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South Korea and Taiwan’s artificial intelligence-fueled chip booms are set to swell both economies’ trade surpluses and pressure their central banks to raise interest rates later this year... View Source

In this episode of Merryn Talks Money, Merryn Somerset Webb speaks to Tom Slater, manager of Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust and partner at Baillie Gifford, about his provocative paper, “AI Isn’t Coming for Your Job. It’s Coming for Your Mind,” and why the real risk may be a world that looks more productive while quietly losing the judgement, learning and expertise that make progress possible... View Source

SoftBank Group Corp.’s mobile unit said it plans to begin large-scale battery cell manufacturing at its Sakai, Osaka plant to address growing power demand for AI services... View Source

JPMorgan Chase & Co. raised its targets for South Korean stocks for the second time in less than a month, citing improvement in the semiconductor cycle, corporate governance reforms and industrial-sector growth... View Source

Alphabet Inc. is planning to issue yen bonds for the first time in a move that may help fund investments as artificial intelligence competition intensifies... View Source

Nintendo Co.’s shares plunged the most in three months after the company forecast hardware and software sales declines, a sign that the Switch 2 has yet to create a self-sustaining demand cycle... View Source

Running a software upgrade on a fridge feels strange, but these are the times we live in... View Source

Clinicians will be able to see users' health data... View Source

It’s already raised over $700,000 on Kickstarter. | Image: Bastl Make no mistake, the Bastl Kalimba is a synthesizer, you just play it like a kalimba. Its tines don't really make much sound. There is an internal mic that you can blend in for a little acoustic spice, but it's mostly driven by the synth engine that combines physical modeling and FM. The tines are actually touch and velocity-sensitiv... View Source

A new deal with Authentic Brands is seen by some employees as the beginning of the end... View Source

General Motors collected driving data through OnStar and sold it to data brokers... View Source

The singer accused the tech giant of illegally using her likeness to sell TVs... View Source

Bloomberg's Mark Gurman said Apple could introduce Organize Tabs feature with the next major software update... View Source

Subnautica 2 will be available in Early Access on May 14... View Source

The changes are meant to improve legibility issues with lists and text-heavy areas... View Source

I can’t wait for a proper full length. | Image: Blitzcat Records I've got to thank my oldest friend and concert buddy, Tim, for turning me on to this one. Ashnymph is a London band that blends post-punk melodies with Krautrock rhythms and industrial grime. Their debut EP, Childhood, drifts between dreamy vocals buried in layers of reverb and four-on-the-floor dancefloor pounding. It's a thrilling... View Source

The desk-friendly Cricut Joy 2 comes in multiple colors. | Photo: Sheena Vasani / The Verge I've always been skeptical of products that claim to help you lead a more creative life. But one recently won me over. I've spent three weeks with the Cricut Joy 2, a smart cutting and drawing machine that made it easy for me to get back into making stickers, cards, bookmarks, and more. The small $99 gadget... View Source

Also: The latest on iOS 27 and the truth about the Vision Pro... View Source

'Designing something new as a creator is incredibly exciting, but at the same time, it’s an extremely challenging endeavor.'... View Source

Substack, the once buzzy newsletter platform, is losing a new swath of writers to rival platforms most people haven't heard of. Just last month, The Ankler, one of Substack's most popular publications, left for a platform that gives it more control over its site. Others who have departed Substack within the past year voiced similar complaints and cite the platform's increased focus on social featu... View Source

A major Microsoft Corp. data center site in East Africa has been delayed by disagreements with the Kenyan government over the company’s request for guaranteed payments, people familiar with the matter said... View Source

Every year, Filipinos working overseas send $35 billion back home — and a growing share of those transfers are being executed using stablecoins. The blockchain technology promises to make cross-border payments cheaper and nearly instantaneous, offering an alternative to traditional remittance channels. But even though the opportunity could be huge, stablecoins remain a tiny part of the globa... View Source

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on Netflix, follow Andrew Webster. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started Boggle has become a spectator sport in my household. Everyone crowds around the TV while one of us plays, and the crowd either helps shout out words or wa... View Source

The X300 Ultra is mostly let down by its rather dull design. A few months ago, I wrote that the telephoto camera is the only lens that matters any more, at least when it comes to Ultra-class flagships. As phones got better, cameras became where manufacturers tried to stand out. As cameras got better, telephoto lenses became the next point of focus. The most recent Ultra phones from Xiaomi, Oppo, a... View Source

From volcanic landscapes and a sunset eclipse to six-minute totality, here are the pros and cons of the next two total solar eclipses... View Source

South Indian film star C. Joseph Vijay’s party secured support of smaller parties to reach a majority and form the government in Tamil Nadu, one of India’s most industrialized states and a key hub for automobile and iPhone production... View Source

