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Microsoft Unveils Zero-Water Data Centers to Reduce AI Climate Impact

Microsoft Unveils Zero-Water Data Centers to Reduce AI Climate Impact

New design will use no water to cool the facilities’ servers and chips.

Elon Musk’s Billionaire Rocket Rival Peter Beck Is Hustling to Close Gap

Elon Musk’s Billionaire Rocket Rival Peter Beck Is Hustling to Close Gap

As a young man Peter Beck strapped on a homemade jet pack, put on a pair of roller skates, and blasted himself along a road.

Google Unveils New Quantum Computer With Mind-Boggling Speed

Google Unveils New Quantum Computer With Mind-Boggling Speed

Alphabet Inc.’s quantum computer needs just five minutes to solve a problem that would take supercomputers around 10 septillion ye...

TikTok tried to save itself with the First Amendment — and failed

TikTok tried to save itself with the First Amendment — and failed

Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos from Getty Images A court rejected arguments against forcing a sale of the massive Chinese-owne...

Microsoft’s AI boss and Sam Altman disagree on what it takes to get to AGI

Microsoft’s AI boss and Sam Altman disagree on what it takes to get to AGI

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman at the UK AI Safety Summit in November 2023. | Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images Microsoft AI CEO ...

Vivendi Shareholders Approve Split and Listings Due Next Week

Vivendi Shareholders Approve Split and Listings Due Next Week

French media conglomerate Vivendi SE can go ahead with a plan to spin off three multibillion-euro units next week, after sharehold...

How a Hedge Fund is Using Compute Power to Invest in AI

How a Hedge Fund is Using Compute Power to Invest in AI

Magnetar starts a VC fund.

Searching for color at Pantone’s all-brown party

Searching for color at Pantone’s all-brown party

Are we here to celebrate the color of the year or the luxury goods produced in its hue? Read the full story at The Verge.

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman says conversational AI is the next web browser

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman says conversational AI is the next web browser

Photo illustration by The Verge / Photo: Microsoft The company’s new AI chief on working for Microsoft, the OpenAI relationship, a...

Lego Fortnite is getting a big expansion with a GTA-style roleplaying city

Lego Fortnite is getting a big expansion with a GTA-style roleplaying city

Image: Epic Games Lego is building something new in Fortnite. A year after Lego Fortnite launched a new era inside of the game — o...

Raspberry Pi’s new keyboard computer can power an optional $100 display

Raspberry Pi’s new keyboard computer can power an optional $100 display

The Raspberry Pi 500 computer keyboard starts at $90, but you’ll need to add your own mouse, power supply, and screen for that pri...

TikTok Seeks to Pause US Ban Pending Supreme Court Review

TikTok Seeks to Pause US Ban Pending Supreme Court Review

TikTok asked that a US law forcing a sale or ban of the app by China-based parent company ByteDance Ltd. be put on hold to give th...

Ex-ASML Staffer Accused of Selling Chip Trade Secrets to Russia

Ex-ASML Staffer Accused of Selling Chip Trade Secrets to Russia

The Dutch government accused a former ASML Holding NV employee of selling the chip equipment manufacturer’s trade secrets to Russi...

Reddit’s new AI search tool helps you find Reddit answers without Google

Reddit’s new AI search tool helps you find Reddit answers without Google

Illustration: The Verge Reddit is launching a new AI-powered search tool called Reddit Answers to help you more easily find inform...

AI Voice Startup From Ex-OpenAI Researcher Valued at $200 Million

AI Voice Startup From Ex-OpenAI Researcher Valued at $200 Million

WaveForms wants to help people have better spoken conversations with machines.

MicroStrategy Buys More Bitcoin as Funding Draws Scrutiny

MicroStrategy Buys More Bitcoin as Funding Draws Scrutiny

MicroStrategy Inc. bought another $2.1 billion in Bitcoin while its combination of equity and fixed-income securities sales to fin...

VC Firm Dimension Raises $500 Million to Bet on AI and Medicine

VC Firm Dimension Raises $500 Million to Bet on AI and Medicine

Tech advancements will herald “generational shift” in health science, firm says.

UFC Selects the Daily Wire’s ‘Woke-Free’ Razor Brand as Official Partner

The partnership illustrates the mixed-martial-arts company’s growing cultural alignment with conservative politicians and podcaste...

