSRP to $649.99, and is now knocking an additional $100 off through June 28th. That means you can grab the X Half in its base configuration for around $549 at Amazon, B&H Photo, and Best Buy. Adorama... View Source

The livestream will begin at 3:45 p.m. EDT on May 18, bringing near real time views of the asteroid from robotic telescopes in Italy, weather permitting... View Source

A week before the ElliQ robot arrived, a neurologist told me we need to rebalance my mom's life. Her Parkinson's disease medication had steadily become less effective over the previous month, and with it, she had slowly stopped doing many of the things crucial to managing the disease - exercising, socializing, and engaging in hobbies. The result was a rapid, noticeable decline. As my mom's primary... View Source

As the United States and China compete for dominance in artificial intelligence, energy is emerging as a critical battleground. Former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson warns that while the US still leads in AI technology, electricity shortages could become a major constraint as data center demand surges. Former US Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns says China’s enormous investments in transmission,... View Source

A giant radio telescope in West Virginia tracked Artemis 2's Orion spacecraft around the moon for five days, gathering precise observations on its movements during the historic mission... View Source

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more news about how AI is seeping into our daily lives, follow Emma Roth. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started In 2021, McDonald's became one of the first major fast-food chains to greet customers with an AI chatbot at the drive-th... View Source

The discovery from the Trinity nuclear test site shows how extreme conditions can result in materials never before seen in nature or in the lab... View Source

Samsung Electronics Co. and its largest labor union are set to resume negotiations Monday to avert a strike that the nation’s prime minister warned could wreak havoc on the economy... View Source

Here's what we read (and liked) this week... View Source

Reuters reported that SpaceX could make the initial announcement by next Wednesday... View Source

Schools say social media is hurting grades and creating a mental health crisis. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Snap, YouTube, and TikTok have settled the first lawsuit of its kind, alleging that social media addiction has cost public schools massive amounts of money, according to Bloomberg. The suit, filed by the Breathitt County School District in Kentucky, claims that social media has disrup... View Source

A roundup of recent reviews published by Engadget... View Source

The Vespera II X edition features a sleek, transparent shell and has internal temperature sensors for optimized deep sky observation... View Source

No more frustrating deaths in between save points... View Source

They boast a new optical design for sharper images and host a bunch of upgraded features to make stargazing a breeze. The Vaonis Vespera III and Vespera Pro 2 are available now... View Source

Residents will have to go through a course on artificial intelligence before activating the subscription... View Source

ASML Holding NV entered into a partnership agreement with Tata Electronics Private Limited aimed at ramping up India’s goal to develop domestic chip-manufacturing capabilities... View Source

This week's science news... View Source

The variety of terrible is impressive. After Sony drew some unwanted attention for a post demonstrating its AI Camera Assistant on the Xperia 1 XIII, it's trying to clarify how the feature works. The company says it doesn't edit photos, but makes suggestions based on lighting, depth, and subject. Point the camera at something, and it will give you four options for changing exposure, color, and bac... View Source

When it comes to job cuts, older workers are often disproportionately affected. But a new survey of chief executive officers suggests this won’t be a given as companies adopt artificial intelligence... View Source

Its target asteroid could give us insight on how Earth's core came to be... View Source

Manoush Zomorodi tackled tech’s effect on our brains, now she’s looking at our bodies. | Image: Tory WIlliams Manoush Zamorodi is an accomplished reporter, podcast host, and author. Her new book, Body Electric, takes a comprehensive look at how technology is impacting our physical health. It's a collaboration between NPR and Columbia University Medical Center that picks up where her first title, B... View Source

On Episode 210 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk with Dr. Robert Lillis of the Mars ESCAPADE mission... View Source

What drives the tech titans behind the AI arms race? For some, it's the thrill of scientific discovery; for others, it's the pursuit of profit. Through the story of DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis and other AI leaders, author Sebastian Mallaby explores how motivations ranging from scientific curiosity to commercial ambition and political power are shaping the future of the technology. We sat do... View Source

Both of these headsets are stellar in different ways. I really liked the SteelSeries Arctis Nova Pro Wireless, so the company didn't have to say much to get me excited about its successor. The $399 Nova Pro Omni that came out on May 5th has a similar design to the 2022 model, but with some new and improved features - support for wireless hi-res audio (24-bit / 96kHz audio over 2.4GHz), better mic... View Source

