A week after Elon Musk’s Grok dubbed itself “MechaHitler” and spewed antisemitic stereotypes, the US government has announced a new contract granting the chatbot’s creator, xAI, up to $200 million ... read more

Spark Foundry is second-ranked at $8.8 billion, up 15.8%. Independent agency Horizon Media is third with $7.6 billion, down 5.9%. ... read more

Adswerve projected an 11% increase in addressable advertising revenue by using Google's open-source marketing mix model, which meant a $100 million revenue opportunity. ... read more

Canva users can now create, edit, and manage their designs by describing their requirements to Anthropic’s Claude AI. The connection is the latest of several integrations that allow Claude users ... read more

Cycling video podcast "The Move" rocketed to number one, according to Lance Armstrong. How much did the Tour de France programming lead-in on Peacock help? ... read more

Dominic McLaughlin as Harry Potter. Warner Bros. Discovery’s new Harry Potter series for HBO and HBO Max will premiere in 2027, the company announced. Production has started on the show ... read more

NFL coaches will start using Sony’s new headset during the 2025 season. | Image: Sony Sony is finally debuting the headset that it developed specifically for NFL coaches, after teasing ... read more

Pebblebee is turning its Clip tracker into a personal safety alarm for free. | Image: Pebblebee Pebblebee has announced a new personal safety feature for its Clip location tracker that’s ... read more

It’s been over a month since the Switch 2’s record-breaking launch, and the console is becoming easier to get with each restock. However, if you’ve been waiting for the launch ... read more

Microsoft has started testing a new feature in Windows 11 that will improve laptop battery life. A new adaptive energy saver mode will soon automatically enable or disable the main ... read more

The Pixel 9A is a tempting phone for $499, but even more tempting is the 128GB Pixel 8 Pro, which is selling for $599 unlocked right now at the Google ... read more

Texas Governor Greg Abbott is refusing to release months’ worth of emails sent to Elon Musk and his companies under public records laws, according to a joint report from ProPublica, ... read more

Thanks to the rapid acceleration of artificial intelligence, interest in the Singularity is rising, which is why this week's "Media 3.0" features a conversation with Singularity University's chief marketer Venus Ranieri, who explains, it's mission ... read more

Hello, and welcome to Decoder! This is Jon Fortt, CNBC journalist, cohost of Closing Bell Overtime, and creator and host of the Fortt Knox podcast. As you just heard Nilay ... read more

It's looking like Nintendo might have a DK-sized addition to its feature film lineup. The company has filed a copyright notice for a motion picture listed as an "Untitled Donkey ... read more

Its just-released "Digital Out-of-Home Measurement Guide" provides a comprehensive grounding for anyone interested in how the medium can and should be measured, both quantitatively, as well as qualitatively. ... read more

Microsoft has quietly revealed that it will stop adding new features to Office apps (Microsoft 365) for Windows 10 users in August 2026. While security updates will remain in place ... read more

Tarzan, Sherlock Holmes, the Muppets, Ron Burgundy and the "Home Alone" kid all went to New York, so why not Dexter? ... read more

Google stepped into the AI acquisition race Friday by agreeing to pay $2.4 billion to license technology from Windsurf, an AI coding startup that OpenAI had previously agreed to acquire. ... read more

This excerpt from Adam Aleksic's Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language has been abridged for online publication. The book is out on July 15th. The modern-­day ... read more

It’s been 16 months since a DMA ruling allowed iOS developers like Google and Mozilla to use their own browser engines in the EU, so…  where are they? According to ... read more

Sun Day will estimate how long you can safely stay in the sun based on the UV index and your skin type. Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey has released a new ... read more

Google’s head of Android has said that the company plans to combine its mobile operating system with ChromeOS, the software that currently runs across Google’s Chromebook laptops. Sameer Samat, president ... read more

Warner's DC Studios has been struggling in recent years amid industry-wide troubles and overall superhero box-office malaise. ... read more

There was a time when landing on the first page of Google meant you were in business. Traffic followed, strategies scaled, and entire models were built on the back of those clicks. That foundation is ... read more

