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Airbnb plans to double down on artificial intelligence to improve its user experience for both guests and hosts. During a fourth-quarter earnings call, Airbnb's CEO, Brian Chesky, said the company is building an "AI-native experience" aimed at helping guests book trips, assisting hosts with their listings, and running the company more efficiently. According to Chesky, there's a... View Source

ISS now fully crewed after a medical issue forced the evacuation of four astronauts in JanuaryThe International Space Station (ISS) returned to full strength with Saturday’s arrival of four new astronauts to replace colleagues who bailed early because of health concerns.SpaceX delivered the US, French and Russian astronauts a day after launching them from Cape Canaveral. Continue reading... View Source

The Crew-12 mission, SpaceX’s 20th human spaceflight, launched at 5:15 AM Eastern on February 13 from Cape Canaveral in Florida. It’s expected to dock with the International Space Station today, February 14, at 3:15 PM, and you can watch the event below as it happens. By the time the mission’s Dragon capsule docks with the ISS, it will have traveled approximately 34 hours since lift off. Inside ar... View Source

Disney is going after another generative AI tool, accusing ByteDance and its recently released Seedance 2.0 of using its copyrighted material without permission. As first reported on by Axios, the Walt Disney Company sent a cease-and-desist letter to ByteDance, claiming the Chinese company developed its Seedance tool "with a pirated library of Disney's copyrighted characters from Star Wa... View Source

Whether you're single, in a relationship, or even a situationship, fall in love with these sci-fi couples this Valentine's Day... View Source

Need something new for your reading list? Here are two titles we think are worth checking out. This week, we read Aoife Josie Clements' deeply unsettling Persona, and the first issue of Bleeding Hearts, from the relaunch of the DC imprint, Vertigo. This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/entertainment/what-to-read-this-weekend-the-unsettling-new-horror-novel-p... View Source

OpenAI's GPT-4o may have survived its first brush with going offline, but it won't be as lucky this time. OpenAI has officially retired GPT-4o, the ChatGPT model that was seen as more conversational and notoriously sycophantic, on February 13. The news of GPT-4o's end was first announced in a post on the OpenAI website in January, but the discontinuation also included GPT-5, GPT-4.1... View Source

Buying a pre-assembled gaming desktop makes sense for some. It can save you time and money, too, compared to buying PC components piecemeal. If you’re weighing your options, consider some Presidents Day offers on iBuyPower’s pre-built desktops, including the $1,899 RDY Element 9 Pro R07 and the $2,099.99 Slate — both of which are stocked with high-end AMD processors and GPUs that can tear through... View Source

There’s a playable henge of fiddles. | Image: Georgia Tech / The Verge Georgia Tech has announced the finalists in its annual Guthman Musical Instrument Competition. Every year, for the last 28 years, the school invites inventors from around the world to submit new instruments of their own design to compete for $10,000 in prizes. Past finalists have included founding members of Teenage Engineering... View Source

My ongoing quest to turn my iPhone into one of my favorite consoles of all time has led me to a curiously named controller. GameSir's Pocket Taco is only barely pocketable, and distinctly lacking in taco fillings, but for $35, it's an excellent and easy way to turn your phone into a Game Boy-inspired handheld for playing retro games that don't require a pair of thumbsticks. Unlike the Abxylute M4... View Source

In an eyewitness video analyzed frame by frame by The New York Times, Alex Pretti raises one hand and holds a phone in the other. Federal agents tackle him, and one appears to find and remove a gun holstered on his hip. Then, an agent shoots - and a second follows. They appear to fire nine more shots as Pretti lies on the ground. The Trump administration has claimed Pretti was shot because of his... View Source

From 'Roswell' to 'Outlander,' these romantic sci-fi TV series are guaranteed to warm cold hearts this winter... View Source

Phoebe Callas, 30, is not real, but she was an AI companion I went on a speed date with. Hopping over a pile of dirty snow, I arrived on a frigid February evening at a wine bar in midtown, a purple neon sign reading "EVA AI cafe." Inside, several people were seated at tables and booths, staring at phones. Servers milled about, placing mini potato croquettes and nonalcoholic spritzers on each table... View Source

The Rosette Nebula is located 5,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Monoceros... View Source

Colonialism is not merely about occupying nations. It's a project of mass violence, part of which involves total erasure and the widespread theft of some of the most culturally significant artifacts in the world. Even today, colonizing nations proudly display stolen artifacts, acting as peacocking robbers under the guise of tourism. See, for example, the British Museum's continual hold of the Egyp... View Source

It was supposed to be a relatively relaxing work week in the South Florida sun for the hundreds of bankers, brokers, advisers, portfolio managers, analysts and investors attending a series of financial industry conferences from Miami to Boca Raton. Then AI crashed the party... View Source

On Episode 197 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk with Aarti Holla-Maini and Rick Jenet about the importance of the United Nations Office of Outer Space Affairs... View Source

Monday, February 16th, is Presidents Day, and there are plenty of good deals happening on tech in the run-up to the holiday. Even if you don’t snag any huge upgrades, though, you likely already own multiple gadgets that you need to recharge each and every day. It would sure be nice to be able to charge two devices at once, and you can do just that with Anker’s braided, two-headed USB-C cable — whi... View Source

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has reportedly been asking tech companies for information on accounts posting anti-ICE sentiments. According to The New York Times, DHS has sent hundreds of administrative subpoenas to Google, Reddit, Discord and Meta over the past few months. Homeland Security asked the companies for names, email addresses, telephone numbers and any other identifying deta... View Source

Astronomers have spotted a heart in the cosmos — not Cupid's doing, but a dying star shedding its layers — just in time for Valentine's Day... View Source

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 116, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, happy National Ferris Wheel Day to all those who celebrate, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've been reading about Letterboxd and Mike Vrabel and AI influencers and daytime talk show economics, taking copious notes on... View Source

Apple has steadily expanded home screen customization on the iPhone over the past few years, and iOS 26 continues that trend with more visual control over app icons. Building on the changes introduced in iOS 18, the latest update lets you resize icons, remove app labels, apply system-wide color tints and make icons translucent using Apple’s new Liquid Glass design language.Most of these options li... View Source

