Sierra’s Clay Bavor and Bret Taylor. | Photo: Sierra This is an excerpt of Sources by Alex Heath, a newsletter about AI and the tech industry, syndicated just for The ... read more

Next week you’ll get another chance to grab Analogue’s N64 redux. | Image: Analogue Analogue has announced its reimagined and upgraded 4K version of the Nintendo 64, the Analogue 3D, ... read more

Incremental increases in computing and processing power will affect how ads are created, speed and timing and how they are served to consumers - especially as agentic consumer purchasing options become more common. ... read more

The PS5 Pro is $100 off. Black Friday is still a week away, but Sony has already slashed the price of three PlayStation 5 models. The PS5 Digital Edition (slim) ... read more

For a long, long time, Windows looked like Windows. The version numbers and features changed, but the basic structure of the computer didn't. With Windows 8, Microsoft tried to completely ... read more

Google has begun displaying ads in AI Mode, the company's AI search engine, placing them at the bottom of the responses on the page. Ad results labelled with the sponsored tag resemble the organic link ... read more

The pitch is to take a picture and let AI do the rest. The latter is where it all breaks down. This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent every Friday ... read more

Along with the NFL, college football TV viewing has also made slight gains. Analysts point to the new Nielsen Big Data + Panel measure. ... read more

The Falcata takes up so much less desk space than the Kinesis Freestyle Edge RGB I use, and it works wirelessly, if you want. I recently published a review of ... read more

82% of Americans are prioritizing low cost and high impact when it comes to gift-giving this year, according to a new poll from Stagwell's Harris Poll for Mastercard. ... read more

The move deepens PMG's expansion into creative and content marketing services, albeit on the backbone of its proprietary Alli tech stack. ... read more

Dude, where’s my card? Where's the Trump Phone? We're going to keep talking about it every week. While we wait, we tried to order a Trump Mobile SIM card so ... read more

Take a moment to think about how your day sounds. Maybe you start with the sound of your alarm, followed by a quick news briefing from your smart speaker while you scroll through emails. Your ... read more

The spot consists almost entirely of the voices of 14 people not seen onscreen who are sharing their frustrations with the state of TV news today. ... read more

A new way to AirDrop just dropped. It's pretty rare when a cool new gadget feature gets announced that you can try right away on your own devices. But that's ... read more

The chunky grip doubles as a stand, and attaches using MagSafe. Apple has partnered with artist and designer Bailey Hikawa on a new MagSafe iPhone grip “designed with accessibility in ... read more

Arizona's economy was once dominated by the "five C's": cotton, cattle, citrus, copper, and climate. But a new C has emerged that could grow to overshadow the rest: chips. New ... read more

The Gemini app produced this image of a second shooter hidden in the bushes with the Book Depository in the background. | AI Image: The Verge via Google Gemini It ... read more

Inside Omnicom's shift in spend from The Trade Desk DSP to Amazon DSP. The post The Shifting Dollars Flowing Through Programmatic Pipes appeared first on AdExchanger. ... read more

Enjoy this weekly comic from AdExchanger.com that highlights the digital advertising ecosystem …  The post Comic: Christmas Creep appeared first on AdExchanger. ... read more

InstaGrand Wizards?  Looks like X isn’t the only social media platform with a Hitler problem. Instagram is also becoming a home for AI- and user-generated content that features hate speech, antisemitic rhetoric and Holocaust denialism, ... read more

This story was first published by Digiday sibling Glossy The holiday shopping season is the Super Bowl for most consumer brands. But in order to succeed, brands need to be training all year long, according ... read more

This story was originally published on sister site, Modern Retail. Category managers who work with Kroger, you’ve got mail — from an AI agent. Kroger Precision Marketing Powered by 84.51°, the newly combined division of ... read more

The European Union has published its Digital Omnibus proposal — a bundle of updates meant to simplify Europe’s digital rulebook and remove some of the complexity that has built up since the General Data Protection ... read more

To see where the value is concentrating in any industry, follow the acquisitions. In the creator economy, it is gravitating toward software that standardizes how brands find and work with creators. The influencer shops that ... read more

