SOND, a sleep tech startup from Bose’s former head of sleep, exits stealth with $7M
SOND, a startup led by Bose’s former head of sleep products, emerged from stealth with $7M in funding for its AI-powered sleep earbuds.
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This smart bird feeder captures more of my backyard drama
This smart bird feeder sees more but with less whimsy. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge Since moving to South Carolina’s Lowcountry, I’ve been spellbound by the myriad of beautiful birds that share the coast with us – ospreys raising their babies in towering nests beside the road to my daughter’s school, … Read more
This Ferrari should have been a Volkswagen
It may be the NBA playoffs but right now Ferrari is getting dunked on more than anyone. Whether they own a Ferrari or just have a poster of a Testarossa on their wall, fans in the Ferrari-verse are frothy about the Luce, the company’s first all-electric vehicle. According to one highly rated Verge commenter: “looks … Read more
China is increasingly keeping its best AI talent to itself
China’s AI boom is producing world-class talent, and Beijing is increasingly reluctant to let them go elsewhere.
007 First Light is like a James Bond movie in the best way possible
The James Bond franchise is nothing if not a spectacle: Aside from the explosions and gun fights, even its calmer moments are dripping in the pomp and glamour of elite ostentation and luxury locales. Bond, however, has always been an odd mascot for the espionage profession, which ordinarily operates under silence and shadows. With 007 … Read more
ClickHouse triples anualized revenue to $250M, charting a path toward an IPO
The database provider is eyeing a public debut within the next few years.
Win cool gadgets we can’t keep because The Verge has ethics
When people learn I work for The Verge, they inevitably ask: “Do you get to keep the gadgets?” Now that I film Today I’m Toying With, a video series where I share the joy of tech, I get that question more than ever. The answer is no, we don’t keep them! Our ethics policy is … Read more
The best part of Mina the Hollower is how it randomizes the Zelda formula
After rolling credits on Mina the Hollower, I did something unusual for me and immediately started a new file. I’m not typically one to replay games right after I beat them. But Mina, a new action-adventure title from Shovel Knight creators Yacht Club Games, offers something that got me to jump right back into a … Read more
YouTube is putting AI labels where you’ll actually see them
The labels are more prominent, and they actually say “AI” now. | Image: YouTube / The Verge In the wake of Google expanding its AI verification efforts at I/O, YouTube is now finally going to start taking AI labeling seriously. YouTube has announced that it’s relocating AI disclosures on Shorts and long-form videos to make … Read more
YouTube will now automatically label AI videos
YouTube will now automatically label videos that use significant photorealistic AI, instead of relying solely on creators to disclose AI-generated content themselves. It’s also making AI labels more prominent.
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XLIDE: VBA without excel
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I’m Tired of Talking to AI
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Understanding Why OS RAM and Postgres Buffer Cache Compete
You just doubled the RAM on your database server to handle a climb in p95 latency. You expect the extra memory to absorb your growing dataset and bring those 45ms spikes back down to 8ms. Instead, the dashboard shows minimal improvement. Write latency remains high, and query response times stay variable. The problem isn’t that … Read more
How AI Systems Can Build Self-Healing Data Infrastructure
Modern enterprise AI and data platforms are becoming too operationally complex for traditional reactive monitoring systems. This article explores how self-healing infrastructure architectures can combine telemetry, anomaly detection, autonomous remediation, governance-aware orchestration, and operational learning to create adaptive enterprise reliability systems.
Airbnb-backed WeRoad raises $58M to take its group travel platform to the US
WeRoad, the Milan-based group travel startup, has raised a $58 million Series C round led by Airbnb as it prepares for its first major expansion outside Europe. The funding brings the company’s total capital raised to roughly $100 million and will finance WeRoad’s push into the U.S., beginning with Austin. The new investment reflects a … Read more
2026 Is the Make-or-Break Year for the New Space Race
From the Gobi Desert to the Arctic Circle, a generation of private rocket startups is finally bending metal. 2026 is the year they either reach orbit—or run out of cash. (title image credit: Rockets of the World by Nick Stevens) The Monopoly in the Sky Look up on a clear night in 2026 and you’ll … Read more
Stop Calling It an AI Assistant. It’s Already Managing Your Company
The next enterprise AI risk is not that a chatbot writes a bad email. It is that an AI agent quietly enters the operational layer of the company and starts ranking priorities, routing approvals, classifying risk, delaying purchases, escalating tickets, flagging customers, and shaping managerial decisions before anyone calls it management. Companies still describe these … Read more
Why AI Products Lose Users After the First Try — And How to Design for Adoption
Most AI products don’t fail because the model is bad. They fail because the product decisions around the model are wrong — or absent. Activation looks healthy in week one, then collapses in week two. Generation counts climb while export and approval rates stay flat. Users try the AI feature once, mark it as “interesting,” … Read more
Did the Pope use AI to write about the dangers of AI?
It’s possible that AI was used to write parts of Pope Leo XIV’s latest encyclical about AI’s impact on humanity. An analysis by Linch Zhang posted on the forum LessWrong found certain paragraphs of Magnifica Humanitas to be between 40 percent and 100 percent written by AI, according to the popular AI detector Pangram. The … Read more
Agent Memory: An Anatomy
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