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Hugging Face unveiled MicroDuck, the company’s new open-source robot that can walk, talk, and roller-skate. Hugging Face co-founder and Chief Science Officer Thomas Wolf discusses surging demand for robotics and open-source AI, and says the company is currently selling roughly one MicroDuck every four seconds. He also declined to comment on reports that Nvidia is nearing a roughly $13 billion deal... View Source

It's the second update in less than two months to address privacy concerns... View Source

Brandon Torres Navarrete New civil servants and guests pose for a group photo with NASA and center leadership in the National Full-Scale Aerodynamics Complex (NFAC) 80-by-120-foot test section, N221 on Aug. 24, 2026. The civil servants were sworn-in the same day in the largest swearing-in ceremony ever hosted at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley since its inception n... View Source

The memory crisis just won’t quit. | Image: Alex Castro / The Verge Google will start policing memory-hungry Android apps as a direct response to the RAM crisis. Spotted by TechCrunch, the company yesterday published a memo addressing the Play Store's role in enforcing new memory-usage restrictions. The post emphasizes the importance of meeting new memory usage limits for apps, in order "to help d... View Source

Much like Google’s infamous Google Glass smart glasses, Meta’s camera-equipped AI Glasses have turned into a widely derided gadget associated with horrendous public behavior and unwanted surveillance. The invasive spectacles, which are designed to effectively be indistinguishable from an ordinary pair of Ray Ban sunglasses, have been misused by creeps, pickup artists, “manfluence... View Source

A flood of lawsuits against social media giants claim that by engineering their platforms to be hard to resist, the companies are causing serious harm to young users... View Source

The IMAX logo doesn't always tell you what kind of screen or projector you're getting... View Source

A private spacecraft failed to rescue NASA's Swift space telescope, meaning the big observatory will come crashing back to Earth in the near future. The Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory launched to Earth orbit in November 2004. Over the past two decades, it studied gamma-ray bursts — the most powerful explosions in the universe — and other cosmic objects and events using a trio of telescopes.But Swi... View Source

Get a jump start on the US trading day with Dani Burger on "Bloomberg Open Interest." Nvidia delivers a massive AI-driven forecast, lifting markets and fueling debate over the next wave of adoption. Todd McKinnon explores AI agent security and enterprise demand, while a preview of Kevin Warsh's closely watched Jackson Hole appearance. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Meta's settlement could force its biggest competitors to reshape their apps... View Source

Today on Decoder, I’m talking to Verge senior AI reporter Hayden Field about some pure Decoder bait: the seemingly-endless org chart changes at OpenAI, and how all of them seem to consolidate power under cofounder Greg Brockman, the company’s president. While Sam Altman is the CEO and still OpenAI’s most public face, Brockman has amassed enormous power and influence within the top ranks of the com... View Source

Meta has officially ended a landmark legal standoff over social media addiction among children, agreeing to pay some $18 billion over the next ten years and make sweeping changes to how it approaches child safety. The lawsuit, organized by the attorneys general of 29 US states, alleged that Meta executives like Mark Zuckerberg created a system that abused data collected from minors, while feigning... View Source

Artificial intelligence companies OpenAI and Anthropic PBC, along with more than 100 other tech and financial services organizations, warned that businesses and governments must do more to prepare for and defend against AI-enabled hacks... View Source

Also shown off was the 49-inch Odyssey OLED G9... View Source

After unexpectedly showing up on a wall-mounting compatibility chart on Sony's site back in June, the company has announced the Sony Bravia 6 OLED TV. The TV sits below its other OLED TVs - the Bravia 8 and Bravia 8 II - as well as its Bravia 9 II and Bravia 7 II RGB LED TVs. The Bravia 6 OLED comes in five sizes from 48 up to 83 inches and is priced to compete with the LG C6 OLED and Samsung S90H... View Source

Multiple reports say Nvidia Corp. is close to an agreement to buy Hugging Face for roughly $13 billion. During an interview on "Bloomberg Tech," Hugging Face co-founder Thomas Wolf declined to comment on those reports, but he did say the AI startup has always attracted interest and offers. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Google AI Mode is getting a flight price tracker, hotel booking and a way to view the cost in miles or points... View Source

More than a month after its epic spaceflight, Starship is finally headed home.SpaceX announced today (Aug. 27) that it has loaded Starship's 171-foot-tall (52 meters) upper stage — known as Starship, or simply Ship — onto a huge "semi-submersible" ship in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of Christmas Island.Ship had been in the water since July 24, when it splashed down to bring an end to the Stars... View Source

On Nvidia's earnings call Wednesday, CEO Jensen Huang casually announced the company had "achieved AGI," one of the tech industry's ultimate goals some of its biggest players have spent years chasing. Almost immediately, Huang dismissed the coveted milestone as "senseless." He's right. For the supposed finish line of the AI race, there is no consensus on what artificial general intelligence means,... View Source

Leopold Aschenbrenner, the founder of the ill-fated hedge fund Situational Awareness, held a belief in AI so outrageous that it’s literally galaxy-brained. According to a new scoop from The Wall Street Journal, the 24-year-old former OpenAI employee wanted to buy entire cosmic realms after he got rich off of AI — as in, yes, galaxies of stars and planets like our Milky Way, or the neighborin... View Source

JPMorgan Chase & Co. has begun early outreach to potential lenders for a $5 billion debt package to fund Volta Infra Holdings Ltd.’s buildout of AI data centers, according to people familiar with the financing... View Source

What are the differences between the two and is the $50 price hike all about RAM?... View Source

You can pair Speedo’s Vanquisher goggles with its iQ module. | Image: Speedo Speedo is launching a removable smart module for its Vanquisher goggles that can analyze a swimmer's performance across all four swim strokes: freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly. The new Speedo iQ system uses swim-specific sensors to analyze head movement in the water, time breaths, and track distance per... View Source

