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This is Lowpass by Janko Roettgers, a newsletter on the ever-evolving intersection of tech and entertainment, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. When news broke last week that Meta may cut the budget of its Meta Reality Labs unit by as much as 30 percent, followed by reports that the company is delaying the release of future headsets, pundits immediately jumped on this to procl... View Source

Germany’s power security will deteriorate over the coming years, with potential shortfalls from 2031, grid operator Amprion GmbH warned... View Source

NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Yu Cheng (NAOJ); Image Processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI) NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured a blowtorch of seething gasses erupting from a volcanically growing monster star in this image released on Sept. 10, 2025. Stellar jets, which are powered by the gravitational energy released as a star grows in mass, encode the formation history of the protostar. This... View Source

"This is the first time AI has been used to help control a robot on the ISS."... View Source

OpenAI is facing a wrongful death lawsuit after a 56-year-old man killed his mother and took his own life after delusion-filled conversations with ChatGPT. The lawsuit, filed in a California court on Thursday, accuses ChatGPT of putting a "target" on the back of 83-year-old Suzanne Adams, who was killed at her Connecticut home in August. The victim's estate claims ChatGPT "validated and magnified"... View Source

European software stocks opened lower today after Oracle fell in late trading as it reported a jump in spending on AI data centers and other equipment, rising outlays that are taking longer to translate into cloud revenue than investors want. The Oracle share drop countered earlier positive sentiment across equities after Fed Chair Jerome Powell cut rates by 25 basis points, amid dissenting votes... View Source

With a new year just around the corner, now is the perfect time to take stock of your finances. A budgeting app can help with that, and right now you can get 50 percent off your first year of a Monarch Money plan. All you need to do is enter the code MONARCHVIP at checkout and you’ll pay $50 for the initial 12 months instead of the regular price of $100. Note that the offer only applies to new use... View Source

Astronomers have found the strongest evidence yet of an atmosphere around a rocky exoplanet... View Source

Today, I’m talking with Sen. Ed Markey of Massachusetts, and you’ll hear me start with the only question I think anyone should be asking any politician in the federal government right now: What the hell is going on here? Sen. Markey didn’t mince words with his answer. You’ll hear him compare the Trump administration to the fascist dystopia in Orwell’s 1984 and say that democracy itself is on... View Source

Oaktree Capital Management LP co-founder Howard Marks says interest rates don't need to go much lower than they are now. “I believe that the Fed should be passive most of the time and only come to the rescue if the economy is seriously overheated and tending toward hyperinflation or seriously underactive and not creating jobs,” Marks said on Bloomberg Surveillance. “I don’t think that’s the case r... View Source

"We did the simplest thing that could be done — we just mapped them and pieced them together."... View Source

Do you recognize this power bank? It might be recalled. | Image: INIU A company called INIU has issued a recall for its BI-B41 10,000mAh power banks because the lithium-ion batteries they use "can overheat and ignite, posing fire and burn hazards to consumers." The company has received 15 reports of the power banks overheating resulting in 11 fires causing over $380,000 in property damage and thre... View Source

Walt Disney Co. agreed to invest $1 billion in OpenAI and license iconic characters like Mickey Mouse and Cinderella to Sora, OpenAI’s short-form, artificial intelligence video platform... View Source

It looks like Disney wasted no time delivering on CEO Bob Iger’s promise to bring AI-generated content to Disney+. On Thursday, the company announced the start of a three-year licensing agreement with OpenAI to bring more than 200 of its beloved characters, including those from Star Wars and Pixar, to the Sora app and ChatGPT. With the deal in place, OpenAI users will be able to prompt ChatGPT to... View Source

The Nex Playground is a motion-controlled, cube-shaped console for ages five and up that’s selling like hotcakes. It came in third for home console sales during Black Friday week, according to sales data shared on Bluesky from Mat Piscatella of Circana, falling behind only Nintendo’s Switch 2 and Sony’s PlayStation 5. That’s an impressive feat for Nex, and not a great look for Microsoft’s Xbox con... View Source

Disney agreed to invest $1 billion in OpenAI and license iconic characters for use on the Sora generative video platform. Caroline Hyde reports on Bloomberg Television. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

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This stunning image is full of young star clusters... View Source

Andy Piazza, Senior Director, Threat Intelligence, Palo Alto Networks Unit 42, joins Bloomberg’s Margi Murphy to discuss how businesses can safeguard customer finances and data amid increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks and the rise of AI-driven threats at the Empowering Business Growth in the Digital Economy event in San Francisco. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Nintendo has been slowly drip-feeding us GameCube games since the console joined its Nintendo Classics offering when the Switch 2 launched in June, and we just got another one. Switch Online + Expansion Pack subscribers can now play Wario’s one and only 3D platformer on the service. Wario World launched in 2003 and was developed by Treasure (Gunstar Heroes, Ikaruga). You play as Wario, the flatule... View Source

It's Game Awards season, y'all. That special time of the year when we gather together to celebrate video games and the people who make them… by watching expensive commercials briefly punctuated by the odd awards speech or musical performance. For better or worse, The Game Awards is the biggest night on the video game event calendar. But with the way things have been going, lately it's been more "w... View Source

The US Federal Reserve cut rates by a quarter percentage point for the third consecutive time. The vote was split 9-3 and details from the meeting show growing division among policymakers. The Fed maintained its outlook for just one cut in 2026, but the wording of its statement was subtly altered to suggest greater uncertainty around the timing. The US military seized an oil tanker off the coast o... View Source

After rolling it out on desktop and Android earlier in 2025, Google is finally bringing its built-in Gemini AI experience to iPhone and iPad. It offers new features like summarizing pages and helping you test your knowledge about a subject you're learning. As with any AI tool, though, it shouldn't be trusted for anything important given the possibility of hallucinations and other errors... View Source

JUICE and the Hubble Space Telescope turned their gazes towards the interstellar visitor in November... View Source

