An aerial view of a 33 megawatt data center (LOWER L) with closed-loop cooling system, amid warehouses on October 20, 2025 in Vernon, California. | Image: Mario Tama/Getty Images In ... read more

Mozilla is in a tricky position. It contains both a nonprofit organization dedicated to making the internet a better place for everyone, and a for-profit arm dedicated to, you know, ... read more

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, 3-letter acronyms to 3-letter acronyms. Specifically, in this case, APIs to MCPs. Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open-source standard that connects AI systems to outside sources, like data ... read more

Ed Murray has been in the solar business long enough to remember the bloodbath of 1985. That's when President Ronald Reagan ended Jimmy Carter-era solar tax credits meant to decrease ... read more

Meta’s not beating the scam ads allegations; SEO tools are getting into AI prompts; and the telcos are at it again. The post Why Meta Doesn’t Mind A Scam; Working Backwards into AI Prompts ... read more

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts • Spotify Generative AI = copyright conundrum. Marketers must assess to what extent using generative AI tools can jeopardize their own copyrights and trademarks as well as whether doing so may ... read more

Pinterest intends to buy tvScientific to turn its intent-rich audience data into a performance engine that extends beyond its own app and onto the connected TV screen — effectively using CTV to close the loop ... read more

U.S. advertising spending is now forecast to grow 6.6% next year — that’s not taking into account political ad spend that occurred in 2025 — down from an estimated 11% in the past 12 months, ... read more

Despite their popularity in the U.S., the powers behind professional football and basketball haven’t always succeeded in overseas exports. The National Basketball Association (NBA) reportedly hopes to change that record. It’s seeking to capitalize on ... read more

Two independent media agencies, one larger and one still growing, positioned themselves for further growth in 2026, with both expecting a potential windfall of clients leaving the holding companies for better service and results. Crossmedia, ... read more

In an effort to strengthen brand-creator relationships, YouTube is updating its branded content partnership rules, offering content creators enhanced accessibility to advertisers ahead of the holiday season. ... read more

It's still hard to believe that Hollow Knight: Silksong actually came out this year, but now, we all have a new thing to wait for: the game is getting a ... read more

In what is sure to be the beginning of a slew of announcements, LG has confirmed it is releasing its first flagship RGB TV in 2026. It wasn't a huge ... read more

On Monday, nearly two dozen states, plus the District of Columbia, filed an amended complaint in the FTC's lawsuit against Uber. According to the lawsuit, Uber charged consumers for the ... read more

Roomba is way past code red. For many, iRobot's Roomba robot vacuum was their first experience with a home robot. When I got my Roomba in 2005, I felt like ... read more

Now it will be easier for Android users to watch Apple TV content on their TV with the addition of Google Cast support. However, even after this update, Google Cast ... read more

X reportedly has shown the first significant revenue growth since Elon Musk purchased the company. ... read more

Andrew Reece, Chief AI Scientist, BetterUpThe introduction of AI agents into the corporate workforce is not like other technology disruptions. Unlike previous automation, agents are empowered to act autonomously on a user’s behalf, which means ... read more

Ford announced a series of changes to its gas- and electric-powered vehicle business aimed at dramatically increasing hybrid vehicle production in the face of slowing EV sales. The automaker also ... read more

Sony’s annual PlayStation sale has been going on for nearly a month now, offering discounts on everything from the PlayStation 5 Digital Edition and PlayStation Portal to Sony’s standard DualSense ... read more

LONDON – The exploding retail media advertising sector may have hit a roadblock on its path to maturity, with a persistent lack of common measurement rules hindering its potential for scaled investment. To overcome this, ... read more

The FCC violated Verizon's 7th Amendment right by "acting as the prosecutor, judge, and jury," the Chamber of Commerce says in a friend-of-the-court brief filed with the Supreme Court. ... read more

President Donald Trump will recruit workers from Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and other tech giants to form the US Tech Force, a new program that aims to "modernize the ... read more

LONDON – The programmatic supply chain has become a tangled web, and holding companies are demanding help to cut through it. That’s why Google Ad Manager is doubling down on its agency-facing partnerships, responding to ... read more

