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A technique called echo mapping suggests supermassive black holes, like that at the heart of the Milky Way, are surrounded by clusters of dark matter... View Source

From its opening minutes, Moves of the Diamond Hand is upfront about what it offers: You're going to have a lot of strange conversations, and you're going to roll a lot of dice. Get on board with this proposition, and the reward is one of the most creative roleplaying games I've seen in years, even if its many mysteries won't be resolved until 2027. Moves of the Diamond Hand is an Early Access vid... View Source

Car buyers love Android Auto. Automakers? Not so much... View Source

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 133, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, happy belated Juneteenth, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've been reading about Sam Bankman-Fried and PE Guy and admin nights (which we should totally all do together one of these days), listening to Paul McCartney on... View Source

CMF by Nothing won't be able to release a follow-up to the Phone Pro 2 this year... View Source

Steam Next Fest demos, a Virtual Boy-inspired shooter and other new indie games worth checking out... View Source

Jio Platforms Ltd. plans to use part of the proceeds from its proposed initial share sale to repay its telecom unit’s external commercial borrowings of almost $3 billion, a draft IPO document showed... View Source

As NASA pushes to build a sustained human presence on the moon, one expert says what's needed is a lunar building code... View Source

An asteroid has been named after Smith, who died in 2003 at the age of 34... View Source

Chinese electric vehicle maker BYD Co. said it rejected allegations it breached environmental rules in Hungary during the construction of its first plant in the European Union... View Source

I’m a fan. I can't remember the last time I got excited about a fan. Normally, I just buy whatever Vornado or Dreo model fits my budget, but that was before I started testing the battery-powered Standing Circulator Fan from SwitchBot. As the name indicates, the SwitchBot fan is a 3D circulator - a fancy way of saying that it can tilt up, down, left, and right to push a decent amount air around a r... View Source

Elon exercised his remaining ~304 million Tesla options from the 2018 performance package. This was done via net share settlement — Tesla withheld ~17.5 million shares to cover the ~$7.1 billion exercise cost. No cash changed hands and no shares were sold on the open market. Elon’s Tesla ownership rose to roughly 19.9% (~20%), giving ... Read more... View Source

Throughout the nearly four-month Iran war, few countries were more visibly at the center of the efforts to end it than Pakistan, an unlikely actor thrust into the spotlight by US President Donald Trump... View Source

A California-based company will design, build and launch a spacecraft for NASA's Aeolus mission to orbit around Mars, where the probe will be the first to provide daily measurements of the planet's global environment... View Source

Nothing's next budget phone is the latest victim of RAMageddon. As 9to5Google reports, Nothing co-founder Akis Evangelidis announced in a post on X that a follow-up to the CMF Phone 2 Pro won't be coming this year: We were working on a successor but with memory prices where they are right now, we can't build a phone that feels like a genuine step forward at a price that makes sense for CMF. As a r... View Source

"I don’t have a relatable thing. This is not like life that we’ve experienced."... View Source

President Donald Trump said he doesn’t view Anthropic PBC as a national-security threat, days after his administration took steps to cut off foreign access to the tech company’s most advanced artificial intelligence models... View Source

Google DeepMind Vice President John Jumper, who won the 2024 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work on artificial intelligence, is leaving the company to join Anthropic PBC... View Source

The June Bootids usually produce just a handful of meteors, but this notoriously unpredictable shower has a history of surprise outbursts... View Source

The short answer is: sometimes, but it's complicated... View Source

Relativity Space’s CEO is former Google executive Eric Schmidt. | Image: Alexander Tamargo / Getty Images Relativity Space, the rocket company led by former Google executive Eric Schmidt, was picked to launch NASA's Aeolus payload to Mars in 2028, as reported earlier by TechCrunch. Under a new public-private partnership, Relativity Space will provide the "spacecraft, rocket, and cruise operations"... View Source

Norway will reportedly ban young kids from using AI in schools... View Source

The new Wired Wall Switch Modules fit behind existing switches. | Image: Signify Smart lighting company Philips Hue has launched its first wired wall modules. Installed behind existing wall switches, the new devices bring non-smart lights into the Hue ecosystem for the first time. Hue also announced new Play table and floor lamps that are more affordable versions of its Signe series, along with up... View Source

Bobby Prince, composer for Doom and other classic shooters, has died... View Source

Just as last week was ending, the US government forced Anthropic to pull its two newest models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, citing national security concerns after Amazon researchers allegedly found a way to bypass Fable 5’s guardrails.  Cybersecurity researchers have since signed an open letter calling the move dangerous, and Anthropic itself noted the same jail... View Source

Turkish financial technologies firm Midas has applied to the central bank for an electronic money institution license as it seeks to launch digital consumer payments products... View Source

NASA's Swift space observatory is falling out of orbit. Can a commercial company build a spacecraft in nine months to save it?... View Source

