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Dyson’s newest robot vacuum adds mopping capabilities but takes away the Dyson motor of its predecessor. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge Dyson, a company built on engineering high-speed motors, has confirmed to The Verge that its newest robot vacuum doesn't use a Dyson motor. The recently launched Spot & Scrub Ai robot vacuum and mop was "co-engineered," Nathan Lawson McLean, se... View Source

Months before Jamie Dimon’s infamous remark about more than one “cockroach” lurking in credit markets, TCW Group Inc. Chief Executive Officer Katie Koch warned the direct lending industry was due for a reckoning... View Source

Xbox mode brings a console-like interface to Windows 11... View Source

The Artemis missions are paving the way to civilizational decisions. It’s time to ask not just what we can do – but whether we should do itThis month’s splashdown of Artemis II was rightly celebrated as a technical achievement. Four astronauts traveled farther from Earth than any humans in history and returned safely. It is an extraordinary thing to send people into deep space and bring them home... View Source

Microsoft is launching a new AI agent inside Word that's specifically designed for legal teams. Legal Agent handles document edits, negotiation history, and complex documents to help legal teams handle tasks like reviewing contracts. "Instead of relying on general AI models to interpret commands, the agent follows structured workflows shaped by real legal practice, managing clearly defined, repeat... View Source

The cloud provider’s deal for Eigen AI will help the inference business... View Source

It's pledged to invest more into its division making ceramics used in the production of NAND memory... View Source

The Dyson Spot + Scrub Ai is Dyson’s first combination robot vacuum and mop. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge I'm deeply conflicted about the Dyson Spot + Scrub Ai robot vacuum and mop. It's the company's best robotic floor cleaner to date, with excellent mopping performance, good navigation and obstacle detection, and a multifunction dock that takes much of the busywork off your han... View Source

Uber Technologies Inc. has agreed to acquire Hong Kong’s FlyTaxi as part of its expansion plans in the city, Sing Tao Daily reported, citing an announcement by the US-based company... View Source

May's full moon rises as flowers bloom across the northern hemisphere... View Source

Jake Nesler’s AI trading bot got one big decision right in its first week. It ignored the chase... View Source

Osteoarthritis has no cure, but researchers have developed new therapies that help aging or damaged joints repair themselves in a matter of weeks... View Source

Europe is set for weeks of erratic and increasingly warm weather over the coming month, raising the risk of storms, early season drought stress and increasing cooling demand... View Source

Meta Platforms Inc. sold $25 billion of investment-grade bonds, hitting the market with a jumbo deal for the second time in six months as investors are starting to show some signs of fatigue... View Source

The global economy is increasingly captive to two opposing forces... View Source

Apple delivered a strong revenue forecast for the third quarter, with sales expected to rise 14% to 17% in the period. The company warned that memory-chip costs will increase and that shortages of Mac computers will persist for "several months." Bloomberg Intelligence's Matthew Bloxham breaks down the situation. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Investor 137 Ventures has around $10 billion in SpaceX after writing multiple checks backing the Elon Musk-led company. Ahead of SpaceX’s IPO, Justin Fishner-Wolfson, founder and managing partner at 137 Ventures, discusses the expected windfall and two new funds the VC firm has raised to back startups and founders staying private longer. He speaks with Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tec... View Source

Dave Lee from Bloomberg Opinion critiques Meta's positioning as a cloud business, highlighting that unlike true hyperscalers such as Amazon and Google, Meta does not demonstrate healthy growth in cloud sales driven by AI. Despite Meta's substantial capital expenditure of up to $145 billion, its AI strategy appears unconvincing, as reflected in the cautious tone of its leadership during the earning... View Source

Qualcomm shares surged after the company said it was making headway in the lucrative data center market and teased a partnership with a large hyperscaler. Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon speaks with Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

After a $300 billion AI debt binge that spanned every corner of the credit market, investors are starting to show some signs of fatigue... View Source

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Scott Rubner, head of equity and equity derivatives strategy at Citadel Securities, says he is not seeing a decline in AI spending and demand. He discusses the buying opportunity he sees in US megacap tech stocks and why he’s bullish on consumer trading. Rubner speaks with Dani Burger on the sidelines of Bloomberg House Miami. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Tesla and Elon have huge partnerships to deliver a surge in tens of millions of chips needed for AI domination. They also have increased their AI and model competitiveness. Tesla and SpaceX tying up with Intel for the most advanced 14nm process chips. This will deliver AI6 and AI7 chips. Tesla TERAFAB and TERALAB will ... Read more... View Source

Kimberly Forrest, CIO and founder of Bokeh Capital Partners, joins Scarlet Fu on "Bloomberg Markets." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Toto Ltd. shares soared as much as 18%, the most on record, in Tokyo after the toilet maker said it plans to ramp up investment in its chip components business due to strong AI demand... View Source

