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Solana futures funding rate turns negative: Is $78 SOL next?
Solana futures funding turned negative as demand for SOL and its associated decentralized exchanges fell. Will traders buy the dip or is $78 next?
Wear OS 7 will keep track of deliveries and sports scores on your wrist
A Pixel Watch 4 running Wear OS 6, not Wear OS 7. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Amid the flurry of today’s Google I/O announcements, Google shared details about Wear OS 7, the next major update to its smartwatch platform. To help you keep track of things like deliveries and sports … Read more
Plex is tripling the price of a lifetime pass to $750 after doubling it last year
I am dying to know how much money Plex is about to make the next six weeks charging people to stream their own video from their own homes. Today, it’s giving every prospective customer until July 1st to lock in a lifetime subscription at today’s rates – before it triples the price to $750. Plex … Read more
Trump orders government, Fed to review crypto firms’ access to payment rails
Donald Trump’s executive order asks the Fed to review how depository institutions may be granted access to payment services, an area the crypto industry is deeply involved with.
Demis Hassabis said this might be the ‘foothills of the singularity.’ What?
Welcome to a “profound moment for humanity,” according to Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, who closed out Google I/O’s keynote presentation on Tuesday, saying: Google’s cutting-edge research and products will help unlock AGI’s incredible potential for the benefit of the entire world. When we look back at this time, I think we will realize that … Read more
After Nearly a Decade, Gary Gensler’s Poster Child for Crypto Compliance Executes Its First Trade
After weathering years of industry skepticism and navigating a shifting regulatory landscape, Prometheum executed its first crypto trades.
We Pay for AI’s Mistakes: The Accountability Gap in the Agentic Era
Ship a bad block of code that takes down a primary database, and you will likely find yourself clearing out your desk by noon. Let an autonomous agentic pipeline trigger the exact same catastrophic outage, and the AI vendor simply updates their user agreement to deny liability. Welcome to the uncomfortable reality of building software … Read more
We react to Google I/O 2026
What better way to unwind from a two-hour keynote presentation than to pore over the weirdest and wildest details, from a Gmail bot you can converse with to DeepMind’s leader saying the singularity is near. The Vergecast went live right after the show, with senior AI reporter Hayden Field joining me to discuss the highlights. … Read more
Bernstein: Bitcoin miners becoming critical suppliers in AI infrastructure
Bernstein says miners control 27 GW of planned power and $90 billion in AI deals, giving them a strategic edge as electricity becomes the main constraint on data center growth.
Minnesota Bans Prediction Markets—And Is Sued By the Trump Admin Hours Later
Minnesota’s ban has made it a felony to create or operate a prediction market in the state. The CFTC and DOJ say it violates federal law.
The future of Google is a search box that does everything
Last year, after watching Google’s I/O keynote, I wrote that it felt like Google’s future was Google googling. After watching this year’s I/O keynote on Tuesday, I don’t think Google just wants to google for you – I think it wants to do everything for you, all from a search box. Take the trusty Google … Read more
Discord enables end-to-end encrypted voice and video calling for every user
Good news! Discord’s hundreds of millions of users now have their communications scrambled, so not even Discord can see them.
Mach Industries just spent $50M to solve a major defense tech problem
Mach says the acquisition meaningfully improves unit economics across its five vehicle programs at exactly the moment the company is starting to scale.
From teen hacker to Iron Dome researcher, this founder raised $28M to fight AI phishing
Ocean, an agentic email security platform, raised funding from Lightspeed Venture Partners.
How to Choose an AI Visibility Agency in 2026
The AI visibility market in 2026 looks the way the SEO market looked in 2010: a handful of practitioners doing real work, a much larger crowd selling the language of the discipline without the underlying methodology, and almost no agreed-upon way for buyers to tell the difference. Gartner projected that traditional search would lose 25% … Read more
Google’s AI future demands trust — and your personal data
Google has big promises for its AI-powered future – and a lot of it depends on your trust. At I/O 2026, Google described a bunch of new tools that it claims will make your life easier. Gemini Spark, Google’s always-on AI agent, can help organize an upcoming event, while Daily Brief can offer a rundown … Read more
Nintendo’s $500 Switch 2 bundle includes a game, and it’s available now
Mario Kart World is one of three games you can choose from in the bundle. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Nintendo recently teased the “Choose Your Game” Switch 2 console and digital game bundle, coming in early June. However, multiple retailers (including Nintendo itself) are already offering the $499.99 bundle. The … Read more
Even a mountain of T-bills won’t save Tether and Circle from a sudden liquidity crisis, expert says
The head of digital assets and tokenization at one of Germany’s largest asset managers said that USDT and USDC are not stablecoins, from his perspective.
$100/Month in Bitcoin Since 2015 Would Have Turned $13,700 Into $632,000, Coinbird Analysis Shows
Nuremberg, Germany, May 19th, 2026/Chainwire/–Based on Coinbird DCA Calculator data: monthly Bitcoin buying since 2015 returned +4,515%, while investors would still have endured a 76.72% drawdown, and DCA underperformed lump-sum investing in Coinbird’s tested shorter-term scenarios New analysis from independent crypto comparison platform Coinbird shows what disciplined monthly Bitcoin buying since 2015 would have actually … Read more
Data shows Bitcoin dip buyers waiting for lower prices: Is $70K BTC’s next stop?
Bitcoin futures and orderbook data show dip buyers waiting for a BTC price drop below $70,000.
This bitcoin bear market is different with ‘uniquely pessimistic’ traders limiting downside, K33 says
The research firm said bitcoin traders remain unusually defensive, reducing the risk of the kind of leverage-driven collapse seen in prior downturns.
Americans Arrested in Japan for Entering Punch the Monkey’s Zoo Home to Promote Meme Coin
Viral Japanese macaque monkey Punch received unwelcome visitors this week, as trespassers attempted to promote a Solana meme coin.
Here are our favorite Memorial Day tech deals so far
Portable bluetooth speakers like the Charge 6 and Flip 7 are just a few on sale for Memorial Day. Memorial Day marks the unofficial start of summer, and the holiday’s sales include plenty of deals on gadgets that can help you make the most of the season. If your plans involve beach days, pool parties, … Read more
The 10 Best Press Release Distribution Services to Boost Your Brand Authority in 2026
Let’s cut straight to it: in 2026, a press release without a distribution strategy is just a document sitting in a folder. With AI-generated content flooding news aggregators and traditional editorial staff shrinking, the window for earning genuine media attention has never been narrower or more valuable. Brands that secure placements on high-authority outlets like … Read more
Democrats preview how they’d go after the Ticketmaster settlement if they regain power
A handful of Democrats called an unofficial hearing on Capitol Hill Monday to slam the Department of Justice’s “trivial” and “pathetic” settlement with Live Nation-Ticketmaster, previewing how they might go after Trump administration antitrust deals if they win back congressional power in November. While the DOJ settlement with Live Nation, which came one week into … Read more
Elon Musk said Sam Altman “stole” a non-profit — but the trial showed he had similar aims
“By the end of this week, you and Sam will be the most hated men in America.”