The most striking thing about Ring's statement that it had parted ways with Flock Safety is what the home security company didn't say. There was no mention of the public backlash around ties to ICE, or any promise to address users' concerns about the company's relationships with law enforcement. In an increasingly authoritarian political climate, the threat of mass surveillance fueled by AI-powere... View Source

Welcome to our latest roundup of what's going on in the indie game space. A whole bunch of compelling games arrived this week, and Sony dropped some news about more that are on the way to PS5 and other platforms during its State of Play stream on Thursday. For one thing, I didn’t have a prequel for Neva, one of my favorite games of the last few years on my bingo card. I’m very much looki... View Source

SpaceX's Crew-12 astronaut mission will dock with the short-staffed International Space Station this afternoon (Feb. 14), and you can watch the off-Earth action live... View Source

China’s market regulator summoned major online platform companies on Friday, directing them to comply with laws and regulations, and rein in promotional practices... View Source

It's been eight years since I last reviewed a robot vacuum. Having spent the last two months with a new flagship, I'm shocked by how much they've advanced from early bump-and-run models. In October, DJI launched its very first robovacs in Europe. I've been testing the top-of-the-line Romo P model, which doesn't yet have a US release date. It includes a self-cleaning base station, a mopping functio... View Source

The DJI Romo robot vacuum in its translucent dock. | Image: DJI Sammy Azdoufal claims he wasn't trying to hack every robot vacuum in the world. He just wanted to remote control his brand-new DJI Romo vacuum with a PS5 gamepad, he tells The Verge, because it sounded fun. But when his homegrown remote control app started talking to DJI's servers, it wasn't just one vacuum cleaner that replied. Rough... View Source

Big Tech keeps raising its spending plans for artificial intelligence infrastructure, yet shares of Nvidia Corp., one of the biggest beneficiaries of that flood of cash, have been largely stagnant for months... View Source

The Pentagon added Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., BYD Co., Baidu Inc. and TP-Link Technologies Co. to a list of companies that aid the Chinese military – before withdrawing it minutes later without explanation... View Source

Jonathan Golub of Seaport Research Partners says the tech basket of stocks is "incredibly attractive." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The US Federal Trade Commission is accelerating scrutiny of Microsoft Corp. as part of an ongoing probe into whether the company illegally monopolizes large swaths of the enterprise computing market with its cloud software and AI offerings, including Copilot... View Source

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. has rolled out a new custom basket aimed at navigating the growing upheaval in software stocks, betting on companies perceived to be better insulated from artificial intelligence disruption than others... View Source

Anthropic has completed a deal to raise $30 billion in new funding at a $380 billion valuation. Bloomberg’s Shirin Ghaffary discusses what’s driving this round. She joins Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... 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 Federated Hermes’ RJ Gallo, KPMG’s Diane Swonk, UBS’ Matthew Mish, ProShares’ Mo Haghbin, US Ambassador to NATO Matthew Whitaker, Moody’s Ratings’ Marc Pinto, Punto Research’s Cristina Morales, and 1-800-Flowers.com’s Adolfo V... View Source

Adolfo Villagomez, CEO of 1-800-Flowers.com, discusses the company’s performance and outlook ahead of Valentine’s Day, its third-biggest holiday after Christmas and Mother’s Day, as the company marks its 50th anniversary. He speaks with Katie Greifeld and Bailey Lipschultz on "The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Marc Pinto, Moody’s Global Head of Private Credit, discusses rising investor anxiety amid a year-to-date decline in software stocks. He speaks with Katie Greifeld and Bailey Lipschultz on The Close. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Insatiable demand for AI is driving trillions in spending and those trillions will power the development of the moon and the entire solar system... View Source

A data center project expected to be leased by Nvidia Corp. sold $3.8 billion of junk bonds on Friday after receiving about $14 billion of orders from investors, an indication that lenders are eager to continue funding the buildout of artificial-intelligence infrastructure. Bloomberg's Aaron Weinman reports. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Scientists have named two systems of colliding supermassive black holes after Lord of the Rings locations, Gondor and Rohan... View Source

The Pentagon added Alibaba, BYD, Baidu and TP-Link Technologies Co. to a list of companies that aid the Chinese military – before withdrawing it minutes later without explanation. The moves on Friday roiled shares of the affected listed companies and left analysts wondering about the administration’s intentions. If the list is reposted, they said it would be a show of strength ahead of President D... View Source

Wall Street entered 2026 all-in — record-low cash, minimal hedging, maximum conviction. Six weeks later, a slew of consensus trades are misfiring... View Source

Twilio posted solid fourth-quarter results, driven in part by gains in voice and messaging, but shares slipped on a muted outlook. Twilio CEO, Khozema Shipchandler joins Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

GPT-4o showed the unique attachment that people can form with chatbots... View Source

Killing Satoshi, an upcoming biopic about the elusive creator of Bitcoin, will reportedly rely heavily on artificial intelligence to generate locations and adjust actors' performances, Variety reports. The film was announced in 2025 as being directed by Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity, The Edge of Tomorrow) and starring Casey Affleck and Pete Davidson in undisclosed roles, but its connection... View Source

A mysterious object has caused a long-lasting and extreme dimming of a distant star, but is this object a 'failed star' brown dwarf, or an exceptionally massive super-Jupiter exoplanet?... View Source

The close timing of Jeffrey Epstein coming into contact with 4chan founder Chris 'moot' Poole and the launch of the "politically incorrect" message board /pol/ that became a breeding ground for QAnon and the white supremacist alt-right movement was coincidental, says Poole. In a statement given to The Verge, Pool writes, "The decision to add the board was made weeks beforehand, and the board was a... View Source

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow discuss earnings from Rivian, Coinbase, Instacart, and Airbnb. Plus, the US Defense Department added Alibaba, Baidu and others to a list of firms it says are connected to the Chinese military and then pulled the list from its website. And Anthropic raises $30 billion in funding, doubling its valuation to $380 billion. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Five Democratic US senators are asking the Trump administration to explain its decision to lift sanctions on people the government had previously accused of helping spread sophisticated surveillance technology that’s allegedly been used against Americans... View Source

