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Anthropic nabs Humanloop team as competition for enterprise AI talent heats up

Anthropic has acquired the co-founders and most of the team behind Humanloop – a platform for prompt management, LLM evaluation, and observability – in a push to strengthen its enterprise strategy. The terms of the deal were not shared, but it appears to follow the acqui-hire playbook we’re increasingly seeing in the tech industry amid the war for AI talent. Humanloop’s three co-founders – CEO Raza Habib, CTO Peter Hayes, and CPO Jordan Burgess – have all joined Anthropic, alongside around a do

Claude just learned a useful ChatGPT trick

Anthropic has introduced a helpful new feature for Claude that solves a problem similar to one ChatGPT already addressed. As of today, Claude is capable of referencing information from your other conversations with the AI chatbot. Anthropic demonstrates how the feature works: Claude can now reference past chats, so you can easily pick up from where you left off. pic.twitter.com/n9ZgaTRC1y — Claude (@claudeai) August 11, 2025 The new Claude feature matches OpenAI’s ChatGPT memory feature. An

Deals: M2 iPad Air $300 off or M3 $150 off, 1TB 15-inch M4 MacBook Air $200 off, Mac mini, more

Today’s 9to5Toys Lunch Break is ready to roll starting off with iPad Air. We are tracking $150 price drops to deliver new all-time lows across the latest M3 lineup, but we also spotted a new Amazon all-time low on the least pricey 13-inch Wi-Fi + Cell M2 model at $300 off the original price tag. Those deals also join another rare M4 MacBook Air offer that has the 15-inch model with 24GB of RAM and a 1TB SSD at $200 off the list price alongside 16GB M2 Mac mini starting from $370 Prime shipped, M

Why I recommend the Google TV Streamer over competing Roku and Amazon Fire models

Google TV Streamer ZDNET's key takeaways The Google TV Streamer is a streaming device that typically sells for $100. The Google TV Streamer offers beautiful image, fast performance, and the best smart home integrations of any Google streaming device. It's built for Android users but can work with iOS, with some compromise, and there are only a few audio customization options. View now at Best Buy View now at Google View now at Amazon more buying choices I've been a cord cutter for over a deca

My AirPods were constantly slipping out of my ears - until I found these $15 accessories

Jada Jones/ZDNET Your AirPods can be your best friend, small enough to stay in your pocket or bag until you need them. But if you like to work out with your AirPods, pushing your slippery earbuds back into your ear can become a particularly intense workout. I've found three products to help with this problem -- a few dollars spent can revitalize your AirPods experience. Also: Best AirPods 2025: I've tested every pair of Apple headphones and earbuds Unfortunately, some people's ear anatomy sim

I replaced my ThinkPad with a dual-screen Windows laptop - here's my verdict after a month

Asus Zenbook Duo 14 ZDNET's key takeaways The Asus Zenbook Duo is on sale now starting at around $1,499, with pricier configurations available. This laptop is a creator's dream machine, with dual-OLED touchscreens, a highly configurable form factor, and a great battery. It takes time and effort to get the most out of this laptop, and you'll need lots of desk space to utilize the different form factors. $1,360.92 at Amazon $1,299.99 at Best Buy more buying choices Upon first glance, Asus' Zenb

Honky-Tonk Tokyo (2020)

George Strait wasn’t supposed to be in Japan, but when I push open the door to a bar called Little Texas on a cool Tokyo night, the so-called King of Country is here: hand on his hip, hand on his wide-brimmed white hat, a crooked smile tilted to the left, like a puppeteer pulled the strings unevenly. There he is on the ceiling, smiling down from a poster, there he is on a $1 bill, sheathed in plastic, pinned on the back of the bar next to a Texas A&M Forest Service patch and a bumper sticker for

This Is the New Pebble Smartwatch, and Yes, It’s Now Called Pebble Again

After more than a decade, the Pebble smartwatch is back, and it already looks enticing for those of us who can’t be bothered with today’s health data-obsessed, sensor-filled, and all-too-weighty wearables. The company behind the revitalized watch shared its final designs for what’s coming, and it may be the simple smartwatch we’ve been missing since 2016. Last month, original Pebble designer Eric Migicovsky reported that his new company, Core Devices, was able to recover the Pebble trademark, m

Tensor wants to be the first company to sell you a ‘robocar’ — but who are they?

is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. A new company is launching today that claims to have developed “the first volume-produced, consumer-ready autonomous vehicle — designed from the ground up for private ownership at scale.” The company is called Tensor, and it describes i

Amazon launches same-day delivery of meat, eggs, produce in more than 1,000 cities