Playing Mixtape is like playing a video game version of a high school movie. Kids banter about the meaning of life and the theme songs that would play when they walk in a room. They're worried about looking cool at a big party. They're obsessed with finding booze. But under all of those tropes is a meaningful story about nostalgia, friendship, and teenage angst - and it's all backed by a great sou... View Source

See dazzling planets, the Milky Way and a trio of celestial animals brightening the spring sky around May's new moon... View Source

The last-gen InReach Mini 2 might require a subscription to use, but we guarantee it’s far more durable than your phone. | Image: Garmin REI’s annual Anniversary Sale — the retailer’s biggest of the year — has arrived, bringing with it discounts on all kinds of outdoor essentials. If you’ve got a camping trip coming up, now is a good time to stock up on the basics, whether it be a tent, sleeping p... View Source

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 128, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, sorry this one's so Mac-heavy, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've been reading about David Attenborough and screenwriters-turned-AI-trainers and the Subway Takes guy, listening to a lot of Productivity FM's mixes whil... View Source

NASA's Psyche flyby of Mars highlights how gravity assists help spacecraft gain speed, conserve fuel and travel across the solar system... View Source

Need a new laptop? It’s a tough decision. If you’re like most people, a laptop is one of the most expensive tech purchases you’ll make, and it’s something you’ll use and live with nearly every day for years to come. So there’s a lot riding on this pricey expense. I’ve tested all kinds of laptops, from cheap Windows computers and Chromebooks to bread-and-butter MacBooks and over-the-top gaming mach... View Source

Plus, a game with a perfect Tamagotchi pun for a name... View Source

States across the US are looking to take major sources of pollution and use them to generate much-needed power... View Source

Barry sits down with Former FDIC Chair Sheila Bair. They discuss the release of her latest book "How Not To Lose A Million Dollars" and the importance of financial literacy across age groups. Bair also discusses her concerns about crypto and the rise of Buy Now, Pay Later. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The company is also testing the ability to reposition the Windows 11 taskbar... View Source

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS was almost called 3I/Rubin, after researchers found that the giant survey telescope coincidentally spotted this visitor from the stars over a week before it was officially discovered... View Source

Elon Musk said he is not selling any SpaceX shares, with the company reported to be preparing to file publicly for its long-awaited IPO as soon as next week... View Source

The internet is made for shopping. For years, the main inputs for e-commerce transactions involved targeted ads, algorithmic recommendations, SEO, and lots of mindless scrolling. But agentic commerce might represent a sea change for e-commerce: With the rise of AI agents doing shopping on behalf of consumers, how are retailers going to adapt? John Collison, co-founder of the financial services and... View Source

On May 18, an asteroid about the size of Chicago’s Cloud Gate will fly four times closer to Earth than the moon... View Source

The internet is made for shopping. For years, the main inputs for e-commerce transactions involved targeted ads, algorithmic recommendations, SEO, and lots of mindless scrolling. But agentic commerce might represent a sea change for e-commerce: With the rise of AI agents doing shopping on behalf of consumers, how are retailers going to adapt? John Collison, co-founder of the financial services and... View Source

Adapting to a world where AI agents are doing the shopping... View Source

Even new creators can sign up for access... View Source

The equity story that powered European stocks has unraveled as investors seek shelter from a global energy shock and buy into the artificial intelligence frenzy... View Source

China’s large-scale data centers have joined electricity spot trading as virtual power plants for the first time, marking a shift in how computing demand interacts with the grid, a report in an official media said... View Source

SpaceX notified investors that it is executing a 5-for-1 stock split, a move that will reduce the price investors will pay for each share offered in its impending initial public offering... View Source

Signs that Delivery Hero SE may be preparing to sell more assets have powered the beaten-down stock to the best week since its 2017 listing... View Source

President Trump says he discussed guardrails on AI and Nvidia's H200 chips with Chinese leader Xi Jinping during a two-day summit in Beijing. Shari Liss, vice president of global workforce development and initiatives at SEMI, joins Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Tech" to discuss what this means for the US semiconductor sector. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

South Korea’s bond are set to extend this year’s rout as a semiconductor boom supercharges the nation’s economic growth and adds to inflationary pressures, analysts say... View Source