Medra, which programs robots with artificial intelligence to conduct and improve biological experiments, has raised $52 million to build what it says will be one of the largest autonomous labs in the United States... View Source

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Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Riley Griffin reports on the pressure Meta’s artificial intelligence researchers are under to deliver products that make money for the company... View Source

French insurer Axa SA said it’s exercising greater caution on the artificial intelligence build-out when backing financing for the sector, amid growing awareness of emerging risks in private markets... View Source

There are early signs that artificial intelligence is starting to deliver on its promise as a technology that boosts productivity, according to the Bank of England Governor... View Source

"We are only beginning to discover the true complexity of these worlds."... View Source

Entrenching generative AI into Adobe's creative software ecosystem is paying off, according to the company's latest earnings. While its share price has fallen by more than 37 percent this year at the time of writing, Adobe is reporting a bump in annual profits driven by record revenue of $23.77 billion for 2025 - an 11 percent increase year-over-year that it's largely attributing to AI. "Adobe's r... View Source

Anna Edwards, Guy Johnson and Mark Cudmore break down today's key themes for analysts and investors on "Bloomberg: The Opening Trade." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Tourists from Europe and other regions could be asked to provide a five-year social media history before given entry to the United States, according to a new proposal from the US Customs and Border Protection service (CBP). The new rule would affect visitors from countries who normally enjoy relatively easy entry to the US via the Electronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA). The new proposal... View Source

Retro gaming handheld manufacturer Ayaneo has finally revealed the design of its first Android phone, which has been teased since August. Fittingly, it too is a throwback - to 2011's Sony Ericcson Xperia Play. The Pocket Play has a screen that slides up to reveal a full set of inset physical controls, including a D-pad, ABXY fact buttons, and two circular touch pads. There are twin sets of shoulde... View Source

At least two fistfights broke out last week between PDD Holdings Inc. employees and Chinese regulators who were performing checks at the e-commerce company’s Shanghai premises, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Schneider Electric SE announced a share buyback program of as much as €3.5 billion ($4.1 billion) through 2030 as it targets growing profitability over the next five years, driven by artificial intelligence and electrification... View Source

Amazon.com Inc. and Microsoft Corp. are intensifying their India push with a combined $52 billion in fresh investment, underscoring the country’s rising status as a key growth market for artificial intelligence, cloud services and online retail... View Source

With support from Microsoft, Stripe, and Shopify, Running Tide billed itself as on the cutting edge of carbon removal. In the end, it resorted to dumping thousands of tons of wood chips in the sea... View Source

Oracle Corp. reported a jump in spending on artificial intelligence data centers and other equipment. Fiscal second-quarter cloud sales increased 34% to $7.98 billion, while revenue in the company’s closely watched infrastructure business gained 68% to $4.08 billion. Both numbers fell just short of analysts’ estimates. Bloomberg Intelligence’s Matthew Bloxham breaks down the numbers... View Source

Deep inside a Singaporean vault that’s been dubbed “Asia’s Fort Knox,” nestled alongside fine wines and priceless paintings, is a fully-formed, 69-million-year-old triceratops skeleton — one of only 24 known specimens... View Source

Cisco Systems Inc., a bellwether stock of the dot-com technological revolution, has returned to a record after a quarter century, thanks in part to the artificial intelligence spending boom... View Source

Planet Labs PBC forecast fourth-quarter revenue growth ahead of estimates on several new and expanded contracts, momentum the company sees continuing into fiscal 2027... View Source

"Bloomberg: The Asia Trade" brings you everything you need to know to get ahead as the trading day begins in Asia. Bloomberg TV is live from Tokyo and Singapore with Shery Ahn and Avril Hong, getting insight and analysis from newsmakers and industry leaders on the biggest stories shaping global markets. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Two Chinese artificial-intelligence startups seen as possible rivals to OpenAI aim to complete their Hong Kong initial public offerings in the coming weeks... View Source

Adobe Inc. delivered an upbeat annual forecast but still drew a lukewarm reaction from investors, who have been seeking clearer signs that the software maker can thrive in an era of artificial intelligence... View Source

Oracle Corp. shares fell more than 10% in extended trading after the company reported a jump in spending on AI data centers and other equipment, rising outlays that are taking longer to translate into cloud revenue than investors want... View Source

Paramount Skydance Corp. released a letter to Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. investors Wednesday asking them to support its tender offer for the entertainment company’s shares and not the rival Netflix Inc. merger... View Source

Laura Martin, senior entertainment analyst at Needham & Co., discusses Paramount's and Netflix's competing bids for Warner Bros. Discovery, which company is more likely to win the regulatory approval for the bid, and what it means for the entertainment industry and for consumers. She joins Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

For many of us at Engadget, a big part of our jobs is testing out new tech on a regular basis. Our desks are cluttered with new smartphones, power banks, gaming accessories and more pretty much all the time, and there are plenty of winners and losers amongst them. Similarly, there are winners and losers in the things we buy for ourselves throughout the year, and we like to sing their praises just... View Source

Rocket Lab has signed a contract to launch its new Neutron rocket on a test flight that will advance the U.S. Air Force's point-to-point cargo transportation concept... View Source

Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow discusses how SpaceX is targeting an IPO next year, with the goal of raising far beyond $30 billion, the most in history. Plus, Meta makes a pivot on open-source models, and Nvidia pushes back on reports that DeepSeek smuggled thousands of banned Blackwell chips into China. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Back in October, OpenAI announced apps like Spotify and Canva would be accessible in ChatGPT. At the time, the company said more software was on the way, and now one of the most popular professional applications is available through the chatbot.    Starting today, you can access Photoshop, Acrobat and Adobe Express inside of ChatGPT. All the apps are free to use through OpenAI’... View Source

Mind transfers, nanotech, and robotic innovations take center stage in this visionary 2026 book... View Source

Sarah Kunst, Managing Director and Founder of Cleo Capital, says it’s getting harder to see significant growth ahead for Adobe’s core subscription business for its creative tools after Google released its Nana Banana Pro offering. She speaks with Romaine Bostick and Katie Greifeld on “The Close.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

