"Los Angeles and California surely need a daily dose of The Post as an antidote to the jaundiced, jaded journalism that has sadly proliferated," parent News Corp. Chief Executive Robert Thomson added in a statement ... read more

"The injunction hobbles Google's ability to compete, inflicts reputational harms, increases security and privacy risks for millions of users, magnifies burdens on device makers and over 500,000 developers, and requires Google to deal with rivals," ... read more

Alienware’s AW2725Q is currently $224 off at Amazon. If you prefer gaming on a PC instead of consoles, you should hook it up to a display that can support playing ... read more

Amazon is splitting up its Wondery podcast studio just four years after acquiring it, as first reported by Bloomberg. As part of the change, the studio will shed around 110 ... read more

AMENIA, NY – The long-standing boundaries between buying and selling in programmatic advertising are dissolving as supply-side platforms assert greater influence over media investment decisions. “The supply side is taking on an increasingly more significant ... read more

8BitDo’s new wireless Xbox controller. 8BitDo has created its first wireless Xbox controller in partnership with Rare, a game studio acquired by Microsoft. The officially licensed controller features a gold ... read more

The company will be divided into three businesses: studios, D2C and TV media. David Ellison, CEO of Skydance, will be chairman/CEO of Paramount Global. Former NBCU CEO Jeff Shell will be president of Paramount Global, ... read more

Many CTV advertisers are buying a lot of inventory that might not fit their own personal definitions of CTV. Streaming ads that play on smart TV sets in living rooms are just part of the ... read more

Hello, and welcome to Decoder! This is Casey Newton, founder and editor of the Platformer newsletter and cohost of the Hard Fork podcast. I’ll be guest hosting the next few ... read more

Scenario: A radiologist is looking at your brain scan and flags an abnormality in the basal ganglia. It's an area of the brain that helps you with motor control, learning, ... read more

Researchers have introduced a systematic framework for LLMs that emphasizes their indifference to truth. A high score signals the model is producing confident-sounding statements with a degree of certainty or reliability. ... read more

Google, Meta Platforms, Microsoft, Apple and Amazon are not in the hunt for legacy TV media encumbered with costly old-style entertainment distribution and marketing systems including TV networks, TV stations, pay TV systems and movie ... read more

Tesla approved a restricted stock award of 96 million shares, worth about $29 billion, to “incentivize” the controversial billionaire to remain at the head of the company during a protracted ... read more

Private equity firm H.I.G. Capital this morning announced the completion of its previously announced $1B acquisition of Kantar Media from the Kantar Group. Bain Capital and WPP continue to own the rest of Kantar, with ... read more

Spotify is increasing prices in several regions outside of the US, just days after posting disappointing earnings. Spotify announced on Monday that Premium subscribers across Europe, South Asia, the Middle ... read more

Stephen Colbert's interview with Kamala Harris on Thursday was as dull as dishwater. ... read more

It’s an influencer world; we’re just living (and advertising) in it. Content creators have become a powerful force in the social media landscape, yet many advertisers are only just beginning to figure out how to ... read more

By Joshua Koran, Chief Executive Officer, Koran Consulting  AI-powered answer engines are revolutionizing how consumers discover and engage with information. AI-generated answers are slowly taking over, replacing traditional search and its long lists of blue ... read more

Coinbase is getting into ads; Etsy can’t rely on search ads for very long; and Zuckerberg wants to buy AI companies. The post Back To The Base; A Betsy On Etsy? appeared first on ... read more

As brands move faster and spend more on creator marketing, creators are gaining both the confidence and the opportunity to raise their rates significantly — sometimes by 100 percent. Seven influencer marketers told Digiday that creators’ ... read more

The story was first published by Digiday sibling Work Life. With President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) now law, HR departments across the country are scrambling to understand what this sweeping legislation means for ... read more

The creator economy is getting too big for investors to ignore, expected to be valued at $480 billion by 2027, according to Goldman Sachs. That may be why private equity firms are elbowing holding companies ... read more