OpenAI Tests Limits of AI Enthusiasm With $200 ChatGPT Plan

OpenAI Tests Limits of AI Enthusiasm With $200 ChatGPT Plan

OpenAI is looking to answer exactly how much we’re all willing to pay for the best artificial intelligence tools around. But first...

Grand Theft Auto VI Will Rule the Video Game Industry in 2025

Grand Theft Auto VI Will Rule the Video Game Industry in 2025

Expectations are dangerously high for the first GTA in more than a decade.

China Targets Nvidia For Potential Breaches of Anti-Monopoly Law

China Targets Nvidia For Potential Breaches of Anti-Monopoly Law

China has opened a probe into Nvidia Corp. over suspicions that the US chipmaker has broken anti-monopoly laws.

MapmyIndia Shares Surge After Firm Scraps Plan to Split Business

MapmyIndia Shares Surge After Firm Scraps Plan to Split Business

Shares of an CE Info Systems Ltd., known as MapmyIndia, jumped after the company said it is reversing an earlier plan to carve out...

Axiata, Sinar Mas Are Said to Near Deal for Indonesian Units

Axiata, Sinar Mas Are Said to Near Deal for Indonesian Units

Malaysian wireless carrier Axiata Group Bhd. and Indonesian conglomerate PT Sinar Mas Group are nearing an agreement to merge thei...

Itch.io is currently offline due to a ‘trash AI-powered’ phishing report

Itch.io is currently offline due to a ‘trash AI-powered’ phishing report

Image: Epic Games Indie game storefront Itch.io is currently offline because of what it describes as a bogus phishing report. Whil...

HelloFresh Falls After ABC Report on Use of Migrant Teen Workers

HelloFresh Falls After ABC Report on Use of Migrant Teen Workers

HelloFresh SE shares fell the most since August after ABC News reported it is under investigation by the US Labor Department over ...

How the Hedge Fund Magnetar Is Financing the AI Boom

How the Hedge Fund Magnetar Is Financing the AI Boom

Trading computing power for equity.

Taking on the Tyranny of the Tech Bros

Taking on the Tyranny of the Tech Bros

Coalitions between feminist movements, minorities, and labor activists will help keep the Silicon Valley moguls in check.

Jack Ma Pushes AI-Drive in Rare Speech Since Ant Crackdown

Jack Ma Pushes AI-Drive in Rare Speech Since Ant Crackdown

Chinese billionaire Jack Ma rallied his troops during a speech at Ant Group Co.’s 20th anniversary, making a rare appearance after...

To Build Electric Cars, Jaguar Land Rover Had to Redesign the Factory

To Build Electric Cars, Jaguar Land Rover Had to Redesign the Factory

At Jaguar Land Rover’s historic Halewood factory in Merseyside, England, state-of-the art assembly robots are now building the car...

Tencent and Nexon to Publish ‘The First Berserker’ Game in China

Tencent and Nexon to Publish ‘The First Berserker’ Game in China

Tencent Holdings Ltd. will develop and publish a localized version of The First Berserker: Khazan in China in partnership with Nex...

Trailers of the week: Star Trek, Severance, and Gundam

Trailers of the week: Star Trek, Severance, and Gundam

Michelle Yeoh in Star Trek: Section 31. | Image: Paramount Plus It’s the first week of December, and the end of the year is coming...

Mark Grayson gets new duds in the Invincible season 3 trailer

Mark Grayson gets new duds in the Invincible season 3 trailer

Invincible season three is on its way, and Amazon has released a new trailer in which hero Mark Grayson takes on robots, rams a ro...

The Wheel of Time spins up its third season in March

The Wheel of Time spins up its third season in March

Rand (Joshua Stradowski) and Moiraine (Rosamund Pike). | Screenshot: YouTube Amazon announced at CCXP in Brazil yesterday that sea...

Sony is still slashing prices on consoles, controllers, and more for the holidays

Sony is still slashing prices on consoles, controllers, and more for the holidays

Sony’s “cosmic red” DualSense Wireless Controller is down to $54.99 ($20 off) for a limited time. | Photo by Cameron Faulkner / Th...

CVC Said to Explore Takeover of German Software Firm CompuGroup

CVC Said to Explore Takeover of German Software Firm CompuGroup

CVC Capital Partners Plc is exploring an acquisition of CompuGroup Medical SE & Co. KGaA, a German software provider to the he...

