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They want the AI models built on their works destroyed. by Terrence O'Brien Sep 6, 2026, 11:36 PM UTC Terrence O'Brien is the Verge’s weekend editor. He’s covered the tech industry for over 18 years and knows a thing or two about synths.
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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. Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running
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Smart ideas for your not‑so‑smart yard South_agency/Getty Images We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. You have the itch to upgrade your backyard but aren't sure where to start. A smart gadget could be the answer. If you already use some
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Anthropic’s stock market debut has moved, and the new date puts it days away from a national election. Reuters reported on Friday that the company expects to start marketing its offering in mid-October at the earliest. The listing would then complete shortly before the US midterms in November. Echo
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For two years, invisible Unicode characters have been the neat trick of AI security research. You hide instructions inside them. A person sees nothing. A language model reads them and does as it is told. Microsoft has now found somebody using the same characters for something far less clever. They
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OpenAI published two posts on Sunday. One says its researchers now get 3.1 days of machine work for every day they put in themselves. The other says nobody should be going this fast. Both are on the company’s own site, dated 6 September, three days after it shipped
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Most teams building RAG systems make the same architectural decision by default. They reach for a vector database, build an embedding pipeline, and call it done. It works in the demo. Then production happens. Whether you are building an AI-powered operations tool, a knowledge assistant, or an intelligent search system,
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Hallucination’ makes an industrial information failure sound like a charming psychological quirk. If a paid professional invented facts this confidently, we would fire them quickly. My first gripe is this. This is the dictionary definition of a hallucination: A hallucination is a false sensory experience—such as seeing, hearing, smelling,
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The most successful piece of digital marketing infrastructure ever created may be a brightly coloured button labelled "Accept All". It asks no difficult questions. It does not explain what the system will infer about you six months from now. It certainly does not mention that the product may
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The practical path for DBOS may not be replacing Linux. It may be becoming the durable runtime inside the isolated environments we are already building for AI agents. I have been thinking about Michael Stonebraker's DBOS idea again because AI agents make an old systems argument feel unexpectedly
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Part 3 of “The Tokenomics of Web Development” — a controlled comparison of 23 web technologies, 115 idiomatic snippets, one tokenizer. Nobody picks a markup format. It arrives with the framework you already chose, and after that you write it for years without a second thought about what it costs. That
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Pick your aspect ratio before you generate a single clip, not after you’ve already got footage you like. That one decision, made in the wrong order, is why so much AI-generated video looks soft, cropped, or oddly composed the moment it lands on a phone screen. Cropping a 1920x1080