If there’s one thing technology has enabled, it’s the ability for smaller media agencies to build out tech stacks in ways that let them execute in a similar fashion to the big holding companies. Be ... read more

"Fantastic" had a box-office drop of nearly 70% from its first-week $118 million opening weekend. Analysts were expecting a drop of around 55%. ... read more

"Fantastic" had a box-office drop of nearly 70% from its first-week $118 million opening weekend. Analysts were expecting a drop of around 55%. ... read more

Reddit is showing impressive increases in both its ad business and its overall revenue, while seeing only a slight boost in daily active users as growth slowed in international and stateside markets. ... read more

Reddit is showing impressive increases in both its ad business and its overall revenue, while seeing only a slight boost in daily active users as growth slowed in international and stateside markets. ... read more

"This is the modern formula for outrage marketing," said Molly McPherson, crisis and reputation strategist, according to CNN Entertainment. ... read more

CANNES – With the advertising industry still on a mission to simplify its notoriously convoluted digital supply chains, supply-path optimization (SPO), a buy-side-led effort to consolidate spending through fewer, more efficient intermediaries, has been a ... read more

On Monday, the Freedom of the Press Foundation filed a complaint against Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr. The filing, sent to the Office of Disciplinary Counsel at the DC ... read more

Nintendo has just raised the price of the original Switch in the US. The console, which has cost $299.99 since its release in 2017, is now priced at $339.99 on ... read more

After a quarter century chronicling the ad biz, Smith explains why the time is right to shift to a different kind of media criticism, America's first mass medium of comic strips. ... read more

Push a button and get more screen. | GIF by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Part of me still can't believe it, but Lenovo did the thing: it took ... read more

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 92, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, I've kept my phone case on all ... read more

The simple joy of gadgets — that’s what “Today I’m Toying With” is all about. It’s our video series where we try to encapsulate that joy of playing with ... read more

The Samsung Galaxy Watch 8 Smartwatch is on sale starting at $299.99 ($50 off). If you’re looking to upgrade an older Android smartwatch, or want to give wearables a try ... read more

The sudden firing of two high-ranking antitrust officials this week is signaling upheaval at an agency responsible for arguing some of the biggest tech monopoly cases in decades. Two top ... read more

While the summer doldrums have hit Washington, the MAGA influencers can never truly go on vacation, especially if they've spent their careers promising to reveal the truth about Jeffrey Epstein. ... read more

I didn't expect a brief game about flies to make me emotional. But when I finished Time Flies, I nearly began to cry. Time Flies initially seems very silly. You ... read more

Fixing my eroded attention span has been a journey. Brick has sort of helped. "We need to talk." Nobody likes to hear those words from their spouse. Especially when it's ... read more

The go-anywhere BougeRV CRD2 40. Keeping humans alive at home in post-agrarian societies requires refrigeration. Meat bags on the move must either load up a cooler with ice for a ... read more

It has been another busy week. GPT-5 appears to be just around the corner… This week, I decode the meaning behind Mark Zuckerberg's "personal superintelligence" manifesto, and what it means ... read more

Delta Air Lines is explaining more about its AI-assisted dynamic pricing model after coming under scrutiny for recent comments about the pricing. In November, Delta president Glen Hauenstein said at ... read more

Apple CEO Tim Cook boasted about the potential of AI and the company’s approach to developing it in a rare all-hands today that was reported on by Bloomberg. Apple has ... read more

Amazon’s new Alexa Plus voice assistant works with most existing Amazon devices. In the week's least surprising news, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy revealed that the company is exploring ways to ... read more

A federal jury in Florida found Tesla partly liable for a deadly 2019 crash involving Tesla’s Autopilot driver assist software, according to reports from The New York Times and CNBC. ... read more

A federal judge has tossed a privacy lawsuit over allegations that The Gap contracted with a third party to track customers' interactions with marketing emails. ... read more

Fujifilm has raised prices on cameras and lenses across its lineup, with price hikes reaching into the hundreds of dollars. Among the hikes is an increase to the price of ... read more

When I was a restless fourth-grader, Norton Juster’s novel taught me about learning and life. ... read more

