AI was everywhere at gaming’s big developer conference — except the games
AI was everywhere at the GDC Festival of Gaming this year. Vendors at the event pitched generative AI tools for things like making AI-driven...
Online age checks came first — a VPN crackdown could be next
This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more news about online age verification and...
Are AI tokens the new signing bonus or just a cost of doing business?
Maybe tokens really will become the fourth pillar of engineering compensation. But engineers might want to hold the line before embracing this as a...
Halide co-founder is suing former partner for bringing source code to Apple
Halide running on an iPhone. | Photo: Allison Johnson / The Verge
Lux Optics co-founder Sebastiaan de With made headlines when he joined Apple in...
It’s been 20 years since the first tweet
On March 21, 2006, Jack Dorsey posted a simple message: “just setting up my twittr”.
Publisher pulls horror novel ‘Shy Girl’ over AI concerns
Hachette Book Group said it will not be publishing “Shy Girl” over concerns that artificial intelligence was used to generate the text.
Artificial intelligence assists health care
New AI tools are helping physicians take notes, identify disease and more.
These people used AI to help find their lost pets
These people used AI to help find their lost pets
Delve accused of misleading customers with ‘fake compliance’
An anonymous Substack post accuses compliance startup Delve of “falsely” convincing “hundreds of customers they were compliant” with privacy and security regulations.
The AirPods Pro 3 are $50 off right now, nearly matching their best-ever price
Less than a week ago, Apple announced the forthcoming AirPods Max 2, a pair of over-ear headphones that leverage the company’s H2 chip for...

























