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                          The AI takeover of mathematics has begun

                      OpenAI showed that AI can tackle long-standing problems in mathematics. Experts are excited about the possibilities — and worried about what comes next for their field.

                        Robert Hart An hour ago
                              Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t understand how to live
                            Elizabeth Lopatto
                              What to expect from Google’s 2026 Pixel hardware launch event
                            Jay Peters
                              What happens to Bose when headphones become AI?
                            Nilay Patel
                              This great retro-inspired keyboard now comes preassembled
                            Nathan Edwards
                            Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t understand how to live
                          Elizabeth Lopatto
                            What to expect from Google’s 2026 Pixel hardware launch event
                          Jay Peters
                            What happens to Bose when headphones become AI?
                          Nilay Patel
                            This great retro-inspired keyboard now comes preassembled
                          Nathan Edwards

              The latest Quick Posts

            Pixel peeping / This year’s Made By Google event doesn’t kick off until later this week, but plenty of details have already surfaced.

                                What to expect from Google’s 2026 Pixel hardware launch event

                            Get ready for a bunch of new phones, smartwatches, and maybe even an item tracker.

                              Jay Peters
                                Pixel 11 Pro Fold design leaks ahead of Google launch event

                            Leaked marketing renders appear to show a new smartwatch and earbuds, too.

                              Jay Peters
                                Pixel 11 specs and price leak with no surprises

                            More confirmation that price hikes and RAM cuts are coming our way.

                              Terrence O'Brien
                                The Pixel colors might rule this year

                            If this hot pink Pixel is real, that would be awesome.

                              Emma Roth

            Staff picks / Our favorite stories you don’t want to miss.

                                AI bots started a religion — humans immediately followed

                            AI models are trying desperately to accomplish mysterious goals. ‘Spiralism’ was the first time they tried it on a mass scale.

                              Hayden Field
                                You could be taking way better photos on your phone

                            It takes a little more work, but phones can now legitimately rival point-and-shoot cameras.

                              David Imel
                                The messy politics behind Google’s big AI shakeup

                            Google’s AI leadership changes may have come down to pressure to speed up products — and internal ethical conflicts.

                              Hayden Field
                                Why does Apple keep banning Telegram, but never X?

                            Apple yanked Telegram from the App Store over an instance of illegal content, while allowing X to remain amid a flurry of nonconsensual deepfakes.

                              Emma Roth

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                          Watching Roku’s AI channel is like eating from a trough
                        Charles Pulliam-Moore Aug 7
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                          Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t understand how to live
                        Elizabeth Lopatto Aug 10
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                          Anker’s travel charger works in almost any country and is down to $20
                        Sheena Vasani Aug 10
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                          Costco’s great Switch 2 console bundle includes over $100 in free stuff
                        Brad Bourque Aug 10
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                          Zuckerberg’s yacht was closer, but someone else saved a stranded boat
                        Terrence O'Brien Aug 9

            Review roulette / A selection of our latest reviews, from games to gadgets.

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                                Nitecore’s latest power bank is the lightest and most compact yet

                            You gotta pay to play though.

                              Thomas Ricker
                                Samsung’s Z Fold 8 Ultra is more of the same, but better than ever

                            It doesn’t quite feel ‘Ultra,’ but it’s a comprehensive improvement on last year’s phone.

                              Dominic Preston
                                Big Walk is like co-op Breath of the Wild

                            You explore a vast world and solve tricky puzzles — but in Big Walk, you figure it all out with your friends.

                              Jay Peters
                                Viture’s cheapest AR glasses have the sharpest image clarity I’ve seen yet

                            Its $299.99 Pro 2 cost the same as Xreal’s A01 Plus, but diopter dials make a big difference.

                              Cameron Faulkner

            Feature packed / Revisit some of The Verge’s latest longform.

                                Who’s afraid of the big, bad GPU?

                            How you feel about AI’s energy use might change how you feel about computers entirely.

                              Justine Calma
                                Rivian makes the iconic American car — but that may not be enough

                            Hit by an icy EV slump and a literal tornado, Rivian bets it all on the R2.

                              Andrew Hawkins
                                Trans teens want to talk about their future

                            The Trump administration might not want trans kids to exist, but they’re living their lives anyway.

                              Grace Byron
                                The laid-off lawyers and PhDs training AI to steal their careers

                            Experienced white-collar workers are now part of a miserable gig economy.

                              Josh Dzieza
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                              Claude will apply invisible watermarks to AI text and images

                          Anthropic is making its AI-generated content easier to identify, in compliance with EU rules.

                            Jess Weatherbed 9 seconds ago
                              Joby flexes military muscle with $500 million defense acquisition

                          The eVTOL company is trying to shore up its defense business with the acquisition of the Dayton, Ohio-based firm.

