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We can finally look under the hood at Elon Musk’s rocket, space internet, and AI juggernaut. by Thomas Ricker May 20, 2026, 9:29 PM UTC Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Thomas Ricker is a deputy editor and Verge co-founder with a passion for human-centric cities, e-bikes,
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TL;DR LinkedIn is cracking down on AI-generated “slop” by suppressing generic posts from recommendations rather than removing them. The platform claims 94 per cent detection accuracy in early tests, but has shared no data on false positives. If your LinkedIn feed has felt like it was written by one
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TL;DR OpenAI is preparing to confidentially file for an IPO as soon as this week, targeting a trillion-dollar autumn debut with Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. Prediction market odds swung sharply in its favour, with Anthropic’s chances of listing first collapsing from 69 per cent to 20 per
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TL;DR Tesla’s Full Self-Driving software launched in Lithuania, the second European country after the Netherlands. Greece and Belgium are expected to follow, but Scandinavian regulators are pushing back and EU-wide approval faces a qualified majority vote with no date set. Tesla’s Full Self-Driving software is no longer
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TL;DR Airbnb’s summer 2026 release adds boutique hotels in 20 cities, car rentals, luggage storage, and thousands of new experiences. The company is also expanding its AI customer service bot globally, which now handles 40 per cent of queries. Airbnb started as a way to book someone else’
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TL;DR Canva launched its Connected App for Google Gemini at Google I/O, completing its integration across all four major AI assistants. The tool lets users generate on-brand, editable designs from Gemini prompts, with Magic Layers converting AI images into layered files. Canva has spent the past year quietly
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. WTF?! As the famous quote goes, just because you can do something, it doesn't mean you should. A prime example of this warning has been illustrated by a Redditor who built a
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Sponsor Posts Niantic Spatial: World models need real-world data — Scaniverse is the gateway to spatial services — self-serve and built for AI and robotics. Large-area 3D reconstruction from 360° cameras and precise localization, anywhere machines operate. App Spotlight: Quo for Zoho CRM — App Spotlight brings you hand-picked solutions that enhance your
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During a Y Combinator event on Tuesday night, Sam Altman had what YC partner Tyler Bosmeny called a “mic drop moment.” Altman offered $2 million worth of OpenAI tokens to every startup in the current class in exchange for equity in the startup. In other words, he promised that OpenAI
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In Brief 2:29 PM PDT · May 20, 2026 Earlier this month, Anthropic surprised the AI world with a deal to buy 300 megawatts worth of compute — securing the entire output of the Colossus 1 data center near Memphis, Tennessee. Turns out, compute at that scale isn’t cheap. Anthropic
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Loading the player… Slapping “AI” on your startup’s pitch deck is basically table stakes right now. When a founder raised $20 million from Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest for an eSports gamification loyalty startup without those two letters in the spotlight, it got us wondering how the conversation even
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This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewerVictoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they’re going to change your life. This week’s issue is a special early edition tied to The Verge’s Google I/O coverage. You can
