xAI is attempting to secure $12 billion in funding from private investors - looking to jump ahead of industry competitors like OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, Google and Anthropic. ... read more

You’re getting a lot of TV at the discounted price. | Image: The Verge Finding a quality budget TV isn’t as hard as it used to be, with numerous deals ... read more

Google is all-in on AI, and based on the company’s latest quarterly earnings, AI has been good for its bottom line. In a press release for Alphabet’s Q2 2025 earnings, ... read more

Tesla released its second quarter financial earnings today, offering the latest evidence of the damage Elon Musk’s political activities have done to his flagship company. Tesla said it earned $1.17 ... read more

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Wednesday asked Mississippi officials to respond to the tech group NetChoice's emergency request to halt a state law that prohibits minors from creating social media accounts without parental permission. ... read more

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Wednesday asked Mississippi officials to respond to the tech group NetChoice's emergency request to halt a state law that prohibits minors from creating social media accounts without parental permission. ... read more

In the ad, an Ikea-branded cardboard box opens, filling a room with colorful Ikea furniture and transforming it into a cozy bedroom. ... read more

Sen. Dave McCormick (R-PA) and President Donald Trump during the inaugural Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh on July 15. | Photo: Bloomberg via Getty Images ... read more

Meta recommends using a "ladder of incrementality" to evaluate which techniques are most reliable in measuring causality. ... read more

T-Mobile’s satellite service is now available to people across the US — and not just T-Mobile customers. On Wednesday, T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert announced that the Starlink-powered service is officially ... read more

The White House unveiled its long-awaited “AI Action Plan” on Wednesday, and it included a zombie: A resurrected form of the controversial AI law moratorium that died a very public ... read more

CANNES – Marketers should stop settling for “decent” results and instead push for greatness by eliminating inefficiencies and rethinking how they measure success, says Jeremy Cornfeldt, president of performance marketing firm Tinuiti. Speaking with Beet.TV ... read more

NEW YORK – As connected television rapidly reshapes the advertising landscape, Dennis Buchheim, global head of go-to-market for adtech, martech, media and entertainment at Snowflake, sees an evolving ecosystem where data strategy, collaboration and privacy ... read more

CANNES – As CMOs face mounting pressure for short-term sales results, they’re overlooking their most powerful performance driver: creative itself. “One of our major CPG clients did a major study [on] what’s driving incrementality within ... read more

Instagram accounts that primarily feature images of children, but are run by adult users, will no longer be recommended to “potentially suspicious adults.” The update was announced in a blog ... read more

Ensuring AI reflects “objective truth,” slashing onerous regulations, disseminating US AI tools around the world, and fast-tracking AI infrastructure: this is all part of President Donald Trump’s vision for AI ... read more

Look at what happened after the pandemic: People flocked back to in-person events as soon as they could, to see real people IRL. ... read more

We live in a golden age of controllers. The gamepads on the market now are of higher quality, more versatile, and more customizable than anything from even one console generation ... read more

Momentum is what Wheel World does best. It is the feeling of reaching a downhill section of road, a pristine Sega-blue sea stretching out in the far distance, and letting ... read more

Google is adding new AI-powered features to Google Photos and YouTube Shorts that allow users to transform their photos into videos. The tools are similar to the Veo 3-powered photo-to-video ... read more

Google might replace the upcoming Pixel Pro Fold’s white and black models with two new color options. Leaked renders shared by Android Headlines show the Pixel 10 Pro Fold in ... read more

Aukey’s MagFusion 2X was one of the first Qi2 25W chargers announced. The Wireless Power Consortium (WPC) has announced the official launch of faster Qi2 25W wireless charging, with the ... read more

Netflix average subscriber viewing declined 6% to 1.4 hours per day in the first six months of 2025 vs. 1.5 hours per day in second-half 2024. ... read more

From one perspective, publishers are up a creek. Generative AI search is reducing the discoverability of their content, traffic is declining and no one – including Cloudflare – has figured out the best way to compensate publishers ... read more