Malaysia is studying actions to be taken against Meta Platforms Inc. for failing to curb fake accounts involving the country’s Malay rulers, Bernama reported, citing Communications Minister Fahmi Fadzil... View Source

Banking groups are floating last-minute changes to a compromise on stablecoin yield as a key Senate panel begins considering a landmark digital asset bill... View Source

The space agency is planning to put astronauts on the moon in 2028... View Source

The startup has expanded to more than 230 cities across the world, but has yet to become profitable... View Source

The German automaker said it would refocus on its "core business."... View Source

SpaceXAI has launched a multi-billion dollar business that will let them make $100 billion in 2027 and trillions by 2030. Huge sustainable profits that will be many multiples of Amazon and Coreweave. XAI renting 300MW to 445 MW of colossus 1 data center. Dedicated AI data centers rent for ~2 to 2.4 X the cost ... Read more... View Source

The Federal Communications Commission issued a notice to allow software and firmware updates until January 2029... View Source

This week's science news... View Source

The 360 Vis Nav impressed us with its exceptionally powerful carpet-cleaning performance. | Photo: Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge. If you’re tired of running your vacuum multiple times just to get the dirt and debris out of the carpets in your living room, Dyson’s 360 Vis Nav is worth a look. It’s one of the more powerful robot vacuums currently available, and now through May 11th (or while s... View Source

Discover the tales behind four famous spring constellations... View Source

The Trump family media group posted a net drop of $405.9 million in the first quarter, largely driven by unrealized losses in cryptocurrencies held by the company... View Source

On Episode 209 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk with Garrett Reisman and Steve Lindsey, the leaders of the new organization Astronauts for America... View Source

And just like that, Mother’s Day is tomorrow, May 10th, which is too soon for most online purchases to arrive in time. That said, you aren’t alone if you waited too long to pick up a gift this year, and you definitely aren’t alone in feeling guilty for considering digital gifts instead of something your mom can unwrap. But here’s the thing: digital gifts can still unlock memorable experiences, be... View Source

Central banks must review the resilience of financial infrastructure given the rise of artificial intelligence, as well as defend their role as the ultimate guarantor against risks posed by stablecoins, said European Central Bank Governing Council member José Luis Escrivá... View Source

Kenya plans taxes on mobile phones and banking fees to help raise nearly $1 billion in revenue in an effort to trim the nation’s fiscal deficit to its lowest in a decade and tackle debt challenges... View Source

It's the best Mortal Kombat film yet... View Source

Voyager, the iconic twin spacecraft that NASA launched in 1977, are still flying in interstellar space. But their power is dwindling, and it's unclear how much longer they can last... View Source

Water gets all the credit. When gaming companies want to show off new graphics technology, things tend to get wet; splashing waves that are only possible with the latest physics engine, or puddles that can reflect the world around them thanks to ray tracing. But there's something special about snow. It might not be as technically impressive as water, but when it comes to creating a mood in a game,... View Source

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 127, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, my Scorpion challenges your Sub-Zero to a duel, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've been reading about Hasan Piker and lines and David Sacks and sleep learning, catching up on Andor (for me) and Young Jedi Adventures (... View Source

RGB LED technology might be everyone’s focus for TV tech in 2026, but quantum-dot TVs still might be the better choice. | Photo by John Higgins / The Verge At the Los Angeles Convention Center, two 85-inch TVs sat side by side inside the Nanosys meeting room at Display Week - a yearly business-to-business convention focusing on the technology that goes into displays of all types. One TV was a mini... View Source

Plus, make a mixtape with help from the folks behind Mixtape... View Source

The studio behind Psychonauts is organizing with the Communications Workers of America... View Source

Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy partnered with Artemis 2 commander Reid Wiseman to create stunning, never-before-seen views of the far side of the moon... View Source

ByteDance Ltd. has boosted planned spending on artificial intelligence infrastructure this year by 25% to 200 billion yuan ($29.4 billion), as memory chip costs rise and the TikTok owner ramps up its AI presence, the South China Morning Post reported on Saturday... View Source

A key company behind Thailand’s national AI effort is suspected of helping to smuggle billions of dollars worth of Super Micro Computer Inc. servers containing advanced Nvidia Corp. chips to China, with Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. one of multiple end customers, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Shares in e-commerce and fintech giant MercadoLibre Inc. slipped after profits missed estimates for the fourth quarter in a row even as revenue grew at its fastest pace in nearly four years... View Source

China’s export growth rebounded more than expected despite disruptions to shipping caused by the war in Iran, as trade volumes swell due to an investment boom in artificial intelligence... View Source

