The new Boomslang includes a wireless charging dock with its own RGB lighting effects. | Image: Razer Razer is returning to its roots and relaunching the world's first gaming mouse ... read more

The Washington Post has used AI to build a pick-your-own-format news podcast, letting listeners choose the topics, hosts and length to create custom versions. “Your Personal Podcast” is available to registered users on the Post’s ... read more

Streaming platforms, with growing football content, pushed the overall ad-supported share of all linear and streaming TV to 72.9% in Q3 2025 for viewers age 2 and up, according to Nielsen. ... read more

David Ellison said: "We want to build a scaled news service that is basically, fundamentally in the trust business, that is in the truth business, and that speaks to the 70% of Americans that are ... read more

It's been a year of progress and delays for Aurora, the Pittsburgh-based autonomous trucking company founded by Chris Urmson. After promising to launch commercial driverless truck operations in 2024, the ... read more

An open licensing standard that aims to make AI companies pay for the content they vacuum up across the web is now an official specification. Really Simple Licensing 1.0 - ... read more

Today, AMD is soft-launching its latest suite of graphics and performance-enhancing tech, FSR Redstone - and it might take a second to wrap your head around. It certainly did for ... read more

Just lasso the object you want to edit, and click Erase to remove it or Isolate to separate it from the background. Figma is launching three new AI-powered creative tools ... read more

The assignment follows a "pilot partnership" between the Dentsu shop and the national cosmetic surgery brand. ... read more

Instagram is launching a new AI-powered feature for fine-tuning which videos appear in your Reels tab. The "Your Algorithm" update allows you to see which topics Instagram already thinks you're ... read more

The President of the United States has a great gift idea this holiday season: Watches with his name on them that he is personally selling on TV starting at $500 each. ... read more

The Photoshop app for ChatGPT will provide UI interfaces like sliders for some editing requests. Adobe is giving ChatGPT users some new capabilities for designing and editing their work without ... read more

According to the company, it's built as an end-to-end operating system to help sales operations book appointments, drive conversion, resolve questions and handle customer concerns. ... read more

Remember the Cinnamon Challenge, when people filmed themselves trying to swallow a spoonful of ground cinnamon in under a minute?  For a short window in the early 2010s, it was everywhere – until it was ... read more

At What Cost? You probably don’t need to be told that grocery prices have skyrocketed since the pandemic – up 25% in five years. But the bad news only continues: Retailers are seeing how far ... read more

The elevation of workforce data is no longer a possibility — it is here. And in the coming year, that data will play a bigger role than ever in C-suite decision-making. “In 2026, an organization’s ... read more

If programmatic advertising is already automated, then what’s the point of integrating AI agents? That’s the question I had on my mind heading into this month’s Digiday Programmatic Marketing Summit in New Orleans, La. And ... read more

This week’s Future of TV Briefing recaps two sessions from last week’s Digiday Programmatic Marketing Summit about how agencies’ programmatic buying teams are evolving. Agentic agencies Netflix-WBD, WBD-Paramount, Paramount-Trump and more Agentic ... read more

As each holding company and agency rushes to assemble its own version of an AI-driven platform, Horizon Media is pitching its version, Blu, as kind of the anti-black box consultancy that helps clients not only ... read more

Netflix and Paramount’s competing bids for Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) will dominate the next act of the streaming wars. Brands and media buyers will have to pay close attention to whichever rival proposal wins ... read more

Curation spent much of this year in a fog, loosely defined and inconsistently applied. Agencies say they plan to tighten the screws in 2026, reclaiming some control over what the term actually means — and ... read more

This is an excerpt of Sources by Alex Heath, a newsletter about AI and the tech industry, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. Reinforcement learning (RL) is ... read more

Future Call of Duty releases will no longer include back-to-back launches of Modern Warfare or Black Ops games, Activision announced on Tuesday. The past four releases in the series have ... read more

Hello and welcome to Regulator. If you're a subscriber, you are stalwart and true, and if you're here from the internet, prove your chivalry and worth by subscribing to The ... read more

If you're having a stressful holiday season, the answer is McDonald's - at least, that's what a now-removed AI-generated ad suggested, as reported by Futurism. Set to a song ... read more