Microsoft-owned developer Obsidian Entertainment is announcing a price drop for the The Outer Worlds 2 today. The game was originally supposed to debut at $79.99 in October, but it’s now ... read more

We already knew that Nintendo got off to a strong start with the Switch 2’s launch, and now that the console has been out for a bit, we’re getting a ... read more

The 104-year-old family-owned business created the original slider. ... read more

The new company aligns Omnicom across Australia and New Zealand. ... read more

VSCO has widely released its camera app for the iPhone. The app, called Capture, lets you switch between VSCO’s filters and make adjustments before snapping a photo or recording a ... read more

An aerial view of the Tesla diner in Los Angeles. | Photo: VCG via Getty Images Tesla just opened a retro diner in Los Angeles, so it was only a ... read more

Selling drugs. Murdering a spouse in their sleep. Eliminating humanity. Eating glue.  These are some of the recommendations that an AI model spat out after researchers tested whether seemingly “meaningless” ... read more

The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 and Z Flip 7 launch Friday, July 25th. That’s soon! Even if you’re not the type of person who usually pre-orders things, there’s good ... read more

Most social platform spending comes from small businesses. And TV tech companies have been busy trying to make it easier for small businesses to apply the same tools – like data matching – they use ... read more

Tom Conrad took over as interim CEO in January. Sonos has officially appointed Tom Conrad as CEO, the company announced on Wednesday. Conrad took over as interim chief executive in ... read more

Most Uber trips end without incident, but for many women, the threat of sexual harassment and assault looms large. According to Uber’s own data, thousands of women have been victims ... read more

The USB-C port is seen here on the bottom right of the case, instead of the central position the Lightning port uses. The engineer who beat Apple by creating the ... read more

Over 40,000 people have now signed on to petition to encourage CBS to keep "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" around. ... read more

The Retro95 horizontal desktop PC. Maingear is launching a ’90s-era horizontal desktop with modern components inside. The Retro95 is a beige sleeper build and is for anyone who is nostalgic ... read more

Sony is starting to test a new Power Saver mode for PS5 consoles that will allow games to “run with lower power consumption.” The Power Saver mode is being revealed ... read more

Stephen Colbert spent 20 minutes on two subjects, himself and Donald Trump, in his first appearance on "The Late Show" since the announcement that the show will end next year. ... read more

AI-driven search is changing the way users find and use online information, and experts are monitoring these shifts to assess the effects on engagement. ... read more

Apple is announcing a new AppleCare subscription called AppleCare One that lets you cover multiple products with a single plan. For $19.99 per month, AppleCare One covers up to three ... read more

Proton, the company behind the encrypted email service Proton Mail, has launched an AI assistant aimed at preserving user privacy. The new chatbot, called Lumo, can summarize documents, generate code, ... read more

The Starlink Mini satellite dish is now even better thanks to the $119 LinkPower 1 power bank from PeakDo. The battery locks securely to the back of SpaceX's smallest terminal ... read more

Hours after Microsoft revealed hacking groups affiliated with the Chinese government have been exploiting a flaw in its SharePoint software, Bloomberg News reports that the National Nuclear Security Administration has ... read more

Hot: Server-side conversion APIs that send marketing data directly to ad platforms. Not: Traditional browser-based tracking methods like cookies, pixels and scripts. Thanks to privacy regulations and browser restrictions, client-side tracking – as in, collecting and ... read more

YouTube Usurps The June edition of Nielsen’s Media Distributor, Gauge, which ranks streaming and linear TV attention, has Netflix in the top three channels for the first time. The monthly report only tracks views in ... read more

This week’s Future of TV Briefing recaps what brand and agency executives had to say behind closed doors at last week’s CTV Advertising Strategies event in New York City. ‘A lot of games being ... read more

This is part of a research index that was originally published on Digiday’s sibling publication Glossy.Data for this index was collected by Dash Social. 01 Introduction Influencer marketing has been a ... read more

