Image: Solos Solos’ camera-equipped smart glasses have arrived to provide some much-needed competition against Meta’s Ray-Bans. The AirGo Vision is available now starting at $299 — the same price as the Ray-Ban ... read more

Image: Epic Games Fortnite players have finally started receiving refunds as part of a settlement Epic Games reached with the Federal Trade Commission, which claimed the developer tricked players into making in-game ... read more

Image: Alex Parkin / The Verge Every once in a while, we turn The Vergecast inward. Not only are we constantly covering and discussing what’s happening in the tech and media worlds, ... read more

Sony It feels like we only just heard that Danny Boyle and Alex Garland’s 28 Years Later was in development, but the long-awaited sequel already has a full-length trailer and a solid ... read more

LG Ad Solutions today announced the renewal of a global partnership that keeps Magnite as its primary sell-side platform and Magnite’s SpringServe ad server for new activations. With the partnership, advertisers can use Magnite’s ClearLine ... read more

Image: Yelp Yelp is introducing some new AI features that aim to help users discover new establishments and narrow down customer reviews. The AI-powered “Review Insights,” announced today as part of Yelp’s ... read more

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts • Spotify Programmatic advertising methods like retargeting can be powerful for pushing interested customers over the line into making a purchase. But the approach can lose potency if the proverbial funnel ... read more

It’s an end-of-year shake-up for adland: The third largest agency holding company, Omnicom, announced plans to acquire the fourth largest agency holding company, IPG, yesterday morning. The combination will have Omnicom leapfrog Publicis and WPP ... read more

Interested in sharing your perspectives on the media and marketing industries? Join the Digiday research panel. It’s been a notable year in many ways — one of which was Google’s decision over the summer to ... read more

That’s one hell of a way for the agency holding companies to end the year. Just as everyone was looking to slow down and take a holiday-induced break before what will be a turbulent 2025, ... read more

Omnicom’s plan to acquire Interpublic Group is a long way from being finalized. However, the combined company could help the holding companies make  — and benefit from — larger AI investments.  On a Monday call ... read more

SANTA MONICA, Calif. – Women are responsible for a significant majority of purchase decisions worldwide, making insights into their wants and needs extremely valuable to marketers of consumers brands. Women who work at these brands ... read more

Image: Warner Bros. Games Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League only came out in February, but the game’s final season, which starts tomorrow, is going to be its last. Season 4 Episode ... read more

Image: Google Google’s quantum computing lab just achieved a major milestone. On Monday, the company revealed that its new quantum computing chip, Willow, is capable of performing a computing challenge in less ... read more

Decentralized X competitor Bluesky has released mockups teasing a premium subscription model with a list of potential user features on developer platform Github. ... read more

Photo by Ashley Carman / The Verge Spotify has officially shut down its Car Thing accessory that offered simple and slick control over music and playlists while driving, and it’s giving owners ... read more

Photo: David Pierce / The Verge Meta has announced the v72 Quest update, and it’s packed with features like faster hand tracking, an easier way to pair your headset with a Windows ... read more

SANTA MONICA, Calif. – Could an IAB Tech Lab measurement initiative herald the future of video ad measurement? Open Measurement SDK (OM SDK) is designed to facilitate third party viewability and verification measurement for ads ... read more

X has made its AI-powered chatbot Grok available to all users on the platform, allowing non-Premium subscribers the option to send up to 10 messages to Grok every two hours for free. ... read more

A thin layer of ice thaws on a puddle in the sunshine in Bavaria, Marktoberdorf. | Photo: Getty Images Scientific advisers to the European Commission are calling for a moratorium across ... read more

Will Manchester City’s next uniform feature AI-generated cats? | Screenshot: Puma AI Creator Manchester City is holding a competition that asks fans to generate its future kit design with AI. Players will ... read more

iPhone owners in Norway can now select Vipps as their default mobile payment app. | Image: Vipps A Norwegian payment app called Vipps is the first service to take advantage of a ... read more

Donald Trump speaks with Kristen Welker on Meet the Press. | Photo: Peter Kramer / NBC via Getty Images President-elect Donald Trump gave a murky answer when NBC’s Kristen Welker asked whether ... read more

This meat-handed mess was generated using DaVinci AI with the prompt “a photorealistic person looking at their phone with a disgusted expression.” | Image: DaVinci AI / The Verge Many high-ranking AI ... read more