China’s leading economic planning agency called for stronger coordination and top-level planning in artificial intelligence development... View Source

Yahoo Inc. raised $1.6 billion from a loan and bond deal to refinance debt tied to its acquisition by Apollo Global Management after offering investors one of the highest-yielding deals of the year... View Source

Anthropic PBC has signed a $1.8 billion computing deal with cloud services provider Akamai Technologies Inc. to meet surging demand for its artificial intelligence software, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

An Olympics-style sports event that welcomes performance-enhancing drugs is set for later this month in Las Vegas. The company behind that endeavor just went public in a merger with a blank-check company, a SPAC deal that valued it at $1.2 billion with backing from Peter Thiel and former Coinbase CTO Balaji Srinivasan. Enhanced CEO Maximilian Martin joins Caroline Hyde from the floor of the New Yo... View Source

As the New York City Public School system grapples with the Canvas service hack affecting schools nationwide, one of its Manhattan campuses is contending with a separate incident... View Source

Elon Musk and Sam Altman both took a beating over their leadership styles in court testimony this week as a jury waded further into their OpenAI feud... View Source

Isomorphic Labs, an AI-powered drug discovery company spun out of Alphabet Inc.’s Google DeepMind, is in advanced discussions to raise more than $2 billion in a new round of funding, according to people familiar with the plan... 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 Kestra Investment Management CIO Kara Murphy, Precision Neuroscience CEO Michael Mager, Carlyle’s Jason Thomas, Fmr. National Economic Council Dir. Gene Sperling, Envestnet’s Dana D’Auria, DraftKings CEO Jason Robins, NBA Hall... View Source

A federal judge is asking for more information about a proposed settlement between Elon Musk and the US Securities and Exchange Commission, after the billionaire agreed to pay $1.5 million to end a lawsuit alleging he waited too long to disclose his growing stake in Twitter... View Source

NASA’s SpaceX 34th commercial resupply mission will launch on the company’s Dragon spacecraft on the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to deliver research and supplies to the International Space Station.NASA NASA and SpaceX are targeting a mid-May launch to deliver scientific investigations, supplies, and equipment to the International Space Station.  Loaded with about 6,50... View Source

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde sits down with CoreWeave CEO Michael Intrator to discuss the company's earnings as it builds out data center capacity. Plus, a deep dive into April's jobs report and the impact of AI on today's workforce with Clara Shih from the New Work Foundation. And, more earnings with Lyft CEO David Risher as the company spends on international expansion. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The momentum trade — buy what’s winning, sell what isn’t — was already running red-hot heading into this week. Now a pause in the Iran war, strong US jobs data and another sharp rally in AI chips just piled on more fuel... View Source

The Pentagon released a new tranche of UFO files on Friday (May 8). Among the documents are nearly 30 videos, which feature a range of intriguing objects... View Source

Michael Burry is buying shares of MercadoLibre Inc. after a slump in the Latin American e-commerce and fintech company’s stock... View Source

Nvidia Corp. named former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Vice Chairman Suzanne Nora Johnson as a director, adding a finance-industry and philanthropy veteran to the chipmaker’s board... View Source

Powerful bright blue cosmic explosions called Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transients could be caused when a black hole or neutron star slams into the universe's hottest class of star... View Source

Carlyle Head of Global Research & Investment Strategy Jason Thomas discusses expectations of enormous AI productivity gains moving forward, and why US valuations are much more attractive now. He talks with Romaine Bostick at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Capcom knows you want more... View Source

Asus's latest gaming monitor is a little smaller than usual. The ROG Strix XG129C, announced on Friday, is a 12.3-inch touchscreen IPS display that's intended to be a sidekick for a larger main monitor, similar to the 14.1-inch secondary display in the 2020 Asus ROG Zephyrus Duo 15. It's a slightly smaller competitor to Corsair's Xeneon Edge, which has a 14.5-inch display, but the same 720p resolu... View Source

Quantinuum Inc., a quantum computing company backed by Honeywell International Inc., filed for a US initial public offering, capitalizing on enthusiasm around quantum computing stocks... View Source

The company is investigating an issue with its API systems... View Source

Amazon Prime Video is joining Netflix and Disney Plus in adding a vertical feed of videos to its streaming app. The new "Clips" feed will offer a stream of short-form videos from shows and movies, with options to jump into the full title, rent, or buy it. Prime Video previously offered a TikTok-style feed with NBA game highlights, but now you can see snippets from titles offered on the platform by... View Source

Shareholders of bankrupt television shopping network QVC have accused the company of wrongly trying to give away hundreds of millions dollars worth of assets to other stakeholders as part of a proposal to cut debt and end the company’s insolvency case... View Source