Google’s slow updates to Performance Max continues, offering just enough to suggest progress without ever fully handing over the keys to marketers. The latest addition, dubbed Performance Max Channel Performance, is the company’s attempt to ... read more

For the past few years, big brands and their agency partners have largely shied away from advertising on conservative channels, citing brand safety fears in ads showing up next to politically charged content. The tides, ... read more

Newsweek is launching more subscription products and expanding non-advertising revenue streams as it braces for a future where AI answer engines replace traditional search — and potentially siphon off the traffic publishers have long relied ... read more

Assembly is rolling out its Assembly Control product throughout July. ... read more

As xAI rolls out controversial AI companions, a report by Common Sense Media states that 72% of U.S. teens have already experimented with this synthetic form of virtual friend and/or romantic partner. ... read more

As xAI rolls out controversial AI companions, a report by Common Sense Media states that 72% of U.S. teens have already experimented with this synthetic form of virtual friend and/or romantic partner. ... read more

They were Samsung phones with gold stickers on them. The former CEO of the company that marketed the sketchy-looking Escobar Fold 1 and Escobar Fold 2 phones — which you ... read more

CANNES – As brands pour more money into digital advertising, the industry is facing a transparency crisis. Jonah Goodhart believes it’s time to fix it. The co-founder and chief executive of Mobian said true “contextual” ... read more

CANNES – Shoppable television may still be in its early stages, but KERV Interactive is betting that automation and creative AI will accelerate its adoption across the advertising ecosystem. “We’re in the third inning of ... read more

An advertising and marketing expert argues that AI will interrupt basic programmatic ad-platform functions if not rewritten, based on its original automated processes. ... read more

Getting into a car accident, even a fender bender, is stressful on its own, but then comes the argument about who was at fault. A dash cam can give you ... read more

Copilot Vision can scan all of the apps and webpages you have open on your screen. Microsoft is releasing several new AI features for Windows 11, including its Copilot Vision ... read more

Owner Soon-Shiong floats the idea during an interview with Jon Stewart. ... read more

A federal judge is allowing web users to sue LiveRamp for allegedly creating profiles by combining people's online activity with offline records. ... read more

Democratic lawmakers are taking multiple routes to try to revive the Federal Trade Commission's "click-to-cancel" rule after an appeals court blocked it on procedural grounds right before it was set ... read more

Barbara Krasnoff is officially the reviews editor for The Verge, but although she has done a great deal of reviewing in her time, she doesn’t tend to do a lot ... read more

Apple has launched its online store in Saudi Arabia, according to an announcement on Tuesday. The move, set to be followed by physical retail locations, will let users in the ... read more

Apple’s fourth iOS 26 developer beta has reintroduced Apple Intelligence-powered notification summaries for news and entertainment apps, MacRumors reports. The company temporarily switched off the feature earlier this year after ... read more

For the last few years, subscription gaming services like Apple Arcade and Netflix have offered mobile game developers something of a haven for high-quality, premium mobile games: a type of ... read more

Google is looking to work with about 20 national news organizations on a pilot project related to AI, according to the report. ... read more

Earlier this year, GoPro introduced a refreshed version of its Max 360-degree action camera, and right now that camera is down to an all-time low of $249.99 ($120 off) at ... read more

The agency was founded a decade ago by two Omnicom veterans Mike Boykin and Greg Busch who are credited with building out Omnicom's sports agency GMR. ... read more

Amazon is acquiring Bee, a startup that puts AI on your wrist. Bee CEO Maria de Lourdes Zollo says on LinkedIn that the company is joining Amazon to help “bring ... read more

I can't believe they're actually making these, was my very first thought, as I powered on a working prototype of the OneXSugar Sugar 1. This week, One-Netbook is crowdfunding a ... read more

Demonetizing the open web could backfire, leaving search results filled with lower-quality content and fewer credible voices. ... read more

When Disney acquired 21st Century Fox in 2019, you could see flashes of the studio's plan to further expand the Marvel Cinematic Universe. After years of Marvel Studios building up ... read more

