is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Google’s Personal Intelligence feature, which lets Gemini pull data from ...

Google began rolling out “personal intelligence” in Gemini early this year, giving AI subscribers the option of a more customized experience when using the company’s chatbot. Today, it’s using ...

In a nutshell: Modern CSS has been pushed into some unusual places over the past few years, but few experiments stretch it as far as a fully playable version of Doom rendered entirely with HTML ...

Last month, the Gemini app gained the ability to produce 30-second tracks with Lyria 3. Google today announced Lyria 3 Pro with support for songs that are up to 3 minutes long. Besides longer tracks, ...

The epic saga continues as director Denis Villeneuve returns to Arrakis for Dune: Part Three. Based on Frank Herbert’s celebrated novel Dune Messiah, this highly anticipated sequel to the blockbuster ...

Inspired by the shape-shifting skin of octopuses, Penn State researchers developed a smart hydrogel that can change appearance, texture, and shape on command. The material is programmed using a ...

Google-spinoff Waymo is in the midst of expanding its self-driving car fleet into new regions. Waymo touts more than 200 million miles of driving that informs how the vehicles navigate roads, but the ...

On a recent Saturday afternoon, Kendall Mayes was mindlessly scrolling on X when she noticed an unsettling trend surface on her feed. Users were prompting Grok, the platform’s built-in AI feature, to ...

Bowing to pressure, the company said it would restrict X users from generating explicit images of real people in jurisdictions where such content is illegal. By Ali Watkins The social media platform X ...

Elon Musk’s controversial Grok artificial intelligence model appears to have been restricted in part on one app, while remaining largely unchanged on another. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get ...

AI-generated images, old videos and altered photos proliferated on social media in the hours following former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro's capture. Several of these images quickly went viral, ...