If you like how well AirPods work with iPhones but want something more colorful and flexible, the Beats Studio Buds Plus are a nice middle ground. They’re platform-agnostic and are on sale for $99.95 ($70 off) at Amazon, Best Buy, Target, and Walmart for Presidents Day. The deal includes the eye-catching translucent option and is just $10 shy of the buds’ best price to date.  Beats Studio Bud... View Source

X-Energy Reactor Co., an advanced nuclear company backed by Amazon.com Inc., received federal approval to make uranium fuel for advanced reactors, the first such new license in more than 50 years... View Source

An upcoming update to Steam includes a helpful improvement to game reviews. As part of the Steam Client Beta update Valve released on February 12, users will now be able to attach information about their hardware specifications when they post a new game review or update an old one.It's not uncommon to find negative reviews that complain about a game's performance, information that's... View Source

Oura has taken to Washington to lobby for relaxed wearable regulation. 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. For the past week, I've been thinking about the fact that Oura has gone to Washington. The Oura Ring... View Source

Venture firm Primary has closed a $625 million fund. Primary's co-founder and general partner Ben Sun discusses why seed rounds have grown so large and what is unlocking new value for investors. Sun speaks with Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

After an inauspicious debut, Paul Giamatti's space pirate has emerged as a villain to be reckoned with on 'Star Trek: Starfleet Academy.'... View Source

You can watch Ring's recent Super Bowl ad and see a cute story about dogs being reunited with their families. You can also watch the very same ad and see the seeds being planted for a massively connected, utterly ubiquitous surveillance system that will end the concept of privacy forever. Maybe you can even see both at the same time. Verge subscribers, don't forget you get exclusive access to ad-f... View Source

For three years, AI was the stock market’s savior. Suddenly, it’s become a marauder, and virtually no corner of the equity market looks safe from its impact... View Source

If you're a fan of Lego Star Wars and are excited for The Mandalorian and Grogu, you'll want to build Walmart's exclusive New Republic X-Wing Starfighter set... View Source

On TikTok, creators are combing through the Epstein files for views and clout. | Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images "where are you? Are you ok , I loved the torture video," reads one email, allegedly sent by Jeffrey Epstein in 2009. The reply, from a redacted address, states: "I am in china I will be in the US 2nd week of may." Her face hovering over a screenshot of the exchange, a TikTok cre... View Source

Snowpack levels across a wide swath of western US states are among the lowest seen in decades, even as regulators struggle to negotiate water rights in the region... View Source

OpenAI has partnered with two defense technology companies that the Pentagon has selected to compete to develop voice-controlled, drone swarming software for the US military, according to multiple people familiar with the matter... View Source

One to orbit, one to the moon... View Source

User reviews on Steam may get more informative after a Steam Client Beta update released on Thursday, which adds an option for users to attach their hardware specs to game reviews. Steam users have always been able to share their specs in the text of their reviews, but the option to automatically include that data could encourage more users to add it, potentially making reviews more useful. When a... View Source

One way to get out of the video-game industry funk is to recognize that players aren’t spending $70 on most games... View Source

US Vice President Kamala Harris during a Commander in Chief farewell ceremony at Joint Base Myers-Henderson Hall in Arlington, Virginia, US, on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025. The Biden administration advanced a plan to limit oil drilling and infrastructure across more of Alaska's National Petroleum Reserve, a bid to lock in land protections and conservation requirements days before President-elect Donal... View Source

Concentrix Corp., a US firm that provides outsourced customer service and call-center operations for other companies, paid a hefty price this week to refinance debt amid fears that artificial intelligence will undermine its business... View Source

The forthcoming Nintendo Virtual Boy accessory for Switch and Switch 2 can play VR-supported games, as reported by Video Games Chronicle. There are four available games to play, including Super Mario Odyssey, Super Smash Bros Ultimate, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker. These aren't new VR builds of the games, rather they are the versions previously re... View Source

YouTube's superstar serves up a disturbing indie thriller bathed in blood for his directorial debut... View Source

The past few days have been a wild ride for xAI, which is racking up staff and cofounder departure announcements left and right. On Tuesday and Wednesday, cofounder Yuhuai (Tony) Wu announced his departure and that it was "time for [his] next chapter," with cofounder Jimmy Ba following with a similar post later that day, writing that it was "time to recalibrate [his] gradient on the big picture."... View Source

Jim Cantrell helped launch SpaceX. Now he's helping to build AI data centers -- in space. His company, Phantom Space, mass-manufactures rockets and spacecraft and it's building orbital data centers called Phantom Cloud to power AI in space. As demand for computing explodes, Earth’s data centers are hitting limits. Cantrell’s solution is to move the cloud off the planet. He joined "Bloomberg Open I... View Source

Where's the Trump phone? We're going to keep talking about it every week. Last week, we spoke to executives from the company for the first time, and this week we're back with more details on how it began. Trump Mobile may bear the US president's name, but he didn't come up with the idea, and neither did any Trump. In fact, it was the executives at MVNO Liberty Mobile that approached the Trumps wit... View Source

A review of holdings across seven major business development companies found wide variation in how investments tied to the software sector are categorized. Olivia Fishlow reports on "Bloomberg Open Interest." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

As part of its acquisition by China-based Picea Robotics, iRobot is creating a new US-based subsidiary called iRobot Safe, which the company says will be "responsible for the protection of US consumer data," similar to the TikTok deal that was completed last month. iRobot customers in the US will be able to continue using their robovacs as usual, but now their data will be handled by iRobot Safe,... View Source

Morgan Stanley Investment Management Portfolio Solutions CIO James Caron says the chance of the recent selloff in software-related stocks to create contagion is relatively low and it's a great time to be a stock picker instead of a passive investor. He speaks on "Bloomberg Surveillance." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

You've seen this movie before: A disheveled man (Sam Rockwell) busts into a restaurant, threatening to blow up the joint unless a crew of people joins him. Like Groundhog Day, he's been through this countless times before, and he immediately starts recounting otherwise unknowable details to convince the diner patrons. Like 12 Monkeys, he's from the future — the timely twist in... View Source

NASA/Aubrey Gemignani A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company’s Dragon spacecraft is launched on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission to the International Space Station with NASA astronauts Jessica Meir, Jack Hathaway, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev onboard, Friday, Feb. 13, 2026, from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida... View Source