Bose headphones are some of the most comfortable around. | Image: The Verge Finding peace among the chaos on campus can be more challenging than a midterm. But a quality ... read more

Evo 2025, the biggest fighting game tournament in North America, starts this weekend. If you tune into one of the nine different Evo Twitch channels you'll see some of the ... read more

Just about every piece of hardware that Nintendo sells is getting a little more expensive in the US - with the exception of the Switch 2. That includes all models ... read more

Google is largely reversing course on its plans to discontinue support for all shortened goo.gl URLs on August 25th. Goo.gl URLS that already show a message saying that they will ... read more

We can attribute Microsoft's gain and Google's loss to AI, according to Microsoft Head of Search Jordi Ribas, who posted new numbers on X this week from Comscore and StatCounter to show the divide. ... read more

The entry-level AirPods 4 are back down to $99. | Image: Apple If you know where to look, you can often score discounts on Apple’s ever-expanding AirPods lineup. Both the ... read more

An appellate court on Thursday restored the Washington, D.C. attorney general's lawsuit against Meta over charges that its privacy policies unintentionally misled consumers. ... read more

On Friday, Anthropic debuted research unpacking how an AI system’s “personality” — as in, tone, responses, and overarching motivation — changes and why. Researchers also tracked what makes a model “evil.”  ... read more

Yesterday, when Epic won its Google antitrust lawsuit for a second time, it wasn’t quite clear how soon Google would need to start dismantling its affirmed illegal monopoly. Today, Google ... read more

Verizon just announced a three-year price lock in April, but now the company has confirmed that it’s “making some adjustments” that will raise the cost of your phone bill anyway. ... read more

Most reality TV watchers fall into the "light viewer" category, watching between one and five hours a week. ... read more

Meta is offering a more efficient content studio. Google created an autonomous agency, automating the entire tactical pipeline. ... read more

Reddit is pausing its plans to let people make subreddits with content behind a paywall, CEO Steve Huffman said as part of Thursday’s earnings. The company is making the change ... read more

At least, that's what some new research from Omnicom and language consultants Maslansky + Partners suggests. And the bottom line is no longer about being "good," but being "fair." ... read more

Dentsu said it disputed the part of the court's ruling that found Dentsu's transgressions extended beyond the test events to include "the management and operation of the main event, which greatly differs from the Company's ... read more

There’s a new turn in the itch.io story. In a forum post, itch.io creator and founder Leaf Corcoran has notified users that the company has begun the process of restoring ... read more

Strong second-quarter results show shoppers are still opening their wallets -- and marketers are, too. ... read more

Chatbot users have discovered that every question asked and every response given are potentially visible to millions. ... read more

Brilliant Labs’ new Halo smart glasses weigh just over 40 grams. | Image: Brilliant Labs Startup Brilliant Labs has announced a successor to its $349 open-source Frame smart glasses, which ... read more

Ryan Coogler's first Black Panther feature set itself apart by pushing audiences to think about how comic book heroes and villains would fit into a world shaped by horrors like ... read more

Nintendo is raising the price of the original Switch “family of systems and products,” the company announced on Friday. Along with the first-generation Nintendo Switch, the price change also affects ... read more

The Trump administration may have just axed the IRS Direct File program. During a summit earlier this week, IRS Commissioner Billy Long said the free tax filing service is “gone,” ... read more

The ESPN unlimited plan includes the new ESPN D2C platform launching this fall and ESPN+ as well as ESPN branded broadcasts on ABC Television Network. ... read more

Windows 11 SE running on a low-cost laptop. Microsoft is ending support for Windows 11 SE next year, five years after it launched the operating system on low-cost laptops that ... read more

During its Q2 earnings phone call with analysts, the company said sports programming pricing and volume witnessed double-digit percentage hikes. ... read more

Changes come so quickly in the TV business these days that only three years after Warner Media and Discovery Inc. merged, they are now unmerging. ... read more

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella wanted to make Google dance two years ago, with an AI overhaul of Bing that was designed to steal Google's all-important search market share. Now, there ... read more