The Department of Defense is announcing its own "bespoke" AI platform, GenAI.mil, and Google Cloud's Gemini will be the first AI tool available on it, according to a press release. ... read more

LinkedIn's "Reserved Ads" are designed to boost brand awareness for B2B marketers through high-attention placements, AI-powered tools and expanded personalization. ... read more

Meta is in the process of revamping its original social platform - announcing a Facebook redesign aimed at promoting popular features among younger users such as Marketplace and Reels. ... read more

LONDON – Advances in infrastructure and computing power are fundamentally changing how programmatic advertising operates on the supply side, enabling faster, more sophisticated decision-making that was previously impossible, said Sarah Botherway, marketplace operations director at ... read more

RANCHO PALOS VERDES, CA — There’s a lot more to analyzing streaming video than what meets the eye. And while all kinds of software promises to plumb the depths of knowing what ads are working ... read more

When it comes to advertising alongside video content, context has always mattered. But artificial intelligence is taking that context to a granular new level, potentially transforming how brands engage with viewers. The technology is enabling ... read more

"The American public continues to need robust protection against unfair and deceptive 'subscription traps' -- the ubiquitous subscription practices that hook consumers into purchasing products or services with recurring charges and that are nearly impossible ... read more

Over two films, Rian Johnson's Knives Out series has offered something largely absent from the modern movie landscape: intricate murder mysteries full of humor and gasp-worthy moments. The original Knives ... read more

The AirPods Pro 3 make for a nice upgrade or gift, especially at $30 off. | Image: The Verge If you didn’t catch the Black Friday deal on Apple’s AirPods ... read more

Google’s Pixel Buds 2a come in a stylish purple shade that stands out. Google just launched its holiday sale, and it’s basically Black Friday and Cyber Monday revived. From smartphones ... read more

A girl can dream. | Image: Redfin / The Verge Look, I'm as fed up as the next guy with AI chatbots stuffed into every app. I don't want to ... read more

Canadians want to buy Canadian rather than American, but it's really hard to do that. Canadian goods are harder to find and typically cost more. ... read more

This State of the Industry report, with partner insights from Instacart, explores how brands and agencies are expanding their audience reach through off-site retail media advertising. Retail media advertising’s popularity has surged over the past ... read more

The Nothing Phone 3A Community Edition revamps Nothing's usual monochrome look with a 90s-inspired design infused by pops of color. It's updating the basic 3A's transparent backplate with a teal ... read more

Continuing CEO Mark Zuckerberg's plan to make Facebook "way more culturally influential than it is today," Meta is announcing a bunch of new updates to help you "cut through the ... read more

Australia is joining a wave of governments around the globe in regulating how kids spend their time online. On December 10th, most major social media platforms will boot children in ... read more

Random access memory, or RAM, is in just about every piece of technology we use. But it’s also the technology that AI companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta are ... read more

The Google Photos app on Android and iOS is getting a video editing overhaul with a redesigned editor, templates for highlight reels, and options for adding custom text overlays and ... read more

A Microsoft data center under construction in Aldie, Virginia, US, on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025. | Photo: Getty Images More than 230 groups including Food & Water Watch, Physicians for ... read more

Colorado Attorney Philip Weiser on Monday appealed an order blocking enforcement of a new law mandating cigarette-style warning labels for social media. ... read more

Claire Nance, head of gaming business success strategy, Activision Blizzard MediaWhat began three years ago as a forum to validate gaming’s potential has evolved into something more. This November, Gaming Day returned to New York ... read more

Here’s what the A/B testing interface looks like in YouTube Studio. YouTube is giving more creators a way to test how different titles perform on their videos. After rolling out ... read more

When Ikea announced its collection of 21 new Matter-over-Thread devices last month, it wasn't expecting the new hardware to be available in the US until January 2026. Over the past ... read more

This WTF guide, with partner insights from Talon.One, explores why brands should move away from a siloed approach to loyalty and promotions, and should instead implement a unified incentives marketing strategy to create long-term customer ... read more

The new members are Meg Runeari, executive vice president, North America, Teads, and Jackie Lyons, Chief Planning Officer, Havas Media Network North America. ... read more