Is it 2006 again?... View Source

As part of an earnings presentation on Friday, Sony shared how it's thinking about AI at the company, including many details about how it's evaluating AI as part of making PlayStation games. Generative AI has recently been showing up in bigger games - though many indie developers still reject it - and while Sony calls AI a "powerful tool," it says that the "vision, the design, and the emotional im... View Source

Cerebras Systems Inc. is set to increase the price range of its initial public offering as soon as Monday, according to people familiar with the matter, as demand for the artificial intelligence chipmaker’s shares continues to build... View Source

Your wish for a vertical recommendation carousel has been granted... View Source

2 Min Read NASA’s Psyche Mission Captures Mars During Gravity Assist Approach PIA26750 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU Photojournal Navigation Science Photojournal NASA’s Psyche Mission… Photojournal Home Photojournal Search Latest Content Galleries Feedback RSS About   Downloads NASA’s Psyche Mission Captures Mars During Gravity Assist Approach JPEG (132.38 KB) PIA26750 Figure A JPEG (105.92 KB) De... View Source

If you only knew the power of Boardwalk... View Source

Yesterday, I told you how a hacker ran me over with a robot lawn mower. We explained how thousands of these bladed Chinese robots, made by Yarbo, could be hijacked with ease - exposing people's GPS coordinates, Wi-Fi passwords, email addresses, and more to any casual hacker who comes along. Today, Yarbo has issued a thorough 1,200-word response that you can read in full below. The company is confi... View Source

AST SpaceMobile, a rival to SpaceX, has a huge online community that is helping drive the stock price higher. Bloomberg's Sana Pashankar reports. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

For fans of reading paperwork about aliens... View Source

These are just five of the 29 versions of the Aurora Lux that Dreame claims it will release. | Screenshot: Dreame Where's the Trump phone? We're going to keep talking about it every week. We've reached out, as usual, to ask about the Trump phone's whereabouts. This week, Trump Mobile has been trumped. It's been another long week without the Trump phone, but it's no longer the only nonexistent phon... View Source

Learning AI is becoming more and more crucial for workers to get hired, as 42% of recent grads are still underemployed. Clara Shih, founder and CEO of the New Work Foundation and former Head of Business at Meta, says she wants AI to be profitable not just for businesses, but for everyone - including the millions of 25-year-olds currently unemployed. She joins Caroline Hyde on "Bloomberg Tech." (So... View Source

The sequel expands the player count to four and adds new classes... View Source

What sci-fi gets right (and mostly wrong) about all the ways that space wants to kill you... View Source

The Department of Government Efficiency's cancellation of over $100 million in grants was unconstitutional, according to a ruling on Thursday. In the 143-page decision, US District Judge Colleen McMahon cites DOGE's process for eliminating grants, which involved using ChatGPT to determine if something is related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). The ruling, which stems from a 2025 lawsuit... View Source

The Defense Department has released a new trove of declassified documents about government UFO sitings... View Source

gamma. CEO & Co-Founder Larry Jackson discusses his career in the music industry, his relationship with Kanye West, and how artificial intelligence has changed the business. He talks with Romaine Bostick at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The company also owns Moog and M-Audio, so this creates an industry juggernaut... View Source

3 Min Read I Am Artemis: Anton Kiriwas Listen to this audio excerpt from Anton Kiriwas, senior technical integration manager for NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems Program: 0:00 / 0:00 Your browser does not support the audio element. When Anton Kiriwas first spotted an image of the Moon and Mars hanging over a job fair booth while in college, it captured his imagination, yet felt like a dream too d... View Source

ABC is accusing the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) of violating its First Amendment rights by making "major shifts in policy and practice" that the network claims will chill free speech. The network is asking the FCC to "affirm its long-standing approach to the bona fide news interview exemption" for daytime talk show The View, and the agency's support of "public interest services provide... View Source

Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick says that some games need to be cheaper to make or they won’t be made at all... View Source

3 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) High Performance Spaceflight Computing System on ChipNASA/Ryan Lannom For decades, NASA has advanced on-board spacecraft computer processors that coordinate and execute the functions needed to support mission success. Space computing originated in the 1960s with the Apollo Guidance Computers, which were pivotal for guid... View Source

See the glowing arch of our Milky Way's core at its peak in the spring sky... View Source

Apple and Intel reached a "preliminary agreement" for Intel to make chips for Apple hardware, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday. Apple had famously moved on from Intel-powered computers with its highly successful transition to Apple Silicon, but now it appears the two companies will be working closely together again. Intel appointed Lip-Bu Tan as its new CEO in March 2025, and in August, the... View Source

