Startup AdsGency AI raised a $12 million seed investment round led by XYZ Venture Capital to build out what its CEO describes as an agentic AI operating system and agency for advertisers. The company's CEO ... read more

The Media Rating Council (MRC) has revoked Meta's brand-safety accreditation due to the tech giant's decision to opt out of the MRC's annual auditing program. ... read more

Patients wore these smart glasses that paired to a retinal implant in their eye. Several dozen patients regained some of their vision thanks to an implant inside their eye paired ... read more

X will soon begin inviting Premium subscribers to request or purchase inactive usernames in a designated in-app marketplace, with some handles listed for as much as seven figures. ... read more

There are but three certainties in life: death, taxes, and Google’s next Pixel phone getting thoroughly leaked before the company can even announce it. (Multiple generations of Pixel have been ... read more

New research suggests that as companies disclose less, mistrust increases. ... read more

Short-form scripted "micro dramas" look like a regular TV show in setup and story arc but are one to three minutes long. Apps that have started up for this include ShortMax, DramaBox, FlickReels, GoodShort, Reel ... read more

The suit alleges that WPP issued misleading statements about the company's projected performance prior to a profit warning this summer, including expressing "confidence in the company's continued efforts to revitalize and simplify its media division ... read more

Small power banks are a dime a dozen, but Iniu’s Pocket Rocket P50 stands out for its combination of size, capacity, and features. We saw this model drop in price ... read more

If you live in NYC, there’s almost no way you’ve missed the Friend AI pendant subway ad fallout — whether you’ve taken pictures of the most inspired graffiti on the ... read more

Using an expanding clamping mechanism the Kohler Dekoda installs on most toilets without tools. | Image: Kohler Knowing what’s coming out of your body can be just as useful for ... read more

Shelly Palmer also dives into new research suggesting half of online content already is being generated by bots, and we get his impressions on the first agentic media buy. ... read more

Television ranked as the leading influence across all stages of the purchase journey and among all demographic groups. ... read more

Nicki, creator of "Scrolling 2 Death," did not come to this as a pundit. She came as a parent who saw the harms piling up and decided to act. ... read more

The Sims is in a period of transition — and as part of that, the ongoing mobile version will be shutting down in a few months. EA announced that today’s ... read more

The Anbernic RG DS will launch in four colors including blue and one with a translucent white shell. | Screenshot: YouTube Anbernic has shared footage of its upcoming RG DS ... read more

Meta is getting ready to pull support for its desktop Messenger apps on Windows and macOS. Both apps have already been removed from the Microsoft Store and Mac App Store, ... read more

You can grab the AMD-based model, or spend an extra $150 on the slightly faster Intel version that also has double the internal storage. | Image: The Verge As part ... read more

Today’s Decoder episode is a special one: I’m talking to Zocdoc CEO Oliver Kharraz, and we chatted live onstage at the TechFutures conference here in New York City.  You’re almost ... read more

On August 19th at 7:07PM, Tyler Johnston received a message from his roommate. A man, the text said, was knocking on their door with legal documents to serve. Johnston is ... read more

For many healthcare marketers including hospitals and health insurers that have long depended on SEM-driven customer acquisitions, the funnel is breaking down and even collapsing. ... read more

Global media costs have risen half a point to an annual inflation rate of 4.3% for the ad industry this year, according to a just-released WFA compilation vs. what it forecast a year ago. Next ... read more

For the first 30 days after their respective launches, ESPN has amassed 2.1 million subscribers, while Fox One has 1.1 million. ... read more

Ford’s Mustang Mach-E is having a relatively good year, outpacing its gas brethren in sales for the month of August. The expiration of the $7,500 federal EV tax credit doesn’t ... read more

The redesigned Oura app includes new features to help users track and manage their stress levels. Oura is launching a redesigned app with expanded stress-tracking insights as it develops new ... read more

The work is equal parts satire and AI-powered creative lab and reimagines Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro as characters in a darkly comic musical. ... read more

Amazon Web Services experienced a massive outage early Monday that took down many major websites. While the company's services are up and running, many financial services may still have issues. ... read more

A quarter of all Connected TV (CTV) bid requests can’t be trusted. That doesn’t mean fraud every time. Sometimes, it’s incomplete data. Sometimes, it’s oversimplified or mislabeled content. And sometimes, it’s more intentional misrepresentation. But ... read more

The title of a new series, "Bigfoot Took Her," about a Bigfoot abduction, revives memories of the golden age of supermarket tabloids. ... read more

Deli meat company Land O'Frost has been leaning into a new MMM approach to figure out which opportunities it's been overlooking – or even inhibiting. The post MMM Isn’t As Scary As Marketers Think – ... read more

Starlink satellites awaiting deployment. | Image: SpaceX On Sunday, SpaceX launched 56 additional Starlink satellites on separate Falcon 9 rockets, surpassing 10,000 total satellites launched into low Earth orbit to ... read more

Here are just a few of the services impacted by the outage. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is currently experiencing a major outage that has taken down online services, including Amazon, ... read more