Nvidia said revenue will grow about 70% next fiscal year, easing concerns that AI spending is poised to lose momentum.  Angelo Zino, SVP and Tech Lead at CFRA Research, breaks down Nvidia's earnings blowout and other tech headlines. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The NFL's long-standing partnership with Twitter (and now X) is continuing this season... View Source

NASA astronaut Jonny Kim poses for a portrait at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.Credit: NASA/Josh Valcarcel After nearly a decade of service to NASA, including an eight-month science expedition aboard the International Space Station, astronaut Jonny Kim’s last day at the agency is Thursday. He will continue serving as lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy. Kim launched to the space station... View Source

Americans have declared war on Flock cameras. They've protested them, damaged them, and destroyed them. This is only the beginning. The spontaneous and decentralized nature of the vigilante protests is also what makes them difficult to suppress. There isn't a uniform method of disruption; people have done everything from unplugging, smashing, stealing, and spray-painting the surveillance devices t... View Source

When police officers in Oklahoma admitted to using electro-shock gloves to subdue two students over the 2025-2026 school year, the community was rightfully outraged. The incident came off the back of new reporting by the Guardian and 404 Media, which revealed that US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement had placed a massive purchase order to procure its own arsenal of shock gloves, propelling the... View Source

SK Hynix Inc. held a groundbreaking ceremony Thursday for its advanced memory packaging facility in Indiana, marking a milestone in Washington’s expansive campaign to rebuild domestic supply chains and manufacturing for strategically important sectors... View Source

The UK has legalized plug-in solar, but experts warn you shouldn't just set it up without getting your home checked first... View Source

The hours are counting down to the launch of NASA's newest flagship orbital observatory. The spacecraft recently got its last glimpse of terrestrial light before being encapsulated in its rocket's protective payload fairing last week and is imminently bound for liftoff. The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is NASA's next-generation research satellite, and it's currently slated to launch on Sunday... View Source

As Tesla gears up for the official launch of its steering wheel and pedal-less Cybercabs, Waymo is issuing a stark warning about Elon Musk's approach autonomous driving. Srikanth Thirumalai, Waymo's VP of Onboard Software, doesn't specifically call out Musk or Tesla in a blog post, published Wednesday, entitled "10 AI Lessons from Driving 200+ Million Fully Autonomous Miles." But his intention is... View Source

Pierre Ferragu, New Street Research global team head of technology infrastructure, says supply chain issues and opposition to data centers in the US do make him nervous about Nvidia's future. The chipmaker says revenue will grow by about 70% in the next fiscal year. He speaks on "Bloomberg Open Interest." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The UK government now wants time limits for teens on Facebook and Instagram... View Source

Earth Observatory Science Earth Observatory A Changing World for Emperor… Earth Earth Observatory Image of the Day EO Explorer Topics All Topics Atmosphere Land Heat & Radiation Life on Earth Human Dimensions Natural Events Oceans Remote Sensing Technology Snow & Ice Water More Content Collections Global Maps World of Change Articles Earth Matters Blog Blue Marble: Next Generation EO Kid... View Source

An image of this spiral galaxy NGC 4258 that combines X-ray observations from NASA's Chandra X-ray observatory (seen here in royal blue), optical light gathered by the Hubble Space Telescope (red, yellow and pale blue), and infrared light seen by the James Webb Space Telescope (bright orange). (Image credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical: NASA/ESA/STScI; Infrared: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI; Image Processi... View Source

The latest special-edition of Google's Fitbit Air is inspired by the Pokémon Sleep game, with a "Sleepy Blue" band emblazoned with a snoozing Pikachu. It's not exactly Snorlax blue, but matches the classic blue and gold of a Pokémon card pretty closely. The special-edition is available to preorder now for $129 and starts shipping September 15th. It's arriving as Pokémon celebr... View Source

Be assured, citizen, that the mass surveillance state is being put to good use. Earlier this month, the Albany Police Department in Georgia made a post on Facebook asking the public to help identify a man guilty of a despicable crime: picking up $30 off the floor that he found in a Walmart.   Surveillance cameras had caught the villain in the act, and the police department attached a gra... View Source

Samsung Electronics Co. introduced the Galaxy S26 FE, its latest smartphone aimed at consumers who want a device that’s priced well below high-end models but still offers at least a few premium features... View Source

Encrypted Client Hello rolls out on Android 17 to make the web more secure... View Source

Earth Observatory Science Earth Observatory Rare, Widespread Snow in the… Earth Earth Observatory Image of the Day EO Explorer Topics All Topics Atmosphere Land Heat & Radiation Life on Earth Human Dimensions Natural Events Oceans Remote Sensing Technology Snow & Ice Water More Content Collections Global Maps World of Change Articles Earth Matters Blog Blue Marble: Next Generation EO Kid... View Source

On Aug. 27, 1962, NASA launched Mariner 2, the world's first spacecraft to successfully visit another planet. Mariner 2 flew by Venus after a 3.5-month voyage through space. The mission launched just one month after the Mariner 1 mission failed during launch. After departing from Cape Canaveral, Florida, Mariner 2 almost met the same fate when an electrical problem with the Atlas-Agena rocket caus... View Source

Meta might be on the hook for $17.1 billion and a host of app changes under a new kids safety settlement, but it's already spinning the deal to its advantage. After years of being the national punching bag for social media harms, Meta has reached a settlement with 47 US states and several districts and territories that gives it a rare opportunity: A chance to flex on its rivals. "We want to ensure... View Source

Plaud Inc., a startup that makes note-taking devices, announced a pair of wireless, 4G-connected earbuds that lets users record conversations and complete tasks with artificial-intelligence assistants on the go, adding to a nascent category of gadgets built for the AI era... View Source

Finally, a large ultrawide monitor with tons of vertical screen space... View Source

Hugging Face's Pollen Robotics has launched its second cute AI robot, the Microduck, a one-eyed biped standing just under 10 inches tall. It's available to preorder now for $399 in cream, graphite, lavender, and sky blue, and Pollen Robotics says it plans to start shipping the little robot "before Christmas 2026." Video demos of the Microduck show it picking up socks and markers, kicking around a... View Source