Just as last week was ending, the US government forced Anthropic to pull its two newest models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, citing national security concerns after Amazon researchers allegedly found a way to bypass Fable 5’s guardrails.  Cybersecurity researchers have since signed an open letter calling the move dangerous, and Anthropic itself noted the same jail... View Source

A disruption at Aspen Pharmacare Holdings Ltd.’s manufacturing facilities has led to shortages of oral contraceptives across South Africa, according to the health department and a local pharmacy chain... View Source

"Three companies... can make decisions that fundamentally harm our collective cybersecurity." Signal President Meredith Whittaker tells Mishal Husain why she believes AI and big tech pose a major threat to privacy. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Maybe the next Sally Ride won't be asked the "100 tampons" question... View Source

You need a quarter teaspoon for your face alone, a half teaspoon if you include the neck (which you should!) 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. On TikTok, the tanned youths are explaining why they no longer wear sunscre... View Source

At UnitedHealth Group Inc., artificial intelligence reads aloud summaries of medical charts as nurses drive to patients’ homes. It listens to millions of customer calls to find the causes of complaints. One trial even has AI agents calling doctors’ offices to schedule appointments for patients... View Source

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Have I found my Chromecast Audio replacement? | Image: NTS Radio NTS Radio and Swedish audio company Atonemo have teamed up on a dedicated player that brings NTS's genre-defying mixes and streaming stations to almost any stereo or speaker setup. And, like Atonemo's existing Streamplayer, you can also listen to your favorite streaming services with it, using AirPlay 2, Google Cast, Spotify Connect,... View Source

People who already own one of the company’s older models have less of a reason to upgrade to the $399 device... View Source

Luca Guadagnino's film about OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Artificial, has reportedly been dropped by Amazon MGM. The film, which stars Andrew Garfield and covers the rollercoaster five days in 2023 spanning Altman's termination and reinstatement as CEO, had been in the works for about a year. The cast also includes A Complete Unknown actress Monica Barbaro as OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, Ike Barinholtz as El... View Source

Years after initial tests, researchers are now racing to see if a vaccine developed in 2011 can help fight the current Bundibugyo outbreak in Congo... View Source

Investors in European collateralized loan obligations piled into AutoForm’s latest deal, the first test of demand for junk-debt borrowers in the software sector since a selloff earlier this year... View Source

Not everyone wants a screen on their wrist... View Source

Easley was a human computer for the agency who helped with building the Centaur upper-stage rocket... View Source

With CPUs back in the spotlight, so too is the PR fight over benchmarks... View Source

Toy Story 5 introduces a tablet as a villain, but it's also smart enough to realize tech isn't always bad. Parents just need to step up... View Source

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Short nights and bright stars make the midsummer night sky surprisingly beginner-friendly... View Source

Where's the Trump phone? We're going to keep talking about it every week. We don't have the phones we preordered yet, but this week we received unexpected news from Trump Mobile's media relations manager. If you've been following my reporting on the Trump phone, you'll know that Trump Mobile doesn't exactly keep open lines of communication with the media. That doesn't look to be changing, with the... View Source

Scatec ASA’s Obelisk solar and battery storage project in Egypt can save the country as much as $400 million a year in liquefied natural gas imports, according to Chief Executive Officer Terje Pilskog... View Source

Luca Guadagnino's Sam Altman biopic has to find a new studio after Amazon dropped it... View Source

When Colin Farrell was doing press for the first season of the detective series Sugar, he had to be very careful with how he spoke. Sugar is a story about a quirky private detective, but it's also secretly a work of science fiction, something that doesn't become clear until halfway through the season. "I knew that I could get the show in deep shit if I revealed certain things," he tells me. Now as... View Source

The Trump administration’s push to rein in Anthropic PBC, outlined in a recent Commerce Department order, relies on an unprecedented use of export control laws and raises legal questions about whether the US can dictate who can access artificial intelligence systems... View Source

The engineers who spoke negatively about AI data centers at Seattle city hearings accuse Amazon of threatening their jobs over their testimonies... View Source

The Strato E player (here with a Mini Terra Prime server on top of it) is smaller than a Blu-ray disc collection, but you can get a lot of 4K discs for $3,000. We've lost something in the past 15 years. Netflix, Amazon, Disney, Apple; they've all convinced us that streaming is the best way to watch movies and shows at home. With everything at our fingertips, there's no need to run to Blockbuster f... View Source

Henna Virkkunen, EU's top technology official, & Executive Vice President sat down with Bloomberg's Tom Mackenzie on the sidelines of VivaTech in Paris to discuss EU AI regulation, cybersecurity risks, Europe's technological sovereignty, and reducing reliance on non-European technology providers in critical sectors. This interview occurred on Wednesday, June 17. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Billionaire Mukesh Ambani-controlled Jio Platforms Ltd. is weighing plans to build its own satellite constellation, as it seeks to cement control over the nation’s communications infrastructure while Elon Musk’s Starlink faces hurdles... View Source

