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Q&A with Sam Altman on the Hugging Face breach, the race for compute, distillation, open source, concentration of power, robotics, OpenAI's future, and more

July 28, 2026, 2:40 PM Top News More: Apple, International Business Times, 9to5Mac, Washington Post, Inc, The Verge, CNBC, Business Insider, Thurrott, MarketWatch, Gizmodo, Macworld, Tom's Guide, Appleosophy, TechCrunch, Mashable, iDrop News, UPI, Neowin, Forbes, Phone Scoop, Android Authority, CNET, The Verge, Business Wire, CNN, iThinkDifferent, The

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eBay reaches $56M settlement with e-commerce newsletter writers it terrorized in 2019

One of the most bizarre episodes in e-commerce history has come to a close. eBay and several former eBay employees have agreed to pay $56 million to a newsletter-writing couple that was targeted by the company’s former executives in a horrific targeted harassment campaign that took place in 2019.

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These Popular Steam Workshop Custom Maps Secretly Install PC Malware

While Steam's anti-malware efforts have improved over the years, malware still winds up on Steam servers on occasion, usually due to it being snuck into Steam Workshop mods. Last time we discussed the problem, it was related to malware-infected live wallpapers distributed through Wallpaper Engine's Steam

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Mark Zuckerberg argues that superintelligence should be widely distributed as a tool that empowers everyone, rather than centralized in a few institutions

July 28, 2026, 2:20 PM Top News More: Apple, International Business Times, 9to5Mac, Washington Post, Inc, The Verge, Business Insider, Thurrott, CNBC, MarketWatch, Gizmodo, Macworld, Appleosophy, Tom's Guide, TechCrunch, Mashable, UPI, iDrop News, Neowin, CNET, Forbes, Finimize, Phone Scoop, The Verge, Android Authority, Wall Street Journal, Quartz,

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These App Store hidden gems prove there’s still room for great software in the AI era

Apps are back, or maybe they never left in the first place. While some people debate whether people will shift away from apps as AI agents make accessing online services more efficient, we’ve found the App Store to be alive and well, with a recent explosion of fun, creative

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A New Season of ‘Ted Lasso’ and More Great Originals Are Coming to Apple TV This August 2026

Apple TV holds the distinction of being one of the only streaming services to offer only original content on its platform: You won’t find a rotating library of blockbusters and classic sitcoms there. Instead, you’ll get a tightly curated collection of interesting content for kids and adults alike.

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The Most Effective Ways to Use Your LED Mask, According to Skincare Experts

Red light therapy face masks are popular right now because beauty influencers rave about how effective they are as part of their skincare routine. These devices are also known as LED masks, and use red, near-infrared or blue light at different wavelengths. LED masks reportedly can improve your skin’s

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New Yorkers will soon need to verify their age to access algorithmic feeds

Lauren Feiner is a senior policy reporter at The Verge, covering the intersection of Silicon Valley and Capitol Hill. She spent 5 years covering tech policy at CNBC, writing about antitrust, privacy, and content moderation reform. New Yorkers who want to see their Instagram or TikTok feed curated by an

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Nvidia launches Open Secure AI Alliance — but there's no room for OpenAI, Anthropic or Google

* Nvidia and Microsoft lead the list of founder members of the Open Secure AI Alliance * AI, financial services, tech companies, and other organizations with developing AI services have joined the alliance * Notable exceptions include OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google Nvidia has confirmed its membership of the new Open Secure AI Alliance,

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Runway couldn't fix a bug in its AI video model, so it turned the bug into a feature

Runway spent weeks trying to engineer its way out of a stubborn bug: AI-generated avatars would drift off-center during real-time video generation. The fix wasn't a back-end patch — it was a new front-end feature that just worked around the problem. That's the kind of lesson Ryan

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GM redesigned its engineering workflows around AI agents — and tripled its merged pull requests

Software engineers at General Motors' (GM's) autonomous driving division spend only 15% of their time writing code, according to Rashed Haq, GM's VP of autonomous vehicles, in a recent onstage interview at VB Transform 2026. GM is now using AI agents to accelerate much of

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Tile’s best Bluetooth tracker is down to its lowest price of the year

Sheena Vasani writes about tech news, reviews gadgets, and helps readers save money by highlighting deals and product recommendations for The Verge. Apple’s latest AirTag may seem like the obvious choice if you own an iPhone and are shopping for a Bluetooth tracker, but it’s not the most

Q&A with Sam Altman on the Hugging Face breach, the race for compute, distillation, open source, concentration of power, robotics, OpenAI's future, and more

eBay reaches $56M settlement with e-commerce newsletter writers it terrorized in 2019

These Popular Steam Workshop Custom Maps Secretly Install PC Malware

Mark Zuckerberg argues that superintelligence should be widely distributed as a tool that empowers everyone, rather than centralized in a few institutions

These App Store hidden gems prove there’s still room for great software in the AI era

A New Season of ‘Ted Lasso’ and More Great Originals Are Coming to Apple TV This August 2026

The Most Effective Ways to Use Your LED Mask, According to Skincare Experts

New Yorkers will soon need to verify their age to access algorithmic feeds

Nvidia launches Open Secure AI Alliance &mdash; but there's no room for OpenAI, Anthropic or Google

Runway couldn't fix a bug in its AI video model, so it turned the bug into a feature

GM redesigned its engineering workflows around AI agents — and tripled its merged pull requests

Tile’s best Bluetooth tracker is down to its lowest price of the year

Nvidia launches Open Secure AI Alliance — but there's no room for OpenAI, Anthropic or Google