The NYPD released this photo of the person of interest in the case. | Image: NYPD Police have arrested Luigi Mangione, a 26-year-old software developer, in connection with the fatal shooting of ... read more

Image: Rivian When I first started testing electric vehicles, finding a charging station was the means to an end. I didn’t care what it looked like or what neighborhood it was in ... read more

Gavin Dunaway, marketing director, The Media Trust To become a successful malware spreader, the barrier to entry is unbelievably low.These threat actors buy and sell exploit kits and malicious software on the dark web, and ... read more

Abby Roulston, vp of marketing, Blis As the end of the year approaches, businesses are taking stock of what works and what doesn’t to make room for transformative opportunities. For the advertising industry, that means ... read more

Critics of the bill say it would still enable censorship by the government. ... read more

Image: Netflix Ustwo returns with a sequel that looks to evolve the puzzle franchise, all while continuing to offer a sanctuary in your pocket. Read the full story at The Verge. ... read more

Image: OpenAI OpenAI is launching Sora, its text-to-video AI model, on Monday as part of its 12-day “ship-mas” product release series, as The Verge previously reported it would. It’s available today on ... read more

Google’s Pixel Tablet uniquely turns into a smart display of sorts when you buy the charging speaker dock. | Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Google might soon stop selling tablets ... read more

Image: The Verge OpenAI’s highly-anticipated AI text-to-video generator, Sora, will become available to everyone today. In a post on X, YouTuber Marques Brownlee confirmed its imminent release and uploaded a video detailing ... read more

Cath Virginia / The Verge China is investigating Nvidia over antitrust violations, reportedly over claims the chipmaker failed to follow conditions set during China’s approval for its $6.9 billion acquisition of Israeli ... read more

TikTok is asking a federal appellate court to halt a law that will ban the app unless it's sold by parent company, China-based ByteDance. ... read more

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Friend just raised another $5.4 million to bring AI friends into the real world. Read the full story at The Verge. ... read more

Image: Xiaomi Xiaomi is continuing to dive deeper into China’s competitive EV market with the reveal of a new model, the YU7 SUV, coming in the summer of 2025. The YU7 ... read more

Madison and Wall analyst Brian Wieser estimates that if the 20,000 largest advertisers shift half of their spend into TV, it would amount to $5 billion. ... read more

Search-based interfaces supported by AI have become the next wave in conversational engines. As more companies use Reddit data to train their LLMs, the ad industry will see this trend increase. ... read more

Search-based interfaces supported by AI have become the next wave in conversational engines. As more companies use Reddit data to train their LLMs, the ad industry will see this trend increase. ... read more

Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos from Getty Images A court rejected arguments against forcing a sale of the massive Chinese-owned social network. Read the full story at The Verge. ... read more

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman at the UK AI Safety Summit in November 2023. | Photo by Leon Neal / Getty Images Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman disagrees with OpenAI CEO Sam ... read more

Are we here to celebrate the color of the year or the luxury goods produced in its hue? Read the full story at The Verge. ... read more

Image: Epic Games Lego is building something new in Fortnite. A year after Lego Fortnite launched a new era inside of the game — one based on the idea that Fortnite is ... read more

Photo illustration by The Verge / Photo: Microsoft The company’s new AI chief on working for Microsoft, the OpenAI relationship, and when superintelligence might actually arrive.  Read the full story at The ... read more

The Raspberry Pi 500 computer keyboard starts at $90, but you’ll need to add your own mouse, power supply, and screen for that price. | Image: Raspberry Pi Raspberry Pi has announced ... read more

IPG's Magna and WPP's GroupM this morning joined last week's upgraded outlook by Dentsu, while Publicis' Zenith has discontinued public reporting. The new Big 3 consensus: 2024 +9.3%; 2025 +6.1%. ... read more

Illustration: The Verge Reddit is launching a new AI-powered search tool called Reddit Answers to help you more easily find information on the platform. The tool, similar to other AI search products, ... read more

Jon Wren will remain chairman-CEO, while IPG CEO Philippe Krakowksy will join Daryl Simm as co-presidents/COOs of the combined company, which will retain the Omnicom name and OMC ticker symbol. ... read more