UK attorney general Richard Hermer told his staff his office was quitting X, according to The Guardian and The Observer... View Source

There’s a lot to unpack with AI right now — everything from its potential impacts on the labor market and society to more extreme questions about existential risk. Anthropic, which builds frontier models like Mythos, Fable, and Claude, is actively grappling with these issues, including whether governments should limit AI development. Just last week, the Trump administration forced Anthropic... View Source

Evidence of chemical alteration by liquid water has been found on the asteroid Donaldjohanson, which formed further from the sun before being shoved inwards... View Source

Starling Bank Ltd. is streamlining its board in light of a number of departures, a move that increases the sway of UK digital bank’s largest shareholder... View Source

In an update, Valve says it may not ship some Steam Controller orders until next year... View Source

Siemens AG expects revenue from its online store to more than double this year, though the maker of industrial software and trains is stopping short of disclosing concrete figures that would track its progress of turning into a tech-led company... View Source

A new report shows that government agencies failed to communicate and includes recommendations for stronger oversight in a bid to avert future disasters... View Source

US stocks rose on Thursday as chips shares extended Wednesday’s rally. Nvidia Corp. topped S&P 500 Index gainers on a points basis, while the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index, known as the SOX, advanced 6.4% to a record high... View Source

US regulators have taken their biggest step yet to speed the connection of data centers to the country’s grids while simultaneously attempting to slow surging utility bills that have angered Americans... View Source

With 416 horsepower, a 31-inch 8K screen and Dolby Atmos, Benz's electric "Grand Limousine" might just make minivans cool... View Source

Relativity Space — a rocket maker acquired by former Google executive chair Eric Schmidt last year after stumbling on the path to orbit — might just beat SpaceX to Mars... View Source

A London clinic owner has claimed he is treating people with stage 4 cancer by sealing them into a plastic bag while they're naked from the waist down and gassing them with chlorine dioxide... View Source

Prosus NV expects core earnings to surge as much as 28% in the year ended March 31st on the back of its growing e-commerce business and an increase in the value of the stake it owns in China’s Tencent... View Source

Google waged a secret court fight against a US warrant demanding identities of hundreds of internet users who searched for the Democratic and Republican party headquarters in Washington before pipe bombs were planted there on the eve of the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, newly unsealed records reveal... View Source

As the AI hype continues to grow, investors are looking beyond chips to find the next big thing to revolutionize the tech sector. Ankur Crawford, Portfolio Manager at Alger, says there hasn't been a business like SpaceX before as markets react to the significance of the AI trade. She joins Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Tech". (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Investors looking for the stock market’s next artificial intelligence winner have honed in on embattled French car parts maker Valeo SE... View Source

A new study reveals why black holes let out massive radio "burps" years after eating stars, giving astronomers a chemical blueprint to predict them early... View Source

SpaceX's historic public debut comes during a critical inflection point as a wave of multibillion-dollar AI companies prepare to go public. With the unprecedented IPO, investors are anticipating a wide-scale "distribution event" that will give private markets the fresh cash it desperately needs. Matt Witheiler, Head of Late-Stage Growth at Wellington Management, thinks the private tech ecosystem w... View Source

For the first time, an experimental satellite has mapped the scale of GPS jamming across Europe and the Middle East from space... View Source

Five months after returning to OpenAI, Barret Zoph - the company's head of enterprise AI sales - has departed, The Verge has learned. Zoph returned to OpenAI in mid-January after a stint as co-founder and CTO of Thinking Machines Lab, the competing AI company founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati. Shortly after Zoph returned to OpenAI, the company said he would lead its push into enterprise - a... View Source

Shares of Indian software firms tumbled on Friday, joining a global selloff in tech stocks after Accenture Plc forecast slower revenue growth, deepening concerns over a sector that has shed nearly 30% of its market value this year... View Source

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Europe's Mars Express orbiter recently imaged a huge valley system on the Red Planet — and dust devils dot the alien landscape... View Source

Some firms chosen early on by Anthropic PBC to test the Mythos AI model ahead of a wider release have preserved their access to a preview of the system, despite a US government order that led to the total shutdown of other versions... View Source

The Lagoon Nebula is best spotted in the months surrounding August in the Northern Hemisphere... View Source

Meta Platforms Inc. has secured new agreements to get AI computing power from data center developer Crusoe, bolstering the infrastructure it needs to support an ambitious artificial intelligence expansion... View Source

"That's what makes this field so exciting. You really are solving a mystery."... View Source

George Gatch, CEO of JPMorgan Asset Management, discussed the current excitement surrounding mega-cap initial public offerings (IPOs) in the technology sector. He emphasized the strong innovation and investment opportunities these IPOs present, describing the trend as a 'rising tide that is lifting all boats.' He speaks with Romaine Bostick & Katie Greifeld on "The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The Fujinon Techno-Stabi TS-L 1640 image-stabilized binoculars are perfect for steady stargazing with 16x magnification, 40mm objective lenses and strong image stabilization, on sale for $1,125 at Walmart... View Source

