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is the Verge’s weekend editor. He has over 18 years of experience, including 10 years as managing editor at Engadget. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Until very recently it wasn’t clear what usage limits were placed on Gemini at the various tiers. Thankfully Google has finally updated its Help Center article detailing “Gemini Apps limits & upgrades for Google AI subscribers.” Gone are the useless descriptors like “limited access” or vagu
How can startups and developers actually monetize their AI products? A startup called Koah, which recently raised $5 million in seed funding, is betting that ads will be a big part of the answer. If you spend any time online, there’s a good chance you’ve seen plenty of ugly, AI-generated ads — but few to none when interacting with AI chatbots themselves. Koah co-founder and CEO Nic Baird argued that will inevitably change. “Once these things get outside San Francisco, there’s only one way to m
In the frenetic world of artificial intelligence, virtual companions have exploded into a market all their own. A recent survey found that some 72 percent of teens said they've experimented with artificial buddies. Of those, over 50 percent say they have a regular relationship with the chatbots. But there's no guarantee those companions will stick around forever — something users of the AI startup Dot are learning the hard way after the company announced it was going belly up on Friday. Found
While the United States rushes head-first into a self-inflicted economic crisis in an attempt to develop AI with human-level intelligence, China is eying a different goal. Last week, the Chinese State Council unveiled its ten-year plan to fully integrate AI into every aspect of the country's economy by 2035. Called "AI+," the ambitious plan sees AI becoming a "key growth engine for the country's economic development," a transformation mirroring that of the internet age. As the Wall Street Jour
First it peddled the poison, and now it's selling the cure. OpenAI announced that it's launching a new AI-powered jobs platform next year that will use AI to match employers with potential candidates. Called the OpenAI Jobs Platform, the initiative will put it in direct competition with job juggernauts like LinkedIn, which has also been experimenting with integrating the tech. It marks a new direction for the company, perhaps as it tries to maintain some semblance of its altruistic image. As i
Joe Maring / Android Authority The Pixel 10-series is Google’s most aggressive bet on AI yet. Year on year, the company keeps tacking on more AI-first features. From the camera to the notes app and elsewhere, the pitch is clear. This isn’t just another smartphone. Instead, it’s a showcase for how Google’s AI strategy ties directly to its hardware. But while the on-device LLM can do a lot, when it comes to heavy lifting, Google wants you to pop over into the Gemini app. More specifically, Gemini
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Maria Diaz/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. From pet robots to way more robot mowers than the world needs, IFA features some of the coolest tech we'll see all year. Companies use the event to showcase new products and the latest innovations they're working on, and Anker delivered some exciting updates. Also: The coolest gadgets I've seen at IFA 2025 (including ones you can actually buy) Marswalker: A stair-climbing robot Maria Diaz/ZDNET Part of the appeal of e
Campfire Campfire is web-based chat application. It supports many of the features you'd expect, including: Multiple rooms, with access controls Direct messages File attachments with previews Search Notifications (via Web Push) @mentions API, with support for bot integrations Campfire is single-tenant: any rooms designated "public" will be accessible by all users in the system. To support entirely distinct groups of customers, you would deploy multiple instances of the application. Runn
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Employers are increasingly offering pay boosts for workers with artificial intelligence skills, even in roles beyond tech. How much more? We looked at three different studies to see just how much more artificial intelligence skills will pay. According to CNBC, roles specifying AI competencies are trending across job postings, with employers adding salary incentives for candidates who bring the right mix of AI know-how—even in traditionally non-technical roles. The emerging trend reflects the g
If you don't live in an area that is commonly exposed to wildfire smoke, smog or other forms of outdoor air pollution, it's easy to believe that you're in the clear -- literally -- regarding the air quality in your living space. "Unfortunately, our indoor air is not as healthy as you may think," says Michael Rubino, founder of HomeCleanse, chairman of Change the Air Foundation, and host of the Never Been Sicker podcast. According to Dr. James Langer, a Materials Science Engineer and CEO of Colo
SwitchBot arrived at IFA (Innovation for All) 2025 with a lot to show off, including fluffy home Kata robots and the Acemate Tennis Robot, complete with training programs. But what really caught my smart home eyes was an application of generative AI I've never seen before. SwitchBot introduced an AI Art Frame, and it represents a completely new future for at-home wall art. The AI Art Frame's concept and design are easy to grasp and made me wonder why the idea wasn't already more widespread. It
Lighting company Lepro pulled up to IFA (Innovation for All) 2025 with a fun new trick I've haven't seen before in home lighting: Centerpiece lights with microphones equipped to hear voice commands and an LLM-style AI to interpret them. Lepro calls this new line the AI Lighting Pro series. It includes an ultra-stylish tabletop lamp designed like a planetary orbit model, an LED strip light, a neon rope light and a thin floor lamp. One thing they all have in common -- a mic listening for the wake