                            Andrew J. Hawkins 23 minutes ago
                            Dominic Preston An hour ago
                            Gurman says the glass iPhone is still on track.

                            An analyst report yesterday claimed Apple had canceled plans for an all-glass iPhone to mark its phone’s 20th anniversary. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman disagrees. He says the phone is still due to launch in 2027, it just won’t be all glass, with a slim metal frame connecting the two curved glass panels.

                              Apple’s Glass-Centric 20th-Anniversary iPhone Remains on Track for 2027

                              [Bloomberg]

                            Dominic Preston An hour ago
                            UK courts are banning smart glasses too.

                            The Guardian reports that Meta glasses, and any others with cameras, will be confiscated on entering judicial buildings, and returned on departure. It follows New York’s similar ban last month. Taking photos or videos is already prohibited in UK courts, but smartphones are allowed in; smart glasses aren’t getting that benefit of the doubt.

                              Meta glasses banned from courts in England and Wales

                              [the Guardian]

                            Dominic Preston An hour ago
                            Making online feel a little less Online.

                            Bluesky has added the option to hide reposts from specific accounts, which sounds useful for following a certain sort of person.

                            maakadman:

                            omg I can finally re-follow some people I find very smart but also Very Online.

                            Get the day’s best comment and more in my free newsletter, The Verge Daily.

                                The AI takeover of mathematics has begun
                              Robert Hart An hour ago
                            Thomas Ricker 9:11 AM UTC
                            Don’t do a Trump.

                            Do not look directly at the sun during tomorrow’s total solar eclipse, the first in mainland Europe in nearly 30 years. Also, do not eat bleach, no matter the day.

                            Do, however, follow our advice on how to buy a pair of certified glasses, make a pinhole projector, and steps and gear needed to photograph the celestial event.

                            Thomas Ricker 7:33 AM UTC
                            The first Tesla Cybercab with integrated Starlink.

                            No specs or timeframe accompanied the photos, or even a justification for why you’d want satellite internet in a taxi that targets dense urban environments where cellphone signal is strong. The car certainly doesn’t need it to drive, but, as Electrek notes, it’s a nice recurring revenue stream for SpaceX, and further justification for the two companies to merge and make Richie Rich another $1 trillion richer.

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                                  Cybercab parked at Gigafactory Texas.
                                  Image: Tesla
                            Thomas Ricker 7:14 AM UTC
                            Ballie refuses to die.

                            Samsung’s adorable rolling robot was never officially killed off, but it also never made it to retail as promised. SammyGuru just discovered an unmistakable Ballie-looking icon inside an official Samsung app during an APK teardown. More proof of life or just another death rattle?

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                                  The icon upscaled.
                                  Image: SammyGuru
                            Thomas Ricker 6:39 AM UTC
                            Elon Musk’s shortcut to a $1 trillion payday.

                            An escape clause in Elon Musk’s $1 trillion Tesla pay package approved last year would eliminate daunting operational targets if SpaceX were to purchase Tesla, as many expect. Under the terms, an acquisition treats those performance goals as met. Depending on the acquisition price SpaceX sets for Tesla, which Musk can heavily influence, a merger could instantly award him hundreds of millions of Tesla shares and consolidate his voting control.

                              See How a Tesla-SpaceX Merger Gives Musk a Shortcut to His $1 Trillion Payday

                              [WSJ]

                            Jay Peters 12:06 AM UTC
                            Epic Games is offloading ArtStation and Sketchfab.

                            After acquiring the artist portfolio site ArtStation and Sketchfab in 2021, Epic announced that they will be taken over by Kitbash, which sells 3D assets for games. The changes are happing as Epic “continues to prioritize building Unreal Engine 6, Fortnite, the developer ecosystem, and the Epic Games Store,” according to the company.

                              KitBash Acquires ArtStation and Sketchfab

                              [Epic Games Newsroom]

                            Jay Peters Aug 10
                            No Man’s Sky is 10 years old.

                            Hello Games founder Sean Murray wrote articles for Xbox Wire and the PlayStation Blog to mark the anniversary milestone. In the PlayStation blog post, he notes that players have explored “less than 1% of the planets” in the game and says that the studio is “busy cooking” on its next title, Light No Fire.

                            No Man’s Sky has had over 40 major updates, and a new one is on the horizon, called Cosmos.

                            TC Sottek Aug 10
                            Cleanse your timeline with the traffic cone bear.

                            I can’t get enough of Momota, a polar bear cub living at an aquarium in Japan who simply can’t stop stuffing his head inside traffic cones. Mom tries to take them off but she can’t keep up with this little monster. Jimothy finally has some real competition.

