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Editor's take: Game developers are actively promoting AI and large language models as the next big leap for the industry. Despite ambitious visions of fully automated characters and self-generating virtual worlds, the current reality falls short and is often limited to profanity-laced chatbots meant to nudge you into pressing a button. Epic Games recently announced several AI-related updates for Fortnite. Creators still building in the 2017 multiplayer game will soon be able to populate their b
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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Large language models (LLMs) are transforming how enterprises operate, but their “black box” nature often leaves enterprises grappling with unpredictability. Addressing this critical challenge, Anthropic recently open-sourced its circuit tracing tool, allowing developers and researchers to directly understand and control models’ inner workings. This tool allows investi
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Claude 4’s system prompt is very similar to the 3.7 prompt we analyzed last month. They’re nearly identical, but the changes scattered throughout reveal much about how Anthropic is using system prompts to define their applications (specifically their UX) and how the prompts fit into their development cycle. Let’s step through the notable changes. Old Hotfixes Are Gone, New Hotfixes Begin We theorized that many random instructions, targeting common LLM “gotchas”, were hot-fixes: short instruct
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The App Store logo is seen next to the Epic Games Store logo on two screens. Epic, maker of the popular game "Fortnite," wants to sell digital items in its apps without giving a cut of the purchase price to Apple. Apple was dealt a blow in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Wednesday, as a panel of judges denied the company's emergency application to halt changes to its App Store that resulted from the company's legal battle with Epic Games. Apple "bears the burden of showing t
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is The Verge’s executive editor. He has covered tech, policy, and online creators for over a decade. Apple will have to continue allowing web links and external payment options in the App Store after its request to halt a judge’s order was rejected today by a higher court. In April, a federal judge demanded that Apple begin allowing web links, cease restricting how links are formatted, and enable developers to offer external payment options without giving the company a cut of their revenue. Ap
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Reddit had filed a lawsuit against Anthropic, alleging that the AI company behind the Claude chatbot has been using its data for years without permission. The lawsuit comes after Reedit has increasingly taken a hardline stance against scrapers and companies that use its data to train AI models. In their filing, Reddit alleges that Anthropic was training its Claude chatbot on Reddit data as early as December 2021. The lawsuit also includes a screenshot in which Claude seems to acknowledge it was
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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. Reddit sued Anthropic on Wednesday in San Francisco superior court, claiming that the OpenAI rival had accessed its platform more than 100,000 times since July 2024, after Anthropic allegedly said it had blocked its bots from doing so. In the filing, Reddit calls Anthropic a “late-blooming artificial intelligence (‘AI’) company
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Reddit is suing Anthropic for allegedly using the site’s data to train AI models without a proper licensing agreement, according to a complaint filed in a Northern California court on Wednesday. Reddit claims in the complaint that Anthropic’s unauthorized use of the site’s data for commercial purposes was unlawful, and alleges the AI startup violated Reddit’s user agreement. Reddit’s lawsuit makes it the first Big Tech company to legally challenge an AI model provider over its training data pra
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Reddit is suing artificial intelligence startup Anthropic for what it's calling a breach of contract and for engaging in "unlawful and unfair business acts" by using the social media company's platform and data without authority. The lawsuit, filed in San Francisco on Wednesday, claims that Anthropic has been training its models on the personal data of Reddit users without obtaining their consent. Reddit alleges that it has been harmed by the unauthorized commercial use of its content. Reddit
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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. LG has announced a new 40-inch Thunderbolt 5 monitor with an ultrawide 21:9 aspect ratio, and the company is being very upfront about who it’s for: people who love crunching data and want more room to do that. The new LG UltraFine 40WT95UF is designed to “meet the needs of data-intensive industries such as finance and IT,” according to a release