Figma shares rose after the creative software platform reported first-quarter results that beat expectations and raised its full-year forecast, with analysts saying the report eased concerns about AI-related disruption. Figma CEO Dylan Field joins Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Tech." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow break down the latest from Beijing after President Trump says he discussed Nvidia's H200 chips with Xi Jinping. Plus, they speak with the CEO of Figma after its earnings results defy fears that AI would disrupt the design stack. And, Caroline's conversation with OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar, who says the startup may raise more capital after completing its recent f... View Source

The companies are facing numerous other legal challenges... View Source

Bloomberg Television brings you the latest news and analysis leading up to the final minutes and seconds before and after the closing bell on Wall Street. Today's guests are Morgan Stanley’s Andrew Slimmon, China Moon Strategies President Jeff Moon, Bernstein Research’s Stacy Rasgon, Enbridge President & CEO Greg Ebel, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, Moneta Managing Director of Global Wealth A... View Source

Forbright Inc., a financial services platform that focuses on middle-market lending and digital consumer banking, filed for an initial public offering showing growing deposits... View Source

The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, carrying the Dragon cargo spacecraft atop, launched Friday, May 15, 2026, from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.Credit: NASA+ The 34th SpaceX commercial resupply mission under contract with NASA is headed to the International Space Station with new scientific experiments after lifting off at 6:05 p.m. EDT Friday on a Falcon 9 rock... View Source

Xbox just allcapsmaxxed: meet XBOX. This isn't a joke, Microsoft appears to be actually rebranding Xbox to XBOX. Asha Sharma, Xbox CEO, ran a poll on X earlier this week, asking fans whether Microsoft should use Xbox or XBOX? The results were in favor of XBOX, and the company has now renamed its X account. Curiously, the Threads and Bluesky accounts for Xbox haven't been renamed yet, but if Micros... View Source

Google’s YouTube and Snap Inc. reached agreements to settle the first lawsuit headed to trial over claims that addiction to top social media platforms has disrupted learning and pushed public schools to spend massive sums fighting a mental health crisis, according to court filings... View Source

Arm Holdings Plc is facing an antitrust investigation by the US Federal Trade Commission over the UK company’s licensing of its semiconductor technology, part of ongoing global scrutiny of the business, people familiar with the matter said... View Source

YouTube is expanding its AI likeness detection program to all users over the age of 18 - meaning just about anyone can have the platform hunt for potential deepfakes of themselves. The likeness detection feature uses a selfie-style scan of a person's face to monitor YouTube for lookalikes. If there is a match, YouTube alerts the user; the person then has the option to request that YouTube remove t... View Source

Barry sits down with Former FDIC Chair Sheila Bair. They discuss the release of her latest book "How Not To Lose A Million Dollars" and the importance of financial literacy across age groups. Bair also discusses her concerns about crypto and the rise of Buy Now, Pay Later. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Two crashes since July 2025 involved robotaxis being driven by remote operators... View Source

On today’s Big Take podcast: President Trump’s summit with Xi Jinping offered good optics, but gave little indication of progress on major sticking points... View Source

CATL will invest 5 billion yuan ($735 million) to significantly expand its sodium battery capacity by an added 40 GWh per year. According to a public document released on Thursday by environmental authorities in Ningde, Fujian province — CATL’s headquarters city — the expansion project will add 40 GWh of annual production capacity for sodium-ion ... Read more... View Source

What the devil does the fashion industry in The Devil Wears Prada 2 have to do with NASA?... View Source

Microsoft's latest Windows 11 test will allow you to reposition the taskbar and change the size of the Start menu. The update, which is rolling out to Windows 11 Insiders in the Experimental channel, lets you place the taskbar on the bottom, top, left, or right side of the screen. Microsoft first teased its movable taskbar in March as part of efforts to rebuild trust among users. You can adjust th... View Source

Figure, a robotics company developing humanoid robots that operate via AI, is running a livestream of one of its robots sorting packages in real time to show off its capabilities. The livestream was watched by millions across YouTube and X, but drew some skepticism. Figure CEO Brett Adcock joins Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Tech" to counter claims that its robots are teleo... View Source

Bungie details how it plans to grow its extraction shooter... View Source

ArXiv, a popular platform for preprint academic research, is taking a new step to attempt to reduce the volume of papers that include AI slop. If a paper has "incontrovertible evidence that the authors did not check the results of LLM generation," such as hallucinated references or "meta-comments" left by an LLM, authors will be banned from ArXiv for a year, according to Thomas Dietterich, ArXiv's... View Source