If there’s one thing marketers don’t need, it’s another measurement dashboard. “Death by dashboard is real,” said Dane Buchanan, chief data and analytics officer at performance agency M&C Saatchi. But not only is “a plethora ... read more

Walmart’s Gamble Wall Street considered Walmart’s OpenAI shopping integration with ChatGPT a big win. But this AI partnership could threaten Walmart’s other big bet on retail media, writes Mike Shields at Next in Media. In ... read more

There was hardly a conversation, onstage or during the Town Halls, at last week’s fall Media Buying Summit in Phoenix that didn’t include some reference to generative AI and its pervasive impact on every corner ... read more

Digiday+ Research’s recently released holiday marketing report examines which commerce channels are dominating marketers’ 2025 holiday strategies. It also looks at the discounts brands and retailers are offering and the revenue expectations that are guiding ... read more

Even with TikTok’s future in the U.S. seemingly secured, advertiser confidence hasn’t followed suit. Some marketers are already planning, they anecdotally told Digiday, to scale back their spending there next year. There’s still too much ... read more

Generative AI platforms are exploding, as more people use these tools for search. And while this means AI referrals to publishers are growing too, it’s not nearly enough to make up for the losses in ... read more

It’s difficult to contextualize how marketers are strategizing for next year as this year’s books close without acknowledging these unprecedented times — or these emotionally charged times — or whatever “brand safe” language PR teams are pushing ... read more

Google could be headed for some difficulty in Italy. ... read more

X is testing a change to the way it handles links on iOS so that the buttons to like, reply, and repost will always be visible. Normally, when you click ... read more

Weiss reportedly asked the "60 Minutes" team, '"Why does the country think you're biased?" ... read more

Premium Plus and Premium Business users will soon be able to browse and request inactive usernames on the X Handle Marketplace. Handles are going to be broken up into two ... read more

Should this initiative or any other similar one emerge from the bureaucracy again, our coalition against it will be ready—and larger. ... read more

NEW YORK – Technology has changed not just how people communicate with one another, but also how they connect with brands, said Kara Manatt, executive vice president of intelligence solutions at Interpublic Group’s Magna Global. ... read more

LAS VEGAS – Retailers across the board face growing challenges around how to share and activate data responsibly, and Dollar General’s DG Media Network (DGMN) is no exception. Speaking at the Groceryshop convention, Austin Leonard, ... read more

Retail data has evolved from custom audience building within a handful of networks to becoming a critical component that enhances first-party data sets, creating more dimensional customer understanding when integrated through clean room environments. “When ... read more

Listen to Ayn Rand. ... read more

Two words: government subsidies. ... read more

Burden the wealthy too much and they flee. That’s how socialists run out of other people’s money. ... read more

I've read a lot of horror books over the last two years. But my absolute favorite is easily Mariana Enriquez' Our Share of Night. The book was originally published in ... read more

By the time I arrived, the waterfront park in downtown Portland, Oregon was already awash with people as far as the eye could see. The No Kings protest in June ... read more

No Kings protest in Chicago. Saturday marked the biggest day of protest since the start of Donald Trumps’ second term. Organizers of the No Kings protests estimated that over seven ... read more

From Apple TV Plus to Peacock, a number of streaming services have recently increased their pricing — and Disney Plus is no exception. Starting on Tuesday, October 21st, the standalone ... read more

To understand the Sony Watchman, you have to go back. Way back. Back to when "TV" wasn't just a way to refer to any piece of content between 20 and ... read more

The trick to understanding Opera's Neon browser is recognizing that it's not just a browser with an AI bot added to it, but a browser with three AI bots all ... read more

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 102, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, happy spooky season, and also you can ... read more

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on AI and the industry's power dynamics and societal implications, follow Hayden ... read more

TiVo could have been a contender. In the 2000s, TiVo reached heights few companies ever achieve. Like Google and Xerox, its name became a verb. People had to "TiVo" the ... read more

The latest Motorola Razr is $300 off in multiple colors. | Image: The Verge If you’ve been thinking about buying a foldable phone that truly stands out, few models can ... read more

As part of its NES40 collection, 8BitDo’s Ultimate 2 controller is getting its most dramatic makeover yet. | Image: 8BitDo Forty years ago today, the Nintendo Entertainment System launched in ... read more

Pokémon Legends: Z-A hadn't been out even a few hours before the tweets started rolling in: Shiny pokémon don't despawn. You can walk away from a shiny, and it'll still ... read more

I have been a fan of David Lynch ever since a friend's older brother interrupted a 13th birthday celebration to insist we all watch Eraserhead. In the realm of horror ... read more

The ad industry's first agentic media buy last week wasn't just between a buyer's bot and a seller's bot, but may have served ads to a user bot too. The question is, will that even ... read more

Can you tell if I’m looking at a display, or just pretending for the camera? Outside a florist-cum-coffee shop in upstate New York, a row of vintage cars gleam in ... read more

Battery development in the GM Wallace Battery Cell Innovation Center. | Image: Steve Fecht / General Motors Inside General Motors' fast-growing battery labs in suburban Detroit, scientists and engineers are ... read more

Meta has rolled out an opt-in AI feature to its US and Canadian Facebook users that claims to make their photos and videos more “shareworthy.” The only catch is that ... read more