The business of being a creator isn’t a solo show. They have become full-on productions. In the two decades since YouTube’s debut, creators such as Smosh’s Ian Hecox as well as Mythical Entertainment’s Rhett McLaughlin ... read more

News UK, The Independent, and magazine publishers Immediate Media and Future are teaming up with retail media network Ocado to test clean room-powered data matching.  The goal: to match Ocado’s shopper data with the publishers’ ... read more

AI platform wars are about to become the browser wars and advertising will be a key battleground. Or at least it will be for two companies.  OpenAI and Perplexity, two of the biggest players in ... read more

Related Insights Evolving Agencies AI screenings, budget cuts, and burnout: What’s really behind advertising’s hiring disconnect Read More TripleLift, the self-styled creative supply-side platform, implemented significant layoffs late ... read more

Last week may have ushered in the first moments of a shift in balance among the holding companies. WPP named its new CEO — breaking barriers along the way by naming the first female ... read more

Amazon's annual shopping event has now eclipsed two Black Fridays in terms of online revenue. ... read more

DOJ files a statement of interest in case against The Washington Post, Reuters, Associated Press and BBC. ... read more

CANNES — Retail media has become a cornerstone of modern advertising, but delivering a truly seamless experience for both brands and shoppers remains elusive, says Stephen Howard-Sarin, managing director of retail media at ad-tech company ... read more

CANNES — Some companies bring panelists and talking points to Cannes Lions. Albertsons brought a fully-fledged grocery store. For Albertsons Media Collective, the chain’s media arm, the physical store at Cannes, stocked with products ready ... read more

CANNES – Epsilon is expanding its global reach and doubling down on predictive AI to help brands build more meaningful, measurable relationships with consumers, says Mike Ng, chief revenue officer of Publicis Groupe’s Epsilon. Speaking ... read more

Hi! Welcome to Installer No. 89, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. My name is Jay Peters, and I will be taking care of Installer ... read more

GM was the first major US automaker to make the promise to go all-electric by 2035, just four years ago. Those promises have since turned into rough estimates under the ... read more

Several days after temporarily shutting down the Grok AI bot that was producing antisemitic posts and praising Hitler in response to user prompts, Elon Musk’s AI company tried to explain ... read more

There’s a new AI in the house. I've waited two years to try out the new Alexa, which was first announced way back in 2023, and this week I finally ... read more

The Playdate is easy to forget about. It's colorful and weird, but it's also tiny. Like the Game Boy Micro before it, sometimes I toss it in a bag and ... read more

Just four years after Rivian began selling its R1T truck, 2025 marks the beginning of the R1T and R1S' second generation. Considering they look essentially the same on the outside, ... read more

Amazon Prime Day’s best deals may not last for much longer, since the sale ends later tonight. This includes a big discount on the 2025 Hisense U7, a midrange TV ... read more

Black Friday and Cyber Monday might be the biggest days of the year when it comes to shopping for gifts, but what about all the birthdays, weddings, and special occasions ... read more

The Nex Playground is a console full of kid-friendly games that operate solely with motion controls. It’s cooler than it sounds; the little cube’s camera can track two players’ movements ... read more

Google’s fourth-generation Nest Learning Thermostat (the latest model) is one of the few smart home accessories I rely on every day, and it’s at an all-time low price of $218.99 ... read more

OpenAI's deal to buy Windsurf is off, and Google will instead hire Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan, co-founder Douglas Chen, and some of Windsurf's R&D employees and bring them onto the ... read more

The latest Kindle Paperwhite is down to an all-time low right now. It’s the last day of Amazon Prime Day(s), with the event set to wrap up at midnight tonight. ... read more

"It benefits no one -- least of all the labels -- to plunge ahead with burdensome litigation on a theory the Supreme Court may soon reject," the company argues. ... read more

It’s not every day you hear of cryptocurrency executives falling for crypto scams, but here we are. A complaint filed by the Department of Justice appears to reveal that a ... read more