Bolt Technology OU agreed a deal with China’s Dongfeng Motor Group Co. to roll out an electric-vehicle fleet in South Africa that Yugo Rides will manage... View Source

Who's up for a Jak & Daxter / Half-Life hybrid?... View Source

On this episode of Stock Movers with Alexis Christoforous: - Gemini Space Station (GEMI) is rising after Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss made a $100 million “strategic investment” into the company. CEO Tyler Winklevoss said the investment will help fuel the company's ambition to evolve from a crypto company into a markets company. - Magnum Ice Cream (MICC) shares are jumped as much as 22%, the most s... View Source

Game preservation group Stop Killing Games advised on the bill... View Source

Several US occupations expected to be impacted by artificial intelligence saw heavy job losses for a second year in 2025, led by customer service representatives and certain types of secretaries and salespeople... View Source

The Cylons are hot on the trail of a fleet of survivors, and rejoining the Battlestar Galactica is their only hope in this brutal roguelite... View Source

The Musk v. Altman trial came to a close this week, and the final arguments kept circling back to one question: can we trust the people in charge of AI? All of this is playing out as SpaceX charges toward what could be one of the largest IPOs in American history, with a whole generation of founders already spinning out […]... View Source

Google updated its spam policy to mark attempts to "manipulate" its AI model in search results as spam, including results in AI Overview or AI Mode in Search, as Search Engine Land reports: "In the context of Google Search, spam refers to techniques used to deceive users or manipulate our Search systems into featuring content prominently, such as attempting to manipulate Search systems into rankin... View Source

Revolut Ltd. Chief Executive Officer Nik Storonsky is offering employees across the digital bank £1000 ($1,334) to woo more businesses to bank with Revolut, setting it as its highest priority to further boost the digital lender’s growth, valuation and revenue... View Source

If you’re not staying on top of Analogue 3D updates, now’s the time to start. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Analogue has released a new firmware update for its Analogue 3D console that adds the Memories save state feature. Memories, which was first introduced with its handheld Analogue Pocket, allows you to save at any moment and resume from that exact spot later on, rather than ha... View Source

Wade Rosen, the 41-year-old son of a wealthy Minnesota family, is aiming to make Atari the best retro video-game company in the world... View Source

Expert tester James Abbott rated the R5 Mark II with a flawless review, it produces impressive astrophotography and is a brilliant all-round mirrorless powerhouse, now at its best-ever price... View Source

OpenAI announced yet another reorganization Friday, consolidating certain areas and making company president Greg Brockman the official lead of all things product. In a memo viewed by The Verge, Brockman wrote that since OpenAI's product strategy for this year is to go all-in on AI agents, the company is combining its products to "invest in a single agentic platform and to merge ChatGPT and Codex... View Source

A pause in Iranian oil shipments from Kharg Island, the nation’s main export hub, is most likely the result of an oil spill in the area, according to TankerTrackers.com, a firm that uses satellite imagery to monitor vessel movements... View Source

The Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus was billed by the company in late March as one of its “fastest gaming desktop processor ever.” That hype was evidently accurate, as benchmarks done by Gamers Nexus show the processor giving AMD’s pricier X3D cache-equipped Ryzen 9000-series CPUs a run for their money. The Ultra 7 270K Plus also outperforms the Core i9 14900K in many tasks, which has long been a pre... View Source

Shares of Cerebras Systems Inc. soared about 68% in Nasdaq trading in New York. It’s the year’s biggest initial public offering and gives the company a market value of roughly $67 billion.  Bailey Lipschultz, Bloomberg News Senior Equities Reporter, discusses the initial offering and how the company is differentiating itself from incumbents like Nvidia. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

A bundle of both games, along with some DLC, arrives this summer... View Source

AI radio DJs demonstrated their volatile personalities. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Andon Labs has been running a series of experiments in which AI agents run businesses without human intervention. Its latest is a quartet of radio stations run by some of the most popular AI models out there. "Thinking Frequencies" is run by Claude, "OpenAIR" by ChatGPT, "Backlink Broadcast" by... View Source

SumerSports, a startup founded by Paul Tudor Jones, is trying to transform football using artificial intelligence. SūmerSports CEO Lorrissa Horton joined Bloomberg Open Interest to explain how NFL teams are using frame-by-frame AI tracking for scouting, player development, predictive play analysis, and fan engagement. It's all powered by hedge-fund style analytics that was originally inspired by f... View Source