Our hottest and coldest 2025 takes

Our hottest and coldest 2025 takes

There’s a lot we don’t know about what’s coming for tech in 2025. AI could save the world, or ruin it, or do pretty much nothing i...

Apple and Sony are working on Vision Pro support for PSVR2 controllers

Apple and Sony are working on Vision Pro support for PSVR2 controllers

Sony’s PSVR2 controller support may be coming to the Vision Pro through a special partnership. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales /...

Apple, Sony Discuss Teaming Up on Gaming Controllers for Vision Pro

Apple, Sony Discuss Teaming Up on Gaming Controllers for Vision Pro

Apple and Sony have discussed forging a partnership that could change gaming on the Vision Pro. Also: Apple has a three-year road ...

The Installer gift guide, part two

The Installer gift guide, part two

Image: David Pierce / The Verge Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 63, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world...

Electric Cars Could Last Much Longer Than You Think

Electric Cars Could Last Much Longer Than You Think

Rather than having a shorter lifespan than internal combustion engines, EV batteries are lasting way longer than expected, surpris...

Dubai’s Mega Tech IPO Solidifies Turnaround That Began in 2021

Dubai’s Mega Tech IPO Solidifies Turnaround That Began in 2021

Talabat’s $2 billion IPO marks a key milestone for Dubai’s booming stock market.

Ant Group President Cyril Han to Assume CEO Role From March 1

Ant Group President Cyril Han to Assume CEO Role From March 1

Ant Group Co.’s President Cyril Han will take on the role of chief executive officer from March 2025.

NZXT’s Flex PC rentals are still ‘misleading’ and ‘predatory,’ claims Gamers Nexus

NZXT’s Flex PC rentals are still ‘misleading’ and ‘predatory,’ claims Gamers Nexus

Image: NZXT Gamers Nexus has released a video deconstructing NZXT’s defense of its Flex gaming PC purchase and rental program. In ...

Michelle Yeoh’s spy team assembles in Star Trek: Section 31’s official trailer

Michelle Yeoh’s spy team assembles in Star Trek: Section 31’s official trailer

Michelle Yeoh as Emperor Philippa Georgiou. | Screenshot: YouTube There’s a lot of Star Trek: Discovery in the official trailer fo...

X gives Grok a new photorealistic AI image generator

X gives Grok a new photorealistic AI image generator

Image: The Verge X has given Grok a new AI image generator model called “Aurora” that seems to create far more photorealistic imag...

X helps update Kids Online Safety Act in final push for passage in the Republican-led House

X helps update Kids Online Safety Act in final push for passage in the Republican-led House

Photo illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos by Jerod Harris, Chesnot, Getty Images With just weeks left to pass legis...

Severance’s season 2 trailer teases answers and raises strange new questions

Severance’s season 2 trailer teases answers and raises strange new questions

Image: Apple We already knew that the tensions and scares were going to ramp up in season 2 of Severance, and the latest trailer p...

Google sues to stop the US from monitoring it like a bank

Google sues to stop the US from monitoring it like a bank

Image: Hugo Herrera / The Verge The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced on Friday it had placed Google Payment C...

VC Veteran Ethan Kurzweil on the Landscape for Startups Right Now

VC Veteran Ethan Kurzweil on the Landscape for Startups Right Now

In the 2010s, we saw an incredible boom in the venture capital space, fueled in part by cheap capital as well as cheap compute. Fa...

Fortnite’s new mode is an FPS that’s a lot like Counter-Strike

Fortnite’s new mode is an FPS that’s a lot like Counter-Strike

Image: Epic Games Epic Games is about to let Fortnite creators publish experiences with first-person modes, and to help show what’...

Georgia doctors speak out to challenge misinformation on sta...

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Georgia doctors speak out to challenge misinformation on state's abortion law, death of Amber Thurman

Pentagon sending a ‘few thousand’ personnel to Middle East d...

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Pentagon sending a ‘few thousand’ personnel to Middle East day after Biden said he wouldn’t add combat troops

Jimmy Carter becomes first president to turn 100

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Jimmy Carter becomes first president to turn 100

After Shaq, Jay-Z, Beyonce And Others, Tesla Cybertruck Join...

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After Shaq, Jay-Z, Beyonce And Others, Tesla Cybertruck Joins Joins Irvine Police Department's Fleet, Will Be Used For Community Outreach Efforts

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