ESPN and Fox both launch their live sports streaming services later this month, and now the two companies have announced that you can bundle them at a discount. Starting October ... read more

Microsoft is moving GitHub into its CoreAI team, following the resignation of GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke today. After nearly four years as CEO, Dohmke is leaving GitHub to “become a ... read more

Kuxiu’s magnetic charger can free up an iPad’s USB-C port for other accessories. | Image: Kuxiu Apple still hasn’t brought wireless charging to the iPad, but Kuxiu’s new charger brings ... read more

Let’s be honest, Gigabyte. Your marketing for the Aero X16 is giving Razer Blade, from the colors and font of the spec slides to the thin design of the space ... read more

The Trump administration has ordered Nvidia and AMD to pay the federal government a 15 percent cut of their AI chip sales revenue to China, according to reports from The ... read more

Ninja’s Swirl can make soft serve ice cream and frozen yogurt, and it’s $50 off at Amazon. Ninja’s Swirl ups the ante for ice cream machines by also allowing you ... read more

Ford says its finally cracked the code on cheap EVs. The automaker announced plans to build “a family” of low-cost electric vehicles at its Kentucky assembly planrt, starting with ... read more

The screenshot shows the pixel art painted over Maceió, Brazil. A new website that lets you paint over a world map with other users in real-time has taken the digital ... read more

Effective Sept. 30, AOL will discontinue its dial-up service 40 years after it began on-ramping Americans to the online service. ... read more

Hello, and welcome to Decoder! This is Casey Newton, founder and editor of Platformer and cohost of the Hard Fork podcast. This is the second episode of my productivity-focused Decoder ... read more

Most of us don’t realize how much control we’ve already given up. With industry red flag reports now published regularly, we’re forced to confront the hard truth that control and transparency are further away than ... read more

Compass Marketing sued Omnicom over allegations related to its 2023 acquisition of commerce agency Flywheel Digital. ... read more

Paramount has just snapped up the rights to the UFC, joining an industry-wide race to buy up remaining sports streaming rights. The $7.7 billion deal will bring 30 of the ... read more

This 30W charger is available now, but only in Europe. Repairable phone manufacturer Fairphone has announced a new range of USB cables and chargers. While they’re not user-repairable, the company ... read more

The iPadBook doubles as a MacBook Air and an iPad Pro. | Screenshot: YouTube Apple has little interest in merging iPadOS and macOS, or bringing its desktop operating system to ... read more

David Ellison, now CEO of Paramount, in a press briefing talked about building a tech product that is "truly competitive" and a "single tech stack" for the entire company. ... read more

In today’s digital advertising landscape, speed, scale and sophistication have become both a promise and a problem. Innovation has accelerated – but so too has fragmentation. Marketers are expected to drive performance across an ever-expanding ... read more

Ignoring AI's potential risks can make it a liability - even for Google, which is piloting a finance page that allows users to ask detailed questions about the financial sector and receive comprehensive answers generated ... read more

For Matter, this year was never going to be about flashy new features. Other than support for security cameras, which I hear should finally arrive this fall, 2025 is all ... read more

Hyundai’s latest Ioniq 5 model. Hyundai is now offering an “optional” security upgrade for the Ioniq 5 in the UK that prevents the car being stolen with a Game Boy-like ... read more

"Welcome to the new age of decision dominance" reads a tag used by Aaru, the researcher partnering with IPG to create an agents-based studio simulating human responses to ads, media and other campaign variables. ... read more

AOL dial-up is ending on September 30th according to a statement posted on the company’s website. It marks the end of the service that was synonymous with the internet for many since ... read more

If you’re not a privacy lawyer, you probably haven’t been closely following the saga of California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) regulations. It’s been quite the process of updates, refinements, clarifications and curveballs. Implementation regulations are ... read more

Creative agencies are trying to adapt to AI’s sudden invasion of their turf; it’s a sunny day for TikTok travel influencers; and publishers have more than just Google’s AI overviews to worry about. The ... read more