RANCHO PALOS VERDES, CALIF. — Retail media is rapidly evolving from a performance-driven niche into a foundational layer across the entire advertising ecosystem, according to analyst and consultant Andrew Lipsman, speaking with Beet.TV contributor David ... read more

Bungie's Marathon, its upcoming extraction shooter that it delayed from a planned September release, will now launch in March 2026. The studio is "targeting" a price of $39.99, and "purchasing ... read more

Luminar, the lidar manufacturer that rode a wave of self-driving car hype to land deals with major automakers like Volvo and Mercedes-Benz, filed for bankruptcy Monday. The company has been ... read more

General Motors is adding native Apple Music to the infotainment systems of select 2025 model year Cadillac and Chevrolet vehicles, the company announced today. The news comes as the automaker ... read more

Google notified users in an email today that, beginning next month, it will stop sending its dark web reports, an opt-in feature that alerted users when Google detected their personal ... read more

After years of false promises and missed deadlines, several Tesla vehicles have been spotted over the weekend driving autonomously without safety monitors on public roads in Austin. For months, ... read more

The second season of Fallout is debuting one day earlier than previously announced: the new season will now launch on Tuesday, December 16th at 9PM ET / 6PM PT on ... read more

Earlier this month, the GNOME Shell Extensions store updated its review guidelines to include a new section specifically stating that "extensions must not be AI-generated," as reported by It's FOSS ... read more

The grocery chain Albertson’s is trying to reduce the time and number of clicks it takes to add an item to an online shopping cart. It’s new click-to-cart product should help. On Monday, Albertson’s Media ... read more

Merriam-Webster has settled on a word that represents 2025 - and that word is "slop." The dictionary-maker defines "slop" as "digital content of low quality that is produced usually in ... read more

If you’re looking for a last-minute gift for a gamer, you’re in luck. Both Best Buy and Target are offering the 128GB Meta Quest 3S VR headset for around $249 ... read more

Today, I’m talking with Prashanth Chandrasekar, who is the CEO of Stack Overflow. I last had Prashanth on the show in 2022, one month before ChatGPT launched. While the generative ... read more

If you’re on a budget, you could do a lot worse than this 5K monitor, which has 217 PPI. Most people know at least two things about 5K monitors: they ... read more

Samsung Ads built a new integration with Amazon Publisher Cloud (APC), which is a clean room solution within the larger Amazon Publisher Suite (APS), the companies announced on Monday. The post It’s Getting A Bit ... read more

Some analysts believe it was a good idea to settle with one of the major players starting up AI tech that are desperate to access approved, fully copyrighted products to avoid seemingly nonstop legal hassles. ... read more

William Basinski says the current system is “a mess.” | Image: Getty Images for Prada "Not ideal." "Completely unacceptable." "Shameless." "Predatory." "Some bullshit." "Total bullshit." This is how musicians, producers, ... read more

Which company is the "real" TV company - Netflix or Paramount? ... read more

The tool avoids spoilers by drawing answers from the pages you’ve read so far. Amazon has launched a new AI feature in the Kindle app that gives spoiler-free answers to ... read more

When he was 19 years old, Brendan Foody started Mercor with two of his high school friends as a way for his other friends, who also had startups, to hire ... read more

Starlink satellites with solar arrays deployed. | Image: SpaceX A collision in space was narrowly avoided last week when a newly deployed Chinese satellite came within a few hundred meters ... read more

The 3i S10 Ultra is the flagship robot vacuum from Picea, the company that will own iRobot. iRobot, the owner of the Roomba robot vacuum, has filed for Chapter 11 ... read more

After 35 years, the maker of the Roomba robot vacuum filed for bankruptcy protection late Sunday night. Following issuing warnings earlier this year that it was fast running out of ... read more

For the past three decades, most of digital advertising has revolved around one obsession: performance. Marketers leaned on channels that could prove conversions: search ads, programmatic retargeting and affiliate links. A purchase trackable to a ... read more

Auctions aren’t just for programmatic ads anymore; fashion influencers are turning to Substack; and AI-generated recaps continue to get the facts wrong. The post Will Shopper Auctions Try Ad Auctions?; I Thought Instagram Wants ... read more

