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Abliteration.ai is making a business out of removing AI guardrails
Abliteration.AI is making powerful AI models without guardrails easier to access, arguing that giving defenders the same tools as bad actors could ult...
Congressman says TikTok backed out of a meeting to avoid child safety questions
TikTok backed out of a congressional committee's "public roundtable" set for this month over concerns it would be asked about child safety practices, ...
Meta is paying to peek at how you use their latest AI model
Most AI tools allow you to opt out of sharing your usage with the model provider to improve future versions. Meta has taken that idea and put a price ...
Samsung’s beloved Q Series sound system is hundreds off for Labor Day
Samsung’s Q990F is a full home audio system in a single box. | Image: The Verge Researching, buying, then finally assembling a sound system for your...
OpenAI launches Astra, its powerful (and controversial) new model
OpenAI claims that Astra represents "a new frontier on computer and browser use," and that it handles tasks with unmatched "speed, accuracy, and safet...
OpenAI’s next big AI model has ‘entered the AGI era’
OpenAI's next big model is here: GPT-6 Astra. The company calls it a "generational leap in capability" for areas like cybersecurity, professional work...
Bybit Pay integrates with Mesh to expand crypto payments
The integration lets Bybit users spend digital assets directly from their exchange balances across Mesh-powered platforms....
BitMEX co-founder contributed 75% of Reform UK’s donations in Q2 2026
The UK political party and its leader, Nigel Farage, have accepted contributions from figures tied to the crypto industry, raising questions about pot...
Qualcomm backs Ultrahuman in $70M round on bet to turn smart rings into computers
Ultrahuman is targeting a $200 million annual revenue run rate by January 2027 as it builds a new Qualcomm-powered smart ring....
Microsoft slashes Xbox Cloud Gaming to just 15 hours a month for Ultimate subscribers
Microsoft is announcing some major changes to Xbox Cloud Gaming today, less than a year after opening up cloud gaming to its Xbox Game Pass Premium an...
Microsoft opens up Xbox Cloud Gaming with new pay-as-you-go option
Microsoft says it will let anyone access Xbox Cloud Gaming in November, without the need to subscribe to Xbox Game Pass. The change to a pay-as-you-go...
Circular unveils Ring 3 series with contactless payments and on-finger vibration alerts
The Circular Ring 3 series announcement comes amid a year of heightened competition in the smart ring market, following the launches of the Oura Ring ...
Ollie is betting its focus on privacy can help it win the AI assistant race
The family-focused AI assistant wants access to the details of your everyday life, but says it won’t use that data to train AI models or share it with...
Kraken parent Payward partners with SoFi on stablecoin, 24/7 settlement
The deal will bring SoFiUSD to Kraken, connect Payward to SoFi’s 24/7 dollar settlement network and give SoFi access to digital asset liquidity throug...
Google launches AI voice features in Gmail, Docs, and Keep
Users can search for emails or draft documents using the new conversational feature....
I held the first truly bezel-free phone
Cast your mind back a decade or so, and smartphone makers were obsessed with shrinking the bezel on phones. Screens got bigger, the black bars around ...
Circular’s new smart rings add contactless payments and vibrating alerts
Circular announced its new Ring 3 Series today as a follow-up to the Ring 2 that debuted at CES 2025 with upgraded sensors and FDA-cleared atrial fibr...
The Moto Watch Ultra is a return to Wear OS
The Moto Watch Ultra comes in one size, two colors, and with Google’s smartwatch software. Just a few months after getting back into the smartwatch ...
Lenovo’s new MacBook Neo competitor comes in two sizes and seven colors
Tag yourself. I’m spicy gold. | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge Lenovo is announcing the IdeaPad Vibe, a productivity laptop aimed at tak...
This ultra-thin Lenovo laptop concept uses solid-state cooling
A laptop we’ll hopefully see but never hear. Lenovo is announcing a new concept laptop for IFA 2026 that uses solid-state cooling instead of traditi...
Google’s latest AI weather model gives you no excuse to forget your umbrella
WeatherNext 3 is the latest wave of a sea change in meteorology brought out by deep learning techniques. Google says it will start feeding into weathe...
Recovery specialists crack $1B crypto wallet... but find just $10
Crypto recovery specialists reveal how lost wallets, passwords and seed phrases can sometimes be recovered — but that’s of no help if the money was ne...
Volunteer at TechCrunch Founder Summit in Boston
Our rebranded Boston event, TechCrunch Founder Summit (formerly All Stage), is back on November 4th! And we are looking for some incredible volunteers...
TikTok comments are getting more interactive with voice comments, polls, and more
With the additions, the app is borrowing features from messaging apps as it looks to deepen engagement on its platform....
VARA, Securitize sign MoU for tokenization innovation in Dubai
VARA and Securitize signed an MoU to foster more tokenization innovation in Dubai and explore how tokenized financial innovation should be regulated i...
Here’s what happened in crypto today
Need to know what happened in crypto today? Here is the latest news on daily trends and events impacting Bitcoin price, blockchain, DeFi, Web3 and cry...
Nvidia confirms it will buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion
Nvidia said Hugging Face hosts over 3 million models and is used by over 18 million developers....
Nvidia buys Hugging Face for $12.9B in push into AI software
Nvidia agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, gaining a platform used by more than 18 million developers to share and deploy AI models....
Amazon’s Zoox expands its robotaxi service to Las Vegas airport
Zoox is expanding to this critical ride-hailing destination a few weeks after it started charging for robotaxi rides....
Pencil Finance completes $1M onchain lending cycle for 6.6K students in Southeast Asia
Pencil Finance said that its first-of-a-kind loan offered financing to 6,600 students in Southeast Asia who were underserved by traditional lenders....