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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. Apple’s rumored AirPods with cameras are nearing a stage where the company will test early mass production, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports. Currently, Apple testers are
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Dive Brief The AI provider is developing industry-specific tools for finance and partnering with investors to gain an edge in middle-market enterprise tech adoption. Published May 7, 2026 Dive Brief: * Anthropic released agent templates for financial services work this week, which target time-consuming parts of financial services, such as building
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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 link between workplace clarity and employee well-being — Workplace well-being isn't only influenced
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Billy Steele for Engadget Well, it seems like those-rumored AirPods with cameras are close to being real, according to the latest report from Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. The new earbuds are said to use low-resolution cameras on their stalks to capture low-resolution imagery, which will ultimately be fed to
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If you've listened to the executives of big tech companies over the last couple of weeks, you wouldn't be wrong in thinking that the second half of 2026 is gonna hurt thanks to the competing demands for the facilities that manufacture components for consumer laptops, smartphones,
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Stevie Bonifield is a news writer covering all things consumer tech. Stevie started out at Laptop Mag writing news and reviews on hardware, gaming, and AI. Elon Musk’s plans to get into the AI chip manufacturing business are going to be costly. As the New York Times and CNBC
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Last month, Perplexity sought to better compete with the likes of Claude Cowork and get out ahead of Apple's delayed, generative AI-powered version of Siri by bringing Personal Computer to macOS. The AI assistant was previously only available to those on Perplexity's $200 per month Max
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Elon Musk’s legal effort to dismantle OpenAI may hinge on how its for-profit subsidiary enhances or detracts from the frontier lab’s founding mission of ensuring that humanity benefits from artificial general intelligence. On Thursday, a federal court in Oakland heard a former employee and board member say the
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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 link between workplace clarity and employee well-being — Workplace well-being isn't only influenced
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Will dating app malaise finally kill off the swipe? For Bumble, at least, that seems to be the case. In an interview with Axios on Thursday, Bumble CEO Whitney Wolfe Heard confirmed that Bumble will get rid of swiping, the defining feature of 2010s dating apps. “We are going to
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At the heart of the trial pitting Elon Musk against OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is a moment when they found common cause on an ever more pressing question: how to protect humanity from the risks of artificial intelligence. It turned sour, and the jury is charged with settling the ensuing
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When Anthropic announced its latest large language model, Claude Mythos, the news hit with a jolt. Anthropic wasn't putting out word that it was about to release Mythos -- it wanted the world to know that it would not release the frontier LLM. The unreleased Mythos preview showed
