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• What should we test on Apple’s ridiculous $12,299 Mac Studio? (theverge.com)
  That’s not a typo. The M5 Ultra Mac Studio Apple sent us for review is a doozie. It’s got a 36-core CPU and 80-core GPU, 256GB of RAM, and…
• Anthropic proposes three rules for measuring AI progress. (theverge.com)
  Anthropic’s proposals, laid out in a big website, are: > The extent to which AI is building the next version of itself, as opposed to being…
• Google’s new emoji site is great. (theverge.com)
  On the Noto Emoji site, you can search for emoji, download 2D and 3D files of the (open source) emoji in different formats, and even see th…
• Valve has open-sourced Lepton, its tool to bring Android games to Steam. (theverge.com)
  “Lepton is intended to help game developers bring their VR Android games to the Steam Frame,” Valve writes. “Lepton is not designed for gen…
• Meta’s Muse AI agent now has a Mac app. (theverge.com)
  The agent initially launched earlier this month on iOS, Android, and the web, but now, you can use it on your Mac computer, as announced by…
• Waymo says Singapore will be its next international robotaxi city (theverge.com)
  Waymo plans to launch a commercial robotaxi service in Singapore in 2028.
• The winners of Nikon’s microscopic video competition. (theverge.com)
  The annual Small World in Motion Competition has yielded another five bangers. The first place entry used a 100X magnification to capture t…
• Sylvan Esso are back on Spotify after an “unsustainable” year off. (theverge.com)
  The band’s Amelia Meath says they’re back “to continue to employ everyone that we employ,” after what’s been an “incredibly hard” year off…
• Flash floods can strike without warning — this new technology could change that (theverge.com)
  Flash floods are some of the deadliest weather events in the world. A new system called TACLS that combines satellite data with machine lea…
• Another Clicks Communicator update. (theverge.com)
  Clicks is offering another updated look at the much-awaited Communicator and a couple of pleasant surprises for those who have already pre-…
• Paris prosecutors are investigating smart glasses-enabled sexual harassment. (theverge.com)
  They’ve opened “at least one criminal probe” following complaints about the glasses being used to film women on the street in public withou…
• Merriam-Webster adds meme coin, vibe coding, and uncanny valley to its online dictionary. (theverge.com)
  Those are just three of 1,400 new words added to the more comprehensive online version of Merriam-Webster’s linguistic repository. Other ad…
• This cartridge-playing Game Boy clone is smaller and cheaper than Analogue’s Pocket (theverge.com)
  The FPGB Mini is only slightly wider than the original Nintendo cartridges it plays.
• Lenovo’s Yoga Slim 7X is the most laptop that $1,000 can currently buy (theverge.com)
  You can also save on Starfield for the PS5, get a $25 DoorDash gift card with Fire Emblem Fortune’s Weave, and save on a great dash cam.
• Hacks’ full five-season run is coming to Blu-ray on December 8th. (theverge.com)
  HBO’s Hacks was a magnet for well-deserved Emmys, and I was personally delighted to hear that the complete series would come to Blu-ray. Th…
• Brendan Carr’s FCC is more worried about who The View interviews than foreign governments owning (theverge.com)
  The commission is waiving its rules to let foreign wealth funds own 49.5 percent of Paramount-Warner Bros.
• ICYMI: Apple is charging up to $60 a month for Apple Intelligence features on HomeKit cameras. (theverge.com)
  You’ll have to pay at least $9.99 a month for Apple Home’s new AI-powered features, including video summaries, for just one camera. If you…
• Security researchers used Claude to help them hack into OpenAI (theverge.com)
  It took researchers just a few days to hack OpenAI using Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5.
• More than 100 AI industry experts wrote a letter calling for independent evaluation of frontier (theverge.com)
  Academics, evaluators, and AI leaders signed a public letter calling not just for embedded third-party evaluators at top AI labs like OpenA…
• What Hollywood thinks about existential AI warnings (theverge.com)
  Some of the entertainment industry’s biggest labor unions aren’t buying the AI doomer narrative.
• Gavin Newsom is pushing for an AI kill switch (theverge.com)
  California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) issued an executive order that would convene experts to recommend new AI safety policy the state should en…
• The real story of the iPhone 18 Pro’s camera (theverge.com)
  On The Vergecast: an iPhone 18 Pro camera deep dive, the state of the AI safety debate, and more.
• Join us for a Version History livestream of The Oregon Trail! (theverge.com)
  Find out who lives and who dies as Verge staffers travel the treacherous Oregon Trail in a live playthrough of the classic edutainment game…
• Spending two and a half hours watching this meticulous Leica restoration is time well spent. (theverge.com)
  After 100 years this Leica I was suffering from light leaks as a result of shutter curtains that had become porous. This satisfying ASMR vi…
• iPhone Duo: “it’s sort of the greatest hits.” (theverge.com)
  The team behind Apple’s new foldable basically gave a second keynote to GQ, and snagged a couple brief statements from new CEO John Ternus.…
• Disney’s first CTO is Character.AI’s former CEO (theverge.com)
  The House of Mouse has poached Karandeep Anand from the chatbot company.
