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Jay Peters is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. PlayStation reportedly won’t release its major single-player PlayStation games on PC anymore. According to Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier, Hermen Hulst, who heads up PlayStation’s studios
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TL;DR A nine-person jury in Oakland unanimously found that Elon Musk’s lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI was filed too late, ending the trial on statute of limitations grounds without reaching the merits. The advisory verdict, if adopted by the judge, clears a major legal obstacle for OpenAI’
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TL;DR NYC Health and Hospitals disclosed that hackers stole medical records, personal data, and biometric information including fingerprints from at least 1.8 million people. The breach, which lasted from November 2025 to February 2026, originated through a compromised third-party vendor. New York City Health and Hospitals, the largest
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TL;DR Amazon has launched Alexa Podcasts, a feature that uses AI to generate entire podcast episodes on demand, narrated by two virtual co-hosts. The tool, available to Alexa+ subscribers including all Prime members, is backed by licensing deals with more than 200 news organisations including AP, Reuters, and the
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TL;DR Meta will begin cutting 8,000 jobs on 20 May while reporting record quarterly revenue of $56.31 billion, as the company raises AI infrastructure spending to as much as $145 billion in 2026. Employee morale has cratered, with internal protests over surveillance software, declining compensation, and the
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While Memorial Day is still one week away, Best Buy has just launched its official Memorial Day sale, and unsurprisingly, some of the best deals are on TVs. The retailer is offering massive discounts, with up to $2,000 off from brands like Samsung, LG, Sony, and TCL. • Shop Best
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Anthropic announced Monday it has acquired Stainless, a startup founded by former Stripe engineer Alex Rattray whose software is widely used by rival AI labs, including OpenAI and Google. Anthropic didn’t disclose terms of the deal. However, The Information reported last week that Anthropic was in talks to acquire
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Last week, an e-mail went out to Best Buy Creators promising that Grand Theft Auto VI pre-orders would open today, May 18th. While the legitimacy of the Best Buy email leak has been repeatedly confirmed by various insiders, the big day has arrived without the promised pre-order availability, and now
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PlayStation Plus, Sony's subscription gaming service for its consoles, is increasing its price for new subscribers. The company blamed "ongoing market conditions" for the price increase. It's the go-to explanation for gaming hardware companies, including Microsoft and Nintendo's increases in pricing for
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HBO Max is home to fan favorites, including Succession and Game of Thrones, but you may not be as familiar with newer options on the service that deliver to the streaming masses. The medical series The Pitt returned for Season 2 in January, following its 2025 launch and best drama
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Dive Brief Phil Wiser helped guide AI adoption at the media firm. His departure comes less than a month after Paramount’s Warner Bros. Discovery acquisition. Published May 18, 2026 Dive Brief: * Paramount CTO Phil Wiser is stepping down after more than seven years with the media company, according to
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AWS News Blog Just a year ago, we launched AWS Transform for .NET, Mainframe and VMware workloads, the first agentic AI service purpose-built for modernizing enterprise applications at scale. At re:Invent 2025, we introduced AWS Transform custom, which enables organizations to modernize and transform code at scale using AWS-managed