The "TV Blog" wishes to thank Conan O'Brien for stepping up to host next year's Oscars on ABC. ... read more

Former Google employees have had a profound influence on AI. They have co-founded and led 14 of the top 50 AI startups, and have raised about $14.7 billion, accounting for nearly 28% of the funding ... read more

Image: Epic Games Indie game storefront Itch.io is currently offline because of what it describes as a bogus phishing report. While the game store’s servers are still online, the domain for the ... read more

CES, or what used to be known as the Consumer Electronics Show, each year helps to set the tone for the innovative products and services that people can expect to see coming to market. Artificial ... read more

Fresh off an onstage appearance at last week’s Digiday Programmatic Marketing Summit in Nashville, Mary Ann Pruitt, CEO and founder of independent media agency Mosaic Media expounded on what she sees as the growing strength ... read more

In the world of video games, “Call of Duty” is still king. Earlier this year, the series experienced its biggest launch weekend ever following the Oct. 25 release of “Call of Duty: Black Ops 6.” ... read more

This story originally published on sister site, Modern Retail. This past Thanksgiving week, furniture and home decor brand CB2 used artificial intelligence as part of its text messaging marketing campaigns. Over the busy holiday sales ... read more

Next year’s ad spending forecasts echo a familiar story: growth, but with a slower tempo.  It’s an outlook that has come to define the post-pandemic ad economy, a far cry from the boom days when ... read more

Michelle Yeoh in Star Trek: Section 31. | Image: Paramount Plus It’s the first week of December, and the end of the year is coming in fast and with a lot to ... read more

The push for Spotify's annual "Wrapped" feature reviewing users' listening habits included a global OOH campaign celebrating Taylor Swift. ... read more

Invincible season three is on its way, and Amazon has released a new trailer in which hero Mark Grayson takes on robots, rams a rocket in space, and chastises Oliver. He also ... read more

Rand (Joshua Stradowski) and Moiraine (Rosamund Pike). | Screenshot: YouTube Amazon announced at CCXP in Brazil yesterday that season three of Prime Video fantasy series The Wheel of Time will start streaming ... read more

Sony’s “cosmic red” DualSense Wireless Controller is down to $54.99 ($20 off) for a limited time. | Photo by Cameron Faulkner / The Verge Black Friday and Cyber Monday may be over, ... read more

Google filed a lawsuit Friday to block the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from placing its payment arm under federal supervision that would subject it to the same inspections as the ones it conducts with major ... read more

Not really, but that's one recent tidbit in a newsletter that pokes fun at the industry created by agency veteran Dan Wald. ... read more

There’s a lot we don’t know about what’s coming for tech in 2025. AI could save the world, or ruin it, or do pretty much nothing interesting at all. A new US ... read more

As addressable TV grows beyond its roots in categories like autos, new challenges have appeared around targeting, measurement, cost and creative. But the opportunity is also now seeing kinds of ad buyers adopting addressable. In ... read more

SANTA MONICA, Calif. – Creators are remaking the media landscape, giving brands new ways to reach audiences of highly engaged fans, enthusiasts and followers. Amid this transformation, create platform Spotter is spending hundreds of millions ... read more

Sony’s PSVR2 controller support may be coming to the Vision Pro through a special partnership. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The Vision Pro could gain support for Sony ... read more

“I was fascinated by the camaraderie and the community that Andy and the team have built,” says Terence Kawaja, founder, CEO of LUMA Partners. “There’s a tangibility to the discussions that I’ve noticed. Beet Retreat, ... read more

Image: David Pierce / The Verge Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 63, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, it’s a lot ... read more

Image: NZXT Gamers Nexus has released a video deconstructing NZXT’s defense of its Flex gaming PC purchase and rental program. In it, host Steve Burke says the company is still misleading customers, ... read more

Michelle Yeoh as Emperor Philippa Georgiou. | Screenshot: YouTube There’s a lot of Star Trek: Discovery in the official trailer for the Star Trek: Section 31 movie that Paramount Plus just released ... read more

Image: The Verge X has given Grok a new AI image generator model called “Aurora” that seems to create far more photorealistic imagery than Grok’s other image generator, with similarly few apparent ... read more

Photo illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos by Jerod Harris, Chesnot, Getty Images With just weeks left to pass legislation before Congress adjourns, X CEO Linda Yaccarino announced she ... read more