• Virginia governor creates an AI task force and moves to restrain data centers (theverge.com)
  Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed an executive order banning NDAs for data center development and creating an AI task force.
• AMD also has a rumored 10 percent price hike coming. (theverge.com)
  The price increase reportedly follows higher prices from chip manufacturer TSMC, and could impact everything from AMD’s GPUs to its motherb…
• OpenAI and Microsoft knew they were starting a ‘doom loop’ for the web (theverge.com)
  OpenAI and Microsoft knew they were driving us toward Google Zero, and they did it anyway.
• Valve has already fixed the Steam Frame’s slow charging speeds. (theverge.com)
  Valve’s 0.3.0 update for Steam Frame claims “Substantially faster charging while unit is off / sleeping.” It’s true. I used to see 8-watt c…
• Jonathan Kanter on what the AI slowdown means for competition (theverge.com)
  The former DOJ antitrust chief explains if OpenAI, Anthropic, and SpaceX are entering a cartel, and how to prevent monopolies in AI.
• Anamanaguchi has ‘too goddamn many’ browser tabs open right now (theverge.com)
  The chiptune rock band known for Scott Pilgrim game soundtracks and a Hatsune Miku collab answered our weekly questionnaire to celebrate th…
• The AI regulation smackdown isn’t over (theverge.com)
  It’s AI CEO against AI CEO, and things are changing by the day.
• The colorful, unique Hyte X50 PC case is $50 off (theverge.com)
  The company’s Labor Day sale is still going strong through the weekend, and the Hyte X50 is one of my favorite deals.
• Gemini went rogue, hacked three companies, and Google hid it (theverge.com)
  Google says that Gemini breaking containment and hacking real companies doesn’t constitute ‘misalignment.’
• An activist crashed a Canva AI event. (theverge.com)
  “Best-case scenario, the men handling this technology are completely incompetent. Worst-case scenario, we are all being led into a disaster…
• AI ‘actress’ Tilly Norwood glitches and starts speaking Cantonese during an interview. (theverge.com)
  Norwood was on Piers Morgan Uncensored to discuss its AI slop movie, Misaligned. There’s a painful lag between questions and answers, and i…
• Trump treads further on free speech with new journalist bans (theverge.com)
  The president’s threat against CNN, MS Now, and Politico was real.
• Now Trump is trying to rename AI too. (theverge.com)
  First, it was the Gulf of Mexico. Then the Kennedy Center. Then Lake Ontario. And let’s not forget about the Department of Defense. Now the…
• A great new video game movie (theverge.com)
  Plus: Valve’s Steam Frame, Nintendo’s expansive new Fire Emblem, a tiny Fujifilm camera, and more.
• The hidden monopoly behind your TI graphing calculator (theverge.com)
  The Verge’s Nilay Patel, David Pierce, and Victoria Song recount their school days with Texas Instruments graphing calculators.
• Humans, not rogue AI, are still the biggest cybersecurity risk to energy systems (theverge.com)
  Generative AI in the wrong hands raises the risk of cyberattack on critical energy infrastructure.
• How good are your AI-detecting skills? (theverge.com)
  Reality Check is a simple game where you get 10 seconds per image, 60 seconds total, to identify which images are AI and which are real—it’…
• A24’s reputation is on the line with the SCP Foundation movie (theverge.com)
  A24’s V/H/S: SCP movie is already on shaky ground after potentially running afoul of Creative Commons licensing rules.
• Trump now says he wants to form an ‘AI Force’ (theverge.com)
  Donald Trump claimed, without evidence, that data centers are good for communities as he called for the creation of an AI Force.
• Trump wants to put drones and snipers in his planned DC arch. (theverge.com)
  It’s unclear what military advantage there would be to storing “large quantities of sniper ammunition” and “large numbers of drones” in the…
• Kojima Productions disputes reports the studio is in trouble (theverge.com)
  It released a statement saying ‘the studio is in a healthy, profitable state.’
• No one is surprised that Nvidia’s Jensen Huang thinks AI fears are overblown (theverge.com)
  Nvidia’s Jensen Huang claims there is a ‘0% chance’ of AI ending the world.
• Even in 1967, we worried about whether AI would be our demise. (theverge.com)
  This episode of the BBC’s Towards Tomorrow explores whether humans and robots can coexist. It features an introduction from Isaac Asimov, i…
• No Dogs in Space is back to feed your need for obsessive music history (theverge.com)
  Obsessive music history podcast No Dogs in Space is getting ‘back to basics’ with Punk 2.0