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The SiriusXM service joins a long list of streamers that have increased rates this year. viewimage/Shutterstock Following the lead of streamers everywhere, Pandora is instituting a price hike. In a September 2026 email, the music streamer announced that their subscriptions would increase by at least a dollar per month
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Emma Roth is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. A federal judge has dismissed a pair of antitrust lawsuits filed by Chegg and Rolling Stone parent company Penske Media Corporation, which
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When Igor Dobrianskyi looks at a car dealership lot, he sees a wasted opportunity. “Millions and millions of used cars are sitting on parking lots, depreciating and losing value,” Dobrianskyi said in a recent interview, adding that there are 76,000 dealerships in the United States. “At the same time,
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Tech giant Nvidia's promise to quarantine rogue AI agents in milliseconds addresses an important part of enterprise security -- namely, stopping dangerous activity quickly. However, the company's response to questions about its Sentry design reveals a critical qualification. The claim measures containment separately from detection, leaving
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Security researchers say they bypassed safety controls on two Chinese AI models and got the systems to dish up instructional information about bio-weapons, explosives, and assassinations. According to the UK firm Mindgard, Moonshot AI's Kimi K2.6 and K3 Swarm models ignored developer-set guardrails earlier this summer. The
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An iterative upgrade once again for Samsung's laptop-sized tablet line. Holding up the newly announced Samsung Galaxy Tab S12 Ultra alongside its predecessor from last year, the Galaxy Tab S11 Ultra, you'd be hard pressed to spot a physical difference. The biggest and baddest of Samsung&
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Marvel’s Wolverine and Ghost of Yōtei are the first games to support Quick Spectral Super Resolution. Sony Interactive Entertainment/Sucker Punch Productions Sony Interactive Entertainment has added AI upscaling to the standard PS5. It's deploying patches for Marvel's Wolverine and Ghost of Yōtei today that
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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. Sony is launching a new AI upscaling technology specifically for the regular PS5. The new tech, called Quick Spectral Super Resolution (QSSR), is a “new performance tier
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. What's new in Zoho Tables with Apple's latest
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Generative AI has made it possible to produce large amounts of personalized content quickly and at low cost. In our previous post, we showed how generative AI on Amazon Bedrock can produce personalized content at scale while staying within brand guidelines and guardrails. The new challenge is now one of
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Amazon Web Services released an open-source decision model inspired by TypeSafe’s Jev, with AI developers increasingly seeking intelligence that is more suited to computer automation than frontier LLMs. Amazon’s Strands Decider 2B, released the same week OpenAI announced a similar offering, is a high-speed, low-cost way to sort
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9:35 AM PDT · October 1, 2026 California governor Gavin Newsom has used his veto authority to send a bill passed by the state’s legislature back to lawmakers, which would have made it unlawful to secretly record people with wearable recording devices. Newsom said in a letter to lawmakers
