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The multibillion-dollar deal is AMD’s latest move to catch up to Nvidia in the lucrative world of selling artificial intelligence chips.

While the steepest discount is on the 43-inch model, other sizes are on sale as well. Not everybody wants their living room to be dominated by a big, hulking TV screen. Luckily, Samsung’s 2025 Frame TV, which is designed to fade into the background when idle, is discounted to its lowest price to date at Woot. Now through February 28th, the 43- and 55-inch panels are on sale for $587.99 ($312 off) and $847.99 ($400 off), respectively, with additional deals available on other sizes. Samsung The

ADT, the 150-year-old company best known for home security, has acquired Origin Wireless in a $170 million deal to expand the capabilities of its security and smart home offerings. Origin Wireless developed algorithms that analyze how wireless RF signals bounce around a space to detect the presence and movements of people and objects without the need for additional sensors. ADT plans to integrate Original Wireless' technology into its smart home and security systems to add more context when sec

Meta is buying billions of dollars in AMD AI chips in a multiyear deal tied to a 160 million-share warrant, deepening its push to diversify beyond Nvidia and expand data center capacity.

The model supports questions spanning the full reproductive health spectrum, from early menstrual cycles through menopause.

A new study from the Pew Research Center finds teens think chatbot-assisted cheating has become “a regular feature of student life.”

It's a major opportunity to grow Anthropic’s enterprise client base — and a significant threat to SaaS products currently performing those functions.

Rahul Garg has observed a frustration loop when working with AI coding assistants - lots of code generated, but needs lots of fixing. He's noticed five patterns that help improve the interaction with the LLM, and describes the first of these: priming the LLM with knowledge about the codebase and preferred coding patterns. more…

Claude Code is a developer tool for developers. And yet, over the last year and especially the last few months, the team at Anthropic has seen a huge number of people, across industries and disciplines, figure out how to access their terminal so that they could build new stuff too. Few AI products have found true product-market fit the way Claude Code has. But how did that happen? And are we ever going to get out of the terminal? Verge subscribers, don't forget you get exclusive access to ad-fr

Skate or Die: Slop City Nights. | Image: Samsung Another Unpacked is nearly upon us. On February 25th, Samsung is expected to announce the Galaxy S26 series of flagship phones - potentially including the S26, S26 Plus, and S26 Ultra - with another round of AI-based features. That will come as a surprise to nobody. But as more AI creeps in on Samsung's AI phones, there's one important consideration: the slop factor. I'm talking, of course, about AI slop. Last week, Samsung put out a blog post p

Tide’s Evo Tiles are lightweight, fibrous squares of detergent that simplify the laundry process—and also act as a slightly more eco-friendly alternative to the Tide Pod.

ProducerAI, an AI-powered music-making platform, is joining Google. As part of the deal, Google will fold ProducerAI under the Labs umbrella and power the tool with a preview version of its new Lyria 3 music-making AI model. ProducerAI is a music-making platform that allows users to work with an AI agent to generate sounds, workshop lyrics, remix songs, and even create new instruments based on a prompt. The platform launched in July 2025 as a successor to the AI music-making tool Riffusion, and

These 2-in-1 computers upgrade the norm with touchscreen displays, 360-degree hinges, and detachable keyboards.

Fellow’s new espresso machine offers capabilities previously seen only in commercial machines. Some of those are still being fleshed out.

It’s a drop-bar electric mountain bike! It’s a full-suspension electric gravel bike! It’s everything at once, and it’s awesome.

From travel days to board meetings, these laptop totes are designed to protect your valuables, and then some.

Apple will still be producing Mac Mini computers in Asia too. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Apple is preparing to move some of its Mac Mini production to the US as part of the company's ongoing efforts to appease the Trump administration's push for domestic investment. Manufacturing is set to begin later this year in north Houston, Texas, at a Foxconn facility that currently assembles Apple's AI servers. "Apple is deeply committed to the future of American manufacturing, and we're proud

A technical partnership embraces SambaNova Systems, which Intel’s chief, Lip-Bu Tan, helps lead as an investor and chairman.

In his new book, A World Appears, Michael Pollan argues that artificial intelligence can do many things—it just can’t be a person.

From small art schools to large public universities, the new DOJ release of emails reveals just how deep the financier’s influence in academia went. Students are demanding accountability.

Anthropic's weekslong battle with the Department of Defense has played out over social media posts, admonishing public statements, and direct quotes from unnamed Pentagon officials to the news media. But the future of the $380 billion AI startup comes down to just three words: "any lawful use." The new terms, which OpenAI and xAI have reportedly already agreed to, would give the US military carte blanche to use services for mass surveillance and lethal autonomous weapons, AI that has full power

Fisker went out of business in 2024, but its biggest fans want to bring the “right to repair” to the masses.

With the new acquisitions, the company wants to bolster its position as a marketing solution by potentially adding video creation and more granular measurement.

If China invades Taiwan and cuts off its chip exports to American companies, the tech industry and the U.S. economy would be crippled.

The viral X post from an AI security researcher reads like satire. But it's really a word of warning about what can go wrong when handing tasks to an AI agent.

Tesla has filed a lawsuit against the California DMV in the ongoing battle around Autopilot.

This soundbar is just the beginning, with the option to add wireless bookshelf speakers or a subwoofer.

The artificial intelligence company has demanded that some guardrails be put in place as it negotiates a contract with the Defense Department.

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The San Francisco start-up claimed that DeepSeek, Moonshot and MiniMax used approximately 24,000 fraudulent accounts to train their own chatbots.