Mico, Microsoft’s weird lil’ AI guy, has been demoted
The amorphous corporate mascot will no longer haunt Copilot Voice.
Mico in October 2025 to give an anthropomorphized face to voice conversations with its Copilot AI chatbot. It seems the poor little blob is already getting demoted after less th…
Flock Safety has updated its police regulations, but gaps remain.
Following dozens of reported cases of police abuse, including the
for the use of its AI surveillance cameras on Thursday.
can track license plates, car features and, on the right models, humans as well. They can also listen for dis…
The Google Pixel 11 comes in obsidian, frost, pistachio and hibiscus colors.
A slew of new phones and gadgets were revealed at the
event on Wednesday, including new Pixel phones, a foldable, a smartwatch and a personal item tracker. Following industry trends, most of these are pricier than their p…
Fans waiting for Darksiders 4 and the next Kingdom Come game have finally been given something resembling a release window. Unfortunately, it is a rather large one. As part of its
, Embracer has placed both games in its 2027/28 fiscal-year pipeline, meaning they are currently expected to launch som…
, and one of its biggest upgrades is going straight to Gemini Spark.
The company says Spark is moving to the new model starting today, giving its cloud-based agent better tool use and stronger performance on multi-step tasks. Google specifically points to work such as consolidating files, drafting …
‘That is not acceptable’: Judge orders Google to make rival app store installs easier
Judge Donato was not having Google’s ‘anticompetitive friction.‘
Judge Donato was not having Google’s ‘anticompetitive friction.‘
Photo illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos by Philip Pacheco, Bloom…
Apple and Epic argue over how much Apple should get from purchases made outside the App Store
Apple says it should be allowed to recoup ‘at least some compensation’ for the platform it provides.
Apple says it should be allowed to recoup ‘at least some compensation’ for the platform it provides.
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today, Brian Barrett, Zoë Schiffer, and Leah Feiger break down Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s 6,500-word AI manifesto and why it ultimately rings hollow. Plus, why are job seekers scheduling bot-run interviews at 1 am? WIRED’s Andy Greenberg also joins to unpack the best findings from Black Hat and Defc…
—which spans across its AI safety, cybersecurity, and alignment divisions. The ChatGPT-maker says it has slowed down research, spent millions of dollars, and told several teams to drop everything to focus on investigating a
that breached the platform Hugging Face in a quest to complete an internal …
“ShieldFont” aims to poison AI training data without making pages unreadable for people….
Boy’s unusual symptoms could help identify the next case sooner….
How to stop Twitch from training AI on your streams
And why the company didn’t make the feature opt-in.
Twitch recently confirmed it will use streamers’ content to train its generative AI models. The Amazon-owned platform is automatically
to the feature. And in the most predictable turn of events…