Major news organizations, including CNN, NBC and USA Today, have joined an effort to curb the storage of their content in a web archive used by artificial intelligence companies for training chatbots... View Source

OpenAI Chief Financial Officer Sarah Friar, rebutting concerns about missing internal targets, said the company is meeting objectives and sees “a vertical wall of demand” for its products... View Source

Investors looking to profit amid the buildout boom in AI infrastructure should favor big-spending “hyperscalers” over chipmakers, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s Jim Covello... View Source

Three of the biggest names in private credit moved to reassure investors this week about the AI risks facing their software borrowers, deploying proprietary “score cards” and outside consultants... View Source

Reddit Inc. projected sales in the current period that surpassed Wall Street estimates, continuing a streak of strong revenue growth powered by the company’s surging advertising business... View Source

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow discuss tech earnings as Alphabet and Amazon see a clear payoff from their AI spending, while Meta lags behind. Plus, Anthropic has begun weighing a fresh funding round that would value the AI developer at more than $900 billion. And, Stripe President John Collison discusses the company's new AI tools and partnership with Google. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Zach Cregger's take on the video game source material hits theaters on September 18... View Source

It is generally frowned upon to care too much about appearances. We have a lot of little aphorisms discouraging this - books and their covers, beauty being skin deep, style over substance, that sort of thing. Vanity is a risk. Should one put a disproportionate effort into how a thing looks, then said work may very well be considered shallow. But in the world of big-budget video games? That's how y... View Source

Apple Inc. delivered a surprisingly strong revenue forecast for the third quarter, even as it warned that memory-chip costs will increase and that shortages of Mac computers will persist for “several months.”... View Source

It's an expansion of the mobile app's "Hear the Highlights" feature... View Source

Mark Zuckerberg. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Meta says it may be forced to pull Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp from New Mexico if the attorney general gets his way. The state is demanding a host of changes that the company says are impossible to achieve. After winning a $375 million jury award against Meta in a trial that argued the company misled users in the state about t... View Source

Apple delivered a surprisingly strong revenue forecast for the third quarter, benefiting from new products launched in March, including the MacBook Neo and updated iPad Air. Ed Ludlow has more. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The hotly anticipated sequel has been the subject of all kinds of drama... View Source

Okay, I am not a lawyer so I only understood about half of what just happened. But I am fairly sure, given the context, that Elon Musk's lawyers may have just fucked up big. Jared "James Brickhouse" Birchall, Musk's finance guy and all-around fixer, took the stand after Musk today. Most of his testimony was dull and seemed to exist primarily to get some documents read into the record, which sucks... View Source

High frequency trading has transformed Wall Street into a world of algorithms. No firm captures the digital upheaval quite like Jane Street. Many are wondering what’s behind its unprecedented success. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

It's a rare moment of working across the aisle... View Source

Russia launched its Soyuz 5 medium-lift rocket for the first time ever on Thursday (April 30), and things apparently went well... View Source

Rivian reported its first quarter earnings of 2026, providing us a closer look at the company's financial health as it kicks off production for the crucial R2 electric vehicle. We've already got Rivian's production and delivery statement from the first three months of the year. The company sold 10,365 vehicles in Q1, representing 20 percent increase year over year. And it produced 10,236 vehicles... View Source

Apple Inc. reported revenue for the fiscal second quarter that topped analysts’ estimates, helped by demand for the iPhone and Mac.  Revenue jumped 17% to $111.2 billion during the period, which ended March 28, the company said in a statement Thursday. Analysts had expected $109.7 billion. Apple itself had projected sales growth of 13% to 16%. Bloomberg's Anurag Rana and Ed Ludlow join to break it... View Source

The RG Rotate starts at just $88... View Source

Congress has reauthorized Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act - but only for another 45 days. The extension is meant to give legislators more time to negotiate reforms to the controversial wiretapping bill. If the past few weeks are any indication of how future debates will go, however, we're in for a bumpy ride. The House renewed Section 702 with minor reforms on Wednesday ev... View Source

Apple delivered second-quarter revenue that edged past analysts’ estimates, helped by demand for the iPhone and Mac. Ed Ludlow reacts to the earnings report on "Bloomberg The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Welcome to the Land of Enchantment... View Source

Artemis 3 slips to late 2027 as Starship and Blue Moon lag, delaying NASA’s lunar return timeline and jeopardizing a 2028 moon landing... View Source

Roblox's daily active users continued to slip last quarter due in part to its rollout of age checks on its platform. According to its latest earnings report, Roblox currently has 132 million daily active users globally, down from 144 million at the end of last year, which was a drop from 152 million in Q3 2025. In the US and Canada, the number of active users dropped by one million from the previo... View Source

Jay Goldberg, Seaport Research Partners semiconductors and electronics senior analyst, reacts to Apple’s fiscal second-quarter results. Speaking on “Bloomberg The Close,” Goldberg says memory prices could put pressure on Apple’s gross margins... View Source