Due to a rising demand for electricity, Three Mile Island, the site of the most famous US nuclear accident, is coming back online, as soon as mid-2027, to power chatbots and other artificial intelligence applications. Bloomberg's Will Wade reports. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Tezuka helped create the very first Mario and Zelda games... View Source

After quickly selling out of the Steam Controller on May 4th, Valve has launched a reservation system to ensure that you can get one without too much hassle. You may not get one as quickly as you'd like to, but at least you can now easily reserve the $99 controller. If your Steam account is in good standing, and you've purchased something on the account before April 27th of this year, you'll be ab... View Source

A breach of a third-party online platform that is widely used by primary schools and colleges has disrupted classes and finals just as the academic year is coming to a close... View Source

Zero Parades: For Dead Spies comes out on May 21... View Source

Blue Origin continues putting its first lunar lander through its paces, testing the spacecraft at NASA centers across the nation to prepare it for its upcoming mission to the moon... View Source

The EP-136 KO Sidekick sandwiched between two KO-II samplers. | Image: Teenage Engineering The EP-136 KO Sidekick is Teenage Engineering's stylish new two-channel mixer, clearly designed to connect two of its KO-II samplers for live performances and DJ sets. Though, it can connect any two audio sources, not just TE gear. The mixer leaked a couple of times, but what those leaks didn't show was that... View Source

OnlyFans, the platform best known for adult content, agreed to sell a minority stake to Architect Capital in a deal that values the British company at about $3.15 billion... View Source

The company also outlined AI's role in the future of PlayStation... View Source

NASA/Chris Williams NASA astronaut Chris Williams captured the Milky Way rising above Earth’s atmospheric glow on April 13, 2026, while aboard a SpaceX Dragon docked to the International Space Station. This atmospheric glow is also called airglow. It occurs when atoms and molecules in the upper atmosphere, excited by sunlight, emit light to shed their excess energy. Alternatively, it can hap... View Source

We must fight the Lylat Wars... again... View Source

The fog-colored Fitbit Air looks sharp, and it’s not available at Amazon. | Image: Google Google’s new Fitbit Air, the $99.99 screenless fitness tracker, comes out on May 26th. It’s the company’s first Fitbit release in four years, and you can use it on iOS or Android phones without a paid subscription if all you want to do is track activities, sleep, and basic health metrics (heart rate, breathin... View Source

Akamai CEO Tom Leighton joined Bloomberg Open Interest to break down a massive $1.8B AI cloud deal. He explains why it signals a shift away from big tech hyperscalers and how edge computing is becoming essential for stopping AI-powered cyberattacks, cutting costs, and delivering faster performance. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Watch the entire event unfold on YouTube... View Source

NASA's Artemis 2 Orion spacecraft rests after its flight around the moon, charred from the return to Earth... View Source

Logitech is introducing a new feature to its rugged iPad Combo 4 keyboard case that addresses an ongoing issue with the tablet as Apple continues to push it towards being a laptop alternative. The new Rugged Combo 4c and 4c Touch cases, compatible with the 10th and 11th-gen iPads, add a second USB-C port to accommodate accessories like wired mice, headphones, and external drives while the tablet i... View Source

The Pentagon announced that it has begun releasing government files on UFOs after President Donald Trump directed agencies to identify and declassify them... View Source

And we review the reMarkable Paper Pure... View Source

Lead research engineer Dr. Kerrigan Cain adjusts tubes connected to a fuel cell inside NASA Glenn Research Center’s Fuel Cell Testing Laboratory in Cleveland on Feb. 23, 2026. His team is testing a system that could revolutionize power generation and energy storage for future Moon and Mars missions.NASA/Jef Janis With a small blue crane, four researchers hoist a cylindrical fuel cell, which looks... View Source

I’m not sure if we’ve mentioned this yet, but Govee has been on a tear lately, having recently announced everything from rechargeable table lamps to multicolor, Matter-compatible ceiling lights that can display custom images with retro, pixelated flair. In April, the company also unveiled a 34-foot set of Outdoor Solar String Lights, which are now on sale at Amazon for $79.99 ($20 off) thanks to a... View Source

There have been supposed alien sightings for centuries. These observations of "unidentified flying objects," or UFOs, have periodically surged, such as during the late 1940s and early 1950s as the Cold War began. There have been more sightings since the early 2000s, driven by advances in sensors and cameras that capture images in real time. Over the last decade, since the work of a shadowy governm... View Source

Developers bankrolled by two of the world’s biggest asset managers set their sights on building a massive data-center hub in Northern Virginia. A fight over newspaper advertising threw their plans into disarray... View Source

