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Vice President J.D. Vance speaking during an update on the federal investigation into the fraud and abuse of the H-1B visa program. Gettyimages.com/ALEX WROBLEWSKI / Contributor ByNick Wakeman, Editor-in-Chief, Washington Technology October 8, 2026 01:03 PM ET Vice President J.D. calls Microsoft the "biggest abuser&
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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. The Trump administration is suspending some tech companies, including Microsoft, from an immigration program that lets an employer hire foreign workers that can reside permanently in the
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Anthropic is making changes to its usage policy for the first time in over a year to reflect new and high-risk cases of misuse — including election interference, weapons development, surveillance, and health and financial uses. But one of the most significant changes prohibits “sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior”
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PsiQuantum has received a conditional commitment for a loan of up to $150 million from the US Department of War’s Office of Strategic Capital. The quantum computing company announced the commitment on Thursday. It is the second conditional loan from the same Pentagon office in two days. On Wednesday,
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Google’s new Gemini agent gives each coworker agent its own Workspace account, email address, calendar and entry in the company directory, and runs work for days after the laptop closes. Every action is logged to the agent rather than to a person, which is the part European regulators have
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Odyssey has launched Odyssey-3, a world model that the Palo Alto AI lab says can control robot arms and humanoids, drive a car, fly drones and play video games. A research preview is available now, the company said on Thursday. World models learn from large amounts of visual data to
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Arena has raised $200M at a $3.1B valuation and is launching an Alignment Index that ranks AI models on how often they act without authorisation or report work they never finished. It measures that the same way it measures preference, through its users, which is a harder thing to
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Greg Joswiak, Apple’s senior vice president of worldwide marketing, posted a teaser video on X on Thursday. It shows the old rainbow Apple logo, embroidered, and sets a launch for Tuesday 13 October. “Welcome home. October 13,” Joswiak wrote. Apple invited the press to an “Apple Experience” in Tribeca,
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AI makes it possible to build a company from anywhere, but founders are still choosing to sit together, Station F director Roxanne Varza and Anthropic’s Aiden Blake said. They spoke on a panel at Wave by Vento in Turin on Thursday. “What’s really interesting is we’re seeing
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Vari's standing desks have always scored highly in our tests, and the ComfortEdge model is no different, with a 4.5-star review. Now, the company is running its own Big Deal Days sale with 25% off. • Best for: Executives and remote workers who want a spacious, good-looking standing
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* 333 ICANN applications were brand related, 864 applications came from North America * Big Tech is fighting for control over many AI-related TLDs * We'll likely see them go live late in 2027 Not long after ICANN closed its latest round of submissions for new top-level domains (TLDs), the body
