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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This is Lowpass by Janko Roettgers, a newsletter on the ever-evolving intersection of tech and entertainment, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. When Fox announced its acquisition of Roku earlier this week, executives of both companies were quick to promise that not much would change in the near future. Sure, getting its hands on Roku will help Fox become a major force in strea... View Source

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Explore Hubble Hubble Home Overview About Hubble The History of Hubble Hubble Timeline Why Have a Telescope in Space? Hubble by the Numbers At the Museum FAQs Impact & Benefits Hubble’s Impact & Benefits Science Impacts Cultural Impact Technology Benefits Impact on Human Spaceflight Astro Community Impacts Science Hubble Science Science Themes Science Highlights Science Behind Discoverie... View Source

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The confusing matter of Mythos... View Source

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announces a public-private partnership to advance Mars science during an event at Relativity Space on June 17, 2026. Credit: Relativity Space NASA Wednesday announced a new public‑private partnership to advance Mars science by combining the agency’s scientific leadership with commercial innovation. Under this model, NASA will provide the Aeolus atmospheric‑science... View Source

Bloomberg Television brings you the latest news and analysis leading up to the final minutes and seconds before and after the closing bell on Wall Street. Today's guests are DoubleLine Capital Portfolio Manager Ken Shinoda, Former Federal Reserve Vice Chair Alan Blinder, The Conference Board Chief Economist Dana Peterson, Former FDIC Chair Sheila Bair, & Barings’ High Yield Portfolio Manager K... View Source

RAMaggedon claims another one... View Source

Ho K. Nieh, chair of the US Nuclear Regulatory Committee, said that the NRC has taken 'major steps' to reform its framework for licensing nuclear plants and how it conducts regulatory checks as the Trump administration looks to increase the amount of nuclear energy projects in the United States. Nieh said that despite reforms the NRC remains a 'strong regulator' and could not yet reveal which regu... View Source

Apple is planning to raise prices in response to the ongoing memory shortage. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Apple CEO Tim Cook says "price increases are unavoidable:" We're doing our best to mitigate the huge increases that are being passed to us, and we've been trying to shield our customers from the increases, but the situation has become unsustainable. Cook doesn't say when Appl... View Source

Sheila Bair, former FDIC Chair and Senior Fellow at the Center for Financial Stability, shared her assessment of Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh's first meeting and press conference. Bair commended Warsh for his measured and judicious communication, particularly his firm commitment to price stability and cautious approach to economic projections. She speaks with Romaine Bostick & Katie Greif... View Source

The ultralight may become a permanent fixture in Apple's smartphone lineup... View Source

Astronomers have discovered chemical differences between binary stars that indicate one has devoured at least one planet... View Source

Apple Inc. is preparing a second-generation iPhone Air for spring 2027, aiming to boost the appeal of the slimmed-down device, according to people with knowledge of the matter... View Source

TIL you can schedule prompts in ChatGPT... View Source

The former Sequoia Capital leader is filling an "existing vacancy" on SpaceX's board, days after the company went public in the largest IPO ever... View Source

VSCO is taking on Adobe with a new Studio Pro editing app rolling out today on iOS and coming to macOS later this year, as Bloomberg reports. At launch, the app offers tools for batch editing, style matching from a reference image, and sharing images through VSCO Galleries. VSCO says more features are coming later, including support for RAW images, advanced export options, and additional advanced... View Source

Should Elon Musk merge SpaceX and Tesla, into one company? There’s huge conflicts of interest here, Bloomberg Opinion columnist Liam Denning says. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Epic Games is making generative AI a big part of upcoming versions of Unreal Engine... View Source

Explore This Section Science Citizen Science Search for Hidden Cosmic… Overview Resources Opportunities Citizen Science Highlights About Science Activation   Some stars have planets. Others are orbited by brown dwarfs, balls of gas too massive to be planets, but too low-mass to be stars. Astronomers love these brown dwarf-star pairs because being paired with a star helps reveal a brown dwarf’s age... View Source

Elon Musk wants to put data centers in space starting in 2028, but space presents challenges for compute, including communication between satellites and the ground. Dan Roelker, former head of software engineering at SpaceX, set out to address this problem when he co-founded Observable Space. He joins Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Tech." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Apple is holding steady with its AI ambitions, planning camera-equipped AirPods, smart glasses and new foldable iPhones as part of a major product push over the next two years. Plus: Snap introduces Specs, a pair of augmented reality glasses that co-founder Evan Spiegel described as a 'leapfrog advancement' and the computer of the future. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman joins Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Tech... View Source