AI agents have become a focal point for media agencies and brands hoping to move AI tech past potential and into practical benefit.  Agencies across the industry, from giants like WPP to indie shop Mediassociates ... read more

“Transparency” is one of those terms that often gets bandied about when talking about CTV ad buying. Specifically programmatic CTV ad buying. But what does it actually mean? Well, at the recent Digiday Programmatic Marketing ... read more

This story was first published by Digiday sibling Modern Retail. It wasn’t just shoppers with strapped budgets that boosted buy-now, pay-later services to a record-setting $1 billion in transactions on Cyber Monday. It was also ... read more

Next year, tracking AI search visibility may get a little easier for publishers. Thanks to the rise of AI search, publishers’ usual tracking tools won’t cut it. They need a full arsenal of analytics and ... read more

As industries change — and which industry isn’t undergoing massive transformational change right now? — so must their industry associations.  Look no further than MMA, which started out as the Mobile Marketing Association during the ... read more

My introduction to Sudan Archives was the song "Nont for Sale" from her first EP Sink in 2018. I've been a die-hard fan ever since. With each album, she finds ... read more

Grok's track record is spotty at best. But even by the very low standards of xAI, its failure in the aftermath of the tragic mass shooting at Bondi Beach in ... read more

Abynth 6’s very pretty, but questionably useful preset explorer. Absynth is something of a cult classic in the soft synth world. It was originally released in 2000, and quickly found ... read more

WPP Media takes a comprehensive approach to video, said Adam Arnegger, executive director and head of investment, in this interview with Beet.TV Editorial Director Lisa Granatstein. When it comes to planning and implementing strategies for ... read more

Not long ago, the promise of streaming was an escape from the old world of television ads. But in a landscape now crowded with services and battling for subscribers, a new bargain has been struck. ... read more

LONDON – As the advertising industry grapples with tighter privacy rules and the fading usefulness of identifiable user data, contextual intelligence is emerging as one of the most important tools for reaching audiences, said Marko ... read more

RANCHO PALOS VERDES, CA — Roku and Amazon are integrating their connected TV operating systems to reach more than 80% of the U.S. market, promising to create even more massive scale for marketers. “By combining ... read more

By 2010, the iPhone era was in full swing. Smartphones were still a new and unfinished idea - the iPhone had only just gotten copy and paste! - but it was clear that these big ... read more

Here's a thought: what if the next-generation Siri is awesome? Not just awesome for setting timers and dictating text messages (though that would be nice), but so awesome and fun ... read more

An Xbox Ally in front of an Xbox Ally X. I still wouldn't buy an Xbox Ally, and I still don't think the tweaked version of Windows that shipped with ... read more

Real ones will know that Mount Rainier looks too big in this image, but the re-creation of a Washington State ferry in this AI image is uncanny. This is The ... read more

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 109, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, hope you're staying warm, and also you ... read more

Uber Intelligence turns data about rideshare trips and takeout orders into actionable insights for marketers. ... read more

It's a small sample size, likely driven by Black Friday discounts and temporary virality, but the Nex Playground has gone from little-known console curiosity to best-seller. It's now on track ... read more

Music making is always better with hardware. Native Instruments and Ableton have had incredible success with their custom MIDI controllers that integrate with their DAWs (digital audio workstations), Maschine and ... read more

The Posha robot chef can autonomously cook a meal from scratch. As I'm sitting in my office writing this review, delicious, cheesy, garlicky scents are wafting up the stairs. I ... read more

The Nex Playground is a compact, cube-shaped console that’s currently on sale for $50 off. | Image: The Verge The Nex Playground is apparently one of the hottest consoles this ... read more

A keyboard perfect for barside writing. As a writer, I take the tools of my trade relatively seriously. I’m not crazy enough to drop $3,600 on a keyboard, but I ... read more

Sektori is an old-school twin-stick shooter. Created by a former developer at Returnal studio Housemarque, it puts you in the role of a little ship that blasts through swarms of ... read more