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Editor's take: While Fortnite's comeback on iOS is a significant milestone, the story is defined as much by the unexpected length of its absence as by its triumphant return. For CEO Tim Sweeney, the five-year ban was never part of the plan – a reminder of just how unpredictable the intersection of technology, business, and the courts can be. When Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney decided to challenge Apple's App Store policies back in 2020, he anticipated a fierce response. But what he didn't expect w
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Adam Breeden/ZDNET For many people, motion smoothing on TVs is only appropriate for gaming and watching live sports; enthusiasts typically prefer turning off the feature to watch anything else because it can detract from the filmmaker's original intent, making on-screen images seem artificial or hyper-realistic. This is what's called the "soap opera effect." Also: I changed 6 settings on my Samsung TV to instantly improve the performance It's a perfectly descriptive metaphor that probably req
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Kerry Wan/ZDNET Whether you're considering buying a new TV or your old flat panel seems to be doing fine, there are still ways to optimize your viewing experience, and it all begins with your television's settings. Let's explore some of the key factors determining how your TV performs and what you can do to make it look even better. 1. Turn down the sharpness The sharper the picture, the better. Right? Not necessarily. Contrary to popular belief, the "sharpness" setting on your TV doesn't af
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Editor's take: While Fortnite's comeback on iOS is a significant milestone, the story is defined as much by the unexpected length of its absence as by its triumphant return. For CEO Tim Sweeney, the five-year ban was never part of the plan – a reminder of just how unpredictable the intersection of technology, business, and the courts can be. When Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney decided to challenge Apple's App Store policies back in 2020, he anticipated a fierce response. But what he didn't expect w
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is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. AI Darth Vader was a huge hit in Fortnite, and now Epic plans to let creators make AI-powered NPCs for their own in-game experiences. But a senior Epic exec says that creators should expect a “learning curve” when using them — something Epic had to figure out on its own. The AI Vader that Epic made lets users talk to the character using their voice and hear an AI-generated ve
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Windsurf, the popular vibe coding startup that’s reportedly being acquired by OpenAI, says Anthropic significantly reduced its first-party access to its Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude 3.5 Sonnet AI models. Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan said in a post on X Tuesday that Anthropic gave Windsurf little notice for this change, and the startup now has to find other third-party compute providers to run several of Anthropic’s most popular AI models on its platform. “We have been very clear to Anthropic that
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Kerry Wan/ZDNET Say you recently picked up a shiny new TV. You unbox it like a kid at Christmas and prepare to indulge in all its visual glory. You think to yourself, "This is 2025. TV technology is sizzling, and it's going to look amazing no matter what." So you plug it in and don't take one look at the default settings. Big mistake. Also: Your car's USB port is seriously underutilized: 5 features you're not taking advantage of I've been guilty of it. And I'm okay with that because it's wide
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Anthropic has given its AI a blog. A week ago, Anthropic quietly launched Claude Explains, a new page on its website that’s generated mostly by the company’s AI model family, Claude. Populated by posts on technical topics related to various Claude use cases (e.g. “Simplify complex codebases with Claude”), the blog is intended to be a showcase of sorts for Claude’s writing abilities. It’s not clear just how much of Claude’s raw writing is making its way into Claude Explains posts. According to
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For better or worse, Fortnite will let creators make NPCs that ditch the script and go freestyle. A new tool in the Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN) will allow developers to create their own generative AI-powered NPCs. Their voice types, delivery styles and personality traits are all customizable. Epic demoed the tech on Tuesday during its "State of Unreal" keynote. The company said the NPC generated its responses in real-time during the presentation. It was created using "about 20 lines" of p
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Fortnite was missing from the iOS App Store for nearly five years before returning to the US last month. Apple kicked the game off in 2020 after Epic snuck in an in-app payment mechanism that violated App Store rules at the time. Epic CEO Tim Sweeney knew that the choice would result in “fireworks,” but he initially expected the app would return quite a bit sooner. “I had actually hoped that we would get an injunction against Apple blocking Fortnite and that we’d only be off for a few weeks,” S