Anthropic's tools are getting chummy with each other... View Source

Who ordered the roasted exoplanet? Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope found a world that really puts the "hot" in "Hot Jupiter."... View Source

Epic Games has been touting the potential of an interoperable metaverse for years, though that vision hasn't yet become a reality. But with Unreal Engine 6, the next major version of its game development engine, Epic plans to take a big step toward that theoretical future: it will let developers make games that can use a player's Fortnite skins and will let developers build skins of their own that... View Source

Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow discusses US Commerce Secretary's warning to Anthropic that it needs government permission to grant foreign nationals access to the company's most advanced AI models. Plus, after three days of soaring, SpaceX shares come back down to Earth and drop for the first time on the company's fourth trading day. And, Bloomberg reports Apple's upcoming camera-equipped AirPods will laun... View Source

Here's what to expect when the manufacturer stops supporting your smart fridge... View Source

SanDisk has announced an expensive way to boost the PlayStation 5's storage capacity. The company's new Optimus GX PRO 850P NVMe SSD is an officially licensed PS5 accessory in capacities ranging from 1TB to 8TB. The largest option can store up to 200 PS5 games (based on average installation sizes) SanDisk claims, but thanks to the global memory shortage, it will cost you $2,959.99 when it's eventu... View Source

Makenzie Lystrup, principal consultant at Peridot Services and former director for the Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA's primary hub for building and operating scientific satellites, says energy and heat present real challenges for orbital data centers and SpaceX ambitions. She joins Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Tech." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

With its latest major update, Digital Extremes makes space for old mechanics and new ideas in the cosmos... View Source

Anthropic has spent much of this week fighting to get its newest AI models back online after the Trump administration abruptly ordered the company to cut access for all foreign nationals, including users inside the US and its own employees, forcing Anthropic to block access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for everyone. "To my knowledge, this is the first time US export controls have been used to control a... View Source

An Andreessen Horowitz-backed healthcare startup born in Latin America wants to put its AI assistant in the hands of half the region’s 1.9 million doctors by the end of 2027, a bet that technology can help bridge a shortage of medical professionals across strained health systems... View Source

Not quite the Grand Theft Auto news everyone's been waiting for, but we'll take it... View Source

Snap CEO Evan Spiegel wearing the Snap Specs. They’re not the worst on him, but bold fashion rarely makes for mainstream success. | Screenshot: CNBC Yesterday, Snap debuted its new $2,195 Specs glasses. In an interview with CNBC, Snap CEO Evan Spiegel described the Specs as something the company had been working on for more than 12 years, an attempt to "bring computing into the world" and "make it... View Source

Joshua Baer, the founder and chief executive officer of the venture capital firm Capital Factory, died Tuesday in a plane crash in South Texas, the Austin American-Statesman reported... View Source

The highest capacity Optimus GX Pro 850P drive for the PS5 almost tops the $3,000 mark... View Source

From 'Battlestar Galactica' and 'Lost,' to 'Fringe' and 'Invader Zim,' this all-star roster of sci-fi programming will have you revisiting all these sensational series... View Source

According to the latest Pew Research poll, 49 percent of Americans report using chatbots at least occasionally, but 63 percent think the tech is advancing too quickly. Overall, use of AI chatbots has increased dramatically since 2024, when only 33 percent reported using them. Specifically, ChatGPT's usage has doubled since 2023, with 44 percent of respondents saying they've used it. But opinions r... View Source

Goldman Sachs just broke records, advising on over $1 trillion in M&A deals faster than any bank in history. Stephan Feldgoise is the Head of Global M&A at Goldman. He joined Bloomberg Open Interest to explain why AI is fueling massive corporate acquisitions, why CEOs are ignoring short-term uncertainty, and why a private equity comeback could push dealmaking even higher. (Source: Bloomber... View Source

Carvana is converting old car dealerships into test drive centers... View Source

The Echo Dot Max comes in a variety of fun colors, including purple. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge We’re seeing good early Prime Day deals ahead of the event next week, and unsurprisingly, some of the best deals are on Amazon’s own devices. Several Echo speakers have dropped to new low prices, including the Echo Dot Max, which is on sale for $64.99 ($35 off) at Amazon. Echo... View Source