Image: Apple We already knew that the tensions and scares were going to ramp up in season 2 of Severance, and the latest trailer provides a deeper glimpse into what to expect ... read more

Image: Hugo Herrera / The Verge The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced on Friday it had placed Google Payment Corp. under federal supervision, reports Reuters. Google reportedly filed a lawsuit to ... read more

Image: Epic Games Epic Games is about to let Fortnite creators publish experiences with first-person modes, and to help show what’s possible, Epic itself is introducing a tactical FPS shooter that seems ... read more

Image: The Verge There’s plenty to consider when it comes to deciding whether you want to engage with the many generative AI bots now available inside our apps. These include the ethics ... read more

Image: NASA Can privately owned space stations replace the ISS? And what becomes of the research? Read the full story at The Verge. ... read more

People shelter under umbrellas from the wind and rain as they cross a road near Shinjuku train station on October 12, 2019 in Tokyo, Japan ahead of Typhoon Hagibis’ expected landfal later in ... read more

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge If I told you that Valve could make a play to dethrone the Sony PlayStation and Microsoft Xbox in your living room this next year ... read more

In Meta's last major AI announcement of the year, CEO Mark Zuckerberg describes the release of Llama 3.3, the final generative AI model before Llama 4. ... read more

In Meta's last major AI announcement of the year, CEO Mark Zuckerberg describes the release of Llama 3.3, the final generative AI model before Llama 4. ... read more

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Microsoft’s first Copilot AI-ready Surface laptop arrived earlier this year, and now Windows Central reports that the rest of the lineup is due for a ... read more

Arm CEO Rene Haas. | Getty Images / The Verge Arm CEO Rene Haas has a unique, bird’s eye view of the tech industry. His company’s chip designs are in the majority ... read more

T-Mobile would just love to sign you up on one of its new plans. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge T-Mobile is once again shuffling its 5G internet options, adding ... read more

Image: The Verge Apple has big plans for its rumored custom modems. Along with using them in iPhones and iPads, Apple also plans on putting the chip inside Macs and maybe even ... read more

Illustration: The Verge Google is now rolling out the ability to make a digital ID from your passport that you can store in Google Wallet and use at select TSA checkpoints. Here’s ... read more

The partnership with the filmmaker's visual-effects company Lightstorm Vision is an effort to scale the creation of the company's 3D entertainment experiences across live sports, concerts, feature films, and TV series. ... read more

The partnership with the filmmaker's visual-effects company Lightstorm Vision is an effort to scale the creation of the company's 3D entertainment experiences across live sports, concerts, feature films, and TV series. ... read more

Google must face claims that it violated an Illinois biometric privacy law requiring companies to obtain consumers' written consent before collecting or storing scans of face geometry, a federal judge ruled Thursday. ... read more

Photo: Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The holidays are expensive, but they don’t have to be. From fitness trackers to smart speakers, here are the best gifts under $50. Read the ... read more

In addition to gender, RX currently measures representation across age, body type and skin tone expression. The RX Score measures the diversity of each ad on a scale from 0 to 100, with higher scores ... read more

Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos from Getty Images For over a week, New Jersey residents have spotted unidentified aircraft in the northern part of the state, including Morris County and ... read more

Illustration: The Verge There’ve already been renders of Google’s yet-to-be-announced Pixel 9A and one real-world sneak peek. Now we’re getting yet another look at an early prototype of Google’s next mid-range phone. ... read more

The Anbernic RG34XX looks inspired by Nintendo’s GBA but with a larger screen and more buttons. | Screenshot: YouTube Anbernic announced its next retro handheld today and it’s easy to see where ... read more

After confirming on Monday that it was in discussions regarding a potential bid, on Thursday the company issued a terse statement indicating its decision not to. ... read more

The new modem is rumored to appear in next year’s iPhone SE. | Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge Apple’s betting that its upcoming in-house 5G modem could help it beat ... read more

Image: Microsoft Microsoft is expanding the testing of its new Recall AI feature to Intel- and AMD-powered Copilot Plus PCs. The software giant first released a preview of Recall on Qualcomm-powered laptops ... read more

The IAB urges advertisers, platforms and technology providers to collaborate on transparent practices for impression counting. ... read more