Linux is having a very busy year... View Source

Credit: NASA Ireland will sign the Artemis Accords during a ceremony at 3 p.m. EDT Monday, May 4, at NASA Headquarters in Washington. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman will host Ambassador of Ireland to the United States of America Geraldine Byrne Nason; Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment Peter Burke, T.D., of Ireland; and U.S. Department of State officials for the ceremony. This even... View Source

Apple's iPhone revenue jumped 22 percent to $57 billion over the past few months, despite supply chain issues impacting the device's processor. During an interview with Reuters, Apple CEO Tim Cook said iPhone "demand was off the charts" but added that there's "a little less flexibility in the supply chain at the moment for getting more parts." Apple earned $111.2 billion in revenue during the seco... View Source

Roblox Corp. reported first-quarter users that fell short of analysts’ expectations after implementing safety features restricting how kids, who make up a majority of its audience, can use the platform... View Source

This marks Amazon's first streaming deal with a college team... View Source

The United States Space Force has created a new program to develop space-based missile interceptors, with the goal of being able to demonstrate their capability by 2028... View Source

Rivian announced some changes today with regard to the factory its building in the state of Georgia. The company was planning to build the facility in two phases, each resulting in 200,000 vehicles of annual production capacity, for a total of 400,000 units. Now the company says it is only planning for 300,000 units of annual capacity as a result of a revised loan agreement with the US Department... View Source

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The option is part of a collection of updates Microsoft is making to consoles and the Xbox PC app... View Source

Skywatching Skywatching Home What’s Up Meteor Showers Eclipses Daily Moon Guide More Tips & Guides Skywatching FAQ Night Sky Network Shooting stars before dawn, a brilliant meetup between the Moon and Venus and a rare blue moon to end the month The Eta Aquarid meteor shower brings shooting stars before dawn, the Moon meets brilliant Venus after sunset, and May wraps up with a rare Blue Moon... View Source

Close watchers of the Supreme Court knew that the conservative supermajority was about to murder what was left of the Voting Rights Act. Wednesday's decision in Louisiana v. Callais took down Section 2 of the law, clearing the way for racist gerrymandering, because it is now racist to remedy racism. The decision is an affront to the history of the Voting Rights Act, an affront to the history of th... View Source

Earlier this week, Blue Origin posted a job opportunity for a "senior manager" to oversee tank fabrication for "Quattro," and the description contained some intriguing information. "As part of a hardworking team of specialists, technicians, and engineers you will be the Senior Manager of Gen 2.0 Tank Fabrication, and will own the production execution of the most structurally complex and schedule-c... View Source

For the past few years, the largest US technology companies have been in a costly race to develop advanced artificial intelligence systems while at the same time providing computing power to a burgeoning field of startups. To chase these goals, they have radically changed how they finance their growth. Long reliant on rich revenues and share price increases, Alphabet Inc.’s Google, Meta Platforms... View Source

An SDK will allow developers to start building non-commercial tools soon... View Source

1 Min Read Odyssey Team Celebrates on a Global Map of Mars PIA26722 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech Photojournal Navigation Science Photojournal Odyssey Team Celebrates on a… Photojournal Home Photojournal Search Latest Content Galleries Feedback RSS About   Downloads Odyssey Team Celebrates on a Global Map of Mars JPEG (18.11 MB) Description Team members past and present from NASA’s 2001 Mars Odyssey o... View Source

Evidence suggests that Venus is still volcanically active, and new data about a big eruption in Hawaii a few years ago could help scientists find out for sure... View Source

Microsoft is now rolling out its Xbox mode to all Windows 11 PCs. The new Xbox mode adds a full-screen interface to the Xbox PC app, much like Steam's Big Picture Mode, and originally debuted as the Xbox Full Screen Experience (FSE) with Asus' Xbox Ally devices. "Some players in select markets will be able to download the Xbox mode experience today, with availability expanding to more players in t... View Source

Mark Zuckerberg and Tim Cook aren’t planning a bid for the NFL’s Seattle Seahawks... View Source

Extremely OK Games is publishing the project... View Source

3 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Partners from NASA, Texas public safety organizations, industry partners, and the Federal Aviation Administration gathered in the region of North Texas Feb. 18 to understand how public safety drones can operate alongside commercial drones safely and effectively.Credit: Texas Department of Public Safety Our streets are c... View Source

Here’s an early look at the new Gemini assistant on a vehicle infotainment system. | Image: Google Google is preparing to update vehicles that have Google built-in with its Gemini AI assistant. This will be an upgrade from the current Google Assistant according to Google's announcement, and promises to provide an improved experience for natural conversations, fetching vehicle-specific information,... View Source

Over the past nine days, 39% of new podcasts were likely AI-generated, according to the Podcast Index... View Source

The monitor uses a Mini LED screen and supports AI upscaling for lower resolution content... View Source