Cyberdecks, iPods and distraction-free devices are finding a new audience. Bloomberg Opinion columnist Catherine Thorbecke explores the growing appeal of anti-AI tech. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Every new game we played at Summer Games Fest 2026... View Source

CEO of Anthropic Dario Amodei attends a working lunch with G7 leaders, G7 outreach partners, and global tech CEOs on innovation and AI, during the G7 Summit on June 17, 2026 in Evian-les-Bains, France. | Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images. Hello and welcome to Regulator, an email for Verge subscribers about technology, politics, and what happens when science crashes headlong into self-interest. Not a su... View Source

ASML Holding NV CEO Christophe Fouquet says the demand for AI infrastructure is still "enormous" and discusses the potential for data centers in space. Speaking during an interview on Bloomberg Television, Fouquet also says the company has to make sure it doesn’t experience supply constraints when servicing new projects such as on Elon Musk’s Terafab. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Micron (MU) delivered one of the most dramatic AI-driven turnarounds in recent memory. In calendar 2024 / early fiscal 2025, quarterly revenue sat in the $5–8B range while the stock traded mostly between $80–$150. By mid-2026, quarterly revenue had exploded past $15B (hitting $23.86B in one quarter) and the stock surged above $1,000 and the ... Read more... View Source

Rockstar Games will allow players to upgrade older versions of Grand Theft Auto V to PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X / S for free just months before the launch of GTA VI. Starting June 18th, players with any GTA V copy on PS4 or the digital version on Xbox One can get the current-gen version of the game at no additional cost. If you haven't upgraded your copy of GTA V yet, this free update saves y... View Source

On this episode of Stock Movers with Alexis Christoforous: - La-Z-Boy (LZB) shares are higher after the home furniture store’s reported adjusted earnings per share for the fourth quarter beat the average analyst estimate. - CarMax (KMX) shares are moving after it reported net sales & operating revenue for the first quarter that beat the average analyst estimate. - Jabil Inc. (JBL) shares rose... View Source

Lego's newest set is a fully functional miniature pinball machine... View Source

This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image features the galaxy cluster MACS0329-0211.NASA, ESA, M. Postman (STScI); Image Processing: G. Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America) Looking somewhat like a swarm of bees returning to their hive, this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image released on June 12, 2026, features the galaxy cluster MACS0329-0211. Galaxy clusters like MACS0329-0211 are im... View Source

A poster showing the cast of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | Image: Paramount Paramount Plus is offering new and former subscribers a discounted rate until June 25th, 2026. You’ll pay 99 cents per month for the first two months, with the Premium plan automatically renewing for $13.99 per month after that, and the more limited Essential plan renewing for $8.99.  Paramount Plus (two months) Now... View Source

Robert Kaplan, Goldman Sachs vice chair and former Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas president, expects Federal Reserve's Kevin Warsh to adopt a more neutral tone in his first news conference as chair. Speaking on "Bloomberg Open Interest," Kaplan also says he sees an "historic" capital expenditures boom in the US. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Horror is having a moment. In 2026, the genre is especially well-represented: new blood is dominating the box office through films like Backrooms and Obsession, established names like Sam Raimi and Damian McCarthy are at the top of their game, and long-running franchises like 28 Years Later and Resident Evil continue to stay relevant. But the most impressive piece of horror this year might just be... View Source

Emily Chang sits down with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei in a wide-ranging interview discussing his San Francisco roots, the race against OpenAI, the explosion of compute power, the Pentagon standoff and AI’s endgame. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Hawaii's Kīlauea volcano shot out lava for the 49th time that we know of... View Source

The Toy Story franchise began with a story about a vintage doll feeling threatened by the arrival of an electronic action figure. Woody and Buzz's rivalry embodied a shift that was happening in the '90s as children's toys were becoming more technologically sophisticated, and while toys have gotten even more tech-focused in the years since, there's also an entirely new world of smart gadgets and di... View Source

Alphabet Inc.’s Google said that its Google Home Speaker, a $100 device that includes deep integration with the company’s Gemini artificial intelligence platform, will be available starting June 25... View Source

If you've been feeling shamed or annoyed by the question popping up during your binge-watching sessions, here's how to turn off the feature... View Source

