Sony’s last-gen XM4 headphones are over 50 percent off for Black Friday
The current discount takes nearly $200 off the original list price. More than five years after making their debut, Sony’s WH-1000XM4 remain an excellent pair of noise-canceling headphones. And right…
Shocker: Elon Musk spends a lot of time on X posting bad political takes
NBC News’s David Ingram analyzed a month’s worth of Elon Musk’s X posts (our condolences). While what he was able to glean wasn’t too surprising, it was still interesting to…
Sony’s entire DualSense lineup is $20 off, including the limited edition models
Black Friday isn’t here quite yet, but that hasn’t stopped Sony from kicking off an excellent holiday promo, which runs through December 18th. The ongoing sale spans everything from PlayStation…
Spotify simplifies importing playlists from other streaming services
In August, Apple Music launched a tool for importing playlists from other streaming services. The bruhahah over Daniel Ek’s war profiteering was in full swing, and artists were starting to…
The best AR glasses are cheaper than ever during Black Friday
The Xreal One look a bit like the glasses you get from the optician after having your pupils dilated. But they’re not as bulky or heavy as a VR headset.…
‘Jmail’ is like any other inbox, except this one has Jeffrey Epstein’s emails
The more than 20,000 pages of Jeffrey Epstein emails released earlier this month by the House Oversight Committee have been enough to prompt more investigations into the convicted child sex…
Google denies ‘misleading’ reports of Gmail using your emails to train AI
Google is pushing back on viral social media posts and articles like this one by Malwarebytes, claiming Google has changed its policy to use your Gmail messages and attachments to…
Judge wants to fix Google’s ad tech monopoly before it’s too late
Google and the Justice Department had their last chance to make their case before Judge Leonie Brinkema Friday before she decides whether Google needs to be broken up to remedy…
You can save up to $1,300 on robovacs from Roborock and Eufy ahead of Black Friday
The Tapo RV30 Max Plus is down to $200 for a limited time, rendering it an even better value than before. It’s the most wonderful time of the year, but…
You can now try the Xbox Full Screen Experience on any PC, laptop, or tablet
Microsoft is bringing the Xbox Full Screen Experience (FSE), which adds a console-like UI while navigating through your game library on a PC with a controller, to laptops, desktops, and…
Google’s Nano Banana Pro generates excellent conspiracy fuel
The Gemini app produced this image of a second shooter hidden in the bushes with the Book Depository in the background. | AI Image: The Verge via Google Gemini It…
Grok’s Elon Musk worship is getting weird
It’s no secret that Elon Musk shapes the X social platform and X’s “maximally truth-seeking” Grok AI chatbot to his preferences. But it’s possible Musk may have needed a bit…
Google’s new AI image creator took my shirt off
Three pros. | Image: The Verge / Google, Nano Banana Pro I gave Google’s new Nano Banana Pro a try, and it immediately took my clothes off. I didn’t ask…
Microsoft’s AI-powered copy and paste can now use on-device AI
Microsoft is upgrading its Advanced Paste tool in PowerToys for Windows 11, allowing you to use an on-device AI model to power some of its features. With the 0.96 update,…
Windows on Arm is now ready for gaming thanks to some big changes
Last year Qualcomm promised that games would “just work” on its Snapdragon X Elite laptops, but in my testing I found that was far from the case. Now, a year…
Here’s the Trump executive order that would ban state AI laws
President Donald Trump is considering signing an executive order as soon as Friday that would give the federal government unilateral power over regulating artificial intelligence, including the creation of an…
Netflix signs a three-year deal to stream MLB live events and games
Today, Major League Baseball announced new media rights deals with ESPN, NBCUniversal, and Netflix that run for the next three seasons. The Netflix deal brings live MLB games to its…
Nvidia says some AI GPUs are ‘sold out,’ grows data center business by $10B in just three months
Nvidia just sold more AI chips than it’s ever sold before, blowing past its own estimates in today’s Q3 2026 earnings. Not only did it pull in a record $57…
AI, my unexpected daily travel companion
There’s gold at the end of those AI travel queries. | Photo by Thomas Ricker / The Verge I was starting to doubt it would ever happen, but I finally…
Fortnite is getting Unity games
Epic Games is teaming up with arguably its biggest game development rival, Unity, to bring games made using Unity’s engine into Fortnite. The change will mean that Unity games could…
Meross’ radar presence sensor ditches the cord and adds Matter-over-Thread support
The MS605 has an articulated installation plate allowing the angle of the sensor to be adjusted. | Image: Meross Meross has announced a new version of its MS600 presence sensor…
Cloudflare explains Tuesday’s outage that temporarily took down ChatGPT
A blog post published Tuesday night by Cloudflare cofounder and CEO Matthew Prince has details on what caused its “worst outage since 2019,” pinning the issue to a problem in…
Google is fighting the defamation battle Meta caved on
Google filed a motion to dismiss a defamation lawsuit brought by anti-corporate diversity activist Robby Starbuck, who claimed Google’s AI falsely associated him with sexual assault allegations and a white…
OpenAI is finally letting employees donate their equity to charity
Current and former OpenAI employees have grown increasingly frustrated by the fact that the company hasn’t allowed them to donate their equity to charity in years. But OpenAI has finally…
Google updates its weather forecasts with a new AI model
An illustration from Google’s new AI weather model. | Image: Google Google debuted a new and improved AI weather model today that will be incorporated into popular products like Search,…
The best Garmin watches for training and everyday life
Garmins aren’t just multisport behemoths anymore. | Illustration by Will Joel / The Verge Editor’s note: Black Friday doesn’t officially take place until Friday, November 28th; however, if you want…
Jeff Bezos will be co-CEO of AI startup Project Prometheus
Jeff Bezos is getting a new job. He’ll reportedly become co-CEO of Project Prometheus, a new startup that he’s partly funding. The company’s exact plans are still unknown, but its…
Europe banned new gas cars after 2035 — now it’s reconsidering
Mercedes-Benz CEO Ola Källenius is the eternal optimist, and for good reason. He has long pushed the European Union to roll back its lofty goal of phasing out new internal…
Sky Sports killed off its female-focused Halo brand after just three days
Girls like pink and peach, right? That Sky Sports felt the need to launch a TikTok channel specifically marketed towards women and billed as its “lil sis” was questionable enough.…
You need to listen to the searing noise pop album Forever in Your Heart
The cover goes as hard as the album does. There’s something irresistible about music that sounds as if it’s coming apart at the seams. The Black Dresses are masters of…