Alphabet Inc.’s Google said Canada’s changes to a proposed law that would help police obtain citizen data from private companies don’t resolve many of its concerns... View Source

SpaceX will launch the latest batch of spy satellites for the U.S. government early Friday morning (June 19), and you can watch the action live... View Source

Japanese fiber-optic cablemaker Fujikura Ltd.’s shares are set to surge to their daily limit after the firm unexpectedly raised its profit guidance above market estimates... View Source

'He was a joy to work with on set, he really was. He was a lot of fun and there was this charismatic presence every day.'... View Source

ASML Holding NV, the Dutch chip-equipment giant, is grappling with a major challenge after US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick warned its leaders that one of the company’s advanced lithography machines may have reached China, potentially violating US export restrictions. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

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Dutch chip-equipment giant ASML Holding NV is contending with its biggest challenge yet under the Trump administration: In a series of recent meetings, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick outlined concerns to ASML’s senior leaders that one of its top-of-the-line machines may have made its way into China, in violation of US-led export restrictions... View Source

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered that one of the coldest exoplanets ever discovered, the so-called Pink Planet, harbors a salty surprise... View Source

Bloomberg's Ed Ludlow discusses the latest announcement made by President Donald Trump, which will see Apple and Intel joining forces to produce chips domestically, sending shares of the chipmaker higher. Plus, Anduril's CEO discusses how the company won a contract with the US Air Force to produce autonomous fighters. And, SpaceX wraps up its first full week of trading, with shares falling for a s... 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 GenTrust Head of NY Office, Senior Client Advisor Mimi Duff, Principal Venture Partners Founder & Managing Partner Songyee Yoon, Wedbush SVP of Equity Research Alicia Reese, Goldman Sachs Northeast Region Head Nicole Pulle... View Source

Kevin Mayer, former Walt Disney Direct-to-Consumer & International Chair, discusses Fox's recent $22 billion acquisition of Roku, highlighting a significant strategic move from traditional media towards streaming. Fox, which previously lacked a major streaming platform, aims to strengthen its position by integrating Roku's streaming service alongside its existing ad-supported streamer, Tubi. H... View Source

Fox Corp.’s $22 billion acquisition of Roku Inc. illustrates how free-to-watch, ad-supported streaming services are becoming a major force in the entertainment industry, according to Candle Media Inc. co-Chief Executive Officer Kevin Mayer... View Source

SpaceX criticized the European Union’s plans for the distribution of satellite spectrum, a key element in the growth plans for the Elon Musk-led company’s Starlink service following its record-setting initial public offering... View Source

"If confirmed, Shadow Blaster would be the first-ever individual dusty star-forming galaxy directly linked to a high-energy neutrino event."... View Source

Joel Montaniel, Co-Founder and CEO of SevenRooms, discussed the company's new platform, Channel Connect, which aims to simplify reservation management for restaurants by consolidating bookings from multiple channels into a single system. Unlike the hotel industry, where centralized booking systems are common, restaurants currently manage reservations across various apps and platforms, often using... View Source

Artist’s rendition of the DAPHNE (Dynamic Atmosphere-Ionosphere Explorer) mission concept. The coloring represents auroras and atmospheric waves in Earth’s atmosphere.Credit: Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics/Mary Tostanoski NASA selected a mission concept to research how space weather and dynamics within Earth’s atmosphere influence the space environment and help improve prediction cap... View Source

Michael Cardaci, CEO of FedHIVE said that the government is moving 'faster than its ever moved before' to secure data and make sure that US computing companies are compliant in case of national security risks as AI use ramps up. Cardaci said that the US government is focused on keeping US technology inside of its borders as the race for global AI dominance heats up. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Three months ago, during a flashy event at its Washington, DC, headquarters, NASA announced that it was shifting the focus of its lunar plans from an orbital space station to a Moon base on the surface. As part of this, officials said work would be paused on the Lunar Gateway planned to orbit the Moon. Of the two elements that were furthest along, NASA also revealed that one of them—the  Power and... View Source

Julie Averill, former CIO of Lululemon, REI, and Nordstrom, discusses this shift in the context of her new book, "Chief Impact Officer," which offers a fresh perspective on leadership amid the ongoing technological revolution. Averill brings her extensive experience scaling Lululemon's revenue to over $10 billion to the conversation, emphasizing the critical role of AI adoption in maintaining job... View Source

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You don’t need a Game Boy Camera or a GB Operator dock to use Epilogue’s new Flashback app. | Image: Epilogue The $50 GB Operator is an accessory that lets you connect, play, and authenticate Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance cartridges on PCs and other devices. Now it's getting some new functionality for the Game Boy Camera. After turning the Game Boy Camera into a charmingly awful d... View Source