This story was first published by Digiday sibling site, Modern Retail. Even some of the most ubiquitous ingredients in top American restaurants aren’t immune to tariff woes.  Four years after launching, Carbone Fine Food — ... read more

Elon Musk’s vision to automate as much of the ad process as possible using Grok has been met with a lukewarm response from advertisers. Part of the hesitation is that it requires handing over complete ... read more

The line between athlete and influencer is evaporating as more advertising dollars flow into sports, creator marketing, and into the U.S. name, image and likeness (NIL) cottage industry that straddles both worlds. Agency holding groups ... read more

As brands more closely monitor the performance of their influencer marketing spend, live shopping companies are seeing a significant uptick in business. Live shopping — creators livestreaming to an audience to sell physical goods — has been ... read more

Generative AI continues to steadily infiltrate more corners of the media business, creating efficiencies and saving time across content, production, research, data crunching and even planning and buying.  Holding companies and independents alike are collectively ... read more

The Act covers all 27 EU countries. But will it be equally enforced in all of them? ... read more

AMENIA, NY — The gap between data collection and actionable insights in programmatic advertising is collapsing as artificial intelligence transforms campaign optimization from a weeks-long process into real-time decision making. “The applications that are driving ... read more

CANNES – While the industry has obsessed over online retail media for the past five years, T-Mobile has been quietly building what may be the most measurable in-store advertising network in America. “Everybody’s been focusing ... read more

Set in the rolling hills of Amenia, NY, the Beet Retreat Berkshires returned this July to the historic Troutbeck Estate Resort — a place where conversations about the future of advertising feel both urgent and ... read more

While advanced channels like connected television offer new tools for precision, for pharmaceutical marketers, success is measured not by immediate return on investment, but by their ability to reach the right audience with a vital ... read more

Passwords still seem to be the most popular method of ensuring that the right person is using the right app or service, despite the slow adoption of passkeys, which are ... read more

Tech companies keep telling everyone that this or that AI feature is going to change everything. But when you press them for examples, real, concrete examples of how those AI ... read more

How it started When I was growing up in the Midwest, everyone I knew drove small cars. My dad had a light pink Volvo 240, my mom drove a Dodge ... read more

It's the lack of noise you notice first. There's no clatter of equipment, rumble of engines, or chatter of coworkers. Only the low hum of electronics. For an industrial space, ... read more

Take a little phone break, as a treat. Leaving the house without my phone is the stuff of nightmares. Leaving the house without my phone on purpose? Are you kidding? ... read more

In the fascinating new reality of the internet, teen girls can't learn about periods on Reddit and indie artists can't sell smutty games on Itch.io, but a military contractor will ... read more

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 93, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, I'm sad the sun is setting sooner, ... read more

Detroit coach Dan Campbell said afterward the decision was made by himself and Falcons coach Raheem Morris. ... read more

Marketing blitz runs from Wendy's "Meal of Misfortune" to travel and snack food partnerships. ... read more

Kennedy asserts that wearables will help Americans “take control” of their health. It’s not that simple. I keep hearing the same sentence repeating in my head. "My vision is that ... read more

Returning to work or school from summer vacation is never easy, but the Aura Aspen could help you hold onto your favorite memories by putting them front and center. And ... read more

Creating seating arrangements can be pretty stressful; the empath part of me strives to find the perfect seat for every person even if it's a nearly impossible task. If it's ... read more

This EcoFlow portable power station was a huge help in making sure my family didn’t breakdown during sweltering temps in the Tennessee mountains. | Photo: Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge ... read more

Now that we're about halfway into the first year of President Donald Trump's second term, we can take stock of his administration's destruction of online environmental resources. It's worse than ... read more

In the aftermath of itch.io pulling the sale of over 20,000 pages of adult content, the creators of that work are left feeling betrayed, exhausted, and fearful. The number of ... read more

Artificial intelligence company Anthropic is drawing support from the tech industry, digital rights organizations and others in its effort to reverse an order requiring it to face class-action copyright infringement claims. ... read more

It's become a race to develop super AI capabilities and agentic agents, so when Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella responded to a post from Elon Musk on X claiming that OpenAI will "eat Microsoft alive," it ... read more