Credit: NASA The Kingdom of Morocco signed the Artemis Accords on April 29th during a ceremony in the country’s capital, Rabat, becoming the latest nation to commit to the responsible exploration of space. “It is my privilege to welcome the Kingdom of Morocco as the newest signatory to the Artemis Accords,” said NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman in recorded remarks. “The accords began as the frame... View Source

'When we started visualizing this world, we wanted to do right by the fans'... View Source

In a federal courtroom in California on Thursday, Elon Musk testified that his own AI startup, xAI, has used OpenAI's models to improve its own. The matter at question is model distillation, a common industry practice by which one larger AI model acts as a "teacher" of sorts to pass on knowledge to a smaller AI model, the "student." Although it's often used legitimately within companies using one... View Source

Anthropic has begun weighing a fresh funding round that would value the AI developer at more than $900 billion, according to sources, potentially overtaking longtime rival OpenAI as the world's most valuable AI startup. Bloomberg’s Natasha Mascarenhas joins Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Asobo Studio says it also improved the game's performance with the latest update... View Source

NASA/Glenn Benson Teams move the core stage, or largest section, of the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket for NASA’s Artemis III mission into the Vehicle Assembly Building at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida in this photo from April 27, 2026. The SLS core stage traveled 900 miles on the Pegasus barge from NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in N... View Source

Microsoft has released a new Xbox update that adds a bunch of new features, including the ability to disable Quick Resume for individual games. Quick Resume, which lets you swap between your games with minimal wait time, is one of the best features on the Xbox Series X / S consoles. But it can also run into unexpected issues with multiplayer games or titles that require a constant internet connect... View Source

Elon Musk acknowledged there was no written agreement or contract with OpenAI regarding the terms of his donation to the company when it was first founded as a nonprofit research organization more than a decade ago... View Source

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4 Min Read NASA Goddard’s Greenbelt Visitor Center Marks 50th Anniversary This 1976 photograph shows how the visitor center at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., appeared when it opened to the public for the first time. Credits: NASA Trimmed in bicentennial pageantry, NASA opened a visitor center at its Goddard campus in Greenbelt, Maryland, in May 1976. Fifty years on, th... View Source

Wispy nebula clouds can be seen reflecting the blue-white light of the Pleiades in the stunning amateur photo... View Source

The Cricut Joy 2 doesn’t take up much desk space and looks pretty cute. | Image: Cricut If you’ve ever thought about making your own stickers for Etsy or just for fun but don’t know where to begin, I’d recommend taking a look at the Cricut Joy 2. I’ve been testing one for a couple of weeks now, and as someone completely new to the Cricut ecosystem, I’ve found it to be a relatively beginner-friendl... View Source

Anthropic PBC has said its new artificial intelligence tool, Mythos, is so good at finding vulnerabilities in software and computer systems that it can’t be released to the general public. The AI giant released Mythos to a limited number of carefully chosen parties because if a tool this powerful fell into the wrong hands, Anthropic says, it could help attackers more easily steal data or disrupt c... View Source

The extremely British action RPG should translate well to an episodic format... View Source

Manus, an AI company Meta acquired for $2 billion last year is running ads promising quick, easy money with AI: Find local businesses without websites or with bad websites, have AI build them one, then call them up and sell it to them. As part of the campaign, Manus was paying content creators to build out Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok accounts that promote its AI product as an easy, lucrative gi... View Source

At WIRED Health, immunologist Daniel Davis detailed the ways in which new technologies are enabling a better understanding of the human immune system... View Source

A powerful Senate committee backed legislation to require OpenAI, Meta Platforms Inc. and other artificial intelligence companies to stop minors from using chatbots, responding to a strengthening public backlash against harm to children and teenagers attributed to the fast-spreading technology... View Source

Xbox Insiders can preview the new tech today... View Source

Q1 Earnings and AI Surprises for Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Meta and TESLA Semi Mass Production. Google EPS of $5.11 beat expectations of $2.63. Revenue of $109.9B beat expectations of $107.2B Search: +16% YoY Q1 Youtube: +11.7% YoY Q1 Cloud: +50% YoY FY26 Capex 175B – 185B FY26 EPS: $11.7 Amazon Bedrock had 170% growth instead ... Read more... View Source

SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket flew for the first time in 18 months Wednesday (April 29), and a sharp-eyed satellite was watching... View Source

Microsoft's relationship with OpenAI has always been complicated, so I expected the close partnership-turned-situationship to end in tears. After all, executive disagreements, rearranged contracts, and frustrations over AI infrastructure have all regularly been part of the partnership, creating plenty of tension along the way. But against all odds, Microsoft and OpenAI divorced this week in a way... View Source

Euro-area finance ministers will discuss the challenges that Anthropic PBC’s Mythos AI model poses as officials struggle to get clarity on the new tool’s powers... View Source

A warning for all you nerds out there... View Source

Artemis 2's Orion capsule has returned to its Florida launch site, just three weeks after carrying four astronauts on a historic journey around the moon's far side... View Source