An independent contractor wearing a protective mask and gloves loads Amazon Prime grocery bags into a car outside a Whole Foods Market in Berkeley, California, on Oct. 7, 2020. Amazon is rolling out same-day delivery of fresh foods to more pockets of the U.S. as it looks to encourage shoppers to add meat and eggs to their order while they're browsing its sprawling online store. The company announced Wednesday it's bringing the service to more than 1,000 U.S. cities and towns, including Raleigh

Antarctica’s Ghost Hunters: Inside the World’s Biggest Neutrino Detector

Neutrinos are strange little things. This tiny, enigmatic particle with no charge exists in virtually every corner of the universe, but without powerfully sensitive, sophisticated instruments, physicists would have no way of knowing they exist. In fact, trillions are passing through you every second. Physicists devise all sorts of ways to coax neutrinos into the detection range. But IceCube—which celebrates its 20th anniversary this year—stands out in particular for its unique setup: 5,160 digi

A veteran toy racing company is trading slots for smartphone-controlled RC cars

is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Carrera, a German company that has been making slot car toys since the ‘60s, has announced a new scaled racing experience that does away with the slots altogether. Carrera Hybrid still has you racing 1:50-scale cars around a reconfigurable track, but you cont

Some doctors got worse at detecting cancer after relying on AI

is The Verge’s senior AI reporter. An AI beat reporter for more than five years, her work has also appeared in CNBC, MIT Technology Review, Wired UK, and other outlets. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. We’ve heard about upskilling and re-skilling due to AI — but how about de-skilling? A new study published this week found that doctors who frequently use AI to detect cancer in one medical procedure got significantly worse at doing so. The

The road to artificial general intelligence

Artificial intelligence models that can discover drugs and write code still fail at puzzles a lay person can master in minutes. This phenomenon sits at the heart of the challenge of artificial general intelligence (AGI). Can today’s AI revolution produce models that rival or surpass human intelligence across all domains? If so, what underlying enablers—whether hardware, software, or the orchestration of both—would be needed to power them? Dario Amodei, co-founder of Anthropic, predicts some for

Microsoft removes PowerShell 2.0 from Windows 11, Windows Server

Microsoft will remove PowerShell 2.0 from Windows starting in August, eight years after announcing its deprecation and keeping it around as an optional feature. The 14-year-old command processor introduced with Windows 7 was already removed for Windows Insiders as of July 2025, with the release of Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27891 to the Canary Channel. As detailed in a support document published on Monday, Microsoft will permanently remove PowerShell 2.0 from Windows 11 version 24H2, sta

UK expands police facial recognition rollout with 10 new facial recognition vans

A fresh expansion of UK crimefighters' access to live facial recognition (LFR) technology is being described by officials as "an excellent opportunity for policing." Privacy campaigners diagree. The Home Office said today that more police forces across England will gain LFR capabilities thanks to ten new "cutting edge" vans being wheeled out, adding to those already in use by London's Metropolitan Police and forces in South Wales. Seven forces will gain access to LFR vans as part of the latest

DoubleAgents: Fine-Tuning LLMs for Covert Malicious Tool Calls

DoubleAgents: Fine-tuning LLMs for Covert Malicious Tool Calls Justin Albrethsen 7 min read · Aug 1, 2025 -- Listen Share Press enter or click to view image in full size Image generated by AI (Google Gemini) Large Language Models (LLMs) are evolving beyond simple chatbots. Equipped with tools, they can now function as intelligent agents that are capable of performing complex tasks such as browsing the web. However, with this ability comes a major challenge: trust. How can we verify the integri

Mercedes-Benz Vision V Concept: Is this the solution or a sideshow?

An orange tint of smoke in the air always contributes to dramatic lighting for sunrise photos in Los Angeles. But this early in the fire season, the coloring serves as an inescapable reminder of greenhouse gas emissions and the mobility solutions that might reduce or at least slightly mitigate the future of radical weather crises. It's fitting, then, that a massive 75,000-acre fire burns in Santa Maria, in addition to a small brush fire on the 110 freeway less than a mile away as I visit the Ely

Coffee Grinders Used to Be a Mystery. A New Device Might Solve It

I don't mean to be dramatic when I say coffee grinders are both the biggest mystery in coffee, and also coffee's biggest hive of technological invention. If you find yourself in the online rabbit holes of the coffee world these days, you'll almost certainly encounter a bean geek eager to tell you a secret. The secret is that your coffee grinder is more important to how your coffee tastes than your drip brewer, and also more important than your espresso maker. This idea makes some sense. Just l

The new War of the Worlds movie is even more terrible than you’ve heard but also hilarious

There’s a micro-genre of film called “screenlife movies,” where all of the action takes place on a desktop computer. In 2014, Unfriended made a horror movie out of video chat and text messages, and it was successful enough to inspire a sequel. The more thoughtful Searching from 2018, in which a father attempts to find his missing daughter, felt novel and a bit more promising for the genre, even if an hour and a half really tested the amount of time you could look at a scrunched John Cho and Mac