                            Elizabeth Lopatto Aug 10
                            This one is for my fellow Dickheads…

                            A really excellent essay about how Philip K. Dick predicted our current day, “filled with deranged billionaires, machines that claim consciousness, hallucinated worlds and political breakdown. Musk and his brethren seem more like escapees from this universe than the Asimovian super-geniuses they imagine themselves to be.”

                              Does Silicon Valley dream of Philip K Dick?

                              [Financial Times]

                                Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t understand how to live
                              Elizabeth Lopatto Aug 10
                            Emma Roth Aug 10
                            Trump signs executive order aimed at decreasing vaccine requirements for kids.

                            The executive order backs a new childhood vaccine schedule with 11 immunizations instead of 17. As reported by The NYT, “it is unclear whether the order has any legal power,” as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sets immunization schedules based on recommendations from a committee of medical experts.

                              Trump Signs Executive Order Calling for Fewer Childhood Vaccines

                              [The New York Times]

                              Anker’s travel charger works in almost any country and is down to $20

                          The adapter can power up to five devices at once and is at its best price to date.

                            Sheena Vasani Aug 10
                            Richard Lawler Aug 10
                            Mamdani vs. Amazon.

                            NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani has come out in support of The Delivery Protection Act, a union-backed proposal that would force companies like Amazon, FedEx, and others to hire the workers who deliver packages wearing their logos. As it is, those workers are often contractors, which the backers of Intro 518 say serves as a smokescreen allowing the big companies to avoid responsibility and minimum pay regulations.

                            Jay Peters Aug 10
                            “I hope it’s clear at this point that the perfect run is happening.”

                            Brazilian speedrunner LeKukie recently grabbed the Super Mario Bros. world record, and players are now 0.1 seconds away from a “perfect” run, according to a fascinating video reported on by Polygon.

                            Emma Roth Aug 10
                            Meta, Google, TikTok, and Snap will have to face thousands of social media addiction lawsuits.

                            The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed an appeal filed by the tech companies, allowing more than 3,000 child safety lawsuits to proceed, according to Reuters.

                            Separately, the court also rejected Meta’s request to push back a trial linked to social media addiction allegations from dozens of state AGs. The trial kicks off on Wednesday.

                              Social media addiction lawsuits against Meta and TikTok can proceed, court rules

                              [CBS News]

                            Richard Lawler Aug 10
                            Here’s Jeff Dean’s Chromebook.

                            The now-former chief scientist of Google DeepMind has shared a pic of the HP laptop he turned in on the way out the door. While he notes that he also had a MacBook to use at home, his “second (& primary)” machine looks to be a five- or six-year old HP Elite Dragonfly Chromebook.

                                  Image: Jeff Dean (X)
                            Richard Lawler Aug 10
                            Fairphone 6 Plus leaks show off some accessories and boosted specs.

                            As Android Authority points out, a couple of leaks for the next repairable Fairphone have popped up, with NewMobile’s giving us a look at the device in blue, with matching accessories just like the Fairphone 6 has, and 12GB of RAM specs to go with the 256GB storage.

                            Meanwhile, this Dealabs post indicates it will have a Snapdragon 7s Gen 4 chip and come in Black, Blue, and Green for €649 in France, compared to the 6’s current €549 price.

                                  Image: New Mobile
                            David Pierce Aug 10
                            Today on The Vergecast: We share our vibe-coded websites.

                            We’ve spent the last month vibe coding our own corners of the internet. The Verge’s Jake Kastrenakes and Hayden Field join David to talk about their use of Gemini, Codex, and Claude Code to build 90s-themed personal websites, vegetable-sharing systems, and photo boards. It wasn’t always easy, and we didn’t get everything done, but with a little AI and a lot of prompting, we made it work.

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                              Bluesky now lets you hide reposts from that annoying person you follow

                          Bluesky is giving you another way to control your feeds.

                            Jay Peters Aug 10
                              Costco’s great Switch 2 console bundle includes over $100 in free stuff

                          Costco’s deal on the Switch 2 includes a year of Nintendo Switch Online and a 256GB MicroSD Express card.

                            Brad Bourque Aug 10
                            Andrew Liszewski Aug 10
                            Enjoy the satisfying sound of this trebuchet launching a projectile at supersonic speeds.

                            The outcome of many medieval battles could have been much different if either side had access to this custom trebuchet designed and built by Tom Stanton. It’s still powered by weights and gravity but by wrapping the sling around a spinning drum it managed to launch a small projectile at a staggering 776 mph.

                            Emma Roth Aug 10
                            90-Day Fiancé 24/7.

                            Discovery Plus will play continuous streams of shows across its new “channels,” including 90-Day Fiancé, Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Deadliest Catch, House Hunters, and more. You’ll also be able to access livestreams and programming from NASA Plus.

                            These always-on channels are rolling out in the US on the Discovery Plus app and on the web.