Autonomous vehicles roving California's roads will no longer be immune to traffic tickets starting on July 1st. New regulations announced by the California DMV this week allow law enforcement to give AV manufacturers a "notice of AV noncompliance" when one of their cars commits a traffic violation, like running a red light or failing to stop for school buses. The updated regulations come after yea... View Source

On this episode of the Odd Lots podcast, BlackRock COO Rob Goldstein joins Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway to discuss ways in which the firm is already using AI to develop innovative products, as well as how he envisions the future of private markets. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

VC firm 137 Ventures has raised over $700 million to back growth-stage startups. Its portfolio includes SpaceX, Anduril, Hadrian... View Source

Nintendo eShop gift cards can be used to buy games, apparel, and even hardware or accessories from its online storefront. No matter what you want to get, you can save a fairly substantial amount by purchasing a twin-pack of $50 eShop gift cards from Newegg. Originally $100, you can get them for $80.50, and there’s a limit of 10 purchases per customer. Buying any more than one set of gift cards mig... View Source

Scott Rubner, head of equity and equity derivatives strategy at Citadel Securities, says he is not seeing a decline in AI spending and demand. He discusses the buying opportunity he sees in US megacap tech stocks and why he’s bullish on consumer trading. Rubner speaks with Dani Burger on the sidelines of Bloomberg House Miami. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

It features a bunch of hot-swappable components inside its bundled case and it's even Xbox-certified... View Source

The Ucayali River snakes across the rainforest in this image captured by NASA astronaut Jessica Meir from the International Space Station... View Source

Adam Scott grew up watching horror movies at, as he describes it, "probably too young" an age. But he never set out to work specifically in the genre. Even still, horror seemed to follow him around from the very beginning. His first major film role was in Hellraiser IV in 1996. "It wasn't because I was a Hellraiser fan," he says. "It was because it was the job I got." Later, he took a starring rol... View Source

The National Security Agency has been testing the capabilities of Anthropic PBC’s new artificial intelligence model to find cybersecurity vulnerabilities in popular software, including Microsoft Corp. products, according to a US official and another person familiar with the matter... View Source

A $160 physical collector's edition includes a rad-looking landspeeder model... View Source

Commissioned in May 2015, the Edmonton Rail Terminal is one of the largest crude oil loading facilities in North America. It will accommodate up to three unit trains per day comprised of 150 railcars each. The facility is capable of loading 76 individual railcars at one time, achieving an ultimate capacity of approximately 250,000 barrels ... Read more... View Source

May the 4th 2026 includes the Mandalorian’s N-1 Starfighter, which will be seen in the upcoming Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu movie... View Source

This interview has been lightly edited for length and clarity.  Hello and welcome to Decoder, Nilay’s show about big ideas and other problems. This is Nick Statt, senior producer, and I’m joined by host and very occasional guest, Nilay Patel. Nilay, welcome back to your own show. Hello. I hate being the guest. Now, you have said that in the past, but there’s also a version o... View Source

Polymarket is partnering with blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis Inc. to help police its platform as prediction markets grapple with increased scrutiny over insider trading... View Source

It's designed to keep you appraised of what your coding agent is doing, even when you're not at your desk... View Source

Tesla is up to at least 25 Unsupervised vehicles in Texas per the robotaxitracker. Robotaxi tracker is crowdsourced. This means someone who took a ride in a Tesla robotaxi in Texas has to report the license plate to the app or website. They miss over half of the known Waymo vehicles. Austin 19 Dallas 3 ... Read more... View Source

There may be a long wait before the end of the RAM shortage that's driving up prices on everything from phones to gaming handhelds. During an earnings call on Thursday, Samsung predicted that the severe memory shortage, driven by demand from AI data centers, will not only continue next year, but likely get worse, as reported by Reuters. As Samsung memory chip business executive Kim Jaejune stated... View Source

White House officials are preparing a wide-ranging artificial intelligence policy memo that outlines requirements for AI deployment by national security agencies, some of which touch on issues driving the bitter dispute between the Pentagon and Anthropic PBC over military use of the firm’s technology, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

"Verified by Spotify" will start rolling out over the coming weeks... View Source

Spotify is launching a new verification program to combat spam, fakes, and AI. Some artists will now have a "Verified by Spotify" badge and a green checkmark on their profile, indicating that the company has confirmed a real person is behind the music and the profile. At least at launch, Spotify says that AI personas or profiles that primarily upload AI-generated music are not eligible for the ver... View Source

The European Union’s revamped plans to stimulate the semiconductor industry would allow the bloc’s executive arm to invest directly in manufacturing, people familiar with the draft said... View Source

The internet is full of copycat, stolen, reposted, and low-effort content - and Meta, at least publicly, has said it is working to cut off some of the reach. Beginning in 2024, the company has made incremental announcements saying it would begin limiting "unoriginal" content from being recommended on Instagram. It meant that if you were downloading and reposting someone's Reels, or spamming the sa... View Source

