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AI expansion could test whether Apple’s climate ambitions outlast Tim Cook
TECHNOLOGY

AI expansion could test whether Apple’s climate ambitions outlast Tim Cook

As he steps down from his post as Apple CEO today, Tim Cook leaves behind a mostly positive environmental record. As far as billionaire tech moguls and the environment go, Cook will likely be remembered as one of the better ones - certainly far from the worst. But it will become harder for the compa

The Verge·3w ago
AI’s role in an 80,000-year journey to Alpha Centauri
TECHNOLOGY

AI’s role in an 80,000-year journey to Alpha Centauri

A nonprofit organization called the Fermi Explorer Mission announced today that it intends to launch a spacecraft to our nearest star system by the end of 2029.  It’s a hugely ambitious mission—if all goes well, the spacecraft could take up to 80,000 years to arrive at Alpha Centauri, which is

MIT Technology Review·3w ago
How Hugging Face breach reveals AI industry’s accountability evasion
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How Hugging Face breach reveals AI industry’s accountability evasion

Depending on who you ask, developer platform Hugging Face was recently attacked by OpenAI - after it lost control of its own AI tools - or by a succession of AI "civilizations." Welcome to the linguistic battlefield of AI safety, where word choices can shift responsibility for a massive cybersecurit

The Verge·3w ago
AI tools reshape the economics of legacy system overhauls
TECHNOLOGY

AI tools reshape the economics of legacy system overhauls

For years, legacy technology has been a problem companies knew they needed to solve, but one they often struggled to tackle. The cost, complexity, and risk of replacing business-critical systems could make modernization feel like a disruption to manage instead of an opportunity to pursue. But with t

MIT Technology Review·3w ago
How Amazon’s ad surcharge scheme reveals the limits of aggressive pricing in antitrust law
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How Amazon’s ad surcharge scheme reveals the limits of aggressive pricing in antitrust law

The FTC and 22 state attorneys general are suing Amazon for allegedly using a "secret ad surcharge" to drive up prices for ads on its website and app. FTC chairman Andrew Ferguson claims in a blog post on the lawsuit that the higher advertising prices "were largely passed on to American consumers."

The Verge·3w ago
Automakers' touchscreen obsession backfires as buyers demand simplicity
TECHNOLOGY

Automakers' touchscreen obsession backfires as buyers demand simplicity

Automakers keep shoving more tech into their cars, despite evidence that consumers are increasingly fed up with huge screens and glitchy software. In fact, the features that car owners appreciate the most happen to be the ones they barely notice, according to the latest tech survey from JD Power. Th

The Verge·3w ago
Phil Schiller loses App Store and events roles in Apple restructuring
TECHNOLOGY

Phil Schiller loses App Store and events roles in Apple restructuring

Longtime Apple executive Phil Schiller is stepping down from his role as the head of the App Store and Apple events, according to a report from Bloomberg. Following the change, Schiller will keep his Apple Fellow title and continue "working on unspecified initiatives," Bloomberg reports. Schiller in

The Verge·3w ago
Debian’s AI code vote signals a shift in open-source governance
TECHNOLOGY

Debian’s AI code vote signals a shift in open-source governance

Debian voted to allow developers to use AI tools in their contributions to the Linux distribution's "development, maintenance, [and] documentation." The new policy on AI acknowledges that "responsible" use of AI can improve developers' productivity, and goes on to say, "generative AI is neither exem

The Verge·3w ago
Abbott’s spending freeze signals shifting political risk for Flock Safety
TECHNOLOGY

Abbott’s spending freeze signals shifting political risk for Flock Safety

As backlash grows over Flock's AI surveillance cameras, Texas Governor Greg Abbott has frozen state spending on them. The move came just ahead of the publication of a Texas Tribune investigation that revealed the state spent over $30 million on Flock cameras. That money was primarily raised by tacki

The Verge·3w ago
How China’s robotics advantage is reshaping factory automation
TECHNOLOGY

How China’s robotics advantage is reshaping factory automation

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on falling robots and the US-China AI race, follow Robert Hart. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes on Sunday at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started I've admitted m

The Verge·3w ago
Musicians expose streaming’s AI catalog-flooding problem
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Musicians expose streaming’s AI catalog-flooding problem

As audio-focused generative tools and platforms have gotten more sophisticated, the internet has become increasingly filled with AI-generated music whose melodies and vocals are algorithmically derived from the work of human artists. While some of the people pumping out this kind of content immediat

The Verge·August 29, 2026
Google expands AI summaries, further squeezing publisher links down search pages
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Google expands AI summaries, further squeezing publisher links down search pages

Google is now automatically expanding its AI search summaries at the top of the results page for some searches, as reported by Search Engine Roundtable. The change, when it kicks in, pushes the typical list of links from a search much farther down Google's results page; instead of seeing part of an

The Verge·August 28, 2026
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