More than 20 years after the horrifying death of Timothy “Grizzly Man” Treadwell, a few young bear fanatics are returning to the wild — not to commune with the grizzlies, as famously explored in Werner Herzog’s stomach-churning 2005 documentary, but to chase online clout. A clip circulating on Reddit shows a heart-pounding moment from a nearly 12-hour livestream filmed in the wil... View Source

SpaceX Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk, who ran a brazen campaign in Washington to cut government spending last year, and former White House AI czar David Sacks are scheduled to speak at a tech-focused Group of 20 ministerial meeting in North Carolina next week, along with Nvidia Corp.’s Jensen Huang and OpenAI’s Sam Altman, people familiar with the matter said... View Source

You can get a special Fitbit Air with a sleeping Pikachu design next month... View Source

Every so often, "Star Trek" likes to put its brave interstellar adventurers through hell. You know the drill — a bunch of one-off crew members will probably be blown up and/or sucked into space, while set dressers get to have fun making starship bridges look like they've been through the wars. We all know that seeking out new life and new civilisations is the prime directive on that final frontier... View Source

Plaud has introduced a new AI wearable that's designed to record, transcribe, and summarize your conversations, only this time it looks like earbuds instead of a pin. The Plaud One Explorer Edition can be worn like traditional earbuds or used through its standalone charging case, and the case includes built-in 4G to upload and process conversations without relying on your phone or Wi-Fi to stay co... View Source

Torsten Slok, chief economist at Apollo, expects Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh to deliver “framework guidance” instead of forward guidance and have a “hawkish flavor” to his economic outlook during his speech on Friday at the Jackson Hole Economic Symposium. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Europe's most powerful rocket will fly today (Aug. 27), and you can watch the action live. An Ariane 6 is scheduled to launch the MTG-I2 weather satellite from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana today (Aug. 27), during a 2.5-hour window that opens at 4:10 p.m. EDT (2010 GMT; 5:10 p.m. local time in Kourou). You can watch it live here at Space.com, courtesy of Arianespace, the French compa... View Source

Your honor, We all know that the woman who sits before you is tired. Just look at the circles under her eyes. The novelty Pride and Prejudice T-shirt and Muji sweatpants that pass for pajamas. The unkempt, banana clip hairstyle that says "I really did wake up like this." But she's doing her best. And that's why she deserves this court's time and attention, to correct the injustice of last night's... View Source

Scared of facing the inside of a British prison cell, social media controversy magnets Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan Tate are dropping the tough guy act and admitting that they’re a bunch of vain frauds. In recent court filings, legal representatives for the manosphere influencers claimed that they deliberately portray themselves as far wealthier than they actually are because their... View Source

As Big Tech surges toward trillions of dollars of planned AI spend, a key cog in credit markets is showing signs of pressure. Bloomberg's Tom Mackenzie explains. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The Galaxy S26 FE is basically a more affordable version of the S26+ with slightly reduced specs... View Source

Earth’s shadow will appear to be a reddish ‘blood moon’ due to the way sunlight is scattered by the atmosphereA near total lunar eclipse will be visible across large swathes of North and South America on Thursday night with millions of people expected to be able to see one of nature’s marvels.Lunar eclipses occur when Earth moves between the sun and the moon and its shadow is cast on to the lunar... View Source

The Galaxy S26 FE holds few surprises. The Fan Edition phones are rarely Samsung's most exciting launches of the year, but the new Galaxy S26 FE feels especially familiar. Hardware-wise, little has changed since the S25 FE launched 12 months ago, and the upgrades have mostly come in the form of software tricks which themselves were already seen on this year's previous Samsung flagships. At its cor... View Source

The price of AI is collapsing, while the cost of building it is not. Equity investors have spent the summer trying to work out who gets caught in between... View Source

You're probably using Android System Intelligence more than you realize -- especially if your phone is a Google Pixel... View Source

Samsung announced its upcoming lineup of Odyssey gaming monitors today at Gamescom, and says that several will feature "world-first innovations" across display speeds and design. This includes the 27-inch Odyssey G6 it initially unveiled in December, which now features a 1,100Hz refresh rate, alongside new OLED Odyssey G9, G8, and G7 updates for 2027. The Odyssey G6 G60H's upgraded 1,100Hz final l... View Source

AI lab staff require backing from the top to provide successful oversight of the technology... View Source

The Note 17 Pro Max also has a photochromic design, which is revealed by sunlight. The 9,210mAh dual-cell battery in the new Redmi Note 17 Pro Max is the biggest that Xiaomi has fit in any phone it's sold in Europe - and remarkably, in some other markets the phone comes with an even larger 10,000mAh single-cell design. As you can probably guess, this is a silicon-carbon battery either way, one wit... View Source

You have questions about data centers, and WIRED has answers. Join our livestream on September 10 and our panel of experts will tell you everything you need to know... View Source

Synthetic creators can build communities around shared political views... View Source

We're expecting to see the Galaxy S26 FE at today's Unpacked, but might there be any surprises?... View Source

Artificial intelligence platform Hugging Face Inc. unveiled a singing $400 bipedal robot that can be taught tricks, the latest in the company’s ongoing effort to make AI and robotics more approachable to the general public.The cute robot  — aptly named Microduck — takes clear inspiration from its namesake bird, except that it has only one eye. It will go on sale later this year, Hugging Face said... View Source

Tonight (Aug. 27-28), the full Sturgeon Moon will slip into Earth's shadow, creating a stunning "almost blood moon" as up to 96.2% of the lunar surface disappears into the darkest part of our planet's shadow, the umbra. At maximum eclipse, much of the moon may take on an eerie reddish hue as sunlight filtered through Earth's atmosphere is refracted into the shadow and onto the lunar surface. Only... View Source