The racing game's multiplayer servers will remain live for another year... View Source

The T1 Phone has the wrong number of stripes, but it does at least have 50 stars. | Screenshot: Trump Mobile Where's the Trump phone? We're going to keep talking about it every week. We've reached out, as usual, to ask about the Trump phone's whereabouts. This week, despite our best hopes, we still don't have our phone - but we do have some fresh doubts about the company's patriotic credentials. T... View Source

Diabetes equipment provider MiniMed is aiming to be the “self-driving car” of insulin pumps, says its CEO, Que Dallara. Hot off the heels of the company’s IPO, Dallara speaks with Caroline Hyde on the sidelines of the Consello Spark Summit. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

ChatGPT's new Plaid integration allows it pull information from more than 12,000 financial institutions... View Source

ESA's Mars Express orbiter captured dramatic new views of a rugged Martian landscape shaped by catastrophic floods billions of years ago... View Source

ChatGPT will even know how much credit card debt you have. | Image: OpenAI Your trust in AI is about to be put to the test: OpenAI will soon let you give the chatbot direct access to your bank accounts. The new feature announced in preview today will allow users to "securely connect" ChatGPT with Plaid - the bank-to-app bridging platform used by 12,000 financial institutions, including Schwab, Fid... View Source

Apple Inc.’s two-year-old partnership with OpenAI has become strained, according to people familiar with the matter, with the AI startup failing to see the expected benefits from the deal and now preparing possible legal action.  Anurag Rana, Bloomberg Intelligence Technology Analyst, joins to discuss. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The official Nest status page claims everything is running smoothly... View Source

The Memorial Day deals have arrived — err, at least some of them. BioLite, purveyors of all things solar, has kicked off a larger holiday promo ahead of May 26th, resulting in reduced pricing on smokeless fire pits, headlamps, and solar-powered stoves, just in time for summer. The company’s Site Lights are also on sale at Amazon, REI, and direct from BioLite for $74.89 ($25 off) through May 26th,... View Source

UnitedHealth Group Inc. is tracking how often some employees use artificial intelligence tools as part of a push to embed the technology throughout its operations, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS After NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover drilled a sample from this rock on April 25, 2026, it withdrew its robotic arm and pulled the entire rock off the surface with it. Engineers spent several days repositioning the arm and vibrating the drill to try and get the rock loose. When it finally detached on May 1, the rock broke into pieces. This close-up image of the rock was produced... View Source

Surrounded by streetlights and terraced houses, I never expected to capture detailed deep-space images from my backyard until I tried the Vaonis Vespera Pro telescope... View Source

Tom Polen, CEO of medical technology company BD, says that in the next decade AI and robotics will transform health care in ways that will make today’s system seem archaic. Polen sits down with Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde on the sidelines of the Consello Spark Summit. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Ofcom says X has committed to reviewing reported posts more quickly... View Source

This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent every Friday from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they're going to change your life. Opt in for Optimizer here. A few days ago, my esthetician was smearing hot wax on my face. The two caterpillars I call eyebrows were in desperate need of taming - as was my lady 'stache. I hate this... View Source

Dan Ives of Wedbush Securities says the Cerebras Systems IPO is a watershed moment for the tech sector. He sees the Nasdaq hitting 30,000 in the next six to nine months. He has more on "Bloomberg Surveillance." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

We also dive into all the new features in Android 17... View Source

An astronaut aboard the ISS captured the brilliant green and pink glow... View Source

This week, a trio of video game cabinets emblazoned with pixel art of Donald Trump and a number of other government officials' faces suddenly appeared at the DC War Memorial. Looking at the cabinets from a distance, it's easy to get the sense that Operation Epic Furious: Strait to Hell (which you can also play on the web) is just another monumental joke erected by DC-based art collective, The Secr... View Source

SambaNova CEO Rodrigo Liang joined Bloomberg  Open Interest to explain why the next AI war won’t be about training models, but rather it will be about  inference costs, compute shortages, and who can scale AI infrastructure profitably. In a direct contrast with Cerebras after its blockbuster IPO, Liang breaks down the coming AI supply crunch, exploding enterprise demand, and why inference could be... View Source