Even if you’re one of the biggest pop stars in history, Grindr and Bilt can help you sell albums... View Source

Credit: NASA NASA has selected eight new companies and will acquire new data products from six existing Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition contract holders to expand the range of commercial satellite data available to researchers, civil agencies, and decision-makers. Such measurements supplement NASA’s Earth satellites by contributing high-resolution and frequent observations to enhance the age... View Source

Valve has some good news and bad news about Steam Controllers. The good news: if you make a reservation for a Steam Controller, the company will now show you one of three estimates of when you'll be able to actually order your gamepad: by September 2026, by December 2026, or sometime in 2027. The bad news: any reservations made today "indicate a 2027 date for shipping," Valve says. "We have no pla... View Source

Nicole Pullen Ross, Northeast Region Head & Head of Sports and Entertainment Solutions at Goldman Sachs, discusses the evolving landscape of US sports and the athletes driving their growing popularity. She highlighted her role in creating a division at Goldman Sachs dedicated to helping professional athletes manage their wealth by applying strategies typically used by C-suite executives. she s... View Source

Rivian is being sued over the self-driving capabilities of its early vehicles, or lack thereof... View Source

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Snap's new smart glasses are probably the most impressive bit of face-computer technology we've seen. They're not VR-headset huge; they don't have a big charging puck; thanks to Snap's many years of AR lens development, they're likely to have a lot of features right out of the box. (Yes, they're $2,195, but that may just be what all this tech costs right now.) Snap is clearly at the front of this... View Source

Video platform Rumble is jumping on the AI bandwagon with its newest AI platform. Launching as Quake AI, the new sector combines cloud, compute, and AI infrastructure, and is slated to dominate the company's business segment. Rumble CEO Chris Pavlovski joins Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Tech" with more on the pivot. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

You don't have to have a Pixel Watch to use Google Wallet. Here's how to set it up on your Galaxy Watch... View Source

Rohit Goeptar, an electromagnetic/radio frequency analyst with NASA’s Launch Services Program at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, reviews a radio frequency link budget analysis for NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope from his office. Goeptar is among the engineers and technicians sworn in as new NASA civil servants as part of NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman’s workforce directiv... View Source

You can stream Sinners and other recent Oscar winners for less with HBO Max's sale. | Image: Warner Bros. Pictures The easiest way to save on a streaming service is often to pay for a year upfront, which HBO Max is currently making a lot cheaper. Through July 15, 2026, new and returning subscribers can get 28 percent off any of HBO Max’s yearly plans, bringing the ad-supported tier down to $... View Source

Tesla Inc. stock is set to end the holiday-shortened week lower after SpaceX went public last Friday... View Source

Instagram carousels can now be up to 20 slides with 20 unique captions... View Source

Even small asteroids lead complex lives. During its flyby of the asteroid Donaldjohanson last year, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft revealed the asteroid to be a wobbly, peanut-shaped body that has undergone a lot of activity in its relatively short history. Formed as fragments coalesced after a violent collision 155 million years ago, the asteroid was transformed by the small but inexorable force of the S... View Source

Do you often find yourself shopping at the big blue, or perhaps you’re just looking for an alternative to Amazon? Either way, Walmart is currently offering a year of its Walmart Plus subscription for $49, which typically costs $98. The membership includes perks like free delivery on orders over $35, free next-day and two-day shipping from Walmart.com when available, and free home pickup for return... View Source

After experiencing the technology firsthand, Bloomberg Opinion columnist Thomas Black examined the data to find out what autonomous trucks could mean for the future of road safety. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Third-party iOS app stores are coming to Brazil... View Source

Developed at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, ERNEST (Exploration Rover for Navigating Extreme Sloped Terrain) is used in a desert field test to help refine mobility hardware and autonomy software that could be used for a potential future long-range lunar rover mission.NASA/JPL-Caltech During the field test, which took place in March 2026 in the Colorado Desert of Southern California, the JPL tea... View Source

During a recent expo in Shanghai that focuses on elderly care, assistive devices, and rehabilitation medicine, a Chinese company called Yueban debuted a smart toilet that does something we haven't seen before; it comes to you. The autonomous self-driving Xiaoban toilet was designed to improve accessibility for those dealing with mobility issues due to age, injuries, or disabilities. It's expected... View Source

Austrian programmer Peter Steinberger, AMI Labs's Yann LeCun, and Writer CEO May Habib discuss the possibilities and deployment of artificial intelligence with Bloomberg's Francine Lacqua and Tom Mackenzie at the VivaTech x Bloomberg Awards in Paris. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

InfoWars founder Alex Jones speaks to the media outside Waterbury Superior Court during his trial on September 21, 2022. | Getty Images The Onion's InfoWars officially has a launch date: On July 2nd, the conspiracy network previously run by Alex Jones will return as a comedy and media platform. The reboot comes more than a year and a half after news broke that the satirical news site was working t... View Source