Spotify is launching its beta music videos feature to Premium subscribers in the US and Canada today, over a year after it rolled out to Premium users in other regions. ... read more

Eric Migicovsky, the founder of Pebble and the person leading its recent comeback, is very much in the business of making gadgets for himself. And he seems extremely into the ... read more

Amazon is launching Alexa Plus shopping features that make it easier to track your orders and avoid missing out on deals. The AI-powered Alexa Plus assistant - like Amazon's Rufus ... read more

Ford is teaming up with France's Renault to design and produce affordable electric vehicles for the European market, with the goal of turning around the Blue Oval's struggling business on ... read more

Google announced a new "extended repair program" for the Pixel 9 Pro and Pixel 9 Pro XL smartphones yesterday after it confirmed display issues with a "limited number" of devices, ... read more

When we look back on 2025, at least in tech, we'll remember it mostly as a year about AI. We had a race between OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and others to ... read more

The Remarkable Paper Pro and Type Folio keyboard case is a surprisingly great combo. About a year ago, we said you probably don’t need the Remarkable Paper Pro. The e-ink ... read more

MediaPost has selected MRM's A.I. Relationship Management practice as our 2025 media agency of the year. Other winners include: independent agency of the year, PMG; holding company of the year, WPP Media; agency executive of ... read more

MediaPost has selected MRM's A.I. Relationship Management practice as our 2025 media agency of the year. Other winners include: independent agency of the year, PMG; holding company of the year, WPP Media; agency executive of ... read more

Bringing programmatic ads to AI chatbots marks a shift in the business model for AI search, while traditional publishers must find new ways to monetize. The post Programmatic Ads Are Coming To AI Chatbots appeared ... read more

On Tuesday, TV advertising company Cadent announced the acquisition of VuePlanner, which specializes in contextual advertising and media planning for YouTube. The post Cadent Acquires YouTube Advertising Company VuePlanner appeared first on AdExchanger. ... read more

A combined Paramount-WBD company could have more leverage over movie-theater chains in share of box-office revenue. And Paramount could command higher fees from TV/streaming distributors. ... read more

A combined Paramount-WBD company could have more leverage over movie-theater chains in share of box-office revenue. And Paramount could command higher fees from TV/streaming distributors. ... read more

It's now easier for friends and family who aren't tech savvy or are struggling with app fatigue to share images via your Aura digital photo frame. As the name of ... read more

Until the contract is signed, neither the government nor WPP are likely to comment on it. But barring any last-minute hitches, a contract is expected to be signed and go into effect early next year. ... read more

Marketers used to wait for obvious signals, like a product page view, a cart add or a keyword search, before triggering campaigns. But in today’s fractured landscape, those signals can arrive too late. Shoppers drift ... read more

Oops! Somebody forgot to include the name of the host in a CBS description of the upcoming "48th Annual Kennedy Center Honors" scheduled to air later this month. ... read more

The iFixit app rolls together its guides, battery health tools, and a new AI chatbot. DIY repair site iFixit has launched its own app for iOS and Android, featuring its ... read more

This isn't just entertainment - it's cultural strategy. Bad Bunny brings youth, multiculturalism, and global appeal to a franchise seeking its next era of relevance. ... read more

The findings from a just-released study, benchmark LGBTQ spending at $2 million in 1925, and project it will have grown to $11.73 billion a decade later, despite the deceleration. ... read more

As he called the House Judiciary Committee into session on a cold and snowy February day in Washington, DC, Chairman Jim Jordan was ready to take a victory lap. American ... read more

Nvidia has received White House approval to start exporting its H200 AI GPU chips to "approved customers" in China and other countries, according to President Donald Trump. In a Truth ... read more

Some publishers are striking licensing deals with large-language model developers. Others are suing them. Some publishers are doing both. The Economist is doing none of the above. And that’s intentional, says Nada Arnot, EVP of ... read more

Memory suppliers just blew a hole in the PC gaming industry - and they're about to do the same to everything else. For weeks, PC enthusiasts have borne the brunt ... read more

Google is under investigation by the European Union over concerns that it breached competition rules by imposing restrictions on web publishers and YouTube creators to gain an unfair advantage over ... read more

Over two years after Fairphone introduced its first pair of modular and repairable wireless headphones, the company has announced an upgraded version. The new Fairbuds XL look similar to the ... read more