Here’s a look at the final Pebble Time 2 design

is a senior reporter focusing on wearables, health tech, and more with 13 years of experience. Before coming to The Verge, she worked for Gizmodo and PC Magazine. Now that Pebble is Pebble again, we’re getting an official look at the new Pebble Time 2 that’ll ship to customers later this year. (We got a sneak peek back in March, but those were preliminary designs.) The designs were posted today by Core Devices CEO Eric Migicovsky on his blog and YouTube. The Time 2 will come in four colors, th

MacBook Air deal: The M4-powered laptop is on sale for as low as $799

Whether you need a new MacBook for the upcoming semester or you've just been itching to upgrade from an older machine, now's a good time to buy. Amazon has a sale on the latest M4 MacBook Air that knocks up to 20 percent off many configurations. The base model is where you'll get the biggest discount. The 16GB RAM/256GB SSD laptop is down to $799 from $999, which is the lowest price we've seen. You can upgrade to 512GB SSD for $999, down from $1,199, another all-time low price, or 24GB of RAM a

Microsoft asks users to ignore certificate enrollment errors

Microsoft has asked customers this week to disregard incorrect CertificateServicesClient (CertEnroll) errors that appear after installing the July 2025 preview update and subsequent Windows 11 24H2 updates. In recent months, Microsoft has addressed multiple similar issues affecting various Windows features that triggered erroneous warnings with no actual impact. For instance, last month, Redmond advised users to turn a blind eye to Windows Firewall configuration errors that occurred after rebo

The number of ICE flights is skyrocketing – but the planes are harder to track

Federal agencies Aviation news Immigration Donald Trump See all topics Follow Richmond, Virginia — Amid the hubbub of passengers and planes shuttling in and out of the international airport in Richmond, Virginia, each week there’s also a steady stream of flights bearing men and women in handcuffs. Last week, CNN was there to see some of these passengers — detainees in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement — being unloaded from unmarked white vans, lined up under the wing of a Boe

I Won't Split AirPods With My Wife Again Thanks to This iPhone Trick

When my wife and I travel, we usually download some shows to watch on our flight. But we always have to split a set of AirPods when we watch these shows. That means one of our ears is enjoying the show while the other is forced to endure the crying baby behind us on the plane, which can be distracting. But thanks to Apple's Audio Sharing feature, we can each enjoy a show together while using our own sets of AirPods, AirPods Pro or other headphones. Audio Sharing was introduced with iOS 18 and i

NeoLogic wants to build more energy-efficient CPUs for AI data centers

When NeoLogic started building its more energy-efficient CPUs for AI servers, folks in the industry told its founders Avi Messica and Ziv Leshem that their idea wasn’t viable. “Most of the people that we have met say it’s impossible,” Messica told TechCrunch. “Some of them told us, at the time, that the innovation is impossible because you cannot innovate in logic synthesis. You can’t innovate in circuit design. It’s too mature.” Israel-based NeoLogic nevertheless set out to prove them wrong,

Why I finally left Spotify

After our decade-long relationship, I’m breaking up with Spotify. It’s nothing personal. It’s just that Spotify and I have grown up, but we haven’t grown together. Over the years, I’ve been tempted to leave Spotify many times. I know that the company faces accusations of poor streaming payouts for artists, compared to its competitors, and I haven’t forgotten that it was Spotify that platformed Joe Rogan’s podcast, then exclusive to the platform, to spread misinformation about COVID-19 and othe

We went hands-on with Google Translate’s Duolingo rival ahead of its launch (APK teardown)

TL;DR We managed to activate and use the Practice feature in Google Translate. This feature is effectively Google’s take on Duolingo and lets you practice a desired language. The feature currently lets you practice French or Spanish in a variety of preset scenarios, but you can also create your own lessons. Earlier this year, we discovered evidence that Google was working on a new Practice feature in Google Translate. This would allow people to (surprise) practice a desired language. Now, we’

As a cell phone expert, these are the 5 cheapest carriers I recommend

Ryan Haines / Android Authority Over the last few years, I’ve tried well over a dozen phone service providers across a variety of different price points. While I regularly recommend a few carriers above the rest, what if you’re simply looking for the cheapest service you can get without sacrificing too much in terms of quality and features? The good news is that there are plenty of options out there. Below, I’ll focus on just five carriers that I feel offer a solid mix of pricing, reputation,

Your Windows PC has a secretly useful backup tool - here's how to access it

Lance Whitney / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways Windows has a hidden backup tool in Windows 10 and 11. It can save files to discs, drives, or network locations. Deprecated by Microsoft, so expect occasional errors. Regularly backing up your files is always a good idea, just in case any important or irreplaceable ones go missing. For that, you can turn to a variety of programs. But Windows itself has a built-in backup tool that's simple and flexible. The catch is that you