The new game is Square Enix’s first attempt to blend action combat with an ‘HD-2D’ art style... View Source

Apple TV will show Formula 1's Australia Grand Prix for free, even to non-subscribers... View Source

I launched Firefox this morning to find some new blocks on my home page. The widgets that are currently rolling out add sports scores, time zones, a focus timer, and a checklist, which are already some of my favorite new Firefox features in years. I usually have Focus Friend open on my phone when I need a focus timer, and I use Google Tasks for my checklists. Now I can check in with similar tools... View Source

Anduril just won a production contract for autonomous fighters with the US Air Force. It's also secured a key role in the race to provide software for those aircraft, and is moving toward scaled manufacturing as the Pentagon pushes for a fleet of up to 1,000 autonomous combat jets. Anduril CEO Brian Schimpf joins Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Tech" to discuss it all. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

On today’s episode of Decoder, my guest is Hayden Field, senior AI reporter for The Verge. Often when Hayden comes on the show, it’s because something has gone wrong in the world of AI. Last weekend, that something was a pretty intense mix of Anthropic, the Trump administration, and Anthropic’s new AI model, Fable 5.  On Friday, not even a week since Anthropic released Fable to the public, th... View Source

Three Amazon.com Inc. workers say the company violated a Seattle ordinance by interrogating them after they testified in favor of regulation of data centers in the city... View Source

XGIMI's MemoMind One is a good pair of smart glasses blighted by a creepy AI that spies on you... View Source

This NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope Picture of the Month shows the giant molecular cloud Orion A, an area of the sky replete with star-forming clouds.ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, T. Megeath, M. Zamani (ESA/Webb) Acknowledgement: M. H. Özsaraç This image, captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and released on June 5, 2026, shows just a small portion of one of the Orion Molecular... View Source

When three Amazon software engineers testified earlier this month at Seattle City Council hearings about data centers, they started their testimony by citing a city law barring employment discrimination over political speech. Now, they're accusing their employer of breaking that law by retaliating against them. On June 10th - one week after the hearing, and one day after the City Council passed a... View Source

Infinitus CEO Ankit Jain joined Bloomberg Open Interest to explain why the next generation of AI won't be copilots or chatbots—but autonomous agents that handle healthcare tasks end-to-end. He discusses insurance approvals, rising AI costs, healthcare inefficiencies, and why the industry must focus on outcomes instead of computation. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Your Google Calendar is about to get a lot more colorful... View Source

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. When Fox announced its acquisition of Roku earlier this week, executives of both companies were quick to promise that not much would change in the near future. Sure, getting its hands on Roku will help Fox become a major force in strea... View Source

US President Donald Trump said Intel will work alongside Apple to design and produce semiconductors domestically. Ed Ludlow reports on "Bloomberg Open Interest." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Adobe has added its Firefly AI tool to some of its most important apps... View Source

Amazon Prime Day 2026 lifts off on June 23rd and will hopefully deliver the best deals of the summer. We’ve been covering the most notable pre-Prime Day discounts happening, and come next week, we’ll be bringing you many more deals — ones we can’t tell you about just yet. As usual, expect to see price drops on a range of product categories, including smart home, headphones, smartwatches, monitors,... View Source

Jeremy Grantham has a long history of calling bubbles. On this episode of the Odd Lots podcast, GMO's co-founder and chief investment strategist tells Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway what he thinks about Mag 7's multibillion-dollar investment into AI and the signs he watches out for to spot when a bubble might burst. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Now bring back the Microsoft Zune, I double dare you... View Source

There are now 24 default color options instead of 11, and you can select more via an RGB color picker. | Image: Google Running out of color options for events in Google Calendar shouldn't be an issue going forward. The previous limit of 11 predefined colors has now been expanded to give users access to up to 200 custom colors for individual events across the native Calendar web and mobile apps, an... View Source

Silicon Valley spent much of the past few years feverishly pushing consumers and businesses to inject artificial intelligence into every corner of their lives. Now AI developers want their customers to pay more for the technology they actually use... View Source

Akai updates the MPC One and Key 37 with better processors, additional RAM and more storage... View Source

One messy database is threatening to disenfranchise thousands or even millions of registered voters, while leaving even more at risk of intimidation or data breaches, in the name of solving a problem that barely exists. As the 2026 midterm elections approach, election and privacy experts are sounding alarms about the Department of Homeland Security's Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements... View Source

Anthropic PBC co-founder Jack Clark said the company is in daily discussions with the Trump administration to resolve security concerns surrounding the startup’s top two artificial intelligence models and outlined his vision for ensuring the safety of the emerging technology... View Source

Pre-orders for Grand Theft Auto 6 open in just one week... View Source

Give your characters, objects, and backgrounds a name to easily replicate them without changing the design. | Image: Adobe Adobe is introducing some new capabilities for its Firefly AI assistant, alongside a "reimagined" AI studio that lets you edit and generate new designs from a single interface. The new Firefly experience launching today in private beta is designed to give you "persistent conte... View Source