LONDON – Retail media is entering a new phase, shifting from a narrow focus on placements and proximity to purchase toward a broader, intelligence-driven role across the full marketing funnel, said Samantha Bukowski, global head ... read more

You are not immune to shopaganda; AI responses are more limited than retailers would like; and FIFA is forcing ad-mandated water breaks. The post Targeting The Influential; Who’s Doing The Shopping, Really? appeared first on ... read more

Demand for live sports TV ad opportunities is riding high among marketers and media buyers. In response, media companies are continuing their industry-wide effort to lower barriers to entry for smaller brands. The latest effort ... read more

PMG has taken a swing at one of the knottiest pasts of modern media buying: CTV. The independent agency has built its own buying platform, pulling a crucial layer of programmatic machinery in-house as marketers ... read more

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts • Spotify The technical foundation of programmatic advertising is being updated to accommodate AI agents. But do ad buyers really want AI agents involved in their programmatic ad buying? Yes and ... read more

Snap, like the rest of the platforms, has spent the last year nudging marketers further toward automated advertising. Next year, it plans to keep pushing, with creative now squarely in its sights. It’s the next ... read more

It’s increasingly important for publishers to understand when, how and why their content is being used as a source inside AI tools and platforms (often without attribution or traffic). The search landscape has changed exponentially ... read more

In an era when the major internet platforms’ share of advertising spend looks set to increase, and no media plan is (seemingly) complete without the slightest hint of AI, there’s a growing curiosity to probe ... read more

TV and video-focused ad-tech company Cadent says it has acquired certified YouTube measurement company VuePlanner, which specializes in optimizing ad spend and contextual targeting for YouTube. ... read more

Following the rollout of its recent "Nearby Feed," TikTok is continuing to experiment with its home feed experiences, announcing "Shared Feed," a way for users to take part in communal scrolling. ... read more

RANCHO PALOS VERDES, CA – Mobile gaming is emerging as a powerful complement to connected TV, giving advertisers new ways to combine premium storytelling with programmatic scale and measurable performance, according to Zynga executives speaking ... read more

The developer of ICEBlock, Joshua Aaron, has sued the Trump administration for allegedly making "unconstitutional threats and demands" that coerced Apple into removing the app from its marketplace. ... read more

Havas Monday announced the acquisition of Australia-based independent media agency Kaimera, which will join the Havas Media Network, bringing Havas ANZ's local staff to 450. ... read more

After The European Commission issued a fine of EUR120 million to X - its first significant fine under the Digital Services Act - X CEO Elon Musk, X shut down the Commission's ad account. ... read more

The digital music service launched what it called a "bigger and bolder" version of its "Spotify Wrapped" campaign. ... read more

"It's important to bring clarity to some of the players," he said, alluding to what many believed was an uncertain future for IPG prior to its acquisition by Omnicom. ... read more

The discount brings the price down to $299 ($100 off). | Image: The Verge We thought Black Friday and Cyber Monday would bring the lowest prices of the year, but ... read more

The Supreme Court on Monday declined to intervene in two separate disputes over how a Reagan-era privacy law applies to streaming video. ... read more

Slack users can now access Anthropic's Claude Code directly in Slack by tagging Claude on coding-related messages and threads. The new feature is launching today in beta as a research ... read more

Lenovo has already demonstrated its ability to put rollable OLEDs into laptops by graduating last year from demo concept models to shipping the ThinkBook Plus Gen 6, an actual device ... read more

At their biggest and most expensive, video games all sort of look the same. The reason often comes down to simple economics: More resources means more costs that need to ... read more

Joshua Aaron, the developer of the ICEBlock app, is suing Attorney General Pam Bondi, US Homeland Security Secretary Kirsti Noem, acting director of ICE Todd Lyons, White House "Border Czar" ... read more

Google provided this photo of Project Aura, as we were not allowed to take our own. | Photo: Google, Xreal Teased at Google I/O, Project Aura is a collaboration between ... read more

That vivid OLED display is one of the OmniBook’s biggest draws. You know what I love more than OLEDs? Cheap OLEDs. And that's exactly what drew me to the 14-inch ... read more