137 Ventures, a repeat investor in Elon Musk’s SpaceX, has raised $700 million across two new funds to back startups over longer time horizons... View Source

Meme creators and others who don't make "material" edits could get their reach throttled by Meta... View Source

Exploration Labs has proposed the first commercial deep space ride share mission, known as Apophis EX, to rendezvous with potentially hazardous asteroid Apophis... View Source

Dallas-based genetics and biotech startup Colossal has raised hundreds of millions of dollars from venture capitalists, the CIA, and Peter Thiel, among others. Its buzzy "de-extinction" projects aim to "bring back" lost animals like the woolly mammoth, the Tasmanian tiger, and the dire wolf - although it isn't creating copies of extinct creatures from ancient DNA, as the "de-extinction" tagline ma... View Source

Iran’s record internet blackout is emerging as a key dividing line between the country’s powerful security apparatus and its civilian government, underlining how the war with the US has extended the military’s control over daily life... View Source

Meta is planning to pump billions more into AI investments this year, despite noting that millions of users have seemingly started to abandon its platforms. In an earning call on Wednesday, Meta reported that figures for "Family daily active people" - the term Meta has coined for all collective users of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, or Messenger - declined by 20 million this quarter compared to t... View Source

The top maker of chips for smartphones wants in on the explosive AI data center market... View Source

Want to transform a whole room with a stunning stellar display? This Fliti Galaxy Projector offers incredible coverage and it's nearly 40% off... View Source

OpenAI is preparing to launch a new frontier cybersecurity model, GPT-5.5-Cyber. CEO Sam Altman said the model will not be available to the general public, but will be first rolled out to a select group of trusted "cyber defenders" in order for institutions to shore up their cyberdefenses. The limited rollout will take place "in the next few days," Altman said on X. "We will work with the entire e... View Source

Concern over water access are poised to consume summer in the US, as crises in Corpus Christi and across the Colorado River threaten to boil over... View Source

Julian Emanuel, chief equity and quantitative strategist at Evercore, examines the role of earnings in supporting the bull market in stocks and offers a timeframe for when higher oil prices will begin to impact equities. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Women are using artificial intelligence at lower rates than men. But are they being “left behind”?... View Source

Fuzzy, purple, and edible, Spudnik is a marvel... View Source

The last few decades have been marked by a number of megatrends in finance including the extraordinary growth of asset managers, the rising importance of technology, and the ascent of private markets. BlackRock, the world's biggest asset manager, is emblematic of all these developments. On this episode, we talk to BlackRock COO Rob Goldstein about the company's early technological history, the dev... View Source

Apple Inc. reports quarterly earnings after the close on Thursday, but investors will be largely looking past the numbers and seeking clues to incoming Chief Executive Officer John Ternus’ strategic plans... View Source

It will be available to everyone, not just Premium users... View Source

Sony has finally stepped in to clear up the growing confusion around a new DRM (Digital Rights Management) system on PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 consoles. Users reported that the system's latest updates seemingly introduced a requirement to go online once every 30 days to validate game licenses, but Sony now says this is false. In a statement to GameSpot, a Sony Interactive Entertainment spoke... View Source

The LinkedIn cofounder now has an AI drug discovery startup—and thinks not asking chatbots for medical advice is “bordering on committing malpractice.”... View Source

A $5 billion placement by battery giant Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Ltd. is setting the stage for a fresh wave of share sales in Hong Kong after volatility triggered by the war in Iran weighed on the deal flow... View Source

The biggest US tech firms now plan to spend as much as $725 billion this year on capital expenditures, primarily on AI data center equipment... View Source

Meta Platforms Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg reignited fears that the historic levels of investment he’s making to catch up in the artificial intelligence race won’t pay off, a prospect that sent shares sliding after the company raised its spending outlook for the year... View Source

Rumors that Sony's new digital rights management (DRM) system might check PlayStation game licenses every 30 days appear not to be true... View Source

From world record breakers to the most iconic image of all time, these are Guardian Australia’s top three photos for April. Photographer and picture editor, Carly Earl, hand-picks three photographs as her favourites every month and explains the craft and composition that makes them special. April’s edition includes a quiet, intimate moment of record-breaking athlete, Gout Gout, a picture perfect c... View Source

Alphabet Inc. reported high demand for its cloud and artificial intelligence offerings, boosting shares and giving investors confidence that its unprecedented investments in AI infrastructure will pay off... View Source

Europe’s software companies are doing better than expected this earnings season, brushing off fears around artificial intelligence and the impact of the Iran war on business confidence... View Source

SoftBank Group Corp. plans to establish and list an AI and robotics company called Roze in the US, potentially raising capital to propel founder Masayoshi Son’s growing bets on artificial intelligence... View Source

Murata Manufacturing Co. reported fourth-quarter earnings that beat analyst estimates, fueled by robust demand from artificial intelligence data center builders... View Source