Tappy can work with other Bluetooth devices, too... View Source

During his tenure as chief of staff, NASA’s Brian Hughes is seen during a NASA town hall event, Wednesday, June 25, 2025, at the NASA Headquarters Mary W. Jackson Building in Washington.Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls NASA announced Friday that Brian Hughes will return to the agency as senior director of launch operations, based at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. In this role, Hughes... View Source

The US government has released some of the UFO files. Some really interesting ones are the three dots in a photo taken during Apollo 17. Apollo 12 lunar photos: Multiple images flagged as anomalous, including strangely shaped objects or lights captured on film during the mission. Users call these “wild” and are posting close-ups. “Yes. ... Read more... View Source

Forget apps — May's bright stars and classic spring constellations make this the perfect time to learn the sky the old-fashioned way, one star-hop at a time... View Source

Fitness bands can’t be as simple as they once were before the AI health boom. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent every Friday from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they're going to change your life. Opt in for Optimizer here. A fitness band is for bettering yourself, but c... View Source

As summer travel ramps up, consumers are bracing for high gas prices, airport security mayhem, airlines going under and a raft of cancelled flights, while prices of hotels, car rentals and just about everything else seem to be steadily marching skyward. The Points Guy founder Brian Kelly tells Stacey Vanek Smith and Max Chafkin to fear not. He joins a special Everybody's Business podcast recorded... View Source

Tesla is recalling its RWD Cybertruck Long Range over faulty brake rotors that could cause the wheels to fall off, as spotted earlier by MotorTrend. In a notice on the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's website, Tesla says "brake rotor stud holes may crack and allow the stud to separate from the wheel hub." The recall affects all 173 of the $70,000 Cybertrucks sold by Tesla, which co... View Source

Black Eyed Peas co-founder will.i.am has a message for young people worried that artificial intelligence will make it hard for them to get jobs: embrace the technology, he says, and make it work for you... View Source

Capture high-quality Apple ProRes video with full stabilization... View Source

It would appear we now have 10,091 candidate exoplanets to go through and confirm... View Source

European investors chasing AI winners have turned to Switzerland, sending shares of two optical component makers sharply higher this week... View Source

The Osmo Pocket 3P will feature a main wide camera and 3x zoom lens... View Source

Stock futures climbed on Friday as top semiconductor stocks gained ahead of a payrolls report that’s expected to show a modest increase in hiring. Oil held steady as the Iran ceasefire appeared intact even with overnight clashes near the Strait of Hormuz... View Source

You will now be able to nominate a Trusted Contact OpenAI can warn... View Source

SpaceX just took a big step toward its next Starship test flight, firing up all 33 engines of the vehicle's Super Heavy on the pad in Texas... View Source

Nanoleaf teased a trio of new products focused on embodied AI as it looks to move its brand beyond smart lighting. | Image: Nanoleaf Smart lighting company Nanoleaf has been unusually quiet recently. While competitors such as Govee and Philips Hue have been pumping out new products and innovative features at an impressive pace, Nanoleaf has launched just a handful of new smart lighting products in... View Source

A tiny pharmaceutical company in danger of being delisted from the Nasdaq stock exchange went from celebrating new patents for cancer treatments to re-branding as an AI company in the period of two months. The move rescued its share price in the process, albeit briefly... View Source

It's teaming up with the chip giant on a new facility... View Source

Watch models like the Apple Watch Series 11 (pictured) are also now available at discounted education rates for the first time. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apple now requires proof of eligibility from US customers who purchase products online at discounted education rates, which also apply to the Apple Watch for the first time. According to a new pop-up message displayed on Apple... View Source

Welcome to Edition 8.40 of the Rocket Report! One of the remarkable things about SpaceX is that, after a quarter of a century and becoming the most important launch company of this era, it remains a disruptive force. Even though the Falcon 9 is the most used rocket of the world, and groundbreaking in its reuse capabilities, SpaceX is actively seeking to make it obsolete with the Starship program... View Source

The company is making a creative pitch to find engineers in a highly competitive market... View Source

An entry‑level software engineer in San Francisco would need to be paid $162,000 a year to qualify for an H‑1B visa under a Trump administration proposal — almost 30% more than today. In Dallas, the minimum would jump by a similar rate to $113,000 and in New York to $132,000... View Source

This week's biggest stories, including: Google's new wearable, the new reMarkable slate and a new gimbal from DJI... View Source

The Artemis 2 astronauts saw several impact flashes on the moon during their epic April 6 flyby, observations that have excited scientists and mission planners alike... View Source

After Lip-Bu Tan became chief executive officer of Intel Corp. in March of last year, the struggling company’s shares went nowhere for seven months while the chipmaker was getting trounced in the market for artificial intelligence... View Source