OpenAI is bringing back GPT-4o in ChatGPT just one day after replacing it with GPT-5. In a post on X, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman confirmed that the company will let ... read more

Meta Platforms is urging the Supreme Court to leave in place a lower court's dismissal of claims by members of Clementa Pinckney, who was murdered by Dylann Roof in a racially motivated mass shooting. ... read more

I kid you not, we wrote these words in 2014: Microsoft has tried to dumb down its Control Panel with a simple UI over the years, rather than a ... read more

With the rise of AI writing tools, Wikipedia editors have had to deal with an onslaught of AI-generated content filled with false information and phony citations. Already, the community of ... read more

The quiet may precede a Trumpian storm in a battle for the media’s most popular live programming. ... read more

Want a new laptop with a side of Billy bookcase? Ikea and Best Buy’s new collaboration has you covered. | Image: Ikea Ikea has announced that it’s opening mini retail ... read more

It’s only been a couple of days since the Instagram Map launched, and from the looks of our social feeds, people are not happy about it. Responses have ranged ... read more

MoffettNathanson had believed Trade Desk would have more time to prepare for the coming growth of Amazon DSP, but now thinks otherwise and has downgraded the Trade Desk stock to a target price of $45 ... read more

OpenAI just announced its GPT-5 AI model on Thursday, but you won’t be able to use it with Apple Intelligence’s ChatGPT integration until iOS 26, iPadOS 26, and macOS Tahoe ... read more

This poses an opportunity for marketers who are trying to appeal to younger consumers. ... read more

Abigail Roulston, vp of marketing, Blis The growth of connected TV has been nothing short of explosive. Viewers are streaming more content on CTV than ever before, eclipsing broadcast and cable viewership combined. This surge ... read more

A more consolidated media and advertising landscape will no doubt lead to less competition and potentially higher advertising costs. ... read more

ChatGPT user agent activity surged 200% in July, with bots nearly doubling activity, showing how users rely on real-time web searches to answer questions almost doubled within one month. ... read more

A three-pack of TP-Link’s BE25 Wi-Fi 7 routers is $90 off at Amazon. Having a solid set of Wi-Fi routers is essential, whether you’re working from home, playing online games ... read more

The Pro 3 is also shipping in Famicom and GameCube-inspired color schemes. | Photo: Cameron Faulkner / The Verge As far as I'm concerned, 8BitDo's Pro 3 is the ultimate ... read more

Hello, Mario! lets kids interact with Mario’s smiling face. | Screenshot: X Nintendo has announced a new free mobile app coming to iOS, Android and the Switch. It’s called Hello, ... read more

On Thursday, Bloomberg reported that Tesla CEO Elon Musk has ordered its Dojo supercomputer project to be disbanded after the project's leader and most of its employees left to join ... read more

In 2018, DV360 demand on OpenX’s exchange plummeted without warning. It was bad – down by more than 40% – and baffling. Tim Cadogan, OpenX’s then-CEO, wrote an email to Google, its largest partner, asking for an ... read more

Google’s apparent quest to bring AI features across all of its apps has just extended to one of its most mundane: Google Finance. The company announced on Friday that it’s ... read more

Why just stare at a painting when you can cosplay it? | Image: Casetify Released as part of a new collection of smartphone, tablet, and earbud cases celebrating the Mauritshuis ... read more

For the uninitiated, watching a Jeffrey Epstein truther such as Laura Loomer have such influence over the White House's decisions is nothing short of baffling. ABC News attributes "the ouster ... read more

Tesla is dissolving the team that was developing its Dojo supercomputer, according to Bloomberg. The change, which reportedly includes the departure of Dojo head Peter Bannon, marks a notable shift ... read more

Marina Galperina is a senior tech editor at The Verge who works with staff writers and freelancers on reports and theme weeks. She recently started a new newsletter called The ... read more

Here's the tricky part about assessing an AI system's deception rate: if the system is really good at deceiving you, you might not notice. This week on The Vergecast, Adi ... read more