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Fortnite creators will soon have a lot more toys to play with in Unreal Editor in Fortnite (UEFN). At the State of Unreal keynote today at Unreal Fest 2025, Epic Games announced a slew of new intellectual-property assets for the popular level creation tool. Content from the hit Netflix show Squid Game will be coming to UEFN on June 27 alongside the release of the series finale. Creators will also get to use features, templates, and assets from Avatar: The Last Airbender next year. Star Wars wi
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We may never fully understand how TikTok's "For You" algorithm works or why it sends users down the sometimes very specific rabbit holes it does. But the company is making it a bit easier to control what topics are likely (or not) to appear in recommendations. The company is rolling out a setting to "manage topics" within the app to all users in an attempt to add more personalization to users' feeds. The setting, which the company began offering in the United States last year, is a set of slide
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is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. TikTok is expanding Manage Topics, a feature that lets you customize how often content in the platform’s top 10 categories surfaces in your feed, like sports, travel, humor, creative arts, and dance. After rolling out a pilot in the US last year, TikTok spokesperson Jessica Allen confirmed to The Verge that it’s now launching globally. TikTok says
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Epic Games unveiled the State of Unreal in a keynote speech by CEO Tim Sweeney at the Unreal Fest in Orlando, Florida. Epic Games unveiled a stunning tech demo with CD Projekt Red, the maker of the Witcher series, as it showed off the tech behind The Witcher 4 on Unreal Engine 5.6. This post will give a taste of the event but our freelance writer Giancarlo Valdes is on the ground in Orlando. He’ll file dispatches with more details and hands-on impressions. And yep, Epic is doing this reveal in
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ORLANDO, Fla. – MetaHuman, an innovative tool from Epic Games to quickly create realistic digital human characters, is now out of early access and available to all developers with today’s release of Unreal Engine 5.6. With the new update, developers can now use MetaHuman Animation to generate real-time animations and audio from almost any mono camera (such as webcams and most smartphones). Any camera that works with Unreal Engine LiveLink, including some Android phones, will be able to take adv
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is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Epic Games’ hyperrealistic MetaHuman characters are seriously impressive, and now the company is making it easier for developers to incorporate them into their projects. At its State of Unreal show on Tuesday, Epic announced that the MetaHuman Creator is now embedded within Unreal Engine as part of Unreal Engine 5.6. The company is also bringing its face-authoring tools for M
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is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Epic Games is going to allow Fortnite creators to make AI-powered NPCs that work similar to the recently-launched AI Darth Vader. The company showed off the tech at its State of Unreal show on Tuesday. Using the Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN), creators can make characters with personalities that they can voice chat with. Creators will be able to set the type of voice, thei
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Epic Games’ 2025 edition of its Unreal Fest conference is set to kick off on June 3rd in Orlando. There’s likely going to be a lot of news from the show; the company’s Unreal Engine is used as part of making many of the world’s biggest video games and entertainment, and Fortnite is still a huge game that’s getting new experiences all the time thanks to the Unreal Editor for Fortnite. At the show, Epic will be hosting its annual State of Unreal keynote, which will begin at 9:30AM ET on June 3rd.
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is an entertainment editor covering streaming, virtual worlds, and every single Pokémon video game. Andrew joined The Verge in 2012, writing over 4,000 stories. An ongoing tradition at Epic’s big keynotes is a gorgeous tech demo that shows off what its game engine is capable of. For this year’s State of Unreal, the company turned to The Witcher and Cyberpunk 2077 developer CD Projekt Red. This new demo a beautiful glimpse at its fantasy world, filled with blood, fire, and monsters — and more im
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There’s a lot going on in gaming this week: Summer Game Fest, an Xbox showcase, and a little console launch from Nintendo. But before it all begins, Fortnite maker Epic Games is hosting its annual State of Unreal event. Last year, Epic spread a lot of news across two events in San Francisco and Seattle. This year, the focus will be on a keynote in Orlando. While we don’t know exactly what will be shown, you can expect the latest on the company’s major products: Fortnite, the Unreal Engine, and
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