The Iranian women Trump ‘saved’ from execution are simultaneously real and AI-manipulated
On Wednesday, President Donald Trump claimed to have secured the release of eight Iranian women condemned to execution for protesting the regime. Only the night before, he had posted on Truth...
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Elon Musk admits that millions of Tesla vehicles won’t get unsupervised FSD
Tesla vehicles with the company's Hardware 3 (HW3) computer actually won't receive unsupervised Full Self-Driving (FSD), CEO Elon Musk said on Wednesday's Q1 2026 earnings call. Approximately 4...
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X is going to let Grok curate your timeline
X is putting its AI chatbot, Grok, in charge of your timeline. In an announcement on Wednesday, X product head Nikita Bier says Premium subscribers on iOS can get early access to a feature that...
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Tesla’s revenue rises again as it prepares for more AI and robotics
Tesla released its 2026 first-quarter financial earnings today, providing another look at the progress of Elon Musk's $1 trillion bet to transform his company into a leader of AI and robotics....
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AI failure could trigger the next financial crisis, warns Elizabeth Warren
"I know a bubble when I see one." That's what Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), who led the push to create a new consumer financial regulator in the wake of the 2008 recession, told a crowd at a...
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OpenAI now lets teams make custom bots that can do work on their own
OpenAI is giving users of its Business, Enterprise, Edu, and Teachers plans access to cloud-based "workspace" agents available in ChatGPT that can perform business tasks. In its blog post, OpenAI...
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Alexis Ohanian shocks Washington with pro-immigration remarks
Hello and welcome to Regulator, a newsletter for Verge readers about tech politics, political tech, and how they're muddying the waters of Washington, DC. My birthday is this week, and if you're...
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Former MrBeast exec sues over ‘years’ of alleged harassment
A former employee of Jimmy "MrBeast" Donaldson has filed a lawsuit alleging that she faced "intentional infliction of emotional distress" from harassment at the YouTuber's production company, was...
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Ember’s self-heating smart mug is more than $50 off ahead of Mother’s Day
Coffee is what gets many of us through the workday, and a proper smart mug can keep it hot for hours so you can maintain your focus without constantly getting up to reheat your cup. Thankfully, if...
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Watch Sony’s elite ping-pong robot beat top-ranked players
Humans have been building ping-pong playing robots for decades, such as Omron's FORPHEUS that challenged amateur competitors at CES 2017. What sets Ace apart from the rest is that the robot, which...
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Anthropic’s Mythos rollout has missed America’s cybersecurity agency
Several US federal agencies are taking up Anthropic's new cybersecurity model to find vulnerabilities, but one is reportedly not getting in on the action: the nation's central cybersecurity...
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Microsoft teases mysterious Discord and Xbox Game Pass partnership
Microsoft has started teasing a new Discord and Xbox Game Pass partnership, just a day after lowering prices of its Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass subscriptions. Microsoft Gaming CEO Asha...
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Google Meet will take AI notes for in-person meetings too
Google's AI meeting notetaker is no longer limited to Google Meets - Gemini can also generate summaries and transcripts of in-person meetings now, as well as meetings on Zoom and Microsoft Teams,...
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Microsoft says the ‘idea’ of an Xbox mobile store ‘is not dead’
Microsoft first revealed it was building an Xbox mobile gaming store to take on Apple and Google all the way back in 2022. Former Xbox president Sarah Bond even went on stage at a Bloomberg event...
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Will a new CEO help realize Apple’s smart home potential?
It took Tim Cook years to launch Apple into major new hardware categories, such as the smartwatch. But John Ternus could start his tenure right away with an ambitious new project: smart home...
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Sony’s PlayStation 5 is $200 off for the first time since December
When the price increases for PlayStation 5 consoles went into effect on April 2nd, we weren’t sure when the next time a good discount would happen. Surely, not for at least a couple months, right?...
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Now Meta will track what employees do on their computers to train its AI agents
Meta employees' activity at work is now being used to train the company's AI agents. As reported by Reuters, Meta is installing a tool it calls Model Capability Initiative (MCI) on US-based...
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I bought Alienware’s $350 OLED monitor and I can’t believe how good it is
I've recommended several OLED gaming monitors to readers over the years, and I've finally taken my own advice to buy one. Alienware's new 27-inch 1440p QD-OLED has all the features that I want and...
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Call of Duty never made much sense for Xbox Game Pass
Yesterday Microsoft announced some surprising news: at a time when everything in gaming is getting more expensive, Xbox Game Pass Ultimate was actually getting a price cut. Going forward, the...
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The year’s weirdest game is hard to explain and even harder to put down
The first rule of Titanium Court is that you can't explain Titanium Court. Not because we're living under the omerta of an 8-bit Fight Club, but because it's one truth I can stand by. For the past...
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