After seeing all the banana-fanfare for Google's newest generative AI tool, I knew I had to take it for a spin. Named Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, the model upgrades your ability to edit your photos natively in Gemini. AI enthusiasts have referred to it as the "nano bananas" model, spurred on by a series of banana-themed teasers from Google execs. In the few weeks it's been out, people have created over 200 million AI images, and over 10 million people have signed up to use the Gemini app, according
In Brief Microsoft said Saturday that clients of its Azure cloud platform might experience increased latency after multiple undersea cables were cut in the Red Sea, as reported in Bloomberg. In a status update, the company said traffic going through the Middle East or ending in Asia or Europe had been affected. It did not say who had cut the cables or why. “Undersea fiber cuts can take time to repair, as such we will continuously monitor, rebalance, and optimize routing to reduce customer imp
IFA is one of the biggest consumer tech shows in the world, and journalists, media houses, and tech enthusiasts flock to Berlin to check out the latest innovations in the tech space. Whether an emerging startup or an established tech giant, brands show off everything from incredibly cool concepts and cutting-edge tech to mainstream consumer-ready products at the event. Lawn mowers can also play fetch with your dog, robots are playing tennis, laptops now have physical, rotating screens, and of c
Ahead of Apple’s “Awe dropping” event on Tuesday, Ming-Chi Kuo is joining the fun with a last-minute rumor. After initially saying AirPods Pro 3 weren’t slated to be released until 2026, Kuo now says they’re ready to go and will be unveiled next week alongside the iPhone 17. Kuo’s latest report corroborates rumors from other sources, including Bloomberg. Kuo elaborates, saying that we can expect another update to AirPods Pro next year, as Apple continues its work on adding cameras to the earbud
Warner Bros. Discovery on Thursday filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against AI image and video company Midjourney, making it the third major entertainment company to do so following Disney and Universal's similar lawsuit filed earlier this year. The lawsuit alleges the AI company violated the entertainment company's copyright protections by allowing AI users to create images with characters like Batman, Scooby Doo and Bugs Bunny. "Midjourney thinks it is above the law," Warner Bros. Disc
Ever wanted to experience the Jeopardy set in real life? Jeopardy! Daily on Apple Arcade gets you pretty close, if you have an Apple Vision Pro. A couple days ago on September 4, some new games were released on Apple Arcade, and among them was Jeopardy! Daily, a new game that lets you play a daily set of boards as if you were a contestant on the real game. The game supports iPhone, iPad, Mac, and even Apple TV. However, if you are playing on an Apple Vision Pro, the game really comes to life!
Our brains dictate our every move. They’re the ones who spur us to study hard, so we can make something of ourselves, in order to better our communities. They name our babies, choose our clothes, decide what we’re hungry for. They make and break laws, organize protests, fritter away hours on social media, and give us the green light to binge watch a bunch of dumb shows when we could be reading War and Peace. They also plant the seeds for Fitzcarraldo-like creative endeavors t
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We first turn to Adolf Meyer, the most influential psychiatrist in the US over the first 3rd of the 20th century [27]. It should be recalled that until World War II, American psychiatry was a rather small profession, largely composed of superintendents of mental hospitals who largely had a biologically orientation to their work. In 1907, while the director of the New York Psychiatric Institute, Meyer wrote about his concerns of the narrow views that US physicians would typically take in their ap
Geoffrey Hinton, long considered a "godfather of AI" and who won the Nobel Prize in Physics last year, has a complicated relationship with the tech he pioneered at Google many years ago. He's long argued that AI poses an existential risk to humanity, and signed a letter earlier this year calling on OpenAI not to betray its non-profit roots. Even in his own personal life, it sounds like Hinton can't escape the tech. In an interview with the Financial Times, the 77-year-old revealed that his ex-
Recently, a minor miracle was achieved in the world of film preservation. A long-lost version of "A Better Tomorrow II" (1987), John Woo's sequel to his heroic bloodshed classic "A Better Tomorrow" (1986), was discovered and is now slated to be released to the public. For nearly 40 years, Woo's preferred cut of the Hong Kong action movie had been considered destroyed. When it was being made, the studio demanded that Woo's workprint, which ran nearly three hours, be pared down to less than two,
Image by Getty / Futurism Neuroscience/Brain Science Should you be worried that your brain probably contains enough plastic to fashion a disposable spoon? Yes, new research suggests: you should. In a new study published in the journal Environmental Research Communications, researchers found that mice which were regularly exposed to microplastics in their diet developed symptoms of Alzheimer's disease, the most common form of dementia, in less than a single month. The mice were genetically mo
"We completely freaked out when we realized the orcas were hitting the boat." Pods of killer whales are once again attacking boats along the coast of Spain, striking fear into the hearts of local sailors. As Live Science reports, the orcas have been singling out sailboats and tearing off their rudders, again drawing attention to the large sea mammals' changing behavior, with experts suggesting that orcas are teaching each other how to take down sailing vessels. While scientists are still tryi