For the first time, Instagram will start letting you control the topics its algorithm recommends, much as you now can on TikTok. The new feature is starting with the Reels tab but will eventually come to Explore and other areas of the app. Like much of what Meta is doing right now (for better or worse), the "Your Algorithm" feature will be powered by AI.  "As your interests evo... View Source

5 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) This video highlights the Rover Operations Center at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. A center of excellence for current and future rover, aerial, and other surface missions, the ROC will support partnerships and technology transfer to catalyze the next generation of Moon and Mars surface missions. Credit: NASA/JPL-Cal... View Source

Cyber Monday may be behind us, but don't despair, there are still a few last-minute binocular deals out there, and we've put together the best on offer... View Source

William Smith, AllianceBernstein senior vice president and director of credit, says repricing in the debt markets reflects rising risks. He tells Romaine Bostick and Katie Greifeld on “The Close” that uncertainty around payback periods, CapEx and its financing is creating a healthier dynamic for debt investors. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Like it or not, the checkmark has become an almost universal symbol on most social platforms, even though its exact meaning can vary significantly between services. Now, Reddit, which historically hasn't cared that much about its users' identity, is joining the club and starting to test verification for public figures on its platform.The company is beginning "a limited alpha test... View Source

Google DeepMind will open its first research lab for discovering new materials, like those used in batteries or semiconductors, as part of its push to apply artificial intelligence to more scientific fields... View Source

Indie game developer Edmund McMillen hosted a Reddit AMA today offering some more details about his upcoming game Mewgenics. For starters, the Steam release date for this turn-based cat-breeding RPG has been slightly delayed to February 10. The game was first announced all the way back in 2012 and had most recently been slated for a launch some time this year. Part of the long development cycle wa... View Source

South Korea’s main bourse issued a higher-level warning on investing in SK Hynix Inc., shares after strong gains sparked by expectations of a listing in New York... View Source

OpenAI is in a far less commanding position than it was following the public release of ChatGPT a few short years ago. Back in 2022, the sudden popularity of ChatGPT sent Google into a panic. The company was so worried about the possibility of the upstart chatbot disrupting its Search business, executives sounded a "code red" alert inside of the company and called Sergey Brin and La... View Source

A space telescope and AI teamed up to analyze a million galaxies and learn what triggers supermassive black holes the most... View Source

When business leaders spout buzzwords like "AI," "8K" and "5G," sometimes in the same sentence, we often get a sneaking suspicion they don't know what they mean! With President Donald Trump, there's no need to wonder: he clearly has no idea. "What does [6G] do? Give you a little bit deeper view into somebody's skin?" he mused today, live on TV, right in front of Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon, who di... View Source

SpaceX is planning to raise tens of billions of dollars through an initial public offering next year, multiple outlets have reported, and Ars can confirm. This represents a major change in thinking from the world’s leading space company and its founder, Elon Musk. The Wall Street Journal and The Information first reported about a possible IPO last Friday, and Bloomberg followed that up on Tuesday... View Source

A credit-risk measure for Oracle Corp. climbed for a third straight day on Wednesday after the database company posted a jump in spending on data centers and other equipment, raising fresh doubts about how quickly it can generate profit from its huge investments in artificial intelligence... View Source

Amazon is introducing same-day delivery of perishable food items to 1,300 new cities and towns throughout the country, upping the total service area to more than 2,300 locations. This expansion covers cities like Boise, Salt Lake City, Fort Collins, Omaha, Des Moines and many more. Check the link to see if it has expanded to where you live. The commerce giant says it will be bringing the service t... View Source

Stargazers will be able to see potentially dozens of meteors an hour, with the peak on Sunday night Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThey’re bright, they’re plentiful and the Geminids – which make up what’s regarded as one of the best annual meteor showers to witness – are about to reach their peak viewing time.The Geminid meteors have already been active in our skies sin... View Source

The Trump administration could soon require tourists from dozens of nations to hand over their social media handles before entering the country. Under a proposal from US Customs and Border Protection, the agency would make social media history from the past five years a "mandatory" part of the screening process, as reported earlier by The New York Times. Right now, travelers from 42 countries - in... View Source

Will Whitehorn, chair of Seraphim Space and former chairman of Virgin Galactic, who worked side-by-side with Richard Branson, thinks SpaceX going public will cause "huge changes" to the whole ecosystem of companies that are suppliers to SpaceX. He tells Ed Ludlow why on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Apple Music and Apple TV were briefly down during outage, according to Apple’s System Status page. The outage was logged on Apple’s own system at around 2:53PM ET and affected both of the company’s streaming services, along with Apple TV’s Channels feature, until the company resolved the issue around 4:31PM ET. On DownDetector, reports of issues with Apple TV and Apple Music first appeared right a... View Source

The Doma smart door features an integrated video doorbell, smart lock, and motorized opener. | Image: Doma Home It looks like someone may have finally done the smart door right. Doma Home, a new company from the creators of the August smart lock, has announced its first product: the Doma Intelligent Door. A motorized smart door that automatically opens as you approach and closes after you enter, t... View Source

American Airlines Group Inc. has held discussions with Amazon.com Inc. about using the Amazon Leo satellite-based internet service for in-flight Wi-Fi, part of a campaign to lure premium customers and better compete with US rivals... View Source

The year is 1987. Beverly Hills Cop II is the highest-grossing movie. "Walk Like an Egyptian" is the hottest song. The Iran-Contra scandal dominates American political headlines, while Konami’s Contra sucks up coins in arcades. But towering above them all is the watershed moment of Jaws arriving on the NES. ("This time there's no escape!", warned the box art.) Now, 38 year... View Source

A new beta feature on Spotify takes the idea behind the Discover Weekly playlist and puts the control in users' hands through AI prompts. Prompted Playlists, which are initially launching in New Zealand on Thursday, let users type out exactly what they want to listen to, with as much or little detail as they like. Then Spotify's AI curates a playlist based on those instructions and the user's list... View Source

