ArXiv, a popular platform for preprint academic research, is taking a new step to attempt to reduce the volume of papers that include AI slop. If a paper has “incontrovertible evidence that the authors did not check the results of… Read More »ArXiv will ban researchers who upload papers full of AI slop
An interactive map tracking data center construction and AI policy, built by Isabelle Reksopuro. When Oregon resident Isabelle Reksopuro heard Google was gobbling up public land to fuel its data centers in her home state, she didn’t initially know what… Read More »Use this map to find the data centers in your backyard
In January, Colorado lawmakers introduced a proposal to make operating systems collect users’ ages and pass them to app developers. The bill, SB26-051, had clearly been designed for commercial platforms like iOS and Android – one of numerous plans to… Read More »Linux devs are fighting the new age-gated internet
Microsoft first started opening up access to Claude Code in December, inviting thousands of its own developers to use Anthropic’s AI coding tool daily. It was part of an effort to get project managers, designers, and other employees to experiment… Read More »Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses
You can save over $50 on the latest pair of Ray-Ban Meta glasses, which offer improved video quality and battery life. | Photo: Photo by Colt Bradley / The Verge If you’ve been curious about Ray-Ban’s Meta smart glasses, right… Read More »Meta’s summer sale drops Ray-Ban’s new smart glasses to record-low prices
OpenAI is going to let users access Codex, its desktop AI tool that can write code and use apps on your computer, from the ChatGPT app on your phone. Following the surge in popularity for Anthropic’s Claude Code, OpenAI has… Read More »OpenAI’s Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app
Classics as well as newer films like Anora are on sale. | Image: Neon If you’ve been meaning to grow your physical movie collection, now’s a good time to do it. Through May 25th, The Criterion Collection is taking 30… Read More »Everything at The Criterion Collection is 30 percent off right now
For the second year in a row, Netflix’s ad-supported tier more than doubled its monthly viewerbase. During its 2026 upfront presentation, Netflix revealed that its $8.99-per-month plan reaches more than 250 million people around the globe, a significant leap from… Read More »Netflix’s ad ambitions just keep growing
A week ago, newly appointed Disney CEO Josh D’Amaro was busy regaling investors with plans to turn Disney Plus into the company’s “digital centerpiece.” By last Friday, though, his attention had presumably shifted to a fight with the Trump administration… Read More »Fighting Trump will make or break Disney’s new CEO
Hello and welcome to Regulator, the newsletter for Verge subscribers that goes into tech shenanigans that take place in the backrooms of Washington. Really, it sometimes does feel like the online series The Backrooms: a parallel universe with no internal… Read More »The crypto Clarity Act returns to the Senate this week. The banks are already trying to kill it.