Amazon Prime members may be eligible for free same-day delivery. | Photo: Justin Sullivan / Getty Images Let’s face it, the same thing happens year after year. Things get busy ... read more

"Roblox aggressively markets to young children, but fails to protect them from sexual predators," Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier said. ... read more

"Roblox aggressively markets to young children, but fails to protect them from sexual predators," Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier said. ... read more

A group of more than 150 parents sent a letter on Friday to New York governor Kathy Hochul, urging her to sign the Responsible AI Safety and Education (RAISE) Act, ... read more

Domino's transformed its ad into a remote-controlled trivia game, asking viewers a pizza-themed question before serving a 10-second promo for its Ultimate Gunpowder Chicken pizza. ... read more

The long take, the unbroken tracking shot, "the oner" - whatever you want to call it, filmmakers agree that it's one of the most difficult technical achievements in cinema. It's ... read more

Google’s Pixel Buds 2A come in several colors, but purple is the way to go. Let's face it, it's easy to fixate on the big gifts that crowd around the ... read more

To help advertisers and agencies better identify worthwhile UGC content, Meta will launch a "Facebook Partnership Ads API," offering creator evaluations and content access. ... read more

House lawmakers advanced a version of the Kids Online Safety Act that would require platforms to establish "reasonable" policies addressing specific harms to minors -- including threats of violence, sex abuse, drug use and financial ... read more

Today, Apple officially released iOS 26.2 for iPhone 11 and newer devices, which includes new Lock Screen customizations for you to adjust the opacity level, as well as the ability ... read more

Eat at your own risk. | Image: Ikea After announcing new Matter-compatible smart home devices and stylish wireless speakers over the past few months, Ikea continues to expand its consumer ... read more

We've let programmatic algorithms prioritize cheap impressions over real connections, forgetting there's a person on the other side. ... read more

Hollywood director Carl Erik Rinsch was convicted of scamming $11 million from Netflix to spend on luxury items, including five Rolls-Royces and a Ferrari, as reported earlier by Deadline. A ... read more

For me, the marketing term of the year was "AI slop." ... read more

Google Translate's latest update brings live speech translations, originally available only on the Pixel Buds, to any headphones you want, with support for over 70 languages. It's rolling out today ... read more

Hisense’s S7N CanvasTV is nearly $600 off. Samsung’s Frame TV is one of the coolest-looking TVs you can buy, doubling as wall art when you’re not watching —  but it’s ... read more

When Bryan Fuller set out to make his first feature film, his goal was to make the kind of family-friendly scares that he loved as a kid. Think Gremlins or ... read more

HBO Max is launching curated channels, a new feature that will allow you to quickly jump into a continuous feed of a popular series or tune into a specific genre. ... read more

TCL has been a solid competitor in the midrange TV market for years, going head-to-head with Hisense. Not only are TVs from both manufacturers competitive on features, they even use ... read more

The direct-to-consumer cookware company HexClad was founded in 2016, and celebrity chef, Gordon Ramsay, joined as investor-ambassador in 2021. HexClad surfed a huge wave of new business 2020 and 2021, as many people began cooking ... read more

Amazon is continuing to celebrate The Game Awards, which took place on December 11th, with a big sale on titles that were nominated in their respective categories. The deals include ... read more

Total national TV ad spend is up 7% to $3.17 billion, according to estimates from EDO Ad EnGage. ... read more

Every week at The Verge, we’re tracking what’s happening with Trump Mobile’s promised and yet undelivered Android phone. Why? Because we cover phones. We also cover vaporware, which the T1 ... read more

The problem for many employees, according to a new Harris Poll, is the pressure they feel to give a gift, with 46% saying they feel pressured to spend a certain amount on gifts. ... read more

AI sure does use a lot of words to say very little. This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent every Friday from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and ... read more

You may not even know it, but you've almost certainly encountered songs made mostly or even entirely with AI. If you've scrolled on TikTok the last few weeks, you've probably ... read more

Separate deals announced by WPP and Horizon within 24 hours of each other tell a story about not just the directions they're heading in, but where the entire industry is going. ... read more

This assumes CNN would also not be spun off under any WBD plan. ... read more