Phil Haslett, co-founder and chief strategy officer at EquityZen, one of the largest platforms for pre-IPO shares - weighs in on Bloomberg's exclusive report that SpaceX is moving ahead with plans for an IPO that would seek to raise significantly more than $30 billion, maybe the largest IPO ever. He joins Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Mark Zuckerberg has for months publicly hinted that he is backing away from open-source AI models. Now, Meta's latest AI pivot is starting to come into focus. The company is reportedly working on a new model, known inside of Meta as "Avocado," which could mark a major shift away from its previous open-source approach to AI development. Both CNBC and Bloomberg have reported on M... View Source

A startup called Operation Bluebird is trying to reclaim Twitter's branding, as reported earlier by Ars Technica and Reuters. Last week, Operation Bluebird filed a petition that asks the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to cancel X Corp.'s ownership of the "Twitter" and "Tweet" trademarks, claiming they've been "abandoned" by the Elon Musk-owned company. Operation Bluebird is led by founder... View Source

President Donald Trump signaled opposition to a Warner Bros. Discovery sale that did not see the news network CNN included or sold to a new company, signaling a potential wrinkle for the bid from Netflix. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

You gotta love that post-Day of the Devs showcase feeling. The organization, founded by Double Fine Productions and iam8bit, consistently highlights top-tier games from independent developers across the globe, providing space for creators to share their stories in both online and in-person events. This year’s Day of the Devs: The Game Awards Digital Showcase was an hour-long celebration of 22 upco... View Source

NASA and its partners have supported humans continuously living and working in space since November 2000. After 25 years of habitation, the International Space Station continues to be a proving ground for technology that powers NASA’s Artemis campaign, future lunar missions, and human exploration of Mars.   Take a look at key technology advancements made possible by research aboard the orbiti... View Source

Space agency is investigating after Maven abruptly stopped communicating to ground stations over the weekendNasa has lost contact with a spacecraft that has orbited Mars for more than a decade, though the US space agency said it was trying to re-establish a communications link.Maven abruptly stopped communicating to ground stations over the weekend. Nasa said this week that it was working fine bef... View Source

Reddit is starting to test verified profiles, the company announced today. Users who are verified as part of this "limited alpha test" will have a gray checkmark next to their username "across profiles, communities, feeds, post detail pages, and search results." For this "initial test," Reddit says it's "selected a group of public figures and trusted partners," and they'll need to opt in, have acc... View Source

US President Donald Trump’s top trade negotiator said he’s concerned by the European Union’s follow-through on pledges to regulate American tech giants fairly, just days after Elon Musk’s X social network was slapped with a €120 million ($140 million) fine for violating the EU’s controversial content-moderation law... View Source

Spotify is attempting to give users more control over the music the streaming service recommends with a new playlist feature called "Prompted Playlist." The beta feature is rolling out in New Zealand starting on December 11, and will let users write a custom prompt that Spotify can use — alongside their listening history — to create a playlist of new music.By tapping on Prompted Playlist... View Source

So, you’re thinking of buying a smart ring. Well, some good news. Picking the best of the lot is incredibly easy right now. The “bad” news is that, as far as trustworthiness and reliability, your choices are somewhat limited, as this is still a niche and emerging gadget category. Smart rings are in the middle of a resurgence. That means a lot of experimental ideas and newcomer tech brands you’ve p... View Source

The Russian liquidator of Alphabet Inc.’s Google arm filed an order to seize some of the firm’s assets in France, in the latest example of the tension between Russian courts and international firms... View Source

Intel will have to pay up in an antitrust case dating back to 2009, Reuters reported on Wednesday. The company has lost its challenge against a €376 million ($438.7 million) regulatory fine levied by the European Commission. However, Intel managed to get the amount reduced to 237 million euros ($276.6 million).The case began in 2009, when mobile computing was in its infancy and netbooks (remember... View Source

Embark Studios' extraction shooter takes cues from sci-fi classics to establish a dark future, but its cautionary tale is more believable than most... View Source

Baiju Bhatt, co-founder of space-based solar company Aetherflux and Robinhood Financial LLC, speaks during the TechCrunch Disrupt 2018 summit in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Thursday, Sept. 6, 2018. A startup developing technologies to harness solar power in space is throwing its hat in with big tech companies attempting to build out data centers that orbit Earth. The US-based company, Aeth... View Source

Incoming co-CEO Gustav Söderström says the Prompted Playlist feature is part of a new phase of personalization... View Source

Sony just announced December's Game Catalog additions for PS Plus subscribers and it's a pretty decent lineup. All of these titles will be ready to play on December 16, except Skate Story which is already available. Speaking of Skate Story, it's a really weird skateboarding sim that's set in a glass-covered world. The reviews have been positive, with many people praising the ou... View Source

My classic Sony CRT television won't power on. My living room is chilly because my Mitsubishi heat pump isn't putting out enough hot air. I want my Japanese N64 to play US games, too, but I've been too busy to pop the hood. What if I had an AI companion to talk me through? iFixit just released a voice-and-text chatbot to do just that, one that can supposedly help you figure out repairs just by tal... View Source

Musk’s SpaceX could spur other `centicorns’ to go public... View Source

The US Department of State is unwinding a 2023 decision to use san-serif Calibri font on all official communications and switching to Times New Roman instead, The New York Times reports. In a memo obtained by NYT titled "Return to Tradition: Times New Roman 14-Point Font Required for All Department Paper," Secretary of State Marco Rubio frames the change as a way to return professionalis... View Source

Rocket Lab will launch a Korean disaster-monitoring satellite today (Dec. 10), and you can watch the action live... View Source

A subcontractor says he was crushed by a metal support, breaking his hip, knee, and tibia. He's suing SpaceX and the construction company who employed him... View Source

Apple’s Studio Display is on sale for $1,368. Apple’s Studio Display is an investment even while Amazon and Best Buy have the tilt-adjustable model marked down to $1,368 ($231 off) — its lowest price in several months. The 27-inch 5K monitor looks incredible, and has a built-in six-speaker audio system that impressed us in our tests. Its three microphone array and Apple’s optional voice isolation... View Source

