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The VergeGoogle Search is now using AI to replace headlines
Since roughly the turn of the millennium, Google Search has been the bedrock of the web. People loved Google's trustworthy "10 blue links" search experience and its unspoken promise: The website you click is the website you get. Now, Google is beginning to replace news headlines in its search result
The VergeMuch ado about protein
Why is my local Target selling protein powder in the tampon aisle? An investigation. This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent every Friday from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they're going to change your life. Opt in for Op
The VergeAmazon is making an Alexa phone
Over ten years after shelving the Fire Phone, Amazon is reportedly planning to launch another smartphone, this time focused on Alexa. According to Reuters, the phone, which is code-named "Transformer," will center around Amazon's AI assistant, but Alexa won't "necessarily be the primary operating sy
The VergeWhy people really hate AI
There's a big, and increasing, disconnect in culture right now when it comes to artificial intelligence. Companies of all shapes and sizes are hunting for places to deploy AI and can't stop talking about how this new technology will change everything. But when you ask people about AI, the consistent
The VergeAmazon’s Big Spring Sale 2026: all of the latest deals
If you’re looking for the best time to get a deal this spring, it might very well be during Amazon’s Big Spring Sale, which kicks off at 3:01AM ET on March 25th and runs through 2:59AM ET on April 1st. Some early deals have already begun (we’re compiling them here), but we’ll also be highlighting ne
The Verge‘Work from home,’ encourages the world’s energy watchdog
Many organizations have called employees back to offices following Covid-related lockdowns, but the Iran war and ensuing energy crisis may quickly see workers returning to work from home. The International Energy Agency (IEA) - an energy watchdog established to help safeguard global power supplies f
The Next WebDORA is reshaping how Europe’s financial sector thinks about compliance, and most firms still aren’t ready
Fourteen months after the Digital Operational Resilience Act became enforceable, Europe’s financial institutions are running out of room to improvise. The regulation, which took effect on January 17, 2025, was supposed to mark the beginning of a new era in digital risk management across the EU. Inst
Ars TechnicaRocket Report: Canada makes a major move, US Space Force says actually, let's be hasty
"Our security, our prosperity, and our sovereignty will increasingly extend beyond our atmosphere."
These AI notetaking devices can help you record and transcribe your meetings
These physical notetakers transcribe audio and give users summaries and action items of meetings using AI. Some even offer live translation.
The Next WebBBLeap raises €5M to bring plant-level precision spraying to arable farms globally
The Rijen-based startup, which retrofits existing sprayers with nozzle-by-nozzle PWM control, will use the capital to commercialise its LeapEye camera system and scale LeapBox internationally from Europe to Canada. The idea behind BBLeap is disarmingly simple: most agricultural sprayers treat an ent
The Next WebApollo.io acquires Pocus as it pushes to build an AI-native operating system for sales teams
The San Francisco B2B sales platform, which recently approached $200M in ARR and appointed a new CEO, absorbs the revenue intelligence startup’s signal-layer technology to deepen its enterprise push. Apollo.io has acquired Pocus, a revenue intelligence startup that helps sales teams identify and pri
Ars TechnicaProject Hail Mary is in theaters—but do the linguistics work?
Ars speaks with a linguist about the ease with which Grace and Rocky communicate.
The Next WebPerplexity has launched Perplexity Health
The AI search company launches a suite of health data connectors, linking Apple Health, wearables, and electronic health records, making it the second major AI platform to integrate with Apple Health after OpenAI. Consumer health AI has become the year’s fastest-moving product category, and on Thurs
The Next WebWhy the checkout is the most strategic product in your 2026 stack
Every product team has a roadmap. Every marketing team has a funnel. But ask most SaaS and ecommerce leaders which single component has the greatest direct impact on their revenue, and you will hear a surprising amount of hesitation. The answer, increasingly, is the one piece of infrastructure that
The Next WebVC Montis raises €50M to back Europe’s energy and industrial tech startups
The Warsaw-based fund, backed by the European Investment Fund and the Polish Development Fund, plans 20–25 pre-seed and seed investments in companies working on energy transition, industrial automation, and AI. The team behind Warsaw-based Montis Capital has raised €50 million at first close for a n
The VergeValve’s huge SteamOS 3.8 update adds long-awaited features — and supports Steam Machine
Valve has just released SteamOS 3.8.0 in preview, and it's a doozy. Not only is it the first release to support the upcoming Steam Machine living room gaming PC, it comes with long-awaited features for Valve's handhelds and more support for other companies' handhelds than we've seen to date - includ
The VergeOpenAI is planning a desktop ‘superapp’
OpenAI is working on a desktop "superapp" that merges its ChatGPT app, the Codex AI coding app, and its AI-powered Atlas browser into one app, The Wall Street Journal reports. The company is making the change as part of an effort to simplify its various product efforts, according to a memo cited by
Amazon acquires Rivr, maker of a stair-climbing delivery robot
Amazon and Jeff Bezos had previously invested in the startup.
Ars TechnicaRFK Jr. has destroyed over a quarter of health dept's expert panels
Under Kennedy, the health dept. has wiped out 75 advisory boards, corrupted others.
Ars TechnicaCloud service providers ask EU regulator to reinstate VMware partner program
Broadcom says the group is misrepresenting market "realities."
The VergeSony’s WF-1000XM6 wireless earbuds are on sale for the first time
Sony’s WF-1000XM6 are on sale in both color options. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Sony’s WF-1000XM6 are the best noise-canceling wireless earbuds you can buy, but they’ve been hard to recommend over the last-gen model because of the price. While the older version is often on sale fo
Employees had to restrain a dancing humanoid robot after it went wild at a California restaurant
A dancing robot in a Haidilao hot pot restaurant boogied down a little too hard.
The Next WebBluesky raises $100M Series B as new CEO takes charge
Ten days after founder Jay Graber stepped aside as CEO, the decentralised social platform has disclosed a $100 million Series B led by Bain Capital Crypto, a round that closed last April but was never announced. The timing tells its own story. There is a quiet irony in the fact that the person who b
Ars TechnicaHundreds of millions of iPhones can be hacked with a new tool found in the wild
DarkSword, a powerful iPhone-hacking technique, has been discovered in use by Russian hackers.