Annapurna’s 2025 lineup of indie games is full of tea and T-poses
Annapurna Interactive is hosting its first showcase of the year, and it’s an important one. Last year, Annapurna Interactive’s entire staff resigned en masse after negotiations to spin off the respected indie game publisher into its own independent entity broke down. Since then, those employees have formed their own company and even have a new crop […]
https://www.theverge.com/news/618431/annapurna-interactive-2025-games-showcase
Google Drive gets searchable video transcripts
Google has announced new searchable transcripts for videos you store in Google Drive. The feature is rolling out to all Google Workspace users, starting today and finishing by March 26th. The transcripts look a lot like those you’d see on YouTube. If one is available, it’ll appear in a sidebar next to the video as […]
https://www.theverge.com/news/618397/google-drive-searchable-video-transcripts-workspace
From ChatGPT to Gemini: how AI is rewriting the internet
Big players, including Microsoft, with Copilot, Google, with Gemini, and OpenAI, with GPT-4o, are making AI chatbot technology previously restricted to test labs more accessible to the general public. How do these large language model (LLM) programs work? OpenAI’s GPT-3 told us that AI uses “a series of autocomplete-like programs to learn language” and that […]
https://www.theverge.com/23610427/chatbots-chatgpt-new-bing-google-bard-conversational-ai
Anthropic’s new ‘hybrid reasoning’ AI model is its smartest yet
Anthropic is releasing Claude 3.7 Sonnet, its first “hybrid reasoning model” that can solve more complex problems and outperforms previous models in areas like math and coding. In addition to a new model, Anthropic is also releasing a “limited research preview” of its “agentic” coding tool called Claude Code. While Anthropic already powers AI coding […]
https://www.theverge.com/news/618440/anthropic-claude-3-7-sonnet-ai-model-hybrid-reasoning
Balatro’s PEGI 18 rating in Europe has been changed following appeal
Balatro, the hit roguelike with poker imagery and poker hands but no actual gambling, no longer has a PEGI 18 rating in Europe following an appeal, PEGI announced today. LocalThunk, the creator of Balatro, has publicly shared his frustrations the rating — the game was originally given a PEGI 3 rating, but it was bumped […]
https://www.theverge.com/news/618342/balatro-pegi-rating-appeal
From ChatGPT to Gemini: how AI is rewriting the internet
Big players, including Microsoft, with Copilot, Google, with Gemini, and OpenAI, with GPT-4o, are making AI chatbot technology previously restricted to test labs more accessible to the general public. How do these large language model (LLM) programs work? OpenAI’s GPT-3 told us that AI uses “a series of autocomplete-like programs to learn language” and that […]
https://www.theverge.com/23610427/chatbots-chatgpt-new-bing-google-bard-conversational-ai
Elizabeth Holmes sentenced to 11 years in prison for her Theranos fraud
Elizabeth Holmes, the founder and CEO of disgraced blood-testing company Theranos, has been found guilty on three counts of wire fraud, as well as a count of conspiracy to commit fraud along with her co-founder Sunny Balwani. On November 18th, 2022, she was sentenced to 135 months, or about 11 and a half years, in […]
https://www.theverge.com/22684354/elizabeth-holmes-trial-wire-fraud-theranos
All the smart home news, reviews, and gadgets you need to know about
The smart home holds so much promise. It can make life more convenient with lights that turn on as you walk in a room, doors that unlock as you approach, and robots that clean your floors. It can also make your home safer, more energy efficient, and even a little more fun. (Have you tried […]
https://www.theverge.com/24190824/smart-home-news-reviews-guides-gadgets
Andor is on the offensive in latest season 2 trailer
Though new episodes of Andor dropped individually (for the most part) during the show’s first season, Disney Plus is switching things up when the show returns this April. Along with a new Andor trailer showcasing some of the action Cassian (Diego Luna) is going to get into in the show’s second and final season, Disney […]
https://www.theverge.com/news/618365/andor-season-2-trailer-date-disney-plus-star-wars-chapters
Apple responds to tariff threat with a $500 billion US investment
Apple has announced plans to invest more than $500 billion in the US over the next four years, including hiring 20,000 new employees and launching a new server factory in Texas. The announcement was teased after a meeting last week between CEO Tim Cook and President Donald Trump, and comes as the company tries to […]