Russia is preparing to escalate attacks on Ukraine after concluding that negotiations for a peace deal have reached a dead end, according to three people close to the Kremlin. For now, Russia is weighing an intensification of powerful conventional ballistic missile attacks on Kyiv, including the center of the capital, and infrastructure targets in other Ukrainian cities, the people said, asking no... View Source

Meta Platforms Inc.’s changes to Instagram and Facebook, part of a series of landmark settlements to resolve claims that the social media networks are a safety risk to children, will apply only to US users for now... View Source

Efforts to develop a vaccine against the strain of Ebola driving the deadly outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo are expanding, with an experimental shot developed by an Egypt-based pharmaceutical company set to advance toward human testing... View Source

Germany’s top digital policy official said surging demand for artificial intelligence is putting a squeeze on data centers in Europe’s largest economy... View Source

Issuance from AI leaders is testing the tolerance of the bond market, with price premiums a telltale sign, according to a top Europe bond banker at JPMorgan Chase & Co... View Source

Artificial intelligence is enabling Asian businesses to expand globally at unprecedented speed, Sarita Singh, Stripe Inc.’s managing director for Southeast Asia, Greater China and South Korea, said in an interview on Bloomberg Television... View Source

Spirit AI CEO Han Fengtao says robots can already handle office tasks “unimaginable half a year ago,” from delivering paper to shredding documents. He told Bloomberg’s Minmin Low that “the evolution of the robot brain will get faster and faster,” predicting a “ChatGPT moment” within three years. With several hundred units deployed in China, Spirit AI is betting on smarter robot brains to drive lar... View Source

Poland is pushing for a European Union probe into Meta Platforms Inc. following a years-long campaign by InPost SA billionaire Rafal Brzoska over fraudulent ads on its services... View Source

Nvidia, the chipmaker at the heart of the artificial intelligence boom, said it forecasts revenue growth of about 70% in fiscal 2028. Analysts had predicted 45%. The upbeat outlook offered relief to investors concerned about a bubble in the AI economy. Bloomberg's Tom Mackenzie has more. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

MTN Group Ltd., Africa’s largest mobile-phone operator, and Dubai-based tycoon Tarek Al Ashram will develop data centers to power artificial intelligence on the continent... View Source

The US government is investigating Singapore-based Apex Logistics for its suspected role in smuggling Nvidia Corp. AI chips to China, people familiar with the matter said, in what may result in the first action against a transportation company for allegedly participating in the illegal semiconductor trade... View Source

APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 August 27 –… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss   APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. Colorful Aurora over Icelandic Waterfall Explanation: What a sight... View Source

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Sarita Singh, MD of Southeast Asia, Greater China and South Korea at financial infrastructure firm Stripe believes artificial intelligence is now accelerating the progress of the Internet economy. She speaks with Haslinda Amin on "Insight with Haslinda Amin. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Kevin Ooley, the incoming CEO of DataBank and current CFO, joined the program to discuss critical issues surrounding the expansion of data centers. Operating over 70 data centers across more than 25 markets, DataBank faces significant challenges related to power availability and infrastructure. He speaks with Romaine Bostick & Mandeep Singh on "The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The US Justice Department and FBI said they disrupted online infrastructure allegedly used by Chinese state-sponsored hackers to target American government agencies and critical infrastructure... View Source

A judge dismissed a suit by Elon Musk’s X Corp. that sought to block a New York law requiring social media companies to disclose how they deal with hate speech, extremism and disinformation, ruling that “the First Amendment poses no obstacle” to the law... View Source

India put parts of two of its northern states on high alert as floodwaters from neighboring Nepal headed toward the border, while 133 citizens were among tourists missing after catastrophic flash floods swept through the Himalayan nation... View Source

How does a company know for sure if a kid is a kid on the internet?... View Source

Nvidia Corp. held talks about acquiring Hugging Face in a deal that would potentially value the AI startup at more than $13 billion, according to Business Insider... View Source

Nvidia Corp. gave a bullish sales outlook for fiscal 2028, with Chief Financial Officer Colette Kress saying the company expects to grow revenue by approximately 70% in fiscal 2028. Bloomberg's Ed Ludlow and Kunjan Sobhani break down the news. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Two identical ports, two different purposes... View Source

The eclipse will obscure about 93 percent of the moon’s surface. Here are the peak times and tips for the best viewing experience... View Source

Kioxia Holdings Corp. is building a new fabrication facility at its manufacturing site in Japan’s northern prefecture of Iwate, people familiar with the matter said, ratcheting up production capacity to meet sustained AI-related demand for storage... View Source

The latest ASUS gaming monitors all feature 24.5-inch, high-refresh rate OLED panels... View Source

Nvidia, the chipmaker at the heart of the artificial intelligence boom, gave a bullish sales outlook for fiscal 2028, easing concerns that AI spending is poised to lose momentum. Ed Ludlow breaks down the company's Q2 earnings. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Ring data still gets sent to the cloud, but it'll be deleted after being used to power smart home controls... View Source

Nvidia Corp. said it sold a small number of its H200 chips to customers in China during the most recent quarter, though shipments of the artificial intelligence processors to the world’s second-largest economy fell short of the total permitted with the blessing of US President Donald Trump... View Source

Songs using gen-AI as a support tool will still be allowed, so long as they're "substantially human made."... View Source

Brazil’s government is seeking 500 million reais ($97.1 million) in damages from chat app Discord Inc. in a local lawsuit, while also demanding that the platform strengthen protections for children and women and comply with Brazilian law... View Source

Soundcore's latest projector is bright enough to use in daylight with the shades up... View Source

Meera Pandit, Executive Director and Global Market Strategist at JPMorgan Asset Management, discussed the recent muted increase in personal consumption expenditures and its implications for Federal Reserve policy. With core inflation at 3.3%, above the 2% target but far below the highs seen in previous years, the Fed faces a dilemma on whether to raise rates further. She speaks with Romaine Bostic... View Source