The Iran war has not had a "severe" impact on the machine tool industry says Stephan Mayer, CEO for Machine Tools at German manufacturing technology firm Trumpf. Instead, the bigger headwind to the industry has been tariffs, according to Mayer. He spoke to "The Pulse with Francine Lacqua" on Bloomberg TV. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Ultrahuman's M2 Live uses Abbott's cheaper Lingo sensors to help keep track of your blood sugar... View Source

6 min read NASA’s Fermi Mission Uncovers Possible Sibling Supernova Remnants A new study of two supernova remnants, the debris left behind after stars explode, suggests the explosions came from stellar siblings that once orbited each other. The first star’s detonation sent its binary companion hurtling through space, and then, after traveling for thousands of years, the surviving star blew up too... View Source

The Amazon Kindle Colorsoft e-reader (left) sitting next to the Kobo Clara Colour displaying a Spider-Man comic. | Photos by Andrew Liszewski / The Verge Amazon’s Kindle Colorsoft Essentials Bundle is on sale for $182.97 (originally $334.97) as an early Prime Day deal, the lowest price we’ve seen for the combo. Unlike other Kindles, the Colorsoft’s color E Ink screen is great for comic books and g... View Source

Microsoft Corp.’s Azure and Amazon Web Services are on a collision course with the European Union’s tough digital competition rulebook, after an initial probe into their power over the cloud... View Source

Accenture Plc’s outlook for the fourth quarter missed expectations as the technology consulting firm reported a 2% decline in bookings for the third quarter, pointing to an uncertain market for the industry... View Source

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These keyboards stand alone. Complex. | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge Anime collaborations are everywhere, from Gundam watches and Naruto nights at Major League ballparks to just about anything Evangelion. But these Ghost in the Shell keyboards from Iqunix are some of the coolest examples I've seen of anime-inspired everyday tech. They look sick and they type and play great. At $249 t... View Source

US stocks are eyeing a rebound after President Donald Trump signed an interim peace deal with Iran. S&P 500 Index futures are up 0.5% at 7:45 a.m. in New York... View Source

In a Truth Social post, Trump said Apple and Intel have already finalized an agreement to manufacture chips for the former's devices stateside... View Source

Matthew Bergman pitched UK officials to protect kids from social media harms... View Source

Waymo is recalling over 3,800 of its self-driving taxis due to a software issue that could cause them to enter closed freeway construction zones at speed... View Source

Prem AI, a Swiss startup that helps companies including hedge funds and law firms run artificial intelligence models on their own private infrastructure, is raising $100 million in a Series A funding round... View Source

Sennheiser joins the open-ear earbud craze with its first clip-on design... View Source

Percy has now traveled more than 26.2 miles on the Red Planet! Could you?... View Source

Jeremy Grantham, co-founder and long-term strategist of GMO, has a long history of calling bubbles. As he recounts in his new memoir, The Making of a Permabear: The Perils of Long-Term Investing in a Short-Term World, that includes spotting the dot-com bubble of the early 2000s, which some people see as analogous to the current excitement over AI. And when it comes to today's market, there are a l... View Source

NASA has teamed up with Eric Schmidt's Relativity Space for a 2028 Martian mission... View Source

Intel Corp.’s stock surged more than 9% in premarket trading Thursday after US President Donald Trump said the chipmaker will work alongside Apple Inc. to design and produce semiconductors domestically... View Source

Dream, an Israeli artificial intelligence company that provides AI and cybersecurity services to governments and critical infrastructure operators, has raised $260 million at a $3 billion valuation... View Source

VSCO's new Studio Pro app can batch edit photos and match the style of a reference image... View Source

Wellness influencers have stumbled onto a huge issue when it comes male fertility, though not every solution they're pitching is good advice... View Source

SpaceX shares fluctuated in premarket trading following the previous session’s drop, as it wraps up its first week as a public company following a record-breaking listing... View Source

Plurimi Wealth Chief Investment Officer Patrick Armstrong says he sees value in the artificial intelligence supply chain, stocks such as Micron, Samsung and Nvidia. "We're underweight the Magnificent Seven — the hyperscalers — those are the companies that are spending a trillion dollars over the next 12 months on AI datacenters," Armstrong tells Bloomberg Television. "And we own the co... View Source

Betsey Stevenson, Professor of Public Policy and Economics at the University of Michigan and former chief economist at the US Department of Labor, discusses her outlook for the US economy and says the Fed will continue to keep rates on hold for a while. She speaks with Haidi Stroud Watts on "Bloomberg: The Asia Trade". (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

AirTrunk Pty., a data center operator backed by Blackstone Inc., is in talks with banks for a A$4.3 billion ($3 billion) loan to back a new project in Australia, people familiar with the matter said, as it continues its debt-fueled expansion across Asia Pacific... View Source