It started with a standing desk and a Beyoncé lip sync. That was the viral video Bashel Lewis posted to his TikTok account in April that got him thinking about leaving his full time marketing ... read more

What the story is really about is unloved girls, let down by parents and ‘the people who run things.’ ... read more

The revelations will titillate the public and destroy lives—to no possible good effect. ... read more

It’s no secret that Elon Musk shapes the X social platform and X’s “maximally truth-seeking” Grok AI chatbot to his preferences. But it’s possible Musk may have needed a bit ... read more

Three pros. | Image: The Verge / Google, Nano Banana Pro I gave Google's new Nano Banana Pro a try, and it immediately took my clothes off. I didn't ask ... read more

Attorneys for a woman diagnosed with anorexia are attempting to revive her lawsuit against Eating Recovery Center, which allegedly shared her data with Meta via its analytics pixel. ... read more

Microsoft is upgrading its Advanced Paste tool in PowerToys for Windows 11, allowing you to use an on-device AI model to power some of its features. With the 0.96 update, ... read more

Meta’s impressive, photorealistic digital replicas of real places built using its “Hyperscape” capture tech, which uses the cameras on a Quest 3 or Quest 3S VR headset to scan a ... read more

When Jon M. Chu first announced that his big-screen Wicked adaptation would be split into two parts, there was concern about whether the original musical's second act could be fashioned ... read more

Why would anyone want to revive policies from the Covid panic? ... read more

The replica is now available for preorder and expected to ship as soon as June 2026. | Image: Bethesda Bethesda is now selling a highly-detailed wearable replica of the Pip-Boy ... read more

Brands that scale culturally intelligent creative without losing brand consistency will have a competitive advantage. ... read more

The Sonos Arc Ultra is (slightly) more affordable now that it’s down to $879. If you’ve been waiting for some relief after Sonos raised its prices earlier this year in ... read more

OpenAI is widely rolling out group chats inside ChatGPT, allowing you to invite up to 20 other people to your conversation with the AI chatbot. The feature is now available ... read more

Federal prosecutors have charged four people with illegally smuggling Nvidia GPUs and HP supercomputers with Nvidia GPUs from the US to China, according to a court filing spotted by Court ... read more

Last week, Tesla revealed a new section of its website dedicated to reporting safety statistics for its advanced driver assist systems, Autopilot and Full Self-Driving (FSD). The new hub appears ... read more

Google set the bar high for Gemini 3. It's promising a bunch of upgraded features in its shiny new AI model, from generating code that produces interactive 3D visualizations to ... read more

Thomson Reuters is urging an appeals court to leave in place a ruling that artificial intelligence company Ross Intelligence infringed copyright by training its legal research service on material published by Westlaw. ... read more

History is full of "transactional" peace deals that didn't fare well. Look at the Munich Agreement of 1938 that appeased Hitler. ... read more

Two years ago, “BBL Drizzy” was the AI music shot heard around the world: a song with vocals that sounded like Drake bubbled up from nowhere and launched what was ... read more

Microsoft will start rolling out its new Xbox Full Screen Experience (FSE) to Windows-based handhelds on November 21st. The full screen mode for the Xbox app originally shipped on the ... read more

The black Oura Ring 4 is $100 off right now, while the gold option is $150 off. | Image: The Verge The Oura Ring 4 is our favorite smart ring ... read more

Perplexity is launching its AI-powered browser on Android. The new Comet app is available to download now, and it comes with many of the same features as the desktop version ... read more

What if it was a mid-size cable network that indexed five times greater among younger viewers? ... read more

Video Recaps are being introduced for a handful of Amazon Prime Original series. | Image: Amazon Amazon Prime Video is testing another new generative AI-powered feature to help catch you ... read more

Google just announced some unexpected and welcome news: Pixel 10 owners can now send and receive files with Apple devices over AirDrop. According to Google, this works with iPhone, iPad, ... read more