Transparency from the company is good, but real trust in its people would be better... View Source

OpenAI released a report breaking down how people use ChatGPT and who they are. | Image: The Verge In July, an unreleased OpenAI model broke out of a restricted environment, figured out how to get access to the internet, allowed AI agents to talk to each other using a secret "message board," and hacked into the internal systems of a different AI lab, Hugging Face. It took nearly two weeks for Open... View Source

Climate change is causing glaciers to retreat and become less stable, upping the odds of catastrophic collapses... View Source

Revolution CEO Steve Case says AI will disrupt a wide range of industries and business models, advising investors to seek assets that have better durability. Speaking with Romaine Bostick on "Bloomberg's The Close," Case points to real estate and hospitality as areas attracting investment. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The console was subject to added fees under the Trump administration's original tariff regime... View Source

The new deal with the infrastructure provider is the latest example of Anthropic's white-hot compute-gobbling streak... View Source

Nvidia's predicting it will pull in $108 billion in revenue within just a few months. It wouldn't be the first company to rake in over $100 billion in quarterly revenue - Amazon, Apple, and Alphabet have repeatedly reached the milestone. Nvidia said in its latest earnings report that it brought in a record $96.2 billion in overall revenue in the past quarter, a jump of over $10 billion from the pr... View Source

The value of Zoom Communications Inc.’s stake in artificial intelligence startup Anthropic PBC has grown to $3.13 billion... View Source

Eight Sunday night NWSL matches will be available to watch for free through The Roku Channel... View Source

NASA took the guts out of old spy satellites to build the groundbreaking Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope – but how? And why? Years of hard work and anticipation are culminating as we sit on the verge of NASA's launch of its next-generation space telescope. Set to lift off this upcoming Sunday (Aug. 30) aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, the Roman Space Telescope will push astronomy into the fu... View Source

Jay Goldberg, Seaport Research Partners semiconductors and electronics senior analyst, reacts to Nvidia's second-quarter earnings and sales forecast on "Bloomberg The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Netflix is the exclusive home of the GTA VI trailer for six hours on Thursday... View Source

Today, NVIDIA reported revenue for the second quarter ended July 26, 2026, of $96.2 billion, up 18% from the previous quarter and up 106% from a year ago. For the quarter, GAAP and non-GAAP gross margins were both 75.0%. GAAP and non-GAAP earnings per diluted share were $2.46 and $2.22, respectively. 🔹 Revenue $96.2B (Est. ... Read more... View Source

A Himalayan border crossing between China and Nepal was obliterated by an ungodly landslide following torrential flooding across the region on Wednesday. Video captured by security cameras perched on the mountainside show the horrifying moment when the wall of mud descended on the Gyirong Port facility, swallowing the six-story building whole as dozens of people run for their lives. Within seconds... View Source

HP Inc. shares fell after investors looked past a widely expected boost in the company’s profit forecast and worried about future demand for computers and printers... View Source

When it comes to Apple Silicon, a higher number doesn't necessarily mean a better chip... View Source

Meta just agreed to make sweeping changes for teens as part of a child safety settlement reached with attorneys general across the US. Under the agreement, Meta must apply new safeguards across Instagram and Facebook that will change how teens interact with the social media platforms, as well as restrict their use during certain times. The settlement stems from a nationwide lawsuit alleging Meta,... View Source

The Wall Street Journal is giving opinion authors the go-ahead to use AI in the writing process without requiring AI disclosures — a move by a top newspaper that feels like an inflection point for the media industry. On Monday, the billionaire Stanley Druckenmiller, a former hedge fund manager and founder of Duquesne Capital, published an article in the Wall Street Journal‘s Opinio... View Source

Growing political opposition to data centers is slowing the industry’s growth and increasingly forcing developers and their funders to consider community concerns... View Source

JBL's new speaker/light hybrid will cost $330... View Source

FromSoftware is hoping to make a splash on the Switch 2 later this year when it launches The Duskbloods, a gothic competitive multiplayer game that's unlike anything the studio has made before. But before that, Switch 2 owners have a chance to experience the studio's biggest hit for the first time thanks to a port of Elden Ring and its expansion, Shadow of the Erdtree. For the most part, the new v... View Source

OpenAI could have reacted sooner to prevent an inadvertent hack that its artificial intelligence models carried out on Hugging Face Inc., the company said in a report Wednesday... View Source

Which of Apple's new computers should you get?... View Source

NASA’s Earth-observing satellite missions track dozens of features of a changing planet — aerosols, sea levels, land cover, cloud cover — over years and decades. Sustaining that record for the scientific and operational communities who depend on it requires more than engineering talent. It requires planning for an uncertain future: anticipating where a mission delay or on-orbit event might c... View Source

The Pixel 11 in hibiscus. | Image: The Verge If you’ve been on the fence about Google’s latest Pixel phones, this might be your best chance to save some cash. Amazon is offering an extra $150 off the Pixel 11, Pixel 11 Pro, and Pixel 11 Pro XL when you use the coupon code PIXEL11 at checkout. While the discounted price appeared at checkout for most phone and watch combinations, it didn’t apply to... View Source

While some privacy advocates are content to saw down camera towers, one artist is pushing back against the panopticon with an unconventional tool: the ugliest aloha shirt you’ve ever seen. Freshly reported by Dezeen, German designer Simon Weckert designed the hideous shirt to be untraceable to AI-integrated surveillance systems. Using a dizzying blend of colors and patterns, the shirt is ugl... View Source

Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow explains why Meta agreed to pay up to $18 billion in landmark settlements to resolve allegations that the company deliberately designed Facebook and Instagram to encourage compulsive use among young users. Plus, Nvidia reports after the closing bell today. And, Southern Company CEO Chris Womack joins to discuss the AI boom's impact on the American power grid. (Source: Bloombe... View Source

Devolver Digital squares up to Rockstar with a mascot platformer out the same day as GTA 6... View Source