More AI search in more places. AI is pretty reliable at putting things on your calendar these days, but it hasn't quite cracked answering the related and all-important question of "What should I do this weekend?" Meta's new AI Mode in search could be a useful tool - if it ever learns to stop getting stuff wrong. AI Mode is a new option when you hit the search bar in the Facebook app. It's designed... View Source

It was 180 degrees off the hot trade on Wall Street... View Source

Upgrades include 360-degree audio and deeper integration with Google's Gemini... View Source

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The latest AirPods Pro are currently almost as cheap as the AirPods 4 with noise-canceling. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Amazon’s Prime Day sale kicks off on June 23rd, but already we’re seeing some notable Apple deals trickle in. Whether you’re looking for a new pair of wireless earbuds or a smartwatch, many retailers are offering notable discounts ahead of the shoppi... View Source

The Trump phone is finally here — sort of — and it bears little resemblance to the original pitch... View Source

Matter 1.6 introduces a new way to share smart home devices with different ecosystems. | Image: CSA Matter, the smart home interoperability standard, might finally get a feature that should have been there from day one: a single shared Matter network managed by multiple ecosystems. With this feature, called Joint Fabric, smart devices added to the network will be controllable by any authorized pla... View Source

JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s asset-management arm is urging investors to stick with the risk rally in the second half of 2026, arguing that an AI investment boom and resilient consumers should keep the expansion intact despite persistent inflation and a Federal Reserve on hold... View Source

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Earth may have gotten some of the key ingredients for life from asteroids in the inner solar system, but not without assistance from Jupiter... View Source

Let's be real: There's no shortage of Zelda-style games to play right now. That's true even if you've exhausted all there is to see in Tears of the Kingdom or Echoes of Wisdom. Indie developers keep finding new ways to refresh the formula, whether it's fusing it with a Soulslike, making it cozier, or simply shrinking it down into something more manageable. Now we have Square Enix and The Adventure... View Source

Apple Inc. investors are losing patience with the company’s talk about becoming a more formidable presence in artificial intelligence and want to start seeing some results... View Source

I'll admit it. I was wrong. Wildly colorful lighting is delightful for your smart home - well, outdoors, at least. Smart lighting is one of my favorite features of the smart home - it combines convenience with ambiance, letting you change the entire look of your room with just a press of a button. But, other than the occasional pop of color, mostly in my kids' rooms and outdoors around the holiday... View Source

Some longtime investors say they’ll hold their ever-more valuable shares... View Source

The White House app will be automatically loaded onto DHS staff's work phones, Politico said... View Source

Blue Origin is already rebuilding the Florida launch site where its New Glenn rocket exploded last month, making way for the space company to fly again this year and rejuvenate its ambitions to challenge SpaceX... View Source

WhatsApp is finally catching up to rivals with disappearing messages... View Source

Temperatures have climbed up to 45 degrees Fahrenheit above normal, stopping ice from forming in the dead of Antarctic winter... View Source

This year’s World Cup is the first since prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket exploded to popularity as a new way to bet on sports... View Source

NASA's MAVEN Mars mission ended after 11 years, having revealed how the planet lost its atmosphere and served as a key communications relay for surface missions... View Source

SpaceX shares are poised for a fourth straight day of gains, reinforcing the company’s place among the world’s largest after it surpassed Amazon.com Inc. by market value... View Source

The next humanoid robot might not have a head. It might not have legs. It might even sit on a wheeled base and fold down like a deck chair. But, as Genesis AI puts it, "humanoid robots don't need to look human." That explains the look of Eno, the new robot from the French startup backed by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt. Genesis says Eno is designed "around human capability" rather than human appe... View Source

Artificial Intelligence industry leaders including OpenAI's Sam Altman and Anthropic's Dario Amodei are set to attend the Group of Seven Summit in France on Wednesday. Oliver Crook reports from Evian. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Lego's gonna show us all how it's done done done... View Source

Can't wait for Season 3 of Silo? Watch this post-apocalyptic smash wherever you are and stay safe online with this superb ProtonVPN deal... View Source

Singapore internet leader Sea Ltd. is rolling out a generative-AI chatbot in regions including the US, marking its maiden foray into the highly competitive American consumer market and accelerating its artificial intelligence push... View Source

"Bloomberg Crypto" covers the people, transactions, and technology shaping the world of decentralized finance. Today's guests: Citi Head of Services Shahmir Khaliq and BlackRock Global Head of Digital Assets Robert Mitchnick. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Illegal cyber activities accounted for around a third of all crimes recorded in some Asian countries, with scams the most widespread and financially damaging, according to a new Interpol report... View Source

