24 Jun 2026
OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom
On Wednesday, OpenAI unveiled its first custom-built inference processor, designed and manufactured in collaboration with Broadcom. Named Jalapeño, the new processor was designed specifically for the unique needs of OpenAI’s inference systems.
24 Jun 2026
Hollywood and Big Tech Are Preparing For War
A barrage of seemingly unrelated headlines suggest that Hollywood and Big Tech are on a collision course and that the next few years will reshape how the world spends its free time and which platforms will dominate. As tech and AI companies push further into entertainment and media, their stewardship of that content (or lack thereof) is becoming a story unto itself. At the same time, strategic…
24 Jun 2026
Tesla cofounder JB Straubel’s first pitch to Elon Musk failed. Then he turned his ‘hobby’ into a $1.3 trillion success
Before Tesla became a $1.3 trillion juggernaut eyeing a potential megamerger with SpaceX, Elon Musk was writing a check to a then-27-year-old Stanford engineer who couldn’t get anyone to take his electric car idea seriously.
24 Jun 2026
Looking to Save Money? Here Are 100+ Prime Day Deals Under $50 Worth Adding to Your Cart
Looking to Save Money? Here Are 100+ Prime Day Deals Under $50 Worth Adding to Your Cart Best tech deals under $50 Best kitchen deals under $50 Best home deals...
23 Jun 2026
YouTube Sidesteps Latest Social Media Trial With Payout; Meta, TikTok Owners & Snap Still Face Court
Over a month before a second potentially seminal social media trial is set to start in California, YouTube has reached a deal to get out of having to show up in court. “YouTube’s decision to resolve this case before having to face a jury speaks for itself,” attorneys for 15-year-old R.K.C. said Monday as news of a self described “settlement-in-principle” emerged.
23 Jun 2026
YouTube settles upcoming bellwether trial over social media's psychological harms to kids
LOS ANGELES (CN) — YouTube and its parent company Google have reached a confidential settlement with R.K.C., the unnamed defendant in a second bellwether trial over the effects of social media on minors.
23 Jun 2026
Cheap stuff that doesn’t suck and is under $25 for Prime Day
We at The Verge love a good gadget or tchotchke, especially when it’s not too expensive. But with the rising cost of just about everything these days, many once-cheap gadgets aren’t so affordable anymore.
23 Jun 2026
Anthropic launches Claude Tag, a tool that works like a virtual employee within Slack
Anthropic has released a version of its popular chatbot Claude that operates like a virtual employee. Claude Tag, the new product, works across organizations within Slack to complete various tasks for teams.
23 Jun 2026
A company outside Boston just craned the second 48-ton half of a steel donut into Tokamak Hall and pushed its compact fusion reactor to 75% built, a machine ch…
For decades the recipe for a fusion reactor barely changed: build it enormous. A tokamak traps a cloud of gas hotter than the Sun inside a magnetic field, and for most of fusion’s history the only way to make that field strong enough was to make the machine huge. That is why ITER, the giant international reactor going up in southern France, is the size of a cathedral and has been under…