Microsoft announced a new 5G version of its Surface Laptop today, which will start shipping on August 26th starting at $1,799.99. The Surface Laptop 5G is powered by Intel’s Core ... read more

After sharing the first official leaked renders of the Pixel 10 yesterday, today Android Headlines has shared images of the 10 Pro too. It looks almost identical to the base ... read more

Just a week after establishing a beachhead in out-of-home measurement, the IAB is expanding its role yet again - this time to a "unified" media universe. Maybe it's time to change its name - and ... read more

Some of the attacks that targeted organizations using an exploit in Microsoft’s SharePoint server platform over the last few days have been linked to hacking groups affiliated with the Chinese ... read more

As AI continues to reshape how people discover brands, evaluate options, and make decisions, data from Yext reveals clear shifts in search behavior across markets and generations. ... read more

IPG Chief Philippe Krakowsky says it's designed to help CPG brands manage commerce ecosystems "in ways that are not possible without automation and artificial intelligence." ... read more

During what was supposed to be a quarter marked by financial uncertainty, IPG did slightly better than expected. The post Q2: IPG Continues Its Slight Decline As It Prepares To Get Eaten By Omnicom appeared ... read more

Having many cousins is like having a big sandbox for our societal development. ... read more

The 2024 Honda Prologue. Honda has launched a new EV charging adapter that will allow its all-electric Prologue and Acura ZDX to power up at over 23,500 Tesla Supercharger stations. ... read more

The law "would transform how Mississippi residents access and experience fully protected online speech -- and how social media websites curate, disseminate, and display this speech," NetChoice argues in a petition filed late Monday with ... read more

NEW YORK, NY (July 22, 2025) - The Verge today launched a suite of homepage and editorial product updates aimed at deepening its direct relationship with readers. The announcement includes ... read more

I've probably written a thousand stories for this website about our favorite apps adding new features, so it's a fun change of pace to be writing one about ourselves doing ... read more

Today’s Pokémon Presents livestream was short but definitely not light on announcements. There’s a new Pokémon puzzle game out right now. Pokémon Concierge season 2 has a release date. And ... read more

There’s a lot going on in the world of Pokémon — and you can play at least one of them right now. During its latest Pokémon Presents presentation, the Pokémon ... read more

It's called the "Audi Reader," and it's a new object recognition technology being rolled out by Audi that effectively turns every feature in its cars into an augmented owner's manual. Plus more. ... read more

Elgato’s new Game Capture 4K S. Elgato is launching its Game Capture 4K S device today, which will let gamers and streamers capture gameplay from Xbox Series S / X, ... read more

Summer blockbusters like the new Superman and Jurassic World movies may be doing great at the box office, but promoting them is more complicated than ever. The old celebrity playbook ... read more

The Q2 shortfall was in line with expectations and attributed to prior year account losses. ... read more

For advertisers, the holiday season poses an optimal opportunity to reach a new and broader audience, boost sales and foster brand loyalty with customers. And this season, CTV should be a core area of focus. ... read more

Cassey Ho was getting her roots dyed when she started receiving hundreds of ecstatic messages. In a video clip promoting her song “Fortnight,” Taylor Swift was shown wearing the Pirouette ... read more

Nothing has launched a new smartwatch under its affordable CMF subbrand that improves upon the heart rate sensor, battery life, and GPS tracking capabilities of its predecessor, but gives up ... read more

Netflix grew 8.3% share in June 2024 - a 13.5% hike from May. YouTube continues to lead all media distributors with a solid 12.8% share. ... read more

Consolidation among independent media agencies continues apace — a reaction to the holding companies getting bigger and bigger, which creates more opportunity for indies to pick away mid-market clients.  Digiday has learned that performance-oriented media ... read more

The developers at Boss Team Games have such sights to show you: the studio just announced that it’s taking the terrifying world of the classic Hellraiser films and turning it ... read more

On the question of why Paramount/CBS is pulling the plug on Stephen Colbert and "The Late Show," whose side are you on? ... read more