A major Chinese stock gauge slid toward a bear market, pressured by weakness in Internet and consumer firms... View Source

Investors in the ever-hotter AI stock rally must suddenly consider a risk with the potential to be even more damaging than high valuations and big spending: What happens if politics gets in the way?... View Source

Midjourney has announced its first hardware project, and it can do more than make cute AI pet photos... View Source

Insider Jason Calcanis said Anthropic stabbed Cursor in the back. Anthropic allegedly used massive Cursor user data/token consumption to train and improve their own internal coding capabilities (Claude Code or similar). They then restricted or cut off Cursor’s access to their models. This left Cursor in a terrible position. Negative gross margins (reported around -23%) ... Read more... View Source

One of Google’s most prominent researchers is leaving for rival OpenAI, dealing a setback to Alphabet Inc. in a multibillion-dollar race to build the world’s most powerful artificial intelligence models... View Source

Chinese investors have fueled a surge in shares of newfound AI darling Kingboard Laminates Holdings Ltd., more than doubling their stake in the company to 13% this year, according to the latest stock exchange data... View Source

Pressure to become more efficient has Europe racing to bring artificial intelligence to the shop floor. ... View Source

A Bulgaria-based company sold controversial surveillance technology to governments in countries with records of repression, enabling authorities to track mobile phones and eavesdrop on private communications, according to documents obtained by Human Rights Watch... View Source

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South Korea’s antitrust watchdog has rejected settlement proposals from the country’s two largest food delivery platforms, Baedal Minjok and Coupang Eats, leaving both firms exposed to potentially significant fines over alleged unfair business practices... View Source

“A scan of an imaging phantom, segmented to validate how cleanly structures separate under controlled conditions.“ | Image: Midjourney Medical Midjourney CEO David Holz just showed off the company's first hardware product and plans to build a San Francisco spa, which he admitted is a bit different from the "cat pictures" produced by its AI image generator. Dubbed The Midjourney Scanner, it's an ul... View Source

AI startup Midjourney Inc. announced its first hardware project at an event in San Francisco, outlining an unexpected move into the personal health and medical industries... View Source

Guo Shan, Partner at Hutong Research, discusses the potential shift from China's central bank in its interest rate framework and the outlook for the yuan. She speaks with Minmin Low on Bloomberg: The Asia Trade. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell launch roadmap for Starship • Flight 13: July • Flight 14: August. SpaceX intends to attempt a full orbital injection • Flying from cape canaveral • Post-Flight 14 Cadence: SpaceX plans to transition to an unprecedented launch rate of flying every single month for 2026 and then going to 100-200 launches ... Read more... View Source

The confusing matter of Mythos... View Source

SPACEX is undervalued if it follows the revenue and profit surge of Micron. SPACEX is 4 Months away from boostings its AI revenue from $1 billion per year in April to $33 billion per year runrate in October 2026. Gigawatts times Billions per GW = Revenue per GW They have 2 gigawatts of AI data ... Read more... View Source

Asset manager Hillhouse Investment is in talks with banks for a loan of about $600 million to fund its investment in data center operator DayOne Data Centers Ltd., according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

A pair trade is emerging in China’s artificial intelligence sector, with investors piling into the perceived winner and betting against its rival seen as losing ground in the race to build commercially viable AI models... View Source

VSCO, the photography platform best known for its popular image filters, is introducing a more advanced iOS app and an all-in-one subscription plan, moves that put it in direct competition with Adobe Inc. and other brands offering professional-grade creative software... View Source

The French Parliament adopted a bill to loosen Electricite de France SA’s grip on the hydropower market, a move aimed at ending a spat with the European Union and unlocking billions of euros in investment for new generation capacity... View Source

German media mogul and investor Bernd Förtsch is calling on BioNTech SE to provide more details on the planned departure of its founders and the transfer of assets to their new venture... View Source

BWX Technologies Inc. has struck a deal to license its design for a small modular reactor, after activist investor Ananym Capital Management pushed the nuclear technology company to consider commercializing it... View Source

Microsoft Corp. has built a big business selling AI models to Chinese companies despite the growing rivalry between the US and China over artificial intelligence... View Source

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announces a public-private partnership to advance Mars science during an event at Relativity Space on June 17, 2026. Credit: Relativity Space NASA Wednesday announced a new public‑private partnership to advance Mars science by combining the agency’s scientific leadership with commercial innovation. Under this model, NASA will provide the Aeolus atmospheric‑science... 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 DoubleLine Capital Portfolio Manager Ken Shinoda, Former Federal Reserve Vice Chair Alan Blinder, The Conference Board Chief Economist Dana Peterson, Former FDIC Chair Sheila Bair, & Barings’ High Yield Portfolio Manager K... View Source

RAMaggedon claims another one... View Source