Newspapers and social media platforms that agree to deprioritize misinformation could be violating US antitrust law if they exclude rivals or lead to anticompetitive effects, the Justice Department says in ... read more

Amazon has already slashed the pricing on several excellent robot vacuums for Prime Day, including high-end hybrid mopping models like the Dreame X40 Ultra and Narwal’s Freo Z Ultra. Thankfully, if ... read more

A US judge with the International Trade Commission (ITC) has ruled that Insta360 broke federal law with products that “…infringe GoPro intellectual property covering GoPro’s iconic HERO camera design.” A press ... read more

The New York Times' recent report on Zohran Mamdani's Columbia University application raised a lot of questions, such as: In what universe does this fall under the umbrella of news ... read more

A new law in Texas threatens to transform social media platforms into "overzealous censors," the tech industry funded group Chamber of Progress told a federal appellate court. ... read more

The BYD Seal. The Chinese EV-maker BYD says it will pay for any damage caused by its upgraded self-parking system, as reported earlier by Fast Company. A translated version of ... read more

The Boox Palma 2 looks like a smartphone, and it even runs Android 13. But it’s meant to be used primarily as a pocket-friendly e-reader with an ePaper screen, one ... read more

Given the company’s history with controllers developing drift issues, the Switch Pro 2 gamepad might not be your best choice. | Image: iFixit iFixit has shared a full teardown video ... read more

Electric vehicles are at a crossroads. Sales are still going up, but many automakers are canceling or delaying new models, worried by recent policy moves that will make EVs more ... read more

As consumers migrate from one device or channel to another, the old labels are no longer useful for strategic planning. ... read more

⠀ We made it to the last day of Amazon’s extended Prime Day extravaganza. And, yeah, we’re a little exhausted, but after three days of lightning deals and all-time low ... read more

As AWS heads into its annual summit this coming week, its worldwide head of physical retail Justin Swagler could get his wish -- the "Agentic Store," where AI orchestrates every aspect of retail in real-time. ... read more

As AWS heads into its annual summit this coming week, its worldwide head of physical retail Justin Swagler could get his wish -- the "Agentic Store," where AI orchestrates every aspect of retail in real-time. ... read more

At 8AM last Monday, as he prepared for a third marathon day of covering the Senate's chaotic legislative battle over the Big Beautiful Bill, Steve Bannon's phone rang. It was ... read more

It’s one thing to do a bit of online shopping during Amazon’s Prime Day sales, but it’s another to put your money where your mouth is. (Where did that phrase ... read more

it's not unreasonable to think that Philip Jansen knew from the start of his WPP board tenure that Rose-a tech expert and turnaround specialist (in Jansen's own field of expertise) who knew WPP quite well ... read more

"We did a deal for about $16 million plus $16 million, or maybe more than that in advertising," Trump said on July 3. ... read more

It’s summer travel season once again, and The Verge staffers are preparing to roam, whether it’s to follow a story, check out a new tech device, or enjoy some down ... read more

If you’re looking for a budget-friendly smartwatch that doesn’t skimp on features, the Amazfit Active 2 is one of the best Prime Day deals you’ll find. Normally $99.99, it was ... read more

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Not enough foldable phones are priced for people who just want to try them out without going broke. We used to love pointing readers to deals on the Microsoft Surface ... read more

It's always felt to me like there's a threshold foldables need to hit before they can truly become mainstream: they need to be no bigger than a regular old phone. ... read more

Slavi Samardzija is exiting Omnicom’s Media Group’s Annalect in September, with sources interpreting the CEO’s exit as indicative of pending changes within the holding company’s technology and analytics division.  Separate sources familiar with the developments, ... read more

One of the pleasant surprises of the Switch 2 launch was how well the hardware managed big games not made by Nintendo. It's something the company's underpowered consoles have often ... read more

Curated deals were once seen as a smart way to bring structure to programmatic chaos. Today, they’ve become table stakes. Everyone talks about added value, yet few define what that value is or how to ... read more

Forty-three years ago, Chrissie Hynde wrote the finest metaphor I have ever heard for the way the news media invades our homes. ... read more