A frenzied day of earnings reports offered a glimpse at how some of the world’s biggest tech companies are doing in artificial intelligence. The upshot: Alphabet Inc.’s Google is seeing a clear payoff from its AI spending, while Meta Platforms Inc. is lagging behind... View Source

Samsung Electronics Co. earned a far stronger-than-expected eight-fold leap in quarterly profit, underscoring robust demand for AI memory chips in the face of markets roiled by war in the Middle East.  (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

From the rooftop terrace of Kosovo’s innovation center, Shpend Lila pointed out a red-brick building on a recent weekday morning. Originally the headquarters of a local publishing agency, the modernist structure was Pristina’s tallest for decades. Today, it is dwarfed by high-rises housing a growing mix of tech companies — including SPEEEX, a business processing outsource firm on track to be... View Source

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Banks that recently signed a $40 billion bridge loan with SoftBank Group Corp. for its investment in US tech giant OpenAI have attracted more lenders to the deal in syndication, people familiar with the matter said... View Source

Nitin Rakesh, CEO at Indian IT firm Mphasis, discusses the company's business strategy and its investments in AI. He speaks with Haidi Stroud-Watts on Bloomberg: The Asia Trade. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

OpenAI has met a key milestone for securing AI capacity in the US several years ahead of schedule, boosting the startup’s ambitious plans for data center expansion... View Source

The extraordinary wealth generated from South Korean chipmakers will drive spending and inflation, spurring the nation’s central bank to raise interest rates at least three times over the coming year, according to Mirae Asset Global Investments... View Source

The White House opposes Anthropic PBC’s plan to expand access to its Mythos AI model, the Wall Street Journal reported, a technology that the company says is powerful enough to enable dangerous cyberattacks... View Source

Thomas Reardon, who led the work on Meta Platforms Inc.’s Neural Band, is raising funds for a new startup called Flourish to develop energy-efficient artificial intelligence, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Uber is adding a host of features to its app for when you're away from home... View Source

Samsung Electronics Co.’s semiconductor arm beat expectations with a 48-fold jump in profit after AI’s reliance on memory delivered hefty margins... View Source

The latest answer to the always-relevant question: "Can it run Doom?"... View Source

Fujitsu Ltd. shares fell as much as 14%, the most in 11 years, after the company’s fourth-quarter operating profit and full-year forecast missed analyst estimates... View Source

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Just a simple country CEO who was being tricked by that sophisticated lawyer | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images About five hours into Elon Musk's testimony, I typed the following sentence into my notes: "I have never been more sympathetic to Sam Altman in my life." Musk's direct testimony was an improvement over yesterday - even if his lawyer kept asking leading questions to cue him... View Source

Asia’s artificial intelligence-fueled rally is masking signs of strain, with gains in tech names overshadowing the impact of the US-Iran war on the broader market... View Source

The new Razr Fold even has native stylus support, unlike Samsung's most recent flagship... View Source

House Republicans are investigating American technology companies’ use of Chinese artificial intelligence models, part of a broader push by Congress to limit US national security risks and to counter Beijing in the global AI race... View Source

The CEO wants to make an agent so easy even his mom can use it... View Source

San Francisco tech startup, Mercor, is hiring high-skilled workers for a massive undertaking: teaching AI how to do their jobs. On today’s Big Take podcast, reporter Tom Foster and host Sarah Holder break down how Mercor’s college-dropout founders built a $10 billion company aimed at automating the white-collar world. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

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Meta Platforms Inc. shares slid after the company raised its spending outlook for the year, reigniting fears that the historic levels of investment it’s making to build artificial intelligence models won’t pay off. The social-media giant projected full-year capital expenditures between $125 billion and $145 billion, far exceeding analysts’ estimates and marking a roughly 7.4% increase from what th... View Source

At least now you can figure out what to wear without physically going to your closet?... View Source

4 Min Read I Am Artemis: Ryan Schulte Ryan Schulte, Orion flywheel project manager, demonstrates using the Orion spacecraft’s flywheel exercise device at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Credits: NASA/Rad Sinyak Listen to this audio excerpt from Ryan Schulte, Orion flywheel project manager: 0:00 / 0:00 Your browser does not support the audio element. As the four A... View Source

Anthropic PBC has begun weighing a fresh funding round that would value the artificial intelligence developer at more than $900 billion, according to people familiar with the matter, potentially leapfrogging its longtime rival OpenAI as the world’s most valuable AI startup... View Source

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Tesla Semi mass production has officially begun. Long Range •⁠ ⁠Range: ~500 miles •⁠ ⁠4680 cells •⁠ ⁠Fully electric steering assist (vs hydraulic before) •⁠ ⁠Uses beefed up Cybertruck actuators •⁠ ⁠48 volt architecture •⁠ ⁠Powertrain: 3 independent motors on rear axles •⁠ ⁠Drive Power: Up to 800 kW •⁠ ⁠Curb Weight: 23,000 lbs •⁠ ... Read more... View Source