NASA/Sydney Rohde (Rocz) NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, encapsulated in its payload fairing, travels from the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility to the SpaceX hangar at Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2026, ahead of mating to a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. Roman’s science instruments are designed to help researchers understand dark energy, the mys... View Source

This is a friendly reminder that the Nintendo Switch 2 will jump in price by $50 starting on September 1st. That’s next Tuesday! The company gave plenty of notice, but the time has finally come. The base 256GB model that ships without a game will go from $449.99 to $499.99. Nintendo recently announced two bundles (both well over $500) shipping this fall that include a game with a slight discount... View Source

AI isn’t just changing what startups build, it’s changing how the companies themselves operate. Floodgate co-founder and Partner Ann Miura-Ko explains her thesis around the “AI-pilled organization,” where agents are deployed across engineering, sales, marketing, and strategy to dramatically accelerate how companies learn and execute. She joins Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Tech." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Is it finally time to see the foldable iPhone?... View Source

Astronomers have discovered a new ocean world outside the solar system that orbits extremely close to its parent star. This means that the extrasolar planet, or "exoplanet," is in hot water, both literally and figuratively. The exoplanet orbits the star HD 176071 located around 335 light-years away, and is about two and a half times the size of Earth, but has about eight and a half times the mass... View Source

It's 8:52 AM and 86 degrees Fahrenheit (30 Celsius) where I live in Southern California. My husband just came back from a morning outing with our four-month-old. "How was the botanic garden?" I ask him. "It was okay. It was just too hot," he tells me. I didn't expect us to spend so much of our son's first summer cooped up inside, hiding from the heat. As I write this, an extreme heat warning for m... View Source

Nvidia Corp.'s outlook for artificial intelligence spending and revenue will be the focus for investors and analysts in Wednesday's earnings results, according to Mizuho Securities analyst Vijay Rakesh. He speaks with Dani Burger and Yahaira Anand on "Bloomberg Open Interest." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The problem with Meta's AI restructuring plan is the AI wasn't good enough... View Source

3 Min Read NASA Johnson Pilots Chase Moon’s Shadow for Eclipse Science  NASA’s WB-57F aircraft prepares for takeoff from Ellington Field in Houston ahead of its mission to observe the Aug. 12, 2026, total solar eclipse from Iceland. From left are John Gustine, NASA WB-57F pilot, and Cary Klemm, sensor equipment operator for NASA’s WB-57F. NASA/Robert Markowitz During the Aug. 12 total solar eclips... View Source

Ads have started popping up in Apple Maps, following Apple's announcement in March that it would let businesses pay for top spots. They're appearing on my iPhone as the first entry in the "suggested places" section in search, but Apple says they'll also show up at the top of search results. According to 9to5Mac, the ads began rolling out this week, and more users in the US and Canada will start se... View Source

Bill Gates can’t believe that no one is worried about AI as much as he is. In a new blog post — and accompanying media blitz — the billionaire suddenly sounded alarmed about how the technology is shaping our future after being blindly optimistic about it for years, warning that it’ll annihilate jobs and desolate the economy. “AI will either be the greatest equalizer ever invented... View Source

As many as half of the proposed data centers in the US are at risk of delays or cancellations because of growing political backlash and the complexities of building physical assets, according to investment firm Kimmeridge Energy Management Co... View Source

Google says Gemini 3.5 Transcribe will soon let you use speech-to-text in any web field in Chrome... View Source

I had never seen a total solar eclipse. That's a strange thing to admit for the skywatching writer at Space.com, but the truth is that the opportunity had simply never come up. When it comes to eclipses, I've always been beguiled by their beauty from afar. I've always hoped to see that strange moment when a black sun manifests to extend a glowing atmosphere into the fleeting twilight of totality... View Source

SoundCloud has launched a new beta feature that allows artists on the audio streaming platform to sell music directly from their profiles, instead of diverting fans to purchase from third-party services like Bandcamp and Beatport. The feature aims to give listeners a better way to support the musicians behind their favorite songs, because SoundCloud isn't taking any commission from these sales - m... View Source

Meta Platforms Inc. said it agreed to pay up to $18 billion in landmark settlements to resolve allegations from multiple US states that the company deliberately designed Facebook and Instagram to encourage compulsive use among young users. Matthew Schettenhelm, Bloomberg Intelligence Media Litigation Analyst joins to discuss. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Thousands of Xbox One and Series X titles will support the new disc-to-digital feature... View Source

Each of the sun-reflecting mirrors proposed by U.S.-based startup Reflect Orbital will appear 40 times brighter than the full moon to observers standing within its beam on Earth, a study has found. The light pollution produced by each of those mirrors would completely wipe out stars from the sky for those underneath them, turning the starry night into an eerie twilight zone."It will be worse than... View Source

Google has updated Gemini Audio with some new Gemini 3.5 models, introducing new transcription capabilities that automatically detect specialized jargon and more than 85 languages. Gemini 3.5 Live, 3.5 Live Experimental, and 3.5 Transcribe are designed to provide better precision for Google's voice-controlled AI features, without struggling with background noise or when your speech is interrupted... View Source

Last year, netizens coined a new term to reflect our growing disdain for AI bots slowly usurping our human agency. The word “clanker” — later described as a “derogatory slur” by Google’s AI Overview — set the stage for growing disillusionment and anger aimed at tech that’s cluttering our minds and feeds, while driving us crazy at work. And now we have the perfec... View Source

Apple Inc. will hold its biggest product introduction of the year on Sept. 9, kicking off the tenure of new Chief Executive Officer John Ternus... View Source

The Xbox 25th anniversary bundle includes a translucent green Series X, a similarly-colored controller and a digital download of Halo: Campaign Evolved... View Source

A screenshot from Apple’s events website. Apple's next launch event will take place on September 9th at 1PM ET. Invites to the event, which has a "Surprise and shine" tagline, were sent out on Wednesday. The event will take place at the Steve Jobs Theater in Apple Park, but there will also be a livestream on Apple's website. September's show could be a big one, as Apple may finally announce the lo... View Source