https://www.theverge.com/news/618172/apple-500-billion-us-investment-tariffs-trump
Trump’s first 100 days: all the news affecting the tech industry
President Donald Trump kicked off the first day of his presidency by signing a flurry of executive actions, including halting enforcement of the TikTok ban and rolling back the Biden administration’s artificial intelligence order. Having already run the country once before, Trump entered the presidency with the goal of hitting the ground running, having already […]
https://www.theverge.com/24348851/donald-trump-presidency-tech-science-news
Trump’s first 100 days: all the news affecting the tech industry
President Donald Trump kicked off the first day of his presidency by signing a flurry of executive actions, including halting enforcement of the TikTok ban and rolling back the Biden administration’s artificial intelligence order. Having already run the country once before, Trump entered the presidency with the goal of hitting the ground running, having already […]
https://www.theverge.com/24348851/donald-trump-presidency-tech-science-news
Elon Musk claims federal employees have 48 hours to explain recent work or resign
Elon Musk tweeted Saturday that federal workers would soon get an email “requesting to understand what they got done last week.” According to the New York Times, the email from the Office of Personnel Management went to agencies across the federal government that afternoon, including the FBI, State Department, and others, with a deadline for […]
https://www.theverge.com/news/618069/elon-musk-email-federal-workers-respond-or-resign
Trump’s first 100 days: all the news affecting the tech industry
President Donald Trump kicked off the first day of his presidency by signing a flurry of executive actions, including halting enforcement of the TikTok ban and rolling back the Biden administration’s artificial intelligence order. Having already run the country once before, Trump entered the presidency with the goal of hitting the ground running, having already […]
https://www.theverge.com/24348851/donald-trump-presidency-tech-science-news
Our favorite apps for listening to music
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 72, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, hope you like gadgets, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I’ve been reading about Hasan Piker and calculator apps and car thieves and […]
https://www.theverge.com/installer-newsletter/617653/best-music-apps-iphone-android-installer
Trump’s first 100 days: all the news affecting the tech industry
President Donald Trump kicked off the first day of his presidency by signing a flurry of executive actions, including halting enforcement of the TikTok ban and rolling back the Biden administration’s artificial intelligence order. Having already run the country once before, Trump entered the presidency with the goal of hitting the ground running, having already […]
https://www.theverge.com/24348851/donald-trump-presidency-tech-science-news
The long wait for a glimpse of Luigi
There are so many people here that nobody can tell where the end of the line is. New people arrive, ask if there’s a line, shuffle into a blob of bodies idling and waiting for someone to give them instructions. The hallway is horribly warm — unclear if it’s from the bodies or the heat […]
https://www.theverge.com/law/617946/luigi-mangione-unitedhealth-ceo-february-hearing-protest
The best smartphone you can buy for under $500
Some of us take a kind of “I eat to live” rather than an “I live to eat” approach to gadgets. They’re tools that help you get things done, not something you want to invest a lot of time or money in. If that’s you — and there’s no judgment here from a certifiable gadget […]
https://www.theverge.com/21420196/best-budget-smartphone-cheap
Die in the Dungeon will keep you busy until Slay the Spire 2
Die in the Dungeon is a new roguelike deckbuilder that pulls some ideas from Slay the Spire, one of my favorite games, but adds some dice-based twists that have me hooked. In Dungeon, your goal is to survive through progressively harder maps of enemies by building a deck — but instead of collecting cards, you’re […]
South of Midnight’s Southern Gothic folklore world is rooted in authenticity
It was hard playing a preview of South of Midnight because, 20 minutes in, I just started bawling. The demo for the action-adventure platformer starts at the beginning of chapter three. The protagonist, Hazel, is working her way through a swamp trying to find her mother, who, along with their house, had been washed away […]
https://www.theverge.com/games/617373/south-of-midnight-preview-interview-ahmed-best