Queen Anne Courts mobile home park where there ICE activity has been reported in Lakeville, MN on February 5th, 2026. | Photo by Jaida Grey Eagle / The Verge We sat in a parking lot and waited. We watched, knowing we were being watched in return. Two men, masked and presumably armed, idled in a gray SUV. "They're all on this fucking street now," Lety, a lifelong resident of the Minnesota suburbs,... View Source

The founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, does not often post on the social media site owned by his rival Elon Musk. But on Monday, Bezos did, sharing on X a black and white image of a turtle emerging from the shadows. The photo, which included no text, may have stumped some observers. Yet for anyone familiar with Bezos' privately owned space company, Blue Origin, the message was clear. The company’s coa... View Source

Amazon.com Inc. shares are on track for their longest streak of daily losses in almost 20 years, as investors continue to question how much the e-commerce and cloud-computing company spends on capital expenditures... View Source

The Meta Quest 3S is an excellent entry-level headset that’s currently $250. | Image: The Verge Meta’s VR strategy is in a bit of an uncertain place right now, with the company recently cutting many jobs at its Reality Labs, and discontinuing new content drops in beloved experiences like Supernatural. Even so, there’s still a lot of fun to be had with its Meta Quest 3S if you’ve been curious about... View Source

Shareholders in the blank-check vehicle taking quantum computing firm Infleqtion Inc. public have approved the tie-up, setting the stage for more debuts in the sector and piling pressure on companies to show the technology is getting closer to maturity... View Source

Meta has backed away from highly controversial facial recognition tech in its products and services before, but seemingly not so far that it isn’t willing to have another crack at it. A new report from The New York Times claims Mark Zuckerberg’s company wants to add facial recognition to its lineup of branded smart glasses at some point this year. The NYT spoke to four anonymous people with k... View Source

The OPT100 camera comes in three retro designs. | Image: Kakaku Following the popularity of the Kodak Charmera, it was inevitable that other retro-inspired digital toy cameras would start popping up. While the Charmera's design was inspired by the '80s single-use Kodak Fling camera, the OPT100 Neo Film crams a basic digital camera into a 35mm film roll that comes inside a plastic canister and a s... View Source

Defense startup Shield AI is in talks to raise as much as $1 billion in a deal that would more than double its valuation in less than a year, according to people familiar with the efforts... View Source

Every once in a while, a product comes along that sparks a bit of joy in our jaded hearts. This is what happened with the Kodak Charmera, a $30 tiny toy camera that was nearly impossible to get ahold of in the first couple of months after its release, selling out immediately over waves of blind box restocks. Despite the gimmick of it all, the Charmera was just too cute for some of us to resist, an... View Source

We take a look at the best (and worst) places to ski in the solar system, logistics aside... View Source

NFL Hall of Famer and three-time Super Bowl Champion Jerry Rice joined Netapp Chief Marketing Officer Gabie Boko to talk to Bloomberg's Randall Williams about how data is helping to enhance football both on the field and off. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Meta went to court this week in two major trials over alleged harms facilitated by its platform. In New Mexico, the state's attorney general has accused the company of facilitating child exploitation and harming children through addictive features. In a separate case in Los Angeles, a California woman sued the company over mental health harms she says she suffered as the result of addictive d... View Source

When the Mewgenics team announced in 2024 that it had added autism to the list of disorders the game's cats could inherit, developer Edmund McMillen - best known as the co-creator of Super Meat Boy - was unprepared for the reaction. "It was like the most positive response I've ever had to anything I posted," he says. On Reddit and TikTok, fans expressed gratitude and excitement for the inclusion... View Source

Kelsey Berro, fixed income portfolio manager at JPMorgan Asset Management, discusses the relative calm in fixed income as opposed to the AI-related selloff in stocks. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

One good thing about virtual private networks (VPNs) is that when they don't work, the problem is almost always solvable without technical training. Although it's aggravating when your VPN randomly drops your connection, the chances are good that you can handle the issue yourself without getting tech support involved.If your VPN is repeatedly disconnecting from the server, I recommend de... View Source

Eclipses don't happen at random — they arrive in pairs, on schedule, and 2026 brings two spectacular seasons to prove it... View Source

Nice laptop. It’d be a shame if someone were to, say, lock you into some convoluted terms and conditions for it. | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge There's been some hullabaloo over HP's laptop subscription service, recently brought to light by a Linus Tech Tips video. And for good reason: it feels like everything is a subscription these days. But it's not just the dystopian feeling that... View Source

As voters grow concerned over AI's impact, a new industry-backed super PAC is helping candidates who favor a lighter regulatory touch. ... View Source

A few days ago, a Redditor posted in the community for DoorDash drivers that they received an offer to close a Waymo vehicle’s door. The job paid a guaranteed fee of $6.25 with a $5 extra on top of it after the DoorDasher verifies that it has been completed. Waymo has confirmed to 404Media and TechCrunch that, yes, it is indeed paying Dashers to shut the doors of its self-driving cars. And it make... View Source

Welcome to Edition 8.29 of the Rocket Report! We have a stuffed report this week with news from across the launch spectrum. Long-term, probably the most significant development this week was a subscale version of the Long March 10 rocket successfully launching and then executing a picture-perfect ocean landing. China is catching up rapidly to the United States when it comes to reusable launch. As... View Source

Recent moves hint at competition in a new slice of the market... View Source

Threads users have complained about its recommendation algorithm since the dawn of time 2023. Users even started writing posts addressed to the algorithm, specifying the topics they wanted to see more of. Now, that’s part of the system: Users can write a post that begins with “dear algo” to adjust their preferences, officially.For example, you could write: “Dear algo, show me more posts about sous... View Source

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with a Dragon spacecraft atop carrying NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev lifts off at 5:15 a.m. EST, Feb. 13, 2026, from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida to the International Space Station. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 is the 12th crew... View Source

As more satellite megaconstellations continue to be launched, researchers are exploring the odds people could be struck by falling debris from reentering spacecraft... View Source

Apollo Global Management Inc. is in early talks to partner with Revolut Ltd. and offer its funds to retail customers in Europe through the fintech’s platform... View Source

In this episode of "Bloomberg Tech: Europe," Tom Mackenzie explores the race to unlock quantum computing — a technology promising exponential leaps in processing power. As venture capital floods into the sector, investors are betting it could transform drug discovery, machine learning, cybersecurity, finance and defense. But with practical applications still years away, can quantum live up t... View Source

