Semafor CEO Justin Smith says his company hosted close to 100 events in 2025. His ambition is to build a Washington, DC-based event that's supposed to rivals the annual Davos gathering in Switzerland....
Google CEO Sundar Pichai (right) and Apple CEO Tim Cook (left). Anna Moneymaker—Getty Images/Reuters Apple enjoyed a long run at the top of the tech supply chain. Now, this prized position is be...
The ripple effects from the RAM shortage have already been resonating throughout the PC industry. Nvidia wants to scale back on its lower priced video cards that are equipped with a large amount of VR...
Elon Musk’s platform X on Wednesday announced measures to prevent its AI chatbot Grok from undressing images of real people, following global backlash over its generation of sexualised photos of women...
Surprise! Nintendo has released an unexpected free update for Donkey Kong Country Returns HD , adding Dixie Kong and a new Turbo Attack mode for the game on both Switch and Switch 2. The Switch 2 vers...
Baidu's ERNIE-5.0-0110 ranks #8 globally on LMArena, becoming the only Chinese model in the top 10 while outperforming GPT-5.1-High....
The company’s move closer to artificial intelligence and high-performance computing followed many others repurposing some of their infrastructure away from mining crypto....
Monero breaks into all-time-high territory while Dash records its largest move since October. The privacy sector is heating up—here's what's driving it....
Universal basic income provides recurring cash payments, no strings attached. Wong Yu Liang AI advances could widen wealth gaps, which has prompted calls for a universal basic income . UBI offers recu...
X, a place for Articles. Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto X is promoting its "articles" feature by running a $1 million contest for the most viral article. An article about self-help recently went vira...
As I removed the Roccat Burst Core from its box, one of its feet fell off. Budget gaming mice can, and often will, break eventually – but not normally this quickly. I stuck the foot back on, pressed i...
Hi HN, I recently noticed a recurring visual artifact in the "Most Replayed" heatmap on the YouTube player. The highest peaks were always surrounded by two dips. I got curious about why they were ther...
Natural Cycles, the company behind a controversial FDA-cleared birth control app, is replacing its thermometer with a wristband that measures skin temperature, heart rate, and movement during sleep. T...
Microsoft is announcing a successor to its first in-house AI chip today, the Maia 200. Built on TSMC's 3nm process, Microsoft says its Maia 200 AI accelerator "delivers 3 times the FP4 performance of ...
On Friday morning, X and Grok went offline for users around the world on both the websites and apps. Outage reports began spiking on DownDetector around 10:00AM ET, while Cisco's ThousandEyes outage m...
These laptops can help you get work done. | Illustration by William Joel / The Verge Buying the right laptop can be stressful. It’s likely one of the pricier tech purchases you’ll make, and there are ...
Spotify wants audiobooks to be on the same page. Spotify appears to be working on a novel feature that will allow audiobook listeners to pick up where they left off in the physical book. Android Autho...
Plans are increasing by $1-$2 per month. The price of Spotify Premium is about to jump again in the US , marking its third price hike since 2023. Spotify announced that subscribers in the US, Estonia,...
Partiful A new way to flirt just dropped. Partiful wants you to shoot your shot in the RSVPs. The party invite app recently launched a tool called "Crush" that lets people match with mutuals. ...
Today’s episode of Decoder is about X, Grok, and Elon Musk. By now we’re several weeks into one of the worst, most upsetting, and most stupidly irresponsible AI controversies in the short history of g...