Most Democratic-led states will continue to recommend the hepatitis B vaccine at birth, despite a CDC advisory panel’s vote against it... View Source

Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook met with US lawmakers on Wednesday to lobby against pending children’s online safety legislation that would require app store operators to authenticate users’ ages, pressing instead for an alternate version that puts the burden of protecting kids on parents... View Source

Ever since reporting earlier this year on how easy it is to trick an agentic browser, I've been following the intersections between modern AI and old-school scams. Now, there's a new convergence on the horizon: hackers are apparently using AI prompts to seed Google search results with dangerous commands. When executed by unknowing users, these commands prompt computers to give the hacker... View Source

Something happened to the probe on the far side of the Red Planet... View Source

Meta's next AI model could mark a change in its "open source" AI strategy that Mark Zuckerberg had called "the path forward." Currently, the company is working on a new AI model, code-named Avocado, that it might charge for access to, Bloomberg reports. Last year, Meta launched its open source (depending on who you ask, since the Open Source Initiative disagrees) Llama 4 AI model, but it had a dis... View Source

With a key Russian launch pad out of service, NASA is accelerating the launch of two Cargo Dragon spaceships in order to ensure that astronauts on board the International Space Station have all the supplies they need next year. According to the space agency’s internal schedule, the next Dragon supply mission, CRS-34, is moving forward one month from June 2026 to May. And the next Dragon supply mis... View Source

Microsoft, Amazon and Google are pouring billions into AI investments in India. Will this be the country’s breakthrough AI moment? Saritha Rai explains. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

YouTube TV, which launched in 2017 as a $35-per-month all-in-one service, will soon introduce YouTube TV Plans. Although the announcement is light on details, we know the initiative will let you sign up for genre-specific packages, such as sports and news. In other words, it's the final step in the legacy-cable-ification of the service.YouTube hasn't said anything about pricing. But it... View Source

Programmable matter mines swarm the U.S.S. Athena in this action-packed 4-minute preview... View Source

Google is planning to update its AI-powered search feature, AI Mode, to include more in-line links to the sources it's pulling information from. The company included the update as part of a broader change to the way it interacts with sources, saying it will also introduce the links embedded inside AI Mode with an AI-generated snippet to explain why they're useful. As shown in an example shared by... View Source

Vape seller Fifty Bar is trying to recover more than $1 million worth of produc... View Source

Rockstar Games may have to answer for what appears to be union-busting behavior. UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, under pressure from parliament, said the government will "look into" the firing of 31 employees in October.The sacked workers were all part of a private trade union chat group on Discord. The company claimed the firings were "for gross misconduct" and accused the wor... View Source

A new feature coming to Android will allow users to get more support during emergencies by sharing a live video feed from their phone with 911 responders. For instance, if someone calls 911 for a medical emergency, the 911 responder can use the live video feed to walk the caller through CPR or first aid until paramedics arrive. Emergency Live Video is also helpful in situations where someone is lo... View Source

Finastra Group Holdings Ltd. has hired PJT Partners Inc. to help with plans to sell its unit that caters to mid-sized US banks, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

Nintendo has announced its Nintendo Switch Online additions for December, which are for all the N64-era 3D platformer fans out there. On December 17, Rayman 2: The Great Escape and Tonic Trouble are joining the Switch’s Nintendo Classics library. As a reminder, N64 games are exclusive to Switch Online + Expansion Pack subscribers, along with the emulators for the Game Boy Advance, Sega Genesis and... View Source

I'm convinced that whoever said it's about the journey, not the destination, has never traveled. Try sitting on a plane for 16 hours - plus delays, airport security, and a snoring seat neighbor - and then get back to me. While getting from point A to point B can feel like a test of endurance, a few smart upgrades can make all the difference when you're on the move. If you or someone you know is he... View Source

Netflix, a company that built its business on junk bonds, is looking to borrow heavily again... View Source

Petco has accidentally exposed a whole lot of customer data and personal information, according to a report by TechCrunch. This is thanks to a security lapse involving its Vetco clinics website, forcing the company to take a portion of that site offline. Petco has confirmed the leak and TechCrunch noted that the security lapse allowed anyone to download customer records without login information... View Source

NASA/Bill Ingalls The Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft is seen as it lands in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Dec. 9, 2025, with Expedition 73 NASA astronaut Jonny Kim, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky aboard. The trio returned to Earth after logging 245 days in space as members of Expeditions 72 and 73 aboard the International Space Station. While aboar... View Source

Comet C/2025 R2 (SWAN) was imaged in October as it crossed the galactic plane of the Milky Way... View Source

Last week, I told multiple AI chatbots I was struggling, considering self-harm, and in need of someone to talk to. Fortunately, I didn't feel this way, nor did I need someone to talk to, but of the millions of people turning to AI with mental health challenges, some are struggling and need support. Chatbot companies like OpenAI, Character.AI, and Meta say they have safety features in place to prot... View Source

YouTube TV plans to launch more than 10 new subscription plans for genre-specific content in early 2026, including one focused on sports... View Source

If learning a new skill is one of your New Year's resolutions, then you might want to know that MasterClass subscriptions are currently 40 percent off. This brings the top-tier subscription with offline mode and use on up to six devices down from $240 annually to $144. The entry-level plan, which supports just one device and doesn't offer offline viewing, is marked down to $72 from $120... View Source

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 27 Starlink satellites launched from Vandenberg Space Force Station in California on Dec. 10, 2025. It was the 160th Falcon 9 flight of the year... View Source

The Echo Spot is a gift that pulls double duty, acting as a smart speaker, alarm, and even smart home controller. If you want a cheap gift that feels expensive, the Echo Spot is a great pick. The versatile smart display can handle dozens of everyday tasks, and right now it’s back at its all-time low of $44.99 ($35 off) at Amazon, Target, and Best Buy. That actually beats its Black Friday and Cyber... View Source