SpaceX launched NASA's Crew-12 mission with a quartet of astronauts aboard Crew Dragon Freedom today (Feb. 13), bound for an eight-month stint on the International Space Station... View Source

December 9, 2024 marked a turning point for quantum computing, when Google unveiled its Willow chip - triggering a surge in investor interest and sending publicly traded quantum stocks soaring. More than a year later, Bloomberg's Tom Mackenzie speaks to leading European pioneers to ask: Are we any closer to real-world, mainstream quantum computing? We hear from Nu Quantum CEO & founder Carmen... View Source

There's a new AAA John Wick game coming with Keanu Reaves portraying the main character both in voice and likeness, Lionsgate and Saber Interactive announced. Currently untitled, it's in development for PS5, Xbox Series X and S, and PC, and will be a single-player third-person experience designed for "mature" audiences. So far, there's no release date.  "The new... View Source

Jeffrey Epstein tapped online reputation management firms to bury negative coverage of his 2008 sex offense conviction and flood the internet with favorable content in a years-long effort to rehabilitate his public image... View Source

Death Stranding 2: On the Beach will be available on PC starting on March 19, Kojima Productions has announced at State of Play. The studio worked with Dutch video game developer Nixxes Software, which Sony acquired in 2021 to help bring PlayStation games to PCs. The sequel to the first Death Stranding is set in Australia almost a year after the events of the original game. It still features a pos... View Source

Ares Management Corp. is leading a private credit financing of about €1.4 billion ($1.7 billion) for Scandinavian software business EG A/S, people with knowledge of the matter said... View Source

Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls was first announced last year as a tag fighting game feature superheroes including Captain America, Ms Marvel and Spider-Man, with a launch sometime in 2026. We expected more details to be revealed at Sony's State of Play yesterday and indeed they were. The game will arrive August 6 on PS5 and PC and include the Unbreakable X-Men's Storm, Magik, Wolverine, an... View Source

Pinterest Inc. shares fell more than 20% after the company projected current-quarter sales that fell short of Wall Street estimates, just weeks after announcing layoffs and a pivot toward artificial intelligence products... View Source

A solar concentrator is tested as part of the Carbothermal Reduction Demonstration (CaRD) project, which aims to produce oxygen from simulated lunar regolith for use at the Moon’s south pole. During this integrated test, the team combined the concentrator, mirrors, and control software and confirmed the production of carbon monoxide.NASA/Michael Rushing NASA’s Carbothermal Reduction Demonstration... View Source

Chinese artificial-intelligence model developer Zhipu is planning a second listing in Shanghai following its recent $558 million initial public offering in Hong Kong, a sign of confidence that the country’s generative-AI rally still has legs... View Source

In early January, hackers drained over $200 million from a crypto wallet and swapped some of the loot into Monero, a type of digital token designed to be near-impossible to trace. To Monero’s most devoted fans, it was a sign that things were working just the way they should... View Source

At Sony's State of Play yesterday, developer Nomada Studio revealed a DLC prequel to its gorgeous and award-winning puzzle platformer Neva. Entitled simply Neva: Prologue, it tells the story of how Alba and her wolf companion Neva met, while introducing new gameplay mechanics, locales and challenges.  "In Neva: Prologue, players follow Alba as she chases a trail of white butterflies... View Source

The CGO Compact’s handlebar twists and the pedals fold to hug a wall or lay flat in a car. | Image: Tenways Tenways just launched its new CGO Compact electric bike in Europe that's designed to fit into tight spaces like car trunks, apartment hallways, and train compartments. To achieve this, the CGO Compact is fitted with small 20-inch wheels, folding pedals, and a handlebar fitted with a twistabl... View Source

Paul Thwaite, chief executive officer of NatWest Group Plc, discusses the lender’s fourth-quarter earnings which beat estimates with a 30% jump in pretax income. Speaking on Bloomberg Television, he also comments on the UK economic outlook and the use of AI in the financial industry. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Girnar Insurance Brokers Pvt., which operates insurance tech startup InsuranceDekho, is weighing an initial public offering in Mumbai that could raise as much as $250 million, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Capgemini Chief Executive Officer Aiman Ezzat said the French IT company is “clearly pivoting” to facilitate artificial intelligence adoption, which will fuel sales this year... View Source

Luxury hotel rates in New Delhi have surged to as high as 33,000 dollars a night ahead of the India AI Impact Summit, underscoring explosive demand as global tech leaders and heads of state arrive in the capital. The boom comes as Indian Hotels Company posts a strong third-quarter earnings beat, with net income up 55-percent year-on-year. MD and CEO Puneet Chhatwal discusses the demand surge and t... View Source

Kioxia Holdings Corp.’s shares surged 15% after soaring AI demand helped the Japanese chipmaker deliver a better-than-anticipated results outlook, cementing its position as the world’s best performing major stock of 2026... View Source

Looking to reduce China’s reliance on Western aviation technologies, Beijing had spies spend years accumulating knowledge about the industry’s secrets... View Source

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Thailand’s Minor International Pcl, one of Asia’s largest hospitality groups, is considering a Hong Kong initial public offering for its restaurant business, people familiar with the matter said, at a time when Bangkok’s stock market tries to revive activity at home... View Source

Shares of Chinese AI model developer Zhipu have more than doubled this week, underscoring investor appetite for the country’s emerging generative-AI firms even as established players elsewhere face a valuation reset... View Source

DayOne Data Centers Ltd. has selected banks to help arrange a US initial public offering that may raise about $5 billion, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Cryptocurrencies remained under pressure Friday in Asia after Standard Chartered warned of further Bitcoin weakness and the largest US crypto exchange swung to a loss in the fourth quarter... View Source

Ring has canceled its partnership with Flock Safety, after receiving backlash for running a Super Bowl ad touting its Search Party feature. If you’ll recall, Ring revealed back in October 2025 that it was entering a partnership with the surveillance company, which would make it possible for law enforcement to ask smart doorbell owners for videos captured by their devices. In its announcement, the... View Source

After Beijing slammed them shut about a decade ago, the gates have flung open again for Chinese firms to go on overseas acquisition sprees... View Source