Ask a dozen marketers, and some will say the customer journey has, in turn, collapsed, condensed, lengthened, looped, died and been born anew. What’s not up for debate is that it has fundamentally changed. That’s ... read more

NBCU will get "Sunday Night Baseball," which has aired on ESPN since 1990. Regular-season games will air on NBC Television Network for the first time in 26 years. ... read more

The 11th Carrying around a full stack of physical books isn’t practical, but an e-reader lets you take a full library with you anywhere. Thankfully, Amazon’s latest Kindle is currently ... read more

Nvidia has partnered with Google to launch a new cloud gaming plan exclusive to Chromebooks. GeForce Now Fast Pass will allow Chromebook owners to stream over 2,000 games directly from ... read more

Move over Google Assistant, there’s a new robot to yell at while driving. Starting today, Google is rolling out its Gemini AI assistant to Android Auto users, allowing drivers ... read more

It feels like Microsoft is blindly racing toward another Windows 8 situation. Windows 8 was arguably the most divisive release of Windows in its 40-year history, as Microsoft attempted to ... read more

Google has launched new features that allow for advanced, AI-powered image generation through Nano Banana Pro in Google Ads, with new verification requirements for all content created with the company's AI-generated tools. ... read more

HBO's latest Game of Thrones prequel series hasn't even premiered yet, but there are already plans for it to run for at least one more season. Today, HBO announced both ... read more

Suno, the AI music startup being sued by the big three major labels, the RIAA, and even some indie acts for illegally training its model on copyrighted material, just raised ... read more

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. Meta is about to get ... read more

The AirPods Pro 3 are Apple’s most impressive wireless earbuds yet, offering improved active noise cancellation, a more comfortable fit, and excellent audio performance. Thankfully, you can snag the wireless ... read more

The Palma is still mostly a reading device. Mostly. Year after year, model after model, the Boox Palma gets a little closer to the device of my dreams. Onyx, the ... read more

How does one of the world’s largest brand groups approach marketing opportunities when all around is changing? Unilever finds itself at the apex of a changing media environment, a commerce media explosion and a fundamental ... read more

Let’s talk about AI and what I’ve been calling the “DoorDash problem.” This is about to define the next battle in AI, and it might completely transform not only how ... read more

Anker is amongst the first accessory makers to rerelease MagSafe-compatible accessories that now support the Qi2 standard. | Image: Nathan Edwards / The Verge The Wireless Power Consortium (WPC) released ... read more

The campaign confirms - without actually admitting it - that Google Gemini will power Apple Intelligence, the company's AI assistant. ... read more

You no longer need an iPhone to get the most out of AirPods. Apple’s AirPods provide a basic listening experience when paired to non-Apple devices, but the free LibrePods app, ... read more

The review, which began in June, centered on the future of media and driving growth in an AI-powered landscape, the companies said. ... read more

OpenAI is updating ChatGPT Atlas with vertical tabs that make it look a bit like the Arc browser. Now, instead of opening a new tab at the top of the ... read more

Nano Banana Pro can blend up to 14 images into a single output. | Image: Google Google just took the wraps off Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image), its ... read more

Google is making it easier for Gemini users to detect at least some AI-generated content. From today, you’ll be able to use the Gemini app to determine if an image ... read more

Sensing another potential lawsuit on the way? Part of this type of TV marketing/PR campaign. Trump continues to lean on unpaid "earned" media with edgy content - speaking in industry parlance - to seed his ... read more

Sensing another potential lawsuit on the way? Part of this type of TV marketing/PR campaign. Trump continues to lean on unpaid "earned" media with edgy content - speaking in industry parlance - to seed his ... read more

Having a jumper battery handy for emergencies can prevent a lot of problems for you and your family. | Image: Noco Hey! We’re kicking off an end-of-the-year series where we’re ... read more

I’ve seen enough of this kind of thing. The details are fuzzy, but I think my husband and I downloaded the YouTube Kids app to our TV sometime in 2022, ... read more

The Oklahoma City-based family-owned company, founded in 1964, operates over 650 refueling and convenience store locations in 42 states. ... read more

