Tuesday, June 30
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Wix-owned vibe coding platform Base44 has started rolling out its own AI model — with hopes that it will eventually outperform frontier models.
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Hundreds of contractors working on a project for Meta pretended to be kids in order to see how other chatbots like Gemini and ChatGPT would respond to high-risk subjects, WIRED found.
Time to say goodbye to that legacy Sprint plan. | Image: Alex Castro / The Verge Earlier today, T-Mobile started notifying customers that it will be retiring many legacy plans and moving subscribers onto one of its current rate plans. This move includes plans that date back to the 3G era, and it's going about as well as you'd expect. Affected customers began sharing screenshots of the text on re
WIRED has tested 100-plus bed-in-a-box mattresses for a week each. Our top pick, the Helix Midnight Luxe hybrid, is the best bed you can buy online.
While Kara Zor-El's appearance at the end of James Gunn's Superman was a very pleasant surprise, Warner Bros. Discovery's plan to fast-track a standalone Supergirl feature always felt a little dubious. It seemed odd that, after Superman, the studio wanted to flesh out its new cinematic universe with films about another Kryptonian and one of Batman's less notable villains. But Gunn implored fans to
VCs remain thirsty to fund AI coding startups. This one, founded by investor Chamath Palihapitiya, is no exception.
Even as the geopolitical conversation around AI continues to grow more fraught following the U.S. government's actions to limit the new models from Anthropic and OpenAI, Chinese open source darling DeepSeek is back with yet another open release that could once again change AI development around the globe. Over the weekend, the firm released DSpark, a new, MIT-Licensed system designed to make larg
The iPhone 17 Pro. | Image: The Verge Leaked iPhone 18 Pro photos and parts lists appeared on the dark web following a data breach affecting one of Apple's key suppliers, according to a report from Reuters. The leaked images show a drop test of what a source tells Reuters is the iPhone 18 Pro, equipped with a three-camera layout and Apple logo. This comes just a week after Tata Electronics, an I
Google is expanding Gemini’s personalized AI image generation to eligible free users in the U.S., allowing the chatbot to create images based on your interests and data from connected Google apps.
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Tidal shared its new policies regarding AI-generated music today and how the platform plans to "protect artists" and "inform listeners." Instead of banning it outright, starting on July 15th Tidal will label tracks it has identified as being 100 percent AI-generated with an icon. But starting today those tracks will no longer be monetizable. "Tidal's priority is ensuring royalties go to original w
There are already a few ways to play PlayStation games on the go, but Sony is also rumored to be working on a new handheld. | Photo by Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge Sony hinted in a recent Q&A with investors that the next generation PlayStation will offer some kind of experience that lets you play games outside of your living room. Here's the relevant portion from the transcript, emphasis
Kobo users can now automatically sync their reading progress to StoryGraph, making it easier to track books, reading stats, and challenges without relying on Amazon’s Goodreads.
OpenAI is releasing some sort of device related to its AI-powered coding tool, Codex, on July 15th. In a video posted to X on Monday, OpenAI shows a square-shaped device with several buttons, alongside the caption, "Your favorite Codex shortcuts are getting an upgrade." This isn't the mysterious AI-powered device OpenAI is working on with former Apple designer Jony Ive, however. As shown in the te
Uber said it is readying the launch of a separate autonomous vehicle partnership in the city, but did not name the partner.
As Anthropic forges a closer relationship with the state of California, the federal government has made an enemy out of the OpenAI rival.
The world's two largest memory chip companies vow to build more memory lab fabs as South Korea positions itself as an AI tech powerhouse country.
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Imagine coming in to work to learn that a new underling will report to you. The worker is not a person but an AI tool—one that your company nonetheless calls Alex, an…
The iPad Air supports Apple Pencil Pro, plus hover support. | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto, The Verge Most of Apple’s price increases have gone into effect, resulting in iPads and other products costing hundreds more than they did a few days ago. If last week’s Prime Day sale wasn’t a good time to consider buying an iPad, we found a deal worth considering that’s just under $500 right now. The
The startup, which runs a popular free AI leaderboard, launched its commercial service just last September.
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Cursor now has a mobile app for guiding your coding agent on the go. Cursor has launched a new mobile app for remote oversight over coding agents.
A single fake error report hijacked Claude Code in controlled testing — the agent ran the attacker's code with the developer's full privileges, and not one alert fired. EDR, WAF, IAM, and the firewall all missed it completely. Tenet Security's June agentjacking disclosure describes a single crafted Sentry error event — sent through a public credential that requires no breach and no authentication
The Govee Uplighter in action. | Image: Govee July 4th sales are typically a precursor to what we’d see during a mid-July Prime Day, but obviously things are flipped around this year. Last week’s big Prime Day sale is over, yet there are a number of familiar deals still poking around in the week leading up to the nation’s birthday. Best Buy is hosting its own 4th of July sale, for example. And,
You can reserve the username you want to use before the feature starts rolling out later this year. | Image: Meta / WhatsApp WhatsApp is introducing a new way to add and chat with contacts, without having to share your phone number. Usernames will launch "later this year," in a move to make the communications platform "even more private," allowing you to keep your phone number concealed from peo
Even if you only use WhatsApp sometimes, you might want to snag your username now to stop giving out your phone number.