Mattel Chairman and CEO Ynon Kreiz explains how he has transformed the maker of Barbie and Hot Wheels from a traditional toy manufacturer into a modern intellectual property and brand management powerhouse. He also discusses how he recognized the untapped potential of Mattel’s brands far beyond the toy aisle. Kreiz is on this week's episode of "The David Rubenstein Show: Peer to Peer Conversations... View Source

CloverPit is one of my favorite games of the year so far. Developer Panik Arcade took the formula that helped make Balatro so successful — using various tools to bend the rules of the game to help you rack up obscenely high scores — and based it around a slot machine rather than poker. It’s been a hit so far on PC, where it has sold more than a million copies since September, and on Xbox. CloverPi... View Source

Double pinch lets you dismiss notifications or | Image: Google Google has started to roll out the first update for the Pixel Watch 4 since the wearable launched last August. WearOS 6.1 is available for the Pixel Watch 2, 3, and 4 models, but only the Pixel Watch 4 will be getting a pair of new one-handed gestures, while improvements made to smart replies are limited to the Pixel Watch 3 and 4. Dou... View Source

Microchip manufacturers Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and Texas Instruments Inc. were accused in a series of lawsuits of failing to keep their technology out of Russian-made weapons used to kill and wound civilians in Ukraine... View Source

Apple’s Studio Display hasn’t been updated since it launched in 2022, but it remains one of the best monitors for the Mac-oriented, and right now you can pick one up for $230 off. This deal applies specifically to the tilt-adjustable model, which means you can’t adjust the height of the built-in stand. That might be a deal-breaker for some users, but if not, $1,368 is a near-record low. The Studio... View Source

The findings provide an answer to a planetary mystery that has bewildered scientists for nearly four decades... View Source

Denise Dresser has served as CEO of Slack since 2023. | Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images OpenAI is bringing Slack CEO Denise Dresser on board to serve as the AI giant's chief revenue officer. In an announcement on Tuesday, OpenAI says Dresser will oversee the company's global revenue strategy, while helping "more businesses put AI to work in their day-to-day operations." Dresser has worked a... View Source

Chevron Chief Executive Officer Mike Wirth discusses the impact of lower oil prices on exploration, discussions with the Trump administration on remaining in compliance with sanctions in Venezuela, power needs for artificial intelligence, and what he sees for the future of oil and gas prices. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Not long ago, you may have thought of projectors as complicated, unreliable or just too expensive. In 2025, though, consumer sentiment started to flip. Companies like Anker and Valerion made the projector experience more practical and immersive, helping drive consumer interest and, ultimately, sales. This shift has been quite a few years in the making. LG helped kickstart the projector renaissance... View Source

Over the past 18 months, the largest AI companies in the world have quietly settled on an approach to building the next generation of apps and services - an approach that would allow AI agents from any company to easily access information and tools across the internet in a standardized way. It's a key step toward building a usable ecosystem of AI agents that might actually pay off some of the enor... View Source

Mark Zuckerberg is getting personally involved in day-to-day work and pivoting Meta Platforms Inc.’s focus to an artificial intelligence model it can make money from. Ed Ludlow reports on Bloomberg Television. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

In a world where notifications persistently compete for our attention, distraction-free ereaders and writing tablets have found an audience. Putting your phone, laptop or iPad aside and curling up with a Kindle or a reMarkable tablet have become an almost ironic way for the tech-savvy to disconnect from online noise and focus on reading and writing. It’s debatable how broad the appeal of these dev... View Source

Retirement Information for NASA Employees The NSSC provides general administrative, advisory, and transactional support for federal benefits programs to all NASA employees, calculates retirement estimates, and processes retirement packages. If you are a NASA employee, please visit the NASA Employee Portal for more information. In consideration of retiring employees on administrative... View Source

Once completed, this telescope will help usher in a new era of astronomy... View Source

The new Boomslang includes a wireless charging dock with its own RGB lighting effects. | Image: Razer Razer is returning to its roots and relaunching the world's first gaming mouse that debuted over 25 years ago before there was even a gaming peripheral industry. The original Kärna Razer Boomslang was best known for its encoding wheel that could more accurately track a mouse's movements at 2,... View Source

ChatGPT users can now access Photoshop and other creativity software from Adobe Inc. directly within the chatbot, as OpenAI works to bring more third-party apps into its flagship product... View Source

The European Union has provisionally agreed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 90 percent (based on 1990 levels) by 2040, the EU parliament announced in a press release. That goes beyond the goals of most other major economies, including China, but falls short of the original one recommended by the EU's climate science advisors. "The target delivers on the need for climate action whil... View Source

Instagram is launching a new AI-powered feature for fine-tuning which videos appear in your Reels tab. The "Your Algorithm" update allows you to see which topics Instagram already thinks you're interested in based on your previous activity, and then remove some, or add new topics, to better direct what kind of videos you actually want to see. "As your interests evolve over time, we want to give yo... View Source

Evoke Plc shares jumped as much as 12% on Wednesday after the UK betting and gaming company said it’s looking at potentially selling the entire business... View Source

The holidays are nearly here and if you’re a bit behind on your gift shopping, you’re not alone. The holidays can truly sneak up on you, and this year that’s been more true than ever. Between wrapping things up at work before some well-deserved time off and making sure you have everything you need to host family and friends, it can be hard to find the time to go to a store to pick out presents. An... View Source

"We might lose the ability to observe about 30% of the faintest galaxies. We are at the point of starting to be able to see details of exoplanet atmospheres, but if the sky gets brighter, we may not be able to see those details anymore."... View Source

The Photoshop app for ChatGPT will provide UI interfaces like sliders for some editing requests. Adobe is giving ChatGPT users some new capabilities for designing and editing their work without having to switch apps. New apps for Photoshop, Acrobat, and Adobe Express are launching today directly in ChatGPT, allowing users to create designs or adjust photos and PDFs by describing what they want. Th... View Source