Nomura International’s Julia Wang says the markets are in uncharted territory when it comes to AI technology, which means “a lot of volatility is probably still on the way.”... View Source

Ghost of Yotei’s forthcoming Legends multiplayer expansion will arrive early next month, Sony announced today during its latest State of Play presentation. As in Ghost of Tsushima, you’ll be able to play the mode with up to three other people online. Players can each choose from one of four classes — samurai, archer, mercenary and shinobi — who excel in different combat scenarios. All four classes... View Source

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow discuss memory chip prices taking a toll on Cisco's stock even as AI demand surges. Plus, Apple's revamp of its Siri voice assistant hits new snags that could delay the release of some features. And, Altruist CEO Jason Wenk discusses the startup's AI tax-planning tool that sent wealth management stocks tumbling, hours after its launch. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

When it launched in 2021, Kena: Bridge of Spirits was an early example of the graphical power of the PS5 thanks to its Pixar-adjacent animation and over-the-top effects. Based on a surprise trailer at Sony's latest State of Play, it seems like its sequel, Kena: Scars of Kosmora, could up the ante when it launches later this year.Scars of Kosmora follows spirit guide Kena to a mysterious islan... 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 US Energy Secretary Chris Wright, Envestnet’s Dana D’Auria, KBW’s Thomas Michaud, Wells Fargo’s Veronica Willis, The Benchmark Company’s Mark Palmer, Citizens’ Jordan Bender, Harbourvest Partners’ John Toomey, Barclays’ Marc G... View Source

Sony’s first State of Play stream of the year included an update on Mina the Hollower, the latest title from Shovel Knight studio Yacht Club Games. It’s now slated to arrive sometime this spring. The developer initially planned to release the retro-style action-adventure platformer on Halloween last year, but delayed it to “to apply some final polish and balancing to make the game truly shine.”Whi... View Source

Airbnb Inc. posted strong fourth-quarter bookings and issued an upbeat revenue outlook, citing strong travel demand and growing adoption of its new flexible payment and booking options... View Source

Volume two of the Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection will arrive on August 27, publisher Konami announced today during Sony’s latest State of Play presentation. The bundle will feature 2008’s Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, the HD remaster of 2010’s Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker and a selection of bonus content, including Metal Gear: Ghost Babel, which was originally released for Game... View Source

Comprehensive cross-platform coverage of the U.S. market close on Bloomberg Television, Bloomberg Radio, and YouTube with Romaine Bostick, Katie Greifeld, Carol Massar and Tim Stenovec. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Coming off the success of Slient Hill f, which moved the series’ psychological horror to the Japanese countryside, Konami, Annapurna Interactive and developer Screen Burn Interactive have chosen a foggy island as the setting for Silent Hill: Townfall.The first gameplay trailer for Townfall, introduced during Sony’s latest State of Play, follows Simon Ordell, a man who keeps mysteriously waking up... View Source

SpaceX will launch the latest batch of astronauts to the International Space Station early Friday morning (Feb. 13), and you can watch the action live... View Source

Malaysia’s biggest solar company Solarvest Holdings Bhd. plans to more than double its generation capacity in the next two years, as declining battery costs enables further deployment of renewables... View Source

Last year marked 20 years since God of War hit the PlayStation 2 and kicked off one of gaming biggest franchises. Now, at the tail end of that 20th anniversary celebration, Sony’s Santa Monica Studio has announced two new project. First, and most significantly, the original God of War trilogy from the PS2 and PS3 is being remade for the modern era. There’s no footage of it yet — the developer says... View Source

Anthropic researcher Nicholas Carlini published a blog post describing how he set 16 instances of the company’s Claude Opus 4.6 AI model loose on a shared codebase with minimal supervision, tasking them with building a C compiler from scratch. Over two weeks and nearly 2,000 Claude Code sessions costing about $20,000 in API fees, the ... Read more... View Source

Take a time out for upcoming interstellar voyages, alien spaceships, and animated galactic adventures... View Source

To close out its February 2026 State of Play presentation, Sony revealed God of War Sons of Sparta, a new prequel 2D side scroller in the God of War franchise, and announced that it's out right now on PlayStation 5. "God of War Sons of Sparta is a 2D action platformer with a canon story set in Kratos' youth during his harsh training at the Agoge alongside his brother Deimos," Sony says. Over the c... View Source

Clear Street Group Inc., a Wall Street broker built on cloud computing technology, has postponed its US initial public offering after cutting the target by nearly two thirds... View Source

During its State of Play livestream on Thursday, Sony revealed the first PlayStation Plus Game Catalog addition for February and it's a doozy. Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 will finally websling its way onto the Game Catalog on February 17. Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 was released in October 2023, and Insomniac's third Spidey game is the the best of the bunch. You can play as both Peter Parker and his... View Source

Mark Palmer, senior equity research analyst at The Benchmark Company, says Coinbase's fourth-quarter loss shouldn't be surprising on "Bloomberg The Close." He speaks on "Bloomberg The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

It’s been less than three months since we got our first look at Control Resonant, the sequel to Remedy’s mind-bending, third-person adventure that introduced us to Jesse Faden and the Federal Bureau of Control. At today’s State of Play event, we got to see the first extended bit of gameplay from Control Resonant — and the combat looks as inspired as ever, though the setting is completely new.As we... View Source

Following intense backlash to its partnership with Flock Safety, a surveillance technology company that works with law enforcement agencies, Ring has announced it is canceling the integration. In a statement published on Ring's blog and provided to The Verge ahead of publication, the company said: "Following a comprehensive review, we determined the planned Flock Safety integration would require s... View Source

Nvidia Corp. is expected to lease a data center being built with funds from a $3.8 billion junk-bond sale, adding to the borrowing frenzy around artificial-intelligence infrastructure... View Source

"I really want to see a mass driver on the moon that is shooting AI satellites into deep space."... View Source

OpenAI has warned US lawmakers that its Chinese rival DeepSeek is using unfair and increasingly sophisticated methods to extract results from leading US AI models to train the next generation of its breakthrough R1 chatbot, according to a memo reviewed by Bloomberg News... View Source

The full "Snow Moon" rose on Feb. 1 to flood the winter sky with icy moonlight... View Source

