23 Jun 2026
Robot Memory Is The Next Big Robotics Frontier
Robotic memory getty Last week, MIT researchers introduced DAAAM , short for Describe Anything, Anywhere, at Any Moment. While the name is a bit long, the idea is simple: give robots a memory of the places they visit.
Ron Schmelzer
2026
23 Jun 2026
SpaceX raises $25 billion in debt sale less than two weeks after IPO
SpaceX employees go to work at the SpaceX facility in Hawthorne on the day of their company's IPO, in Hawthorne, California, June 12, 2026. Mike Blake | Reuters Less than two weeks after its record IPO, SpaceX has raised $25 billion in a debt sale, CNBC has confirmed.
Lora Kolodny, Seema Mody
2026
23 Jun 2026
Tesla claims driver ‘manually overrode self-driving’ in deadly Texas crash
Tesla is pushing back on claims that its Full Self-Driving (FSD) system caused a fatal Texas crash, where a speeding Model 3 barreled into a home, killing a 76-year-old woman inside.
Emma Roth
2026
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.
Antonio Di Benedetto, Antonio G. Di Benedetto
2026
23 Jun 2026
Meta is building a prediction markets app to rival Polymarket, Kalshi: report
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is quietly developing a prediction markets app that could challenge industry leaders Polymarket and Kalshi, according to a report.
@nypost
2026
23 Jun 2026
As top talent leaves Google DeepMind, some question if the lab can remain at the forefront of AI development
Welcome to Eye on AI. In today’s issue: Google DeepMind loses top AI talent, raising questions about its status in the AI race
Jeremy Kahn
2026
23 Jun 2026
AI Collapses on a Classic Psychology Test. What It Reveals Could Stall Human-Level AI.
"Attention is all you need." This 2017 breakthrough idea transformed AI. The concept of self-attention became the foundation of today’s chatbots. Claude, Gemini, and ChatGPT are all large language models (LLMs), AI systems designed to focus on the matter at hand while filtering out distractions. The results have been remarkable. From brainstorming recipes to generating code, apps, websites, and…
Shelly Fan
2026
23 Jun 2026
Google's Secret Crisis: Why Search Volume Is At An All-Time High But The Company Is Panicking
Caught between ChatGPT’s billion users and a growing anti-AI backlash, Google risks losing ground on both fronts Google has never processed more searches. Sundar Pichai says query volume is at an “all-time high,” according to recent earnings remarks. Yet ChatGPT has reportedly surpassed 1 billion monthly active users, and DuckDuckGo is seeing surging installs for a feature that does the exact…
Al Landes
2026
23 Jun 2026
Mythos discovers 'Squidbleed,' a memory leak that's gone undetected since Clinton era
Sometimes it takes a while to detect a vuln. A 29-year-old, Heartbleed-style vulnerability in Squid, a popular open-source caching proxy server, silently leaked users' plaintext HTTP requests and potentially revealed sensitive data, including credentials and session tokens, for decades - until AI (and a few humans) saved the day.
Jessica Lyons
2026