China's Huawei Technologies has sent a proposal to the Egyptian government to build AI data centers for military, surveillance and other public sector use. Tom Mackenzie reports on Bloomberg Television. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Ahead of the extended look at GTA 6 on Netflix, Rockstar has addressed leaked gameplay videos in a statement... View Source

Sleep trackers detect sleep via a combination of motion, heart rate, and temperature sensors. This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent 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. Oura's getting sued. A recently filed class-action complaint against the smart ring maker... View Source

Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley is desperately trying to stop his mass surveillance startup from turning into one of the most hated companies in the United States. As vigilantes continue to tear down its fleet of cameras and find creative new ways to obstruct them, Langley attempted to reason with Flock’s critics, calling for a “compromise” last week. Yet the negative press keep... View Source

Meta Platforms Inc. agreed to implement a raft of restrictions for teens on its Facebook and Instagram apps as part of a multibillion-dollar settlement with multiple US states on Wednesday. The landmark agreement requires the company to put new guardrails on Facebook and Instagram, including limits on how much time youths can spend scrolling and preventing them from switching off certain safety se... View Source

File sizes have also been increased and uploads should be faster... View Source

In late June 2023, on a morning train commuting to work in New York City, David Hendel was scrolling through a recent astronomy paper on his phone when a half-page image caught his eye. The image, captured a year earlier by the Hubble Space Telescope, showed UGC 9050-Dw1, a dwarf galaxy some 115 million light-years from Earth. It appeared as little more than a faint, diffuse smudge of bluish-white... View Source

Volvo is updating three of its electric vehicles with new hazard alerts to warn drivers when there are animals or vulnerable road users ahead. The new connected safety features are based on Volvo's cars talking to one another, as opposed to crowdsourced alert systems used by popular navigation tools like Google Maps and Waze. The alerts work by using connected vehicle data from Volvo's fleet of pa... View Source

A newly leaked spreadsheet has revealed just how wild salaries are at one of the most valuable companies on the planet. Obtained by Business Insider, the spreadsheet compiled voluntarily-disclosed pay rates from some 600 Microsoft employees at various levels of seniority. While the tech giant employs over 220,000 people overall, it still provides a valuable snapshot into the work life at one of th... View Source

Bill Gates says tech companies are minimizing the perils artificial intelligence poses to humanity... View Source

Who hasn't dreamt of sitting on a green stool modeled like a thumbstick?... View Source

5 Min Read NASA Begins Moon Mission Plume-Surface Interaction Tests A run of the plume-surface interaction testing with the ethane nozzle firing into the simulated lunar dirt. Credits: NASA EDITOR’S NOTE: This story, originally published in December, was revised Aug. 26, 2026 with an update on a new phase of testing, including video from a recent test run and new images. To help NASA and commercia... View Source

At the von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics, researchers are testing the capsule heat shield for the Draco mission. (Image credit: ESA)Sometimes, to accomplish your mission, you have to start a few fires. What is it? At the von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics (VKI) in Belgium, researchers put a heat shield to the test, blasting it with scorching-hot flames to see how it would handle the int... View Source

Microsoft is officially announcing a new Xbox feature that will allow Xbox owners to digitize their existing physical game collections. The disc-to-digital feature, which The Verge exclusively revealed last month, is part of work that Microsoft is doing for game preservation and in preparation for the next generation of Xbox consoles. "Most Xbox One and Xbox Series X disc-based games support this... View Source

As part of its nuclear fusion processes, the Sun produces a particularly interesting isotope of helium, known as helium-3. Some of this helium-3 escapes the Sun's gravitational pull as part of the solar wind, a stream of charged particles that emanates out across the Solar System. Over billions of years, this wind has bombarded every body in the vicinity of the Sun, including Earth's Moon. Lacking... View Source

Meta Platforms Inc. has agreed to pay up to $16.7 billion to settle a landmark social media case with multiple US states, according to a court filing Wednesday... View Source

SoundCloud will let you buy music directly from artists... View Source

NASA astronaut Jessica Meir and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Sophie Adenot work together inside the International Space Station’s Quest airlock during spacesuit fit and leak checks.Credit: NASA NASA will provide coverage as two astronauts step outside the International Space Station on Tuesday, Sept. 1, to replace a spacecraft navigational aid and complete several maintenance tasks in sup... View Source

On Aug. 26, 1978, cosmonaut and pilot Sigmund Jähn became the first German to fly in space. Jähn was an experienced pilot for the East German Air Force and studied at the Gagarin Air Force Academy in the Soviet Union in the 1960s. In 1976, he and one other German pilot were selected for the Interkosmos program, which was designed to help the Soviet Union's allies with space missions. Jähn joined t... View Source

The special-edition translucent green Xbox finally has an official price. Preorders for the console start August 27th at 10AM ET / 7AM PT, although Microsoft says "some of XBOX's most dedicated fans" will receive early access preorder emails starting today. The console will launch on November 13th, alongside a matching controller with the same "OG Green" colorway from the original translucent gree... View Source

Three more police officers have been arrested after using Automatic License Plate Readers supplied by the surveillance company Flock for non-law enforcement purposes. In Savannah, Georgia, four police department workers were hauled into custody last Friday, when an investigation by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation uncovered they’d been abusing their city’s Flock system to track pers... View Source

Meta Platforms has reached a $16.7 billion settlement in a high-profile case concerning harm caused to teens through its social media platforms. The settlement amount is significantly lower than Meta's worst-case scenario estimate of $1.4 trillion, which represented the maximum potential penalties if all accusations had been upheld at their severest levels. Ed Ludlow reports on "Bloomberg Open Int... View Source

Jeret Howard, logistics management specialist at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, poses for a photograph on July 27, 2026. Howard is now a NASA civil servant at Stennis as part of the administrator’s directive to strengthen technical core competencies within the civil service workforce. NASA/Danny Nowlin At 17, Jeret Howard raised his right hand to serve his country as... View Source

