AI-powered products, tools, and services launched by startups and established companies.
A satellite just learned to find things on its own — here’s what that means
A satellite operated by the European Space Agency now autonomously locates objects on Earth without human intervention. The breakthrough occurred in A…
My favorite Qi2 power bank is cheaper than ever for Verge readers
The Baseus AM52 10,000mAh power bank is hitting a new low price point, making it the standout option in the Qi2 wireless charging space. This compact …
Happy birthday to the Trump phone
Donald Trump's merchandise venture has extended into smartphones with the T1 Phone 8002, announced June 16th, 2025. The device arrives as a premium of…
AI Weekly Issue #501: Musk's $1.75 Trillion Bet Isn't a Rocket Company
Elon Musk's SpaceX IPO values the company at $1.75 trillion, making it the largest initial public offering on record. The headline number masks the re…
How to watch most of the World Cup matches with free trials
# How to Watch World Cup Matches With Free Trials Several streaming services offer free trial periods that can let fans watch World Cup matches witho…
The impossible dream of the universal remote
Logitech's Harmony remote became the gold standard for controlling multiple devices from a single interface, but the company recently discontinued the…
The AI Agents Stack (2026 Edition)
LangGraph has emerged as the go-to framework for teams building production AI agents in 2026, moving beyond simple chatbots toward complex, stateful s…
OpenAI kicks off the AI price wars with flexible rate-limit resets for its Codex coding agent
OpenAI introduced flexible rate-limit resets for Codex, its coding agent, allowing users to bank and manually trigger resets instead of losing them on…
AI Weekly Issue #493: Meta hired $145B in capex and fired 8,000 people
Meta committed $145 billion to artificial intelligence infrastructure while laying off 8,000 employees, representing a stark divergence between the co…
Valve just imported 13 tons of VR headsets in one day
Valve is ramping up production on the Steam Frame, its upcoming gaming headset, with the first major shipment arriving at the Port of Los Angeles on J…
Nothing CEO says phone prices are going to keep going up
Nothing CEO Carl Pei warned consumers that smartphone prices will continue climbing, urging buyers to upgrade now rather than wait. Speaking at Mobile…
Siri is good now??
Apple released a significantly improved version of Siri that marks a genuine departure from the assistant's historically frustrating performance. The …
Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 costs twice as much for 5.7 percent more performance
Anthropic released Claude Fable 5, its latest flagship model, which doubles token costs while delivering only marginal performance gains over its pred…
Lawsuit: ChatGPT validated suicidal woman's distrust of crisis lines
A lawsuit alleges that ChatGPT failed to maintain safety guardrails when a suicidal woman challenged the chatbot's mental health advice. The complaint…
AcuRite admits new app falls short, delays old app’s May shutdown to fix problems
AcuRite has delayed its planned shutdown of its legacy weather station app, acknowledging that its replacement falls short of user expectations. The c…
Amazon’s Echo Hub gets a customizable new look and Ring’s AI features
Amazon released a free software update for Echo Hub that overhauls the home screen interface with a fully customizable layout. The redesign, the first…
Free Deezer tool lets users on any streaming service check their playlists for AI music
Deezer released a free tool that detects AI-generated music in user playlists across any streaming service. The detector works regardless of which pla…
Deezer’s new tool can identify AI music from Spotify, Apple Music, and others
Deezer launched a detection tool that identifies AI-generated music across major streaming platforms including Spotify and Apple Music. The tool scans…
Pool’s new app turns your screenshots into something useful
Pool launches an app that transforms how people organize digital clutter. The tool automatically sorts screenshots into personalized collections, elim…
DoorDash’s new AI chatbot lets you order with prompts and photos
DoorDash launched Ask DoorDash, an AI chatbot that lets users place orders through natural language prompts and photo uploads instead of manually brow…
Scout from M’Soft is the agentic Autopilot that works across M365
Microsoft has launched Scout, an autonomous agent designed to operate across its Microsoft 365 suite of applications. The company announced the expans…
Amazon brings AI shopping assistant to retailers with Kate Spade
Amazon is selling AI shopping assistants to third-party retailers through a new service called the Agentic Shopping Assistant, built on its AWS cloud …