Waymo leads with sensors and maps. Wayve bets on pure AI and scale. Both are launching in London—who wins the future of driving? Bloomberg's Tom Mackenzie reports (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Wayve CEO Alex Kendall explains end-to-end autonomous driving, how Wayve's approach differs to those of Tesla and Waymo, and why artificial intelligence licensing could scale fastest. He speaks to Bloomberg's Tom Mackenzie. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

It sold 19.86 million Switch 2s last year but forecasts a drop in sales next year... View Source

Sony sold just 1.5 million PS5 consoles in its most recent fourth fiscal quarter, down 46 percent year over year. The slump in PS5 sales comes after Sony raised the price of its PS5 consoles twice over the past year, pushing the price of the regular PS5 from $499.99 all the way up to $649.99. Sony blamed "continued pressures in the global economic landscape," for the price hikes in March, amid an... View Source

Researchers have developed three new antibiotics from scorpion venom and habanero peppers to combat tuberculosis and other drug-resistant pathogens... View Source

Wayve CEO Alex Kendall explains how an artificial intelligence-driven approach to self-driving -- using onboard intelligence and real-world learning -- is reshaping how autonomous cars and robotaxis are built and scaled. Kendall speaks to Bloomberg's Tom Mackenzie. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

They also locked students out of Canvas and warned the company to negotiate with them by May 12... View Source

Nintendo is raising the price of its Switch 2 console globally, "in light of changes in market conditions," and is now forecasting a drop in sales over the next year. Starting September 1st, the Switch 2 will cost $499.99 in the US, up from its current $449.99 price. At the same time, prices will also increase by $50 in Canada ($679.99, up from $629.99) and €40 in Europe, bringing it to... View Source

Roozbeh Charli, chief executive officer of Swedish firm Einride, discusses how platform-driven logistics, electric trucks, and autonomous systems are transforming global freight, and why humans still play a critical role. He speaks to Bloomberg's Tom Mackenzie. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. and Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation are planning to form a joint venture to build next-generation image sensors... View Source

Higher console prices could affect its gaming division results next year, too... View Source

SoftBank Group Corp. has downsized plans for a $10 billion margin loan backed by its OpenAI stake after facing hesitation from some creditors, people familiar with the matter said... View Source

Airtel Africa Plc said it plans an initial public offering of its mobile money business in the second half of this year, delaying the sale by a few months... View Source

Rod Drury, the founder of ASX-listed accounting software firm Xero, has handed back the New Zealander of the Year prize he won just weeks ago following allegations of sexual misconduct involving former employees... View Source

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. reported a 17.5% increase in its sales, highlighting sustained spending by hyperscalers bankrolling the AI boom... View Source

Jeffrey Sherman, DoubleLine's deputy CIO and lead portfolio manager for multi-sector and derivative strategies, discusses the current state of the financial markets. Sherman also comments on the recent wave of big tech earnings and anticipates the potential impact of upcoming Nvidia results. He speaks on "Bloomberg The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Baidu Inc.’s chip unit Kunlunxin is planning an initial public offering on Shanghai’s Nasdaq-style bourse in addition to a separate listing plan in Hong Kong as the Chinese search engine giant looks to taps investor appetite for semiconductor stocks... View Source

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Cloudflare Inc. plans to cut more than 1,100 jobs globally as it accelerates its shift to an agentic AI-first operating model... View Source

Investors in India, long focused almost entirely on domestic markets, are increasingly starting to look outward... View Source

Sony Group Corp. will buy back up to ¥500 billion ($3.2 billion) of its shares, the company said as it set out a profit forecast largely in line with expectations on Friday... View Source

Citigroup Inc. is expanding its foreign-exchange business with hedge fund and private-equity clients, part of a broader push as global trading volumes rise... View Source

South Korea’s current-account surplus surged to another record in March, driven by a surge in semiconductor exports and stronger shipments across Asia and the US, even as foreign investors sharply reduced holdings of domestic stocks amid rising Middle East tensions... View Source

Principal Financial Group Inc. is seeking to raise $3 billion for two funds this year to capitalize on demand for investment in data centers in the US and Europe, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

The private credit boom may be stalling. Bloomberg Originals shows how AI is exposing hidden risks that are scaring off some investors, pointing to a possible reckoning for the $1.8 trillion market. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang said he would gladly join President Donald Trump on an upcoming visit to China if invited, signaling that the leader of America’s most valuable company has yet to receive an offer to go... 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 Global Sovereign & Emerging Markets Head Bill Campbell, GTCR Co-CEO Collin Roche, DoubleLine Non-Agency Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities Head Ken Shinoda, Cambridge Associates’ Samantha Davidson, DoubleLin... View Source

