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Amazon expands Alexa Plus to coordinate complex smart home tasks across manufacturers
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Amazon expands Alexa Plus to coordinate complex smart home tasks across manufacturers

Amazon is launching an update to its Alexa Plus assistant that will allow it to connect to smart home devices in new ways. With the update, which is currently in preview, Alexa Plus can link up with tech from Bosch, Delta, Ecovacs, iRobot, Yale Home, Whirlpool, Tapo, Eufy, and others, while automati

The Verge·July 23, 2026
Patreon’s layoffs reveal pressure on creator economy intermediaries
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Patreon’s layoffs reveal pressure on creator economy intermediaries

Patreon is laying off 20 percent of its workers, or around 93 employees, as reported earlier by 404 Media. In a memo to employees, Patreon CEO Jack Conte writes that the company isn't making these changes "because we believe AI replaces humans," but says AI has "fundamentally transformed the tech in

The Verge·July 23, 2026
Primate Labs resets Geekbench to keep pace with modern chip design
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Primate Labs resets Geekbench to keep pace with modern chip design

Primate Labs is releasing Geekbench 7, the latest generation of its popular benchmarking tool. Geekbench 7 features new video and audio encoding / decoding tests, a redesigned multi-core test, and larger, more demanding datasets for CPUs and GPUs to crunch through. It otherwise looks and acts just l

The Verge·July 23, 2026
Philips rethinks smart toothbrush feedback with on-device AI instead of apps
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Philips rethinks smart toothbrush feedback with on-device AI instead of apps

The latest addition to Philips' Sonicare line of smart electric toothbrushes could take the guesswork out of your brushing routine. The Next-Generation DiamondClean 9900 Prestige uses a third-generation AI model to provide real-time feedback on how you're brushing through a glowing ring on its base,

The Verge·July 22, 2026
Neill Blomkamp’s AI film raises stakes for creative workers
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Neill Blomkamp’s AI film raises stakes for creative workers

On Monday, District 9 and Gran Turismo director Neill Blomkamp unveiled his latest project: a 13-minute sci-fi short titled Nightborne that's loosely based on Peter Watts' 2014 novel Echopraxia. The short comes from Blomkamp's new AI startup / production company, Barley Studios, and features charact

The Verge·July 21, 2026
OpenAI models breached Hugging Face in test, raising AI safety questions
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OpenAI models breached Hugging Face in test, raising AI safety questions

OpenAI says its AI models mistakenly breached open-source AI platform Hugging Face during internal testing. In a blog post on Tuesday, OpenAI writes that GPT-5.6 Sol and "an even more capable pre-release model" discovered vulnerabilities within their sandboxed testing environment, allowing them to g

The Verge·July 21, 2026
Substack’s AI detector reveals the fraud problem lurking in paid newsletters
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Substack’s AI detector reveals the fraud problem lurking in paid newsletters

Substack will now help users determine whether what they're reading may have been written by AI. A new tool coming to the platform can scan posts, notes, replies, and comments to provide an estimate of how much text could be AI-generated or written with AI assistance, according to a blog post publis

The Verge·July 21, 2026
What Anthropic’s $1.5B settlement reveals about AI copyright risk
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What Anthropic’s $1.5B settlement reveals about AI copyright risk

A federal judge has signed off on Anthropic's $1.5 billion class action settlement with authors who accused the company of training its AI models on copyrighted books, as reported earlier by Reuters. In an order on Monday, Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín writes that the settlement will provi

The Verge·July 21, 2026
Sony’s 30,000-song lawsuit signals existential threat concern over AI music generation
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Sony’s 30,000-song lawsuit signals existential threat concern over AI music generation

Sony Music Entertainment has filed another lawsuit against Udio, accusing the AI music generator of infringing the copyright of more than 30,000 of its songs, ranging from Elvis Presley's Hound Dog to Beyoncé's Say My Name, and Harry Styles' As It Was. The lawsuit, filed in a New York court on

The Verge·July 20, 2026
Original PlayStation nostalgia becomes a retail commodity
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Original PlayStation nostalgia becomes a retail commodity

You probably know the signature PlayStation boot sound. Did you know that it's technically a multi-part chime? There's the synthy section where "Sony Computer Entertainment" shows onscreen with a white background. You only get to the next screen with the echo-y chimes and the color-filled PlayStatio

The Verge·July 20, 2026
LG’s monitor driver hijacks Windows Update for McAfee bundling
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LG’s monitor driver hijacks Windows Update for McAfee bundling

A video from Gamers Nexus explains how, after connecting a new LG UltraGear monitor to a PC running Windows 11 for the first time, Windows Update is silently installing LG driver updates and the LG Monitor App Installer, without so much as a permission pop-up or notification. The app doesn't appear

The Verge·July 20, 2026
When AI music stops sounding obviously fake, the real disruption begins
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When AI music stops sounding obviously fake, the real disruption begins

I would never go so far as to say there's no place for AI in music (I'm a fan of Holly Herndon, after all). But I generally find music made with generative AI to be offensively boring, especially the outputs of Suno. So I'm having a bit of a tough time processing the fact that […]

The Verge·July 19, 2026
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