Singapore’s electronic exports last month rose by the most on record on robust global demand for artificial intelligence-related equipment... View Source

Powerlaw, a closed-end fund that owns stakes in Elon Musk’s SpaceX and artificial intelligence firm OpenAI, traded well above the value of its underlying investments in its debut, capitalizing on retail investors’ clamor for exposure to the hottest private tech companies. Bloomberg's Anthony Hughes and Mike Dinsdale, CEO at Powerlaw join to discuss Powerlaw’s platform allowing exposure to private... View Source

FIFA, which has strict policies around advertising, reportedly had the Bayern player tape over the Beats logo of his headphones... View Source

Britain has been urged to bolster its efforts to clamp down on illegal gambling sites after a report found users were able to access unlicensed online casinos... View Source

Bloomberg's Monique Mulima joins Scarlet Fu and Tim Stenovec on "Bloomberg Crypto." Robinhood said it’s cutting 10% of its workforce, a reduction of around 300 positions, to “remain lean and disciplined” as it develops new products. Also, Strategy purchased 1,587 bitcoin tokens from June 8 to June 14 for aggregate purchase price of $100m (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

South Korea’s artificial intelligence-driven semiconductor boom may wind up complicating the inflation outlook, with the central bank warning that soaring bonuses at major technology firms could fuel broader wage growth and stronger consumer demand... View Source

Bloomberg's Muyao Shen joins Scarlet Fu and Tim Stenovec on "Bloomberg Crypto." A short squeeze in SpaceX perpetual futures briefly sent the company’s implied valuation to $3 trillion on blockchain-based markets shortly after Monday’s US stock-market close. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

China’s top securities regulator pledged to welcome more domestic listings from artificial intelligence developers as well as Hong Kong traded firms to bolster onshore capital markets... View Source

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NASA will discuss an ambitious mission to boost the orbit of its Swift space telescope during a press conference today (June 17), and you can listen to it live... View Source

Kuaishou Technology is in discussions with General Atlantic to lead a first round of financing for its video AI arm, seeking to secure a major US backer ahead of an initial public offering... View Source

China’s Lingyi iTech Guangdong Co. has started taking investor orders for a Hong Kong listing that may raise as much as HK$8.3 billion ($1.06 billion)... View Source

The company behind GCash, the Philippines’ top fintech firm, has secured approval for a potential initial public offering, its key shareholder Globe Telecom Inc. said... View Source

South Korean retail investors snapped up almost $800 million of SpaceX shares on the stock’s first day of trading, underscoring strong demand for Elon Musk’s company after local investors were shut out from the world’s largest initial public offering... View Source

Parash Jain, Global Head of Transport and Logistics at HSBC, says shipping companies remain in “wait-and-see” mode as the Strait of Hormuz edges closer to reopening under a US–Iran agreement. He notes the next 40–50 days will be critical in determining whether more vessels can pass through, as de-mining operations are still underway. He does not expect significant movement in the short term. He sp... View Source

Bloomberg Intelligence's Dushyant Shahrawat joins Scarlet Fu and Tim Stenovec on "Bloomberg Crypto." Recent comments from SEC Commissioner Paul Atkins hints that changes may come to Rule 611. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

HSBC Holdings Plc said it will use Alphabet Inc.’s Google Cloud to roll out artificial intelligence across its global operations, expecting each project to generate more than $100 million either in revenue or through efficiency gains... View Source

I'm so done with Roku... View Source

Robert Mitchnick, global head of digital assets at BlackRock, joins Scarlet Fu and Tim Stenovec on "Bloomberg Crypto." BlackRock launched today the iShares Bitcoin Premium Income ETF (Ticker: BITA). (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Here's a new trailer for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, which premiers July 23rd... View Source

Csquare Inc., a data center company backed by Brookfield Corp., filed publicly for a US initial public offering, joining a rush of debuts linked to artificial intelligence infrastructure... View Source

Snap describes its news AR Specs as a "wearable computer."... View Source

SoftBank Group Corp. is struggling to find startups in Latin America ready for major investments, underscoring how sharply the tech boom there has cooled since attracting record levels of venture capital only a few years ago... View Source

The Dell XPS 13 is now available, starting at $599... View Source