Advertisers stepped more cautiously across Amazon Prime Day, with media spend on the first two days dropping sharply compared with last year. ... read more

Amazon’s latest Kindle, our favorite budget ebook readers, is on sale starting at $84.99. Believe it or not, some of the best Prime Day tech deals won’t put a huge ... read more

Belkin has announced that it’s made the “difficult decision” to end support for almost its entire line of Wemo smart home devices from January 31st, 2026. The only models that ... read more

The EU has published a Code of Practice to help companies follow the AI Act's General Purpose AI rules, which take effect as Google, Anthropic, OpenAI, Grok and others roll out the distribution of GAI ... read more

Three-quarters of Gen Z parents and nearly half of millennials plan to use social platforms during their shopping journey. ... read more

HMD has made Nokia phones under license since 2016. HMD Global, the company best known for licensing the Nokia brand for new phones and tablets over the last decade, has ... read more

The latest version of Grok — dubbed a “maximally truth-seeking” AI by owner Elon Musk — is answering controversial questions by first searching for what Musk has said on the ... read more

Here's what Head of Performance Media Josh Palau had to say about how Pfizer currently navigates the CTV landscape, including why having your own hands-on-keyboard experts is key and how new ad formats can be ... read more

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

Amazon locked in two more publishers for its AI shopping engine; AI companies are working on web browsers now; and platforms have a hard time telling AI from reality. The post Amazon Pays Up For ... read more

AI is on the cusp of upending the way people search and discover information online. For small to mid-sized brands, that means rethinking not just how they show up, but what teams (and what budgets) ... read more

In 2025, esports events are increasingly putting individual content creators front and center to keep both fans and brands interested.  Yesterday marked the opening ceremony of the Esports World Cup, the annual competitive gaming championship ... read more

WPP’s new CEO announcement sparked the usual frenzy – LinkedIn takes, analyst notes and a wave of industry speculation. Clients, meanwhile, are staying quiet.  That’s not to say Cindy Rose’s move from Microsoft to Madison ... read more

Despite record investment in the creator economy, not every creator is cashing in.  U.S. brands are expected to spend $13.7 billion on influencer marketing by 2027, according to eMarketer. It’s a cash grab, but the ... read more

Netflix added 32 million gross global subscribers in Q2, while Walt Disney's Disney+ and WBD (Max, discovery+) grew around 16 million 15.5 million, respectively, according to Parrot Analytics. ... read more

As The Verge's resident disaster writer, I'm tired of this nonsense. So let's just get into it. What is cloud seeding? Cloud seeding is basically an attempt to make ... read more

Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey is threatening Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Meta with a deceptive business practices claim because their AI chatbots allegedly listed Donald Trump last on a request ... read more

Hoto’s mini electric screwdriver comes with 25 S2 steel bits and a handy carrying case. | Image: Hoto I was told to be ready for anything before my daughter was ... read more

After recently admitting that it had a “spectacularly terrible response” to Joy-Con grip detachment complaints with its Killswitch Nintendo Switch 2 case, Dbrand has some good news: it says its ... read more

We just got a good, long look at PlayStation’s next major exclusive. As promised, Sony held an event dedicated to Ghost of Yōtei, the PS5-exclusive samurai game from Sucker Punch ... read more

The Nintendo Switch 2 is not discounted for Prime Day. Just getting that out of the way. The fastest-selling console ever came out on June 5th, and only just hit ... read more

To drive in-store purchases during the back-to-school shopping push, American Eagle has partnered with Snapchat, utilizing the social-media platform's interactive map to promote its brick-and-mortar locations. ... read more

Razer’s new mouse looks much like the previous V3 Pro model, but with a lighter chassis and new tech inside. Razer is announcing a new gaming mouse, the $169.99 DeathAdder ... read more

The General Insurance company is following its Gen Z audience into Fortnite with a branded racing map launching within an existing streamer-backed world called "The Glitch." ... read more

Journalists with El Faro will get another opportunity to convince a judge that their lawsuit over Pegasus spyware can proceed in California. ... read more