X is fighting for its users' right to anonymity against the far-right influencers and accused human traffickers Andrew and Tristan Tate, who are seeking to unmask their online critics. The Tate brothers filed suit against the owners of more than a dozen social media accounts - several of them run pseudonymously - last year, claiming the accounts engaged in a "Conspiratorial Plot" to defame them. A... View Source

As the Strait of Hormuz closure continues, the global energy crisis deepens, while inflation continues to rise and US consumer sentiment remains low. Why then, given all of this worrying news, is the stock market breaking records as tech companies continue to expand AI? On this episode of the Everybody's Business podcast, we are joined by Kyla Scanlon, author of In This Economy? How Money & Ma... View Source

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have mapped the "cosmic web" of galaxies, the largest structure in the universe, with unprecedented detail... View Source

Sonos has a new rival in town. Bose’s new Lifestyle Collection includes a $299 Lifestyle Ultra Speaker, a $1,099 Lifestyle Ultra Soundbar, and the $899 Ultra Subwoofer, all of which are now available directly from Bose and third-party retailers like Amazon and Best Buy. Bose Lifestyle Ultra Speaker Where to Buy: $299 at Amazon (white) $299 at Amazon (black) $349 at Bose (beige) The $299 Lifestyle... View Source

Samsung Electronics Co.’s top management made a rare visit to leaders of the company’s largest labor union late Friday in an effort to revive stalled wage negotiations after government-mediated talks collapsed earlier this week... View Source

Perhaps Bose's latest speaker is better as part of a larger system... View Source

British online safety regulator Ofcom says it has accepted new commitments from X that aim to better protect UK users from seeing illegal hate and terror content on the platform. Under the agreement announced today, X says it will withhold access in the UK to accounts reported posting illegal terrorist content and determined to be operated by UK terror groups and assess "at least 85 percent" of te... View Source

S&P 500 Index futures fall 1% as of 7:48 a.m. in New York amid a broad global selloff in bonds... View Source

Human staff members will still check the AI's findings... View Source

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Look for the Great Diamond of Spring in May's night sky and discover the rich realm of galaxies within... View Source

US President Donald Trump said he discussed guardrails on artificial intelligence with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, while adding that Nvidia Corp.’s H200 chips also came up during a two-day summit in Beijing... View Source

The company is supporting ABC in a more spirited way than it did last year... View Source

And Google I/O isn't until next week... View Source

Last summer, Peter Degen's postdoctoral supervisor came to him with an unusual problem: One of his papers was being cited too much. Citations are the currency of academia, but there was something unusual about these. Published in 2017, the paper had assessed the accuracy of a particular type of statistical analysis on epidemiological data and had received a respectable few dozen citations in other... View Source

Here’s how you can hack together a radio transmitter and receiver out of stuff you have at home—and explore the weirdness of wireless... View Source

Applied Materials Inc., the largest US supplier of semiconductor equipment, gave sales and profit forecasts that far exceeded analysts’ estimates, fueled by soaring demand for AI computing and memory chips... View Source

Apple is taking the claims seriously... View Source

Reducing the fee will only have a marginal impact on prices while depriving the government of revenue to maintain roads... View Source

A jury will soon cast a vote and a judge will ultimately decide the outcome of a high-stakes showdown between Elon Musk and Sam Altman over OpenAI, the artificial intelligence startup they founded together more than a decade ago... View Source

The initial run will focus on older Apple Silicon systems... View Source

Black holes smashing together may churn dark matter "butter," scientists say... View Source

The crypto hacks came a little over two weeks apart in April, netting the attackers almost $600 million in total while triggering an investor exodus from one major platform and causing another to fail... View Source

Pershing Square Chief Executive Officer Bill Ackman said he’s taken a new stake in Microsoft Corp. after a recent decline in the share price... View Source

Shenzhen Adtek Technology Co. has filed for an initial public offering in Hong Kong, adding to a wave of listings by Chinese companies related to data centers and artificial intelligence... View Source

Technoprobe SpA rose by a record amount after the Italian company  raised its guidance and said demand is surging for its semiconductor testing equipment... View Source

Schneider Electric Chairman Jean-Pascal Tricoire discusses how geopolitical tensions are reshaping global energy production, the growth potential across the African continent, and the role of energy efficiency and AI in powering the continent’s future. He speaks with Bloomberg TV's Jennifer Zabasajja at the Africa CEO Forum in Kigali. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