Guests await the beginning of a news conference at the Department of Energy headquarters to announce a breakthrough in fusion research on December 13, 2022 in Washington, DC. The officials announced that ... read more

As technology advances, Peter Thiel asks the same big questions people were asking 2,000 years ago. ... read more

Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee has asked the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals to revive his lawsuit against Meta Platforms over ads that wrongly used his name and image to sell CBD gummies. ... read more

In T.S. Eliot’s poem “The Hollow Men,” he writes: “This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.” Well, the same could be said of Google’s Privacy Sandbox. Nearly five ... read more

Modern gadgets are all well and good, but sometimes things get more exciting when you enter the realm of fantasy. And the worlds of gaming, TV, and film often feature ... read more

Meta has announced the expansion of third-party verification for Threads - an effort o provide advertisers with more transparency around their in-feed placements. ... read more

Instagram is now providing parents with more control over their kids' use of in-app AI chatbots. ... read more

Instagram is now providing parents with more control over their kids' use of in-app AI chatbots. ... read more

New Yorkers may want to start a new recycling program of Soviet-era jokes. ... read more

Walmart's retail media network "Walmart Connect" received its first accreditation from the MRC for its first-party click and impression metrics for its sponsored search ad platform across desktop, mobile web, and mobile in-app devices fo ... read more

Walmart's retail media network "Walmart Connect" received its first accreditation from the MRC for its first-party click and impression metrics for Sponsored Search across desktop, mobile web, and mobile in-app devices for Display, Video and ... read more

Image: Nintendo | Image: Nintendo Though the Pokémon games' Rotom Phones haven't really changed all that much design-wise over the past few years, each generation has introduced new functionalities that ... read more

Ex-Luminar CEO Austin Russell is trying to wrest back control of his company. | Image: Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge Earlier this year, Luminar founder and CEO Austin Russell ... read more

Amazon’s smart doorbell company Ring is now working with the AI-powered surveillance camera company Flock. According to a letter sent to the company by Sen. Ron Wyden, Flock had allowed ... read more

A Texas law requiring Google and Apple to prohibit minors from downloading apps without parental consent violates the First Amendment, the tech organization Computer & Communications Industry Association and a group of students argue in ... read more

Kelly Reichardt has been called one of America's greatest filmmakers, and also one of its quietest. But her latest, The Mastermind, centered on an art heist that goes off the ... read more

The UK's Competition and Markets Authority released Google today from its legally binding Privacy Sandbox commitments after the CMA concluded that competition concerns no longer applies. ... read more

The Arctis Buds are great for gaming, whether you use a Nintendo Switch 2, PC, PlayStation 5, or Steam Deck. | Image: The Verge When I have to decide which ... read more

The Intellivision Sprint features the same unique controllers as the original, but they’re now wireless and rechargeable. | Image: Atari Atari has announced yet another retro console revival, but this ... read more

It's a testament to the developers at Double Fine that it doesn't take long before controlling a sentient lighthouse with spidery legs starts to feel almost normal. Keeper, the latest ... read more

A real, and not AI generated photo of Martin Luther King, Jr. | Image: Getty Images OpenAI said on Thursday night that it has “paused” deepfakes of Martin Luther King ... read more

There’s a display but you’ve got to lift your head up to activate it. This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent every Friday from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that ... read more

Apple and Formula 1 announced a five-year partnership today that will bring the races exclusively to Apple TV in the US, starting in 2026, when it will replace the series’ ... read more

CNN has announced a new subscription service called All Access that will launch in the US on October 28th, 2025. It will cost $6.99 per month, or $69.99 annually, with ... read more

DoubleVerify has expanded its partnership with Microsoft Advertising to further authenticate measurement across more of the company's platforms. It now supports audience-targeting ads across Microsoft properties and publisher partners as well as Bing, Outlook and ... read more

What looks like the spot for Qi2 charging is actually an excuse to show off the liquid cooling. Redmagic’s latest gaming phone has arrived in China with a neat trick ... read more

Large language models are currently everyone's solution to everything. The technology's versatility is part of its appeal: the use cases for generative AI seem both huge and endless. But then ... read more

Apple TV (rebranded recently from Apple TV+) and Peacock Premium or Peacock Premium+ will cost consumers $14.99 a month and $19.99 a month, respectively. The deal starts October 20th. ... read more

While it's often overshadowed by B2C, B2B is big business -- twice the size of consumer marketing. And "confident" B2B marketers are nearly four times more likely to report fully aligned relationship with sales, characterized ... read more

CTV has become a powerful full-funnel channel, attracting advertisers of all sizes – and the momentum isn’t slowing. CTV ad spend is projected to rise another 16% this year to $26.6 billion, according to the IAB. ... read more

A macabre graveyard of defunct educational kids' shows is a centerpiece of "The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror" annual Halloween special. ... read more

A possible Versant-WBD deal has no broadcast license issues to consider -- it's just about cable TV networks, not over-the-air TV stations. ... read more

The collapse of the customer buying journey into a couple of taps in a few seconds or minutes may be one of the most profound ways to describe the future of online advertising through agentic ... read more