Strap in, because the next PlayStation event is going to be a long one. Sony’s latest State of Play — a showcase event for upcoming PS5 games — kicks off on February 12th at 5PM ET and it’ll last more than an hour. We don’t know what exactly will be shown. Sony says that the event will include “news, gameplay updates, and announcements from game studios across the globe... View Source

Applied Materials Inc., the largest US supplier of chipmaking equipment, gave an upbeat sales forecast for the current quarter, signaling that demand for artificial intelligence and memory semiconductors are fueling purchases... View Source

Credit: NASA NASA and Vast have signed an order for the sixth private astronaut mission to the International Space Station, targeted to launch no earlier than summer 2027 from Florida. This private astronaut mission marks the company’s first selection to the orbiting laboratory, underscoring NASA’s ongoing investment in fostering a commercial space economy and expanding opportunities for pri... View Source

A Vulcan Centaur rocket successfully launched two U.S. spy satellites on Feb. 12 despite suffering an anomaly with one of its solid rocket boosters, echoing the result of an October 2024 mission... View Source

In a style that feels nostalgic and nascent, Bree O'Donnell is crafting her singular vision of a 3D witch named Mary. Through the tiny window of short clips on Instagram and TikTok, Mary's world seems enchanting and vast. Bree's work exudes melancholic emotion and ethereal femininity, painting the surfaces of Mary's world in the vibrating style of stop-motion animation, dappled with sparkling ligh... View Source

International Business Machines Corp. said it will triple entry-level hiring in the US in 2026, even as artificial intelligence appears to be weighing on broader demand for early-career workers... View Source

Astronomers have discovered a planetary system that appears to flip one of astronomy's most reliable rules on its head... View Source

The Apple Vision Pro is finally getting an official visionOS YouTube app on Thursday. With the visionOS YouTube app, you'll be able to watch all videos available on YouTube, including standard videos, Shorts, 3D, 360, and VR180 videos, Apple spokesperson Corey Nord tells The Verge. The Vision Pro launched more than two years ago, but it hasn't had an official YouTube app until now. Ahead of the re... View Source

With 60,000 wholly AI-generated tracks delivered to streaming services daily and upwards of 200 million songs on platforms, the music industry is growing wary of the onslaught... View Source

The head of the antitrust division is out at the US Department of Justice. Gail Slater, a former JD Vance adviser and Fox Corp VP, reportedly clashed with Attorney General Pam Bondi. Their longstanding feud is said to have centered around Slater's skepticism of corporate mergers."It is with great sadness and abiding hope that I leave my role as [Assistant Attorney General] for Antitrust... View Source

The Epstein files have revealed more about the pedophile’s relationship to 4Chan. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images On October 24th, 2011, Jeffrey Epstein was emailing back and forth with Boris Nikolic, a biotech venture capitalist who would later be named as a backup executor of Epstein's will. The two appeared to be discussing a meeting Nikolic had helped arrange between Epstein a... View Source

Shares of wealth management stocks tumbled after AI startup Altruist released a tax planning tool, Hazel. Altruist CEO Jason Wenk explains what makes his company’s tools different from traditional software. He joins Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The European Commission has opened a new probe into Google, this time focused on the company's massive online advertising business, Bloomberg reports. European Union regulators have already fined Google billions for violating the Digital Markets Act, and being found guilty of anticompetitive behavior in online advertising could add to that total.While the Commission has yet to announce a form... View Source

Astronomers tracked a star in Andromeda as it dimmed and vanished without the usual fiery explosion, offering rare clues to how black holes form... View Source

Exhaust billows out of a car tailpipe on January 2nd, 2008, in San Francisco. | Photo: Getty Images The Trump administration just eliminated the landmark finding that has underpinned federal regulations on planet-heating pollution since 2009. For nearly the past two decades, the "endangerment finding" has allowed the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to craft rules limiting greenhouse gas emis... View Source

Anthropic has completed a deal to raise $30 billion in funding from investors at a $380 billion valuation, including the money raised, bolstering the artificial intelligence company as it gains ground on rival OpenAI... View Source

Whether you’re considering a 16-inch gaming laptop, or a more compact 14-inch model, there’s a deal with your name on it happening right now at Best Buy. The 2025 models of Acer’s Predator Helios Neo 16S and the Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 are hundreds off, although it’s the model with the bigger screen that is currently the cheaper of the two. The sale on the Neo 16S will expire at the end of the day,... View Source

AI startup Simile has raised $100 million to help companies predict human behavior, including by guessing items customers might purchase and questions that might get asked on earnings calls. Joon Park, Simile co-founder and CEO, joins Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Sony’s 1000X earbuds have been at the top of Engadget’s best wireless earbuds list since we first published it. With each new generation, the company managed to retain its crown, primarily thanks to a massive collection of features and an effective mix of sound quality and active noise cancellation (ANC) performance. Today, Sony revealed the latest entry in the series, the WF-1000XM6, delivering y... View Source

Spring doesn’t officially kick off until March 20th, but there’s something to be said about getting a head start on your spring cleaning. Lucky for you, Eufy’s X10 Pro Omni is currently on sale at Amazon, Walmart, and directly from Eufy (with promo code WS7DV2D5LF9F) for $449.99 ($450 off), matching its lowest price to date. Eufy X10 Pro Omni Where to Buy: $899.99 $449.99 at Amazon $899.99 $449.99... View Source

Ontario’s gambling regulator moved to temporarily suspend the registration of PointsBet’s Canada subsidiary after the online sportsbook operator allegedly failed to report suspicious wagers related to a 2024 bet-rigging scheme involving a Toronto Raptors player... View Source

Wildlight Entertainment, the studio behind Highguard, has laid off many staffers. Level designer Alex Graner wrote in a LinkedIn post that the layoffs impacted "most of the team." The company says it's keeping a "core group of developers to continue innovating on and supporting the game." That sounds like a skeleton crew. Today we made an incredibly difficult decision to p... View Source

4 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) A NASA crew member practices using lunar tools to collect geology samples at NASA’s Johnson Space Center during an elevated suit pressure test where teams evaluate how well crew perform tasks in different suit pressure levels while wearing the Artemis III lunar spacesuit developed by Axiom Space called the AxEMU (Axiom... View Source