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Kioxia Holdings Corp., the world’s best performing major stock this year, said it would list its shares in the US as it reaps the benefits of a global memory chip shortage that’s ratcheted up prices of the vital component to historic highs... View Source

STT Global Data Centres India Pvt. is considering an initial public offering in Mumbai that could raise as much as $500 million, according to people familiar with the matter, as investor demand for digital infrastructure accelerates... View Source

Lotus Technology Inc. is having trouble finding a partner in Europe to build electric-vehicle batteries that will help it localize production and navigate the region’s complex content rules, its chief executive officer said... View Source

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Robotics has become one of the hottest stock themes in Asia as the artificial intelligence trade broadens beyond the region’s chipmakers... View Source

“Bloomberg: The China Show” is your definitive source for news and analysis on the world's second-biggest economy. From politics and policy to tech and trends, David Ingles and Yvonne Man give global investors unique insight, delivering in-depth discussions with the newsmakers who matter. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Albert S. Hu, Executive Director & CEO of intelligent driving technology firm CiDi, discusses China's technological strengths and how companies like his benefit from partnerships between China and the rest of the world. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Gustav Witzoe decided to stay in Norway despite wealth tax increases that cost him around $100,000 a day, and is embracing technology to help grow the family business... View Source

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OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar says the ChatGPT maker may raise more capital even after completing what she described as the largest private fundraising round ever. She speaks with Caroline Hyde on Bloomberg Television. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

A UK investment fund is urging shareholders of pen tablet maker Wacom Co. to remove two top executives over the Japanese company’s weak performance and unsuccessful management moves... View Source

OpenAI Chief Financial Officer Sarah Friar said the ChatGPT maker may raise more capital even after completing what she described as the largest private fundraising round ever, as the company races to secure scarce computing power to meet surging AI demand... View Source

OpenAI CRO Denise Dresser said that the company's enterprise business - which makes up 40% of its total revenue - has "incredible momentum" and was expected to reach 50% by the end of the year. Dresser made the comments in an exclusive interview with BTV's Tom Mackenzie on Thursday. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Alphabet Inc. sold ¥576.5 billion ($3.6 billion) of bonds in the biggest ever yen deal by a non-Japanese company as competition to fund centers and AI infrastructure intensifies... View Source

Hana Bank, one of South Korea’s largest commercial lenders, has acquired a 1 trillion won ($670 million) stake in crypto exchange operator Dunamu, in the latest sign that the country’s banks are ready to embrace digital assets... View Source

Apollo Global Management Inc.-backed West Technology is engaged in exclusive talks to sell its remaining operating business to a counter-party, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

RNDA 3 players can start using it in over 300 games this July... View Source

Bloomberg Television brings you the latest news and analysis leading up to the final minutes and seconds before and after the closing bell on Wall Street. Today's guests are SoFI Investment strategy head Liz Thomas, Dow Chair & CEO Jim Fitterling, Meredith Whitney Advisory Group CEO Meredith Whitney, VF Corporation CEO Bracken Darrell, Morgan Stanley’s Michelle Weaver, UC San Diego’s Caroline... View Source

Uncertainty in the Middle East is apparently forcing the location change... View Source

Anthropic PBC’s legal dispute with the US government over whether the company’s artificial intelligence models will be banned from federal agencies has emerged as a financial threat to other businesses... View Source

The distinction between various flavors of HDMI can get a bit technical... View Source

India’s government ratcheted up steps to curb foreign outflows and cushion the economy from the fallout of the Iran war... View Source

The Tourer model features a fold-out mattress, removable window blinds and more... View Source

Yesterday, in Musk v. Altman, before the jurors came in, Sam Altman's team passed up what looked - from a distance - like a little league trophy. It was not. Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers had the lawyers read the inscription aloud for the press: "Never stop being a jackass." It's a commemoration OpenAI employees bought for research scientist Josh Achiam, who testified yesterday. How exactly did this come... View Source

Two top performing space stocks have been on blistering rallies that risk soon burning short sellers betting against the highfliers, according to data provider S3 Partners... View Source

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Honda revealed prototypes of two new hybrid models, an Accord sedan and the Acura RDX SUV, during its annual business briefing this week, built on a platform that it says will begin launching next year. The RDX was announced earlier this year as Honda's first SUV to feature the next-gen version of its two-motor hybrid system. Honda also announced it's dropping the goal of having one-fifth of its s... View Source