The new feature could turn Codex into more than a coding aid... View Source

3 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft flies above Palmdale and Edwards, California, during its first flight Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025, accompanied by a NASA F/A-18 research aircraft serving as chase.NASA/Jim Ross NASA’s home for experimental flight is welcoming more flyers to its already high-performing fleet as i... View Source

A federal judge rejected Alphabet Inc.’s request to pause an order that forces the tech giant to provide rivals with access to its underlying search data while the company appeals a ruling that it illegally monopolized the online search market... View Source

The solo developer couldn't get an extension from rights-holder Paramount... View Source

MP Materials Corp. expects demand for some of the most expensive rare earth materials to drop sharply as magnet makers adopt alternative metals... View Source

Repeat offenders will be punished with "caps" on their views... View Source

Universities across the US reported widespread outages on Thursday after a cybersecurity incident affected the Canvas online learning platform used by colleges nationwide... View Source

The vinyl drops in Q4, but the full album is streamable now... View Source

The economics of Tesla Semi versus Diesel Trucks. It is $40000 for two overnight chargers or $188000 for two chargers for 30 minute charging. Tesla has just introduced Semi Charging for Businesses. Pricing starts at $40,000 for 2 Basechargers or $188,000 for two Megachargers. Options: Megacharger Cabinet With Megacharger Post: • Max DC output: Up ... Read more... View Source

SoftBank Group Corp.’s stock rally faces a test against reality next week, with investors clamoring for assurance that the company’s multibillion-dollar bet on an increasingly embattled OpenAI will be worth the money... View Source

The company previously announced it was working on an AI assistant that can make matches... View Source

Full duration and full thrust 33-engine static fire with Super Heavy V3. This means the updated deluge system is working properly. Most current launch trackers (Next Spaceflight, Spaceflight Now) now list NET May 15, 2026 (around 5:30 p.m. CDT window), with the May 12 date having slipped a bit as expected after recent prep. Full ... Read more... View Source

An ancient impact may have scattered material from deep inside the moon toward NASA's planned Artemis landing sites near the lunar south pole... View Source

Microsoft’s vast power demands are bringing together two transformative—and risky—technologies... View Source

Mark Zuckerberg has said he wants to make AI agents more accessible... View Source

Nvidia Vera Rubin platform with the Rubin GPU and Vera CPU is a full-stack systems with CPO. It is the next-gen successor to Blackwell. The Vera CPUs are for agentic workloads. There is Groq LPU integration for inference disaggregation. there is projected $1T in combined Blackwell/Rubin orders through 2027. It will have 10x better inference ... Read more... View Source

Cloudflare Inc. stock fell on Thursday after the company said it would slash jobs and gave a forecast for revenue that fell short of analysts’ expectations... View Source

The new Health app is rolling out on May 19... View Source

Credit: NASA The Republic of Paraguay signed the Artemis Accords on Thursday during a ceremony in Asunción, becoming the latest nation to commit to the shared principles guiding civil space exploration. “Today, I am proud to welcome Paraguay as the 67th signatory to the Artemis Accords,” said NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman. “They join an ever-growing coalition of like-minded nations committed t... View Source

The rock is nicknamed "Atacama."... View Source

The Instructure-owned learning management platform, Canvas, is down after recently confirming a massive data breach that impacted student names, email addresses, ID numbers, and messages. Students attempting to access the system on Thursday saw a message from the hacking group ShinyHunters, which claimed responsibility for the attack: ShinyHunters has breached Instructure (again). Instead of conta... View Source

Nvidia Corp. is investing as much as $2.1 billion in the data center developer IREN Ltd. as part of a broader partnership between the two companies aimed at accelerating the construction of artificial intelligence infrastructure... View Source

The well-received title was developed by a single person... View Source

Peak Design’s Everyday Backpack Zip features a unique wraparound zipper that provides quick access to your belongings. | Image: Peak Design To celebrate founder Peter Dering’s birthday, Peak Design is taking up to 50 percent off a host of bags and accessories through May 8. The sale includes steep discounts on many of the company’s most popular backpacks and bags, as well as a couple of other item... View Source

Airbnb Inc. boosted its revenue growth forecast for the year on “particularly strong” bookings in the Americas and benefits from simplifying its fee structure for hosts and guests... View Source

Must everything be part of the panopticon?... View Source

1 Min Read NASA’s Next-Gen Mars Helicopter Rotors Are Moving Fast PIA26648 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech Photojournal Navigation Science Photojournal NASA’s Next-Gen Mars… Photojournal Home Photojournal Search Latest Content Galleries Feedback RSS About   Downloads NASA’s Next-Gen Mars Helicopter Rotors Are Moving Fast JPEG (1.34 MB) Description Engineer Jaakko Karras inspects a next-generation Mars h... View Source