The object that caused the fireball may have been a small shard of a larger asteroid... View Source

Gail Slater, the top antitrust enforcer at the Justice Department, announced Thursday that she has left her post, just weeks before the agency's next major tech monopoly trial against entertainment giant Live Nation is set to begin. "It is with great sadness and abiding hope that I leave my role as AAG for Antitrust today," Slater posted from her personal X account. Slater thanked the staff of the... View Source

Apple Inc.’s long-planned upgrade to the Siri virtual assistant has run into snags during testing in recent weeks, potentially pushing back the release of several highly anticipated functions. Mark Gurman reports. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Apple’s Vision Pro is a curious product — it initially wowed me two years ago, but it was hard to ignore that the visionOS platform felt incomplete without dedicated apps for YouTube and Netflix. Well, it seems that Google has finally decided to take the Vision Pro seriously, as it’s launching a YouTube app on the platform today. Previously, you could only view YouTube videos via Safari, or throug... View Source

President Trump mentioned a 15% annual GDP growth target. Progrowth Policy Lower interest rates and accommodative monetary policy to boost borrowing, investment, and consumption. Warsh’s perceived willingness to tolerate stronger growth without quick tightening. Complementary policies like tax cuts, deregulation, and energy production (drill baby drill) that Trump has long advocated. Achievi... View Source

Thursday, Feb. 12, 2026: Updates on SpaceX and NASA's Crew-12 astronaut launch to the International Space Station... View Source

We are all guilty of pulling out our phones and doomscrolling through stressful headlines or mindnumbing videos when we should be doing anything else. We know it's bad, but we still do it because it's hard to resist when much of our time is spent living and working on our devices. And even though we understand that we'd be better off with less screen time, our extremely online society doesn't exac... View Source

Sony Group Corp. introduced its latest pair of premium wireless earbuds, offering a retooled design and active noise cancellation that goes head to head with (and often outperforms) Apple Inc.’s AirPods Pro 3... View Source

Last year Apple secured the exclusive rights to broadcast Formula 1 racing in the United States from 2026 to 2030. Apple TV subscribers can now watch every practice and qualifying session as well as every sprint and Grand Prix of a race weekend on the F1TV app by linking their Apple account. Right now, those with an existing F1TV subscription will still see an active status in their "my subsc... View Source

Elon Musk has been talking about a city on the moon and mass drivers to launch billions of AI satellites. How is this possible? What would the business model be? Accredited investors can sign up for private Q & A This is a rendering of the SpaceX XAI moon mass driver plans from a distance. ... Read more... View Source

The most powerful version of Europe's Ariane 6 rocket flew for the first time ever on Thursday (Feb. 12), launching 32 of Amazon's internet satellites to orbit... View Source

The hours-long closure of El Paso airspace stemmed from the use of an anti-drone laser deployed by Customs and Border Protection, according to reports from The New York Times and the Associated Press. Sources tell The Times that CBP officials didn't give the Federal Aviation Administration "enough time to assess the risks to commercial aircraft," leading to the abrupt shutdown. On Wednesday, the F... View Source

Ferraris are flying off the auction block at record speed. In just two hours, the “Ferrari Five” shatter expectations — helping push Mecum’s Florida auction to a staggering $445 million in sales. The top seller was a 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO went for the eye-watering amount of $38.5 million. What’s driving collectors to pay these jaw-dropping sums? Mecum CEO Dave Magers joined us on Bloomberg Op... View Source

At the end of last month, Ubisoft workers in the publisher’s native France threatened to strike in the wake of sweeping layoffs and cost-cutting measures. This week, they made good on those threats. According to GamesIndustry.biz, union members confirmed that at least 1,200 staff participated in the three-day strike, which was due to run from February 10 to February 12. While the strike action pri... View Source

Monke gather in Gorilla Tag. | Another Axiom 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. The VR industry has been on edge since Meta's massive job cuts earlier this year: One exec called the layoff announcements "one of VR's darkest weeks." There's talk of a VR winter, and multi... View Source

Bloomberg Intelligence's Robert Schiffman discusses the surge in bond issuance by major technology companies amid an AI-driven capital expenditure boom. He speaks on "Bloomberg Open Interest." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

PlayStation’s first State of Play of the year is shaping up to be quite newsworthy. While Sony hasn’t revealed too much about what it will show off (with one notable exception), the stream is slated to last for over an hour, so there should be at least some interesting stuff. The showcase will get underway at 5PM ET on February 12. You can click the play button on the YouTube video above to watch... View Source

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope reveals the clearest view yet of the Egg Nebula. This structure of gas and dust was created by a dying, Sun-like star. These newest observations were taken with Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3.NASA, ESA, Bruce Balick (UWashington) This image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope released on Feb. 10, 2026, reveals a dramatic interplay of light and shadow in the Egg... View Source

New research suggests that the heart of the Milky Way may be dominated by a dense clump of dark matter rather than the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*... View Source

Today, we’re going to talk about the role AI might play in deciding legal disputes. Not just drafting memos and doing research — actually deciding who’s right and who’s wrong, and who should pay. My guest today is Bridget McCormack, the former chief justice for the Michigan Supreme Court and now president and CEO of the American Arbitration Association. The AAA has been around for exactly 100 year... View Source

During the recent Super Bowl, the big prediction market platforms didn't just offer bets on the game itself, but also on more exotic facets — one example? Who would join Bad Bunny in the performance. On this episode of the Odd Lots podcast, Tracy Alloway and Joe Weisenthal speak with new CFTC Chairman Michael Selig about his agency's role in regulating prediction markets. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Apple’s long-delayed AI-powered Siri redesign may not be rolling out this year, at least in the way the company had planned. According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple found problems with its software upon testing, such as the virtual assistant taking too long to accomplish tasks or even not processing queries properly altogether. Siri’s new version was also reportedly so sluggish during testing... View Source

xAI has an initiative (using Tesla AI4 hardware) to create AI that fully emulates human computer work. It will work like Tesla FSD in cars but for desktops and laptops. It uses cameras or screen capture (watching user/screen), keystrokes, mouse actions, screen recording, and terminal access. It learns tasks by watching and recording actions (generalized ... Read more... View Source

The strange clouds formed due to the freezing air sweeping southwards over Florida in early February... View Source