Add Vibe.co to the list of CTV ad platforms that are kicking supply-side resellers to the curb. The post Why CTV Startup Vibe Is Dropping Resellers In Favor Of “Certified Supply” appeared first on AdExchanger. ... read more

Monochrom models remain some of Leica’s most unique (and most expensive) offerings. Leica is announcing a Q3 Monochrom, its latest digital camera that captures only black-and-white photos and video. In ... read more

FCC chair Brendan Carr has reportedly written to the BBC, PBS, and NPR announcing an investigation into whether a controversial BBC documentary with a misleading edit of a Donald Trump ... read more

Verizon is preparing to lay off more than 13,000 employees, or about 13 percent of its workforce. In a message to employees, Verizon CEO Dan Schulman says that the reductions ... read more

Marketers have grown fixed on a simple, stubborn question: what portion of their spend reaches the person making the content? What was once a direct handoff now threads through a growing constellation of agencies, platforms, ... read more

After one of the biggest telecom hacks in US history, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) moved to enforce strict standards on carriers' cybersecurity measures. On Thursday, the agency is set ... read more

The introductory narrative of "The American Revolution" takes up a style Burns established at the outset of "The Civil War." ... read more

The Matter smart home standard is adding cameras to its latest spec. It's finally happening. Three years after Matter launched, the interoperability standard now includes the most popular smart home ... read more

By group, Publicis Media overtook WPP Media for the top spot last year and significantly widened its first-place margin since the last edition of the report was issued in March. ... read more

Last year Qualcomm promised that games would “just work” on its Snapdragon X Elite laptops, but in my testing I found that was far from the case. Now, a year ... read more

It takes a certain kind of advertiser to want to promote its brand alongside a headline like “RFK Jr. Greets Trick-Or-Treaters With Big Bowl Of Ape Glands.” That’s a real headline on The Onion, by ... read more

Private right of action isn’t just a talking point for future privacy laws; it’s already law. The California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) has included an individual’s right to bring a civil suit since 1967. ... read more

Adobe acquires SEO tech business Semrush; brands want to know what AI search engines think of them; and the LGBTQ community is an under-targeted audience. The post What’s The (Sem)Rush?; AI’s Insights Are Out Of ... read more

The Atlantic has built a scorecard for AI crawlers, identifying which bots actually send readers back and which just strip content. Only those with value get through. This approach led it to block a single ... read more

In the era of synthetic social, where AI slop has flooded timelines, brand marketers and agency execs have largely shrugged off concerns. The low-effort, mass produced, AI-generated content, known as AI slop, could have ripple ... read more

This story was first published by sister site, Modern Retail. In partnership with OpenAI, Target plans to launch a new Target app within ChatGPT beginning the week of Thanksgiving and Black Friday. The app within ... read more

This story was originally published on sister site, Modern Retail. This season, retailers and shoppers alike are contending with a shorter holiday shopping window — on top of tariffs, waning consumer sentiment and recession fears. ... read more

This week’s Media Briefing focuses on publishers’ stronger-than-expected Q4 ad revenue, with many seeing year-over-year growth that is sending positive signals as their businesses head into 2026. Q4 ad spend lifts publishers’ hopes for ... read more

Enthusiasm for AI implementation among marketers remains high, despite worries there’s an economic bubble forming, or that, according to a widely cited MIT study, 95% of AI pilots fail.  With that dubious success rate in ... read more

It’s almost here! We’re launching our in-depth Martech for 2026 report on December 2, and you can be among the first to see it. Simply sign up for our Martech for 2026 webinar, and ... read more

The combination of connected TV ads, retail media, and artificial intelligence offer marketers many compelling propositions. One possible value is the ability to know that an ad led to a completed purchase rather than having ... read more

President Donald Trump is considering signing an executive order as soon as Friday that would give the federal government unilateral power over regulating artificial intelligence, including the creation of an ... read more

Today, Major League Baseball announced new media rights deals with ESPN, NBCUniversal, and Netflix that run for the next three seasons. The Netflix deal brings live MLB games to its ... read more