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The company is banking on privacy being its AI differentiator. by Terrence O'Brien May 17, 2026, 6:40 PM UTC Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Terrence O'Brien is the Verge’s weekend editor. He has over 18 years of experience, including 10 years as managing
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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. The Private AI That Remembers — Anuma is the all-in-one AI platform with private, portable memory.
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TL;DR OpenAI merged ChatGPT, Codex, and its API under Brockman, killing side projects to focus on one agentic platform before its IPO. OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman has permanently taken charge of the company’s product strategy, merging ChatGPT, Codex, and the developer API into a single product
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TL;DR Soderbergh used Meta’s AI for 10% of his Cannes Lennon documentary. Critics slammed it. He says the real problem is everyone else not disclosing. Steven Soderbergh’s “John Lennon: The Last Interview” premiered on Saturday at the 79th Cannes Film Festival. Built around a never-before-released two-hour-and-45-minute radio
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TL;DR AI is spawning new job titles from Claude Evangelist ($240K) to vibe coder ($108K) even as it eliminates the roles they’re replacing. AI companies are not just changing the way people work. They are changing the kinds of roles that exist. Org charts are morphing as an
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TL;DR Apple’s iOS 27 Siri app will auto-delete chats after 30 days or one year. After a two-year delay, it may still ship as a beta. Apple’s first standalone Siri app, coming in iOS 27, will include an auto-delete function for chat histories that borrows from the
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It's not Titanfall 3, but it's something. Earlier this year, the developer behind Splitgate, 1047 Games, announced that it began work on its next game, only revealing that it would be a movement shooter with inspiration from Titanfall and Call of Duty: Black Ops 3. As
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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. The Private AI That Remembers — Anuma is the all-in-one AI platform with private, portable memory.
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Terrence O'Brien is the Verge’s weekend editor. He has over 18 years of experience, including 10 years as managing editor at Engadget. Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt delivered the commencement address at the University of Arizona on Friday. And, as his speech veered into talk of AI,
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* Acasis FlowCore Series introduces an independent bandwidth design for each NVMe bay system * Each drive reportedly maintains full Thunderbolt 5 speed simultaneously * Four-bay and ten-bay models target different storage capacity needs Acasis has announced the FlowCore Series, a new line of Thunderbolt storage systems. This device claims to solve the
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Following the reveal of its retro-inspired ROG Crosshair 2006 X870E motherboard, Asus is showing off some ROG-branded, Hynix-based DDR5 RAM running at 8800 MT/s with the powerful AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 CPU. It's an impressive overclock, though CAS Latency is increased to CL34 from CL26 in exchange
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Apple might have a secret weapon for its revamped Siri that could help it compete against other AI chatbots. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reported that Apple will introduce a feature that automatically deletes chats, as seen in its Messages app, to the updated Siri. According to Gurman, users will