The astronauts joined president in Oval Office for a press conference, and it wasn’t long before he praised himselfDonald Trump hosted the crew of the historic Artemis II lunar flyby mission at the White House on Wednesday.The four astronauts – commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, mission specialists Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen – joined the president in the Oval Office for a celebrato... View Source

General atmosphere during Grindr White House Correspondents' Dinner Weekend Party 2026 at LXIV DC on April 24, 2026 in Washington, DC. | Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images for Grindr Inc. Hello and welcome to Regulator, a newsletter for Verge subscribers about technology, politics, and technology learning how to politick. If you're not a subscriber but would like to support our work, please subscribe he... View Source

Daniel Flax, Neuberger senior research analyst, discusses what the latest round of tech earnings could portend for AI companies like Apple, Broadcom and Nvidia on "Bloomberg The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

There are also new generative AI tools, because they must be stuffed into everything... View Source

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Nintendo recently announced a new pricing policy, which knocks $10 off the cost of digital versions of future first-party titles exclusive to the Nintendo Switch 2. Splatoon Raiders, for instance, is available for preorder ahead of its July 23rd release for $49.99 digitally or $59.99 for the physical edition. However, Walmart is the exception in how it’s pricing preorders for the cartridge version... View Source

DA Davidson Managing Director Gil Luria offers his key takeaways on earnings from Amazon, Microsoft and Meta Platforms. He speaks on "Bloomberg The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

A preliminary investigation found the company isn't adequately keeping minors off of Instagram and Facebook... View Source

New data from NISAR shows where Mexico City and its environs subsided by up to a few centimeters per month (shown in blue) between Oct. 25, 2025, and Jan. 17, 2026. Uneven and seemingly small elevation changes have added up over the decades, fracturing roads, buildings, and water lines.NASA/JPL-Caltech/David Bekaert One of the most powerful radar systems ever launched into space has mapped the gro... View Source

Microsoft's Xbox hardware revenue continues to tumble, with the company revealing a 33 percent decline as part of its earnings report released on Wednesday. Even though the rest of Microsoft's consumer-focused division took a dip, the company's cloud and productivity businesses continue to soar, driving the company toward $82.9 billion in revenue. Along with declining Xbox hardware revenue, Micros... View Source

Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud unit posted its fastest quarterly growth in more than three years, bolstered by new data center capacity and an increasing slice of business from Anthropic and OpenAI... View Source

Has nobody watched Terminator?... View Source

President Trump hosted the Artemis 2 moon astronauts at the White House today (April 29), congratulating the quartet and musing about the possibility of going to space himself... View Source

Google Search queries hit an "all time high" in the first quarter of 2026, according to a statement from CEO Sundar Pichai published as part of Alphabet's earnings on Wednesday. "Our AI investments and full stack approach are lighting up every part of the business," Pichai says. "Search had a strong quarter with AI experiences driving usage, queries at an all time high, and 19% revenue growth." He... View Source

Elon Musk spent hours Wednesday telling a jury about his falling out with the other leaders of OpenAI over what he described as their desire to “get rich” off a project that was supposed to serve the public good... View Source

No need to copy and paste Gemini's outputs anymore... View Source

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow discuss expectations for big tech earnings as investors prepare for Microsoft, Meta, Google, and Amazon to report earnings after the market closes. Plus, SoFi CEO Anthony Noto discusses investors' reaction to the financial services company’s earnings as its shares fall. And, Elon Musk continues testifying in his suit against OpenAI over the startup's pivot f... View Source

Sam Altman apologized for not notifying local authorities last week... View Source

'It's exciting to see things come to life and see it grow and expand. It just makes me happy every day.'... View Source

Open Uber's app and you'll see options to hail a car, order some food, or go grocery shopping. And starting today, you'll see something new: hotels. In a major expansion into the world of travel accommodations, Uber says that it's adding the ability to book and pay for a hotel room to its app. The news was announced at the company's annual Go/Get product event, at which the company also unveiled s... View Source

US utility Entergy Corp. boosted its four-year capital spending plan by nearly a third to $57 billion, mainly to build natural gas-fired power plants for Meta Platforms Inc.’s massive data center development in northern Louisiana... View Source

Gotta hand it to Motorola: it’s a good-looking phone. 2026 is shaping up to be a tough year to launch a high-end phone. The memory crisis has phone prices rising across the board, so an already expensive phone risks becoming a much too expensive phone. That might be what happened to the Razr Fold, which will cost $1,900 when it goes on sale in the US on May 14th. That doesn't include the Moto Pen... View Source

SoFi shares fell after the company released its quarterly results. SoFi CEO Anthony Noto says investors appear to be reading its decision to maintain its full-year guidance as a sign of uncertainty. Noto speaks with Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Finding X-rays coming from one of the little red dots discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope could be the key to answering what these weird objects truly are... View Source