Samsung smart TVs appear to be functioning normally again after experiencing a global outage yesterday. Users across Reddit and Samsung’s community forum started reporting issues with their TVs at around ... read more

Nintendo’s financial year is off to a bumper start thanks to explosive sales of its Switch 2 console. Following its launch in June, the Switch 2 console has now sold ... read more

Change can be bumpy. From The Trade Desk’s Solimar-to-Kokai transition to Nielsen’s transition to its Big Data + Panel offering, we go inside customers’ challenges with these two transforming platforms. The post Not So Long, ... read more

My YouTube creator obsession has me fascinated by an ongoing trend I’ve noticed in the CTV industry: A lot of companies that produce free ad-supported channels rely on content that already exists on YouTube. The ... read more

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

Dotdash Meredith is People now; brands love influencers again; and Apple’s gonna finally help you with all those spam calls. The post Dotdash, By The People, For The People; Mopping Up Social appeared first on ... read more

This story was first published by Digiday sibling WorkLife When Joanna Jordan started Central Talent Booking two decades ago, the entertainment industry needed talent bookers who could work across multiple shows rather than just one. ... read more

This article was first published by Digiday sibling ModernRetail This year, one of the most important annual shopping events hangs in the balance of how shoppers respond to the threat of tariffs with their wallets, ... read more

YouTube Shorts is starting to become a bigger contender for ad dollars.  As usual, the money is following the attention. In the second quarter, Shorts averaged over 200 billion daily views.  Mark Ballard, research director ... read more

American Eagle has joined the increasingly long list of brands that somehow didn’t see it coming.  Like Bud Light, Target and Jaguar Land Rover before it, the retailer stepped into the culture wars with the ... read more

Give Nielsen some credit — although its Big Data Plus Panel measurement initiative this year has been fraught with problems for agencies using it to determine their upfront investments, they are using it, and it ... read more

The LeapMove could make gaming a more active pastime. | Image: LeapFrog LeapFrog has announced a new electronic learning system that swaps controllers for a camera. In fact, the LeapMove ... read more

Adthena has spent decades building advanced auction systems for Google Ads. Now its data scientists have built a platform to help marketers understand LLM data-driven results. ... read more

Reddit is giving advertisers what they want: more easy buttons. Thanks, in part, to its investments in campaign automation, new ad products and white glove service for top advertiser clients, Reddit netted $465 million in ... read more

New McKinsey research reveals why CMOs keep getting sidelined -- and what it'll take to make marketing matter again. ... read more

The company knew the combined name '"wasn't the most elegant or meaningful," CEO Neil Vogel says. ... read more

Roku's video advertising business has really been booming lately, as CEO Anthony Wood shared on a call with investors Thursday evening. The post For Roku, Upfronts Have Become A ‘Full Year-Long Marketplace’ appeared first on ... read more

Tim Cook sure knows how to sell an iPhone. Apple has been the target of a fair amount of criticism over the past year, from its AI missteps to a ... read more

Apple is spending a lot on President Donald Trump’s tariffs. During an earnings call on Thursday, Apple CEO Tim Cook said the duties could add $1.1 billion to its costs ... read more

Apple CEO Tim Cook says the company is “open” to mergers and acquisitions as it “significantly” increases its investment in AI, as reported by CNBC. Cook’s statements were made alongside ... read more

The discount makes the 256GB configuration cheaper than the model with 128GB of storage. | Image: The Verge During the most recent Prime Day, the Google Pixel Tablet with Wi-Fi ... read more

Reddit knows that it has valuable data from actual people — it’s already reached deals with big AI companies like OpenAI and Google to share its data with them. But ... read more

As Meta reported growth in usage and revenue in Q2 2025. CEO Mark Zuckerberg shared his excitement over the ongoing development of "personal superintelligence," funded by the company's successful ad business. ... read more

As Meta reported growth in usage and revenue in Q2 2025. CEO Mark Zuckerberg shared his excitement over the ongoing development of "personal superintelligence," funded by the company's successful ad business. ... read more