A new proposal would ban the sale of Americans' health and location information to data brokers - including information people reveal to an AI chatbot like ChatGPT or Claude. In the coming weeks, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Representative Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA) are planning to debut a new version of the Health and Location Data Protection Act that's better suited to the AI era. The forme
Enterprise investment in AI is booming. Gartner is calling 2026 an “inflection year” for organizations to align their AI projects with strategic business objectives. As the pressure to prove ROI mounts, executives and technology leaders are looking to agentic AI to drive the measurable financial outcomes their businesses seek. A prime opportunity for AI agents…
Validate AI-generated insights, establish governance, and prioritize real-world research where it delivers the greatest value. The post Where synthetic data fits into customer research appeared first on MarTech.
Flipper Devices, a company that built a banned hacking device, now wants to hack your attention span.
A single afternoon of tool-calling can eat a $20 monthly subscription. The fix isn't using fewer tools, it's changing where your data lives. The post Agentic AI is rewriting martech economics and infrastructure appeared first on MarTech.
Mastering one AI platform matters less than regularly testing what's new and recognizing when the technology changes. The post The most valuable AI skill takes 10 minutes a week appeared first on MarTech.
Custom integrations can unlock flexibility, but growing maintenance costs and data issues can quickly outweigh the benefits. The post When best-of-breed stacks become too complex to manage appeared first on MarTech.
HP has scaled its OpenAI Frontier integration across global operations to optimise enterprise workflows and accelerate output. The hardware manufacturer initiated testing of the platform in February 2026. Early pilot programs yielded verified operational gains in software engineering and cybersecurity remediation. Expanding these initial trials into an enterprise-wide operating model requires conn
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The inevitable weakness of metrics There are plenty of useful things a metric can reveal. There are even more that it can obscure or corrupt. Like a lot of people bitten…
The 1970s porn actress turned New York City late night public access queen says censorship and a lack of star quality among modern adult entertainers turned her off of the industry.
With AI-powered noise reduction, an automatic speech-focusing system, and a simple, effective hearing test, it’s a shame these aids don't come with a better app.
Climate activist Will Lawrence cofounded the Sunrise Movement. Now, he has shifted his focus in his attempt to compete for a swing-district seat by calling for a data center moratorium.
Europe’s pro-competition proposals could see Google Search and Android systems opened up. The company claims there are serious privacy flaws.
FIFA says hydration breaks protect players from heat. They also create new annoying commercial breaks—and fans are calling foul.
Drone shows are the new fireworks—and possibly a new kind of religion. I traveled to Texas to be converted.
The All England Lawn Tennis Club is adding new AI-powered features to Wimbledon’s digital platforms through its ongoing work with IBM. The updates will be available through the Wimbledon app and wimbledon.com as first-round matches begin on Monday. They include an upgraded Match Chat assistant and a new feature called Key Moments. The features will […] The post Wimbledon adds IBM AI tools for live
Natural language processing is reshaping professional communication on online platforms, enabling more relevant and personalised networking interactions. As AI-driven systems increasingly comprehend and generate human language, these technological advances affect how users pursue and maintain professional connections, presenting both opportunities and challenges in authentic relationship-building.
Modern DevSecOps needs security checks that run before release day. Teams now write code, build services and deploy updates at a pace that manual review cannot match. That’s why they use automated testing, as it helps catch routine flaws before they reach production. The pressure has grown. Verizon’s 2025 Data Breach Investigations Report found that […] The post Best Automated Security Testing Too
xFusion presented scalable enterprise AI computing models at ISC 2026, transitioning hardware from edge devices to data centres. Enterprise technology buyers attending the Hamburg exhibition sought practical production frameworks. Hardware selection processes regularly fail to account for physical operating limits. Relying on public APIs exposes proprietary commercial data. xFusion engineers respo
New partnership brings on-device deepfake detection to video calls on desktop SAN FRANCISCO, June 29, 2026 — Scam.ai today announced a partnership with Qualcomm and the launch of Halo, an on-device deepfake detection model for live video calls. Both announcements were made at Computex 2026 in Taipei, where Scam.ai was featured at Qualcomm’s booth as […] The post Scam.ai Announces Qualcomm Partners
Bernin (Grenoble), France, June 29, 2026 - Soitec, a world leader in the design and manufacturing of innovative semiconductor materials, and ZenSemi, a premier specialty foundry in China, today announced a strategic collaboration to enable high-volume product…
STUTTGART, Germany, June 29, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- STARTUP AUTOBAHN powered by Plug and Play, founded in 2016, brings the automotive ecosystem together at Expo 2026 on July 2 in Stuttgart to showcase real startup–corporate collaboration projects and celebrate …
Chipotle's brand chief Fernando Machado tells Cannes Lions 2026 that boardroom pressure to adopt artificial intelligence for cost-cutting risks stripping brands of commercial differentiation, urging a return to strategic fundamentals. Hewarns that unchecked A…
Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing marketing, but core responsibilities like driving growth and building customer relationships remain unchanged, according to Publicis Sapient's Global CMO, Teresa Barreira. The company's people-plus-product approac…
Viva Technology (VivaTech) 2026, the annual technology and start-up extravaganza, successfully concluded in Paris, France last week. The Hong Kong Trade ...