                                  Image: Warner Bros. Discovery
                            Emma Roth Aug 10
                            Peacock adds another AI game.

                            Public Eye is a hidden object detective game that presents you with AI-generated visuals across a 10-episode story. It comes from Wolf Games, the same AI games studio behind the Law & Order: Clue Hunter title Peacock added to its app earlier this year.

                                  Image: NBCUniversal
                            Jay Peters Aug 10
                            Big Walk has already sold more than 1 million copies.

                            The big sales are well deserved; House House and Panic’s excellent co-op multiplayer title, which was released last Tuesday, is my favorite game of the year so far.

                                Big Walk is like co-op Breath of the Wild

                                  Jay Peters
                                    Aug 3
                              What to expect from Google’s 2026 Pixel hardware launch event

                          Get ready for a bunch of new phones, smartwatches, and maybe even an item tracker.

                            Jay Peters Aug 10
                              YouTube is making it harder to earn money on YouTube

                          Now you’ll need twice as many watch hours on YouTube to start making money from ads and subscriptions.

                            Emma Roth Aug 10
                            Andrew J. Hawkins Aug 10
                            A man was killed after being struck by an SUV driver and then thrown into a Waymo.

                            According to local reports, the man was crossing the street outside a crosswalk in Dallas when he was hit by an SUV driver, causing him to be thrown into a driverless Waymo vehicles. On the surface, the crash sounds similar to one that eventually took down Cruise’s robotaxi business. In that instance, the Cruise vehicle failed to immediately pull, dragging the person for 20 feet. In this case, the victim struck the left rear of the Waymo vehicle.

                              Dallas pedestrian dies after being struck by SUV, thrown into Waymo

                              [FOX 4 News Dallas-Fort Worth]

                            Charles Pulliam-Moore Aug 10
                            Touch grass.

                            Google-backed AI startup Promise has brought on Backrooms executive producer Chris White to develop Touch Grass, a dead internet theory-inspired horror about a tech worker who discovers a secret digital reality populated by strange copes of people from the real world.

                              Promise AI Developing Horror Feature ‘Touch Grass’; Dave Clark Directing, Brad Miska And ‘Backrooms’ EP Chris White Producing

                              [Deadline]

                              Four takeaways from Mark Zuckerberg’s massive AI manifesto

                          The Meta CEO makes a case for unleashing Pandora’s box.

                            Jess Weatherbed Aug 10
                            Robert Hart Aug 10
                            ChatGPT can now make you a dinner reservation.

                            Yelp said it is partnering with OpenAI to let users book tables or join waitlists without having to leave the chatbot. ChatGPT already uses photos, reviews, and other information from the platform when sourcing recommendations.

                            You can also now book tables with OpenTable and Resy using ChatGPT, according to OpenAI.

                            Update: Added OpenAI tweet.

                              Apple will stream Friday Night Baseball live in Vision Pro

                          Games will stream every Friday for four weeks

                            David Imel Aug 10
                              Keychron’s wireless Hall effect keyboard is back to its lowest price

                          We also found a good gaming laptop for $1,099, plus deals on Sony’s latest wired and wireless InZone headsets.

                            Cameron Faulkner Aug 10
                            Emma Roth Aug 10
                            Taylor Farms is recalling guacamole, salsa, taco dip, and more.

                            After health officials linked its lettuce to the nationwide Cyclospora outbreak, Taylor Farms is now recalling over a dozen products containing jalapeños across Walmart, Target, Whole Foods, Trader Joe’s, and Kroger.

                            These products contain fresh peppers from Coast Citrus Distributors, which recently recalled its jalapeños over Salmonella contamination. Taylor Farms says it’s not “aware of any reported illnesses linked to its products containing jalapeños.”

                              Taylor Farms pulls jalapeño products sold at grocery stores

                              [ABC News]

                            Jess Weatherbed Aug 10
                            Disney Plus and Hulu team up with iHeartMedia for more video podcasts.

                            Following Netflix’s growing “podcast” investment and a similar deal with TikTok, six more video podcasts are coming to Disney subscribers in the US, starting with the official Jonas Brothers podcast, Hey Jonas!, on August 14th across both Disney Plus and Hulu, leading up to the release of Camp Rock 3.

                            Pod Meets World on Disney Plus will follow on August 24th, with Desperately Devoted, StraightioLab, Thanks Dad with Ego Nwodim, and Fake Doctors, Real Friends with Zach and Donald coming to Hulu later this year to join the podcasts already on the platform like The Mess Around with Hannah and Lamorne.

                                  According to Disney, the Jonas Brothers are “sharing another side ofthemselves in the playful, intimate, and irreverent way only they can.“ Sure, why not.
                                  Image: Disney / IHeartMedia
                                What happens to Bose when headphones become AI?
                              Nilay Patel Aug 10
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