All in, S&P estimates 85.1 million of all Prime Video viewing accounts (standalone or part of Amazon Prime) are seeing ads. This is down slightly, 1.4% from 86.3 million a year ago. ... read more

Some existing pay TV distributors have already given the "authenticated" approval for streamer ESPN. But others - and their customers - are waiting. ... read more

Some existing pay TV distributors have already given the "authenticated" approval for streamer ESPN. But others -- and their customers -- are waiting. ... read more

The newly merged Paramount revealed very little in the new CEO's "open" letter about how it will handle basic cable. ... read more

Some existing pay TV distributors have already given the "authenticated" approval for streamer ESPN. But others -- and their customers -- are waiting. ... read more

The newly merged Paramount revealed very little in the new CEO's "open" letter or the company's press release about what it will do now. But reading between the lines, it is possible to pick up ... read more

Is that a back penis? While Microsoft was busy updating Copilot yesterday with OpenAI's new GPT-5 model, it also quietly launched Copilot 3D. It's a free-to-use feature that can transform ... read more

This year’s Xperia 1 VII has been plagued by problems. CFO Lin Tao mentioned Sony’s beleaguered phone brand at the company’s recent financial results presentation, calling it “a very important ... read more

Japan doesn’t want Apple to give it the EU treatment. We might finally see the first iPhone browsers built on top of third-party engines now that Japanese regulators have taken ... read more

Even if you attend one of Netflix’s WWE events in person, you won’t be able to escape the ads. I now know this from experience. The post Here’s What It’s Like Watching Netflix’s Live WWE ... read more

The Trade Desk continued its shaky 2025 earnings schedule when it reported Q2 results on Thursday. The company made a total of $694 million in Q2, up from $585 million a year ago. Its net ... read more

The day before the launch of GPT-5, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman surprised employees with a message in the company's Slack. "As we mentioned a few weeks ago, we have been ... read more

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

Your SaaS Is Grass The great AI pivot happening across business sectors right now – particularly in data-driven marketing – has led to a sudden, strange gap in the payment models of many SaaS and ... read more

This article was first published by Digiday sibling Modern Retail. Brands are relying more heavily on chatbots powered by artificial intelligence to handle customer service queries as they seek to mitigate tariff costs. Some brands, ... read more

Mark Zuckerberg’s latest big swing — Meta’s SuperIntelligence Lab — is trying to redefine what AI means on his terms. That redefinition, like most things at Meta, will inevitably run through the company’s ads business. ... read more

Generative AI tools promise enormous economies of scale for small creative agency teams. Good news for independent agencies struggling to find some breathing room on the ever-squeezed bottom line — until clients begin expecting those ... read more

When Google recently claimed that its AI Overviews are driving “more queries and higher quality clicks”, it struck a nerve. Too many, it wasn’t just out of touch; it was patronizing, another reminder of how ... read more

The public markets can be a cold, unforgiving place, with The Trade Desk’s fortunes on the Nasdaq alone this year a prime example of their unpredictability.  The industry’s largest independent demand-side platform posted Q2 revenues ... read more

Bloomberg Media is celebrating a successful first half, judging by a staff memo - albeit without actual dollar figures - sent by Karen Saltser, CEO of Bloomberg Media. ... read more

Green Dildo Coin, a meme coin intended to be perceived as a joke, was launched to protest the "toxic" environment in the crypto world. ... read more

Something’s off with that chart on the left. During its big GPT-5 livestream on Thursday, OpenAI showed off a few charts that made the model seem quite impressive — but ... read more

The Browser Company — the makers of the Arc browser — just launched a $20 per month subscription to its new AI-powered web browser, Dia, as reported earlier by TechCrunch. ... read more

Meta Platforms' $14.3 billion acquisition of a 49% stake in artificial intelligence company Scale AI will enable the social platform to foreclose competition in data annotation -- which is key to developing large language models. ... read more

You can save $150 on various iPad Air configurations. Laptops are great, but sometimes it’s simply just more convenient to use a tablet like the iPad Air. The Air’s easier ... read more