SpaceX's launch from Florida early this morning (Aug. 25) was memorable in more ways than one.The mission, which sent 29 Starlink internet satellites skyward from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 5:33 a.m. EDT (0933 GMT), was the 100th flight of 2026 for SpaceX's workhorse Falcon 9 rocket. It was also the 37th flight for this particular vehicle's first stage, setting a new reuse record for th... View Source

Mark Zuckerberg. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Meta settled its latest kids online safety trial with a group of 29 state attorneys general, sparing it from the remainder of a trial that could have cost it hundreds of billions of dollars. Under the terms of the settlement, Meta agreed to come up with an age assurance standard that is subject to independent testing, and must have... View Source

Jay Goldberg, senior analyst at Seaport, says, “there’s a lot more that can go wrong here than go right,” as he previews earnings from Nvidia. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Across the decades, Star Wars' secret sauce has always been a feeling – an intoxicating mixture of whimsy and adventure that’s nearly impossible to replicate. That’s especially true with the original film trilogy and the prequel film trilogy, even if the two have distinctly different flavors. The series forays into video games have seen a lot of success, but Zero Company does something I’ve never... View Source

The Bose QuietComfort Headphones Gen 2 look a lot like all other Bose headphones from the past few years. Bose QuietComfort headphones used to be innovative. Bose's noise-canceling research is the reason the technology is where it is today, and its headphones set the standard. They were the ubiquitous traveler's accessory. But over the past few years, it's felt like Bose has rested on that reputat... View Source

In 2022, billionaire entrepreneur Jared Isaacman announced that he was willing to foot the bill for a daring rescue mission to fix NASA’s aging Hubble Space Telescope. Isaacman, who would go on to become the first private astronaut to perform a spacewalk, said at the time that he was giddy with excitement over the “possibility of extending the life and capabilities of one of our greate... View Source

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. released the latest model under its popular Qwen series, a lower-priced platform aimed at driving adoption of its marquee AI offering globally... View Source

All Ring cameras will soon use TAKE encryption by default. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge Ring has a new way to protect your videos. It's developed an encryption method called TAKE, short for Throw Away the Key Encryption, that the Amazon-owned company says will protect your videos without traditional end-to-end encryption. TAKE limits when and why Amazon's cloud can access those v... View Source

Bath & Body Works Inc. expects full-year sales to decline slightly less that it previously did, a sign that attempts to revive growth and turn around its business might be gaining traction... View Source

Quick Start makes things a lot easier... View Source

Rockstar Games has released its first official statement following days of sustained leaks of footage from Grand Theft Auto VI, calling the period "heartbreaking for our team." "It would be an understatement to say that having videos of Grand Theft Auto VI gameplay leak in this way has been heartbreaking for our team, and this is obviously not how we intended for you to see the game after all this... View Source

MiniMax Group Inc.’s revenue surged 283% in the first half of 2026, even as the Chinese AI upstart trailed rivals such as Z.AI Co. in releasing top-tier large language models... View Source

Google’s smartphones have gotten prettier and less unique... View Source

SpaceX launched 27 more of its Starlink broadband satellites to orbit today (Aug. 26), in a predawn liftoff from California's central coast.The spacecraft rode atop a Falcon 9 rocket, which lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base at 5:35 a.m. EDT (0935 GMT; 2:35 a.m. local California time). The rocket's first stage came back to Earth as planned about 8.5 minutes later, landing atop the SpaceX... View Source

Bill Gates, chair of the Gates Foundation, speaks during a 2024 conference. | Bloomberg via Getty Images Bill Gates has been reflecting a lot on AI lately, and the process has triggered a stark awakening. Once a staunch AI optimist, the Microsoft cofounder is now deeply pessimistic about what AI means for our collective future. Having been conspicuously quiet on AI issues recently, Gates is back w... View Source

Google’s Gemini AI is changing how Deutsche Bank assesses credit risk... View Source

Flowers developed a big business around her show Crime Junkie, but over the past year, executives have cycled through the doors while workplace morale is cratering... View Source

NASA is just days away from launching its next major space observatory. The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is set to lift off Aug. 30 aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, heading for a spot roughly 930,000 miles (1.5 million kilometers) from Earth. Unlike the James Webb Space Telescope, which trades panoramic views for a narrow field of view to peer deep... View Source

Some pieces in the Yxstaby collection are more obviously Xbox-inspired than others. | Image: Ikea Ikea has teamed up with Microsoft to launch a new assortment of gaming-inspired furniture and home accessories, coinciding with the 25th anniversary of the first Xbox console. The nine-piece Yxstaby collection (good luck pronouncing that) includes a TV stand, laptop stand, side table, lounge chair, an... View Source

The founders of Swedish driverless truck group Einride AB are launching a Europe-focused investment company aimed at “enabling at least ten” new tech unicorns within a decade... View Source

Thailand’s largest power producer Gulf Development Pcl expects revenue to grow up to 15% this year, helped by new plants and stronger contributions from its telecommunications and data-center businesses... View Source

New findings shed light on what’s making the parasite less treatable using the drug that’s considered a first line of defense... View Source

China's Huawei has pitched the Egyptian government on building AI data centers for military, surveillance and other public sector use, demonstrating its global chip ambitions and drawing alarm in Washington — where officials are working to assemble a counteroffer. Bloomberg's Tom Mackenzie explains. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Ventures Platform, backed by the World Bank Group’s International Finance Corp., raised $84 million to expand its financing for startups across the continent... View Source

BlackRock Global Chief Investment Strategist Wei Li says she is still optimistic about the artificial intelligence trade as investors await Nvidia's quarterly earnings report. "Scarcity sellers are doing quote a bit better than scarcity buyers and Nvidia is a scarcity seller," Li tells Bloomberg Television. "You look at some of the price increases that we have been talking about, and it really doe... View Source