Fervo Energy, the US geothermal startup whose technology uses the earth’s heat to generate power, raised $462 million from a group of new and existing investors... View Source

Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek has relied on Nvidia Corp. chips that are banned in the country to develop an upcoming AI model, according to a new report in The Information... View Source

Dutch payments firm Mollie is expected to announce it has completed its acquisition of British fintech unicorn GoCardless as early as this week, boosting its capabilities in payment processing, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

The costs of a hail damage have ballooned over the past two decades, prompting researchers to resort to extreme measures to understand how these storms destroy buildings... View Source

Wingtech Technology Co. has invited court-appointed custodians of Nexperia BV to discussions in a bid to regain control of the Dutch chipmaker and resolve an impasse that has threatened supplies of critical components for automakers... View Source

For the first time, we can see and hear lightning-like discharges in Mars' thin atmosphere... View Source

Parkinson’s disease has environmental toxic factors, not just genetic... View Source

Options traders have weighed in on whether the run in artificial intelligence stocks is coming to an end, and their verdict is a resounding no, not anytime soon... View Source

For the full experience visit: Made in Vietnam: Trump Tariffs Ended China’s Monopoly on US Video Game Consoles... View Source

Global investors, including Singapore’s Temasek Holdings Pte and Capital Group, are offering to buy shares in Swiggy Ltd., according to people familiar with the matter, as the Indian food delivery company seeks fresh funds a year after its market debut... View Source

Lenskart co-founder and CEO, Peyush Bansal, discusses the company’s expansion plans and its recent partnership with Pop Mart on Labubu‑themed eyewear. He spoke exclusively on Bloomberg’s Insight with Haslinda Amin. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Moore Threads Technology Co. shares jumped as much as 27% in Shanghai on Wednesday after the recent market debutant said it would release new artificial intelligence chip products next week... View Source

The robots aren’t coming for your job, yet... View Source

Reports say space exploration company has begun talks to raise more than $25bn for IPOBusiness live – latest updatesElon Musk’s space exploration company SpaceX is preparing to list on the stock market next year, in a move that could raise more than $25bn ($18.7bn) and value the business at more than $1tn, according to reports.SpaceX, which designs, builds and launches rockets, is said to have sta... View Source

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks about his company's $17.5 billion investment in India's AI infrastructure as well as plans to improve AI skills among millions of people in India. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Barclays Plc is buying a stake in a British-Danish fintech company specializing in banking technology, joining an investor group that includes four of its large European and US rivals... View Source

SpaceX is moving ahead with plans for an initial public offering that would seek to raise significantly more than $30 billion, according to people familiar with the matter. The transaction would make it the biggest listing of all time. The company is targeting a valuation of about $1.5 trillion for the entire company, and is pursuing a listing as soon as mid-to-late 2026. Bloomberg’s Julia Fiorett... View Source

Coupang Inc. Chief Executive Officer Park Dae-jun has resigned after the company incurred the country’s largest-ever data breach, in which the personal data of more than 30 million people was compromised... View Source

The Game Awards 2025 edition of the Day of the Devs digital showcase goes live on Wednesday, December 10 at 1PM ET on Twitch and YouTube. That’s more than 30 hours before The Game Awards itself kicks off, which makes perfect sense. It is called Day of the Devs, after all, and if we’re judging by past appearances, the event absolutely deserves its own full 24 hours in the spotlight.This year, the D... View Source

Nintendo Co.’s shares slid as much as 4.7% Wednesday to their lowest level since May, weighed down by concerns that the surging price of components including memory chips will erode its profit... View Source

Nu Quantum, a British startup that builds networking infrastructure to link and scale quantum computers, raised $60 million in one of the largest Series A rounds raised in the UK, as investors bet on advances in the frontier technology... View Source

The US Justice Department is weighing a challenge to a deal between two of the largest companies offering software to small, independent pharmacies, as antitrust enforcers step up their focus on the health-care industry... View Source

US manufacturer GE Vernova Inc. showered shareholders with rewards in the latest sign that demand for new natural gas-fired power will remain robust for years into the future... View Source

Accenture and Anthropic announced a major expansion of their partnership to help enterprises move from AI pilots to full-scale deployment, forming the Accenture Anthropic Business Group with approximately 30,000 professionals to be trained. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Accenture CEO Julie Sweet talk about the project on "Bloomberg The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

A unit of Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com Inc. has agreed to purchase a 50% stake in Hong Kong’s CCB Tower for HK$3.5 billion ($450 million) from Lai Sun Development Co... View Source

President Donald Trump decided to let Nvidia sell its H200 chips to China after weeks of deliberations with advisers. Bloomberg's Annabelle Droulers breaks down the key factors that drove the decision. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Meesho Ltd., an Indian e-commerce platform, is set to debut in Mumbai on Wednesday in a closely watched listing that will gauge investor appetite after a string of blockbuster tech IPOs... View Source

This is an excerpt of Sources by Alex Heath, a newsletter about AI and the tech industry, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. Reinforcement learning (RL) is the next frontier, Google is surging, and the party scene has gotten completely out of hand. Those were the through lines from this year's NeurIPS in San Diego. NeurIPS, or the "Conference on Neural Information Processing Sy... View Source

Burkay Gur, CEO of generative-media platform fal, discusses how the company uses Nvidia chips as part of its stack to run AI models for audio, video and image generation. Gur joins Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech” off the back of fal’s latest fundraise. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

We’ve all been there: You can’t (or won’t) get help when something breaks, but the YouTube clip doesn’t cover your specific issue. It’s what repair gurus at iFixit want to solve with FixBot, an AI-enabled app that talks you through whatever repair you’re doing. The chatbot will help you diagnose the problem and then walk you step-by-step through the fix. Plus, it’s voice-enabled so you won’t have... View Source

This year, Tencent Holdings Ltd.’s gaming business scored record sales, defying an industry slowdown with international hits like zombie horror Dying Light: The Beast... View Source

When the nonprofit Freedom House recently published its annual report, it noted that 2025 marked the 15th straight year of decline for global internet freedom. The biggest decline, after Georgia and Germany, came within the United States.Among the culprits cited in the report: age verification laws, dozens of which have come into effect over the last year. "Online anonymity, an essential enabler f... View Source

Airbnb Inc.’s chief information officer is leaving, the latest technical leadership change at the home-rental company in recent weeks as it prepares to roll out more artificial intelligence app updates next year... View Source

Congrats to any budding Nostradamus out there who peered into the future to boldly predict that Amazon would bring more shopping features to Alexa+ sooner rather than later. A gold star for you. Yes, it hasn't taken too long for Amazon to weave more features into the generative AI-powered version of Alexa that are designed to get you to buy more stuff.Shopping features were part of the origin... View Source

Alternative social media platforms have surged in popularity in Australia Wednesday, as the nation’s landmark ban for under-16s drives children to non-restricted apps... View Source

Spotify is finally letting the United States join its music video party. Music Videos have started rolling out in beta today to Premium users across the US and Canada, offering not only official artist videos but also new formats like live performances and covers. Music Videos first arrived last year in 11 countries, but the United States wasn't one of them. The reason for that was simple — S... View Source

Future Call of Duty releases will no longer include back-to-back launches of Modern Warfare or Black Ops games, Activision announced on Tuesday. The past four releases in the series have been Modern Warfare II (2022), Modern Warfare III (2023), Black Ops 6 (2024), and Black Ops 7 (2025), but moving forward, Activision wants to offer "an absolutely unique experience each and every year," according... View Source

SK Hynix Inc. is reviewing the possibility of listing shares in New York, a move seen potentially helping close the valuation gap between the South Korean chipmaker and US peers including Micron Technology Inc... View Source

We love a little nostalgia mixed in with our cozy gaming, and ReStory looks like a perfect blend of those two. In this upcoming indie game, you play the owner of a Tokyo electronics repair shop in the mid 2000s. The trailer that dropped today shows you tinkering with some very familiar gadgets from the era, such as renamed riffs on a Tamagotchi, a Nokia brick phone, a PSP and a Walkman. You clean... View Source

The Department of Defense is announcing its own "bespoke" AI platform, GenAI.mil, and Google Cloud's Gemini will be the first AI tool available on it, according to a press release. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth (who has dubbed himself Secretary of War, though the name has not been legally changed by Congress) promised that the platform "puts the worlds [sic] most powerful frontier AI models di... View Source

As China races to catch up with the US in artificial intelligence technology, the state of relations between the countries can be gauged by looking at which of the chips made by Silicon Valley’s Nvidia Corp. can be shipped to Chinese customers... View Source

Owners of the Porsche Macan and upcoming Porsche Cayenne Electric will be able to unlock and start their cars with their Galaxy phones, Samsung has announced. The cars, alongside other Porsche models, are gaining support for Samsung Wallet's Digital Key feature, which lets users wirelessly control their car over a secure UWB or NFC connection.Digital Key support will be available in Europe in... View Source

X-ray: NASA/CXC/Univ. of Chicago/H. McCall Galaxy clusters are the most massive objects in the universe held together by gravity, containing up to several thousand individual galaxies and huge reservoirs of superheated, X-ray-emitting gas. The mass of this hot gas is typically about five times higher than the total mass of all the galaxies in galaxy clusters. In addition to these visible component... View Source

China just launched three Long March rockets in less than 19 hours, setting a new national mark for liftoff cadence... View Source

Hello and welcome to Regulator. If you're a subscriber, you are stalwart and true, and if you're here from the internet, prove your chivalry and worth by subscribing to The Verge here. (And if you're David Sacks: we said what we said.) As of Tuesday, President Donald Trump has committed to signing some sort of executive order that would do something that would give him some federal control over AI... View Source

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow discuss President Trump’s decision to allow Nvidia to ship its H200 AI chip to China, in exchange for a 25% surcharge. Plus, the battle for Warner Bros. heats up, as antitrust concerns swirl around both Netflix’s and Paramount Skydance’s offers. And Microsoft is committing $17.5 billion over four years to help build India's cloud and AI infrastructure. (Sour... View Source

OpenAI has announced that Denise Dresser, the current CEO of Slack, will be the company's new Chief Revenue Officer. Dresser will oversee the company's revenue strategy "across enterprise and customer success," according to OpenAI's announcement, and will presumably play a key role in leading the company towards profitability now that it's reorganized as a public bene... View Source

5 Min Read What a Blast! NASA Langley Begins Plume-Surface Interaction Tests Views of the 60-foot vacuum sphere in the which the plume-surface interaction testing is happening. Credits: NASA/Joe Atkinson In March as Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission-1 landed on the Moon, researchers from NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, employed a novel camera system to capture first-of-it... View Source

If you're having a stressful holiday season, the answer is McDonald's - at least, that's what a now-removed AI-generated ad suggested, as reported by Futurism. Set to a song calling holiday season "the most terrible time of the year," the ad shows AI-generated people falling victim to a slew of wintery woes, including family dinners, shopping, caroling, baking cookies, and putting up a Christmas t... View Source

Young teenagers in Australia have been barred from social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram and TikTok in one of the toughest crackdowns on digital platforms in the democratic world... View Source

Uber is rolling out kiosks for travelers to book rideshares without using the mobile app. The company is pitching the service as a convenience for international travelers who may not have a data plan, but it could also be a lifesaver if your phone runs out of juice and you don't have a way to recharge it. A passenger can use the kiosk to enter their destination and desired ride type, then wil... View Source

2 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA engineer Hanbong Lee demonstrates capabilities to manage busy urban airspace traffic during a recent simulation at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley.NASA/Brandon Torres-Navarrete NASA is helping shape the future of urban air travel with a new simulation that will manage how electric air tax... View Source

The supernova exploded over 13 billion years ago in a galaxy far, far away... View Source

Argo Infrastructure Partners is ramping up its bet on data centers after agreeing to be acquired by Apollo Global Management Inc. earlier this year... View Source