Crypto critic Roubini joins tokenization boom with onchain ‘Technodollar’
The economist known as “Dr. Doom” is supporting a tokenized security backed by a Nasdaq-listed ETF he oversees, designed to protect wealth in global crises.
Superhuman acquires AI detection startup GPTZero
Superhuman, which also has an AI detection tool as part of Grammarly, has snapped up GPTZero.
Trump’s Quantum Push Wins Praise, But Experts Warn Bitcoin Isn’t Ready
Industry leaders welcomed President Trump’s quantum executive orders, while researchers said the accelerated timelines reflect growing urgency around post-quantum security and cryptocurrency infrastructure.
Here’s What AI Agent Found When We Let it Grade All Our Repos
When you roll out AI coding assistants to an engineering team, the tooling conversation centers on prompts, models, and context windows. But what gets almost zero attention is whether each repository is configured to give the AI useful context. At Promova, we use Claude Code across our engineering org — everything from mobile apps to … Read more
Your CI Pipeline Should Reject Any Service Without an Observability Contract
2:11 AM, Tuesday. Our payment notification service — fires transaction confirmations to roughly 40,000 users — had stopped processing. Completely. No alert fired. Nothing paged the on-call. Slack was dark. The engineer on rotation found out at 2:58 AM because a user tweeted at our support account saying they’d made a payment and hadn’t gotten … Read more
Crypto’s Clarity Act Has a New Enemy: Catholic Leaders
A group of 82 Catholic leaders warned a key provision of the crypto bill, protecting software developers from prosecution, could enable human trafficking.
Mark Zuckerberg ordered Meta staff to develop moneyless prediction market: NYT
The Meta CEO reportedly plans for the company to launch a prediction market independent of its other apps allowing users to place wagers using a points system rather than money.
The Future of AI Sales Speaks More Than One Language
I have spent fifteen years building between Europe, the Gulf, and China. The fastest growing buyers I meet are not reading English in an inbox. They are chatting on WhatsApp in their own language, and most AI tools still cannot meet them there. For years, my work has lived in the space between markets. Launching … Read more
The Meta Quest 3S is on sale for $297 — which is basically its old price
The Meta Quest 3S VR headset with 128GB of storage is $296.79 (about $53 off) at Amazon. This is Meta’s entry-level VR headset, which launched back in 2024 for $299.99 before getting a price increase this year to $349.99. So it’s not exactly the most exciting deal, but it’s about as good as you’re likely … Read more
Prime Day takes $240 off Roborock’s Saros 20, one of our favorite robovacs
The best robot vacuums are the ones you barely have to think about, and the Roborock Saros 20 fits that description well. It’s why it’s one of our favorite robovac / mop hybrids, and thanks to Prime Day, you can get it on sale at Amazon and Roborock for $1,359.99 ($240 off), a new low … Read more
What an End-to-End AI Guest Posting Agent Could Look Like
Most SEO tools optimize content creation while leaving outreach fragmented and manual. This article proposes an open-source AI agent that combines keyword research, topic clustering, brief generation, anchor text recommendations, and personalized outreach into a single workflow, reducing manual effort and potentially improving guest-post conversion rates.
The Business Case for Decoupling SIM Cards From Mobile Devices
Something about the SIM card has bothered me for a long time. We carry phones now that are faster than the computers that put people in space. We’ve been through generation after generation of networks, and yet the little card inside is essentially the same idea it was decades ago. It was built for one … Read more
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Mark Zuckerberg Wants a Prediction Market Too: NYT
The initiative follows bets on stablecoins and the metaverse.
Xteink’s tiny e-readers are 20 percent off for Prime Day
The Xteink X4 and smaller X3 e-readers are discounted to $55.20 (regularly $69) and $63.20 (normally $79), respectively, as part of Amazon’s Prime Day promotions this week. Both e-readers are significantly smaller and more pocketable than any of the Kindle and Kobo models currently available, and feature magnetic mounts so they can be stuck to … Read more
Prime Day has some solid deals on Switch 2, PS5, and Xbox games
There are some some sizable discounts on new and recent hits from the last few years for the Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, and the Xbox Series X / S for Prime Day. Most Amazon game deals are physical copies, but every so often there’s a better or equivalent price on digital versions, as well … Read more
Crypto isn’t the problem with the US economy, says senator
Louisiana Senator John Kennedy largely dismissed what he called the “promotion” of cryptocurrency by the Digital Chamber CEO Cody Carbone in a Senate hearing on affordability.
After betting the firm on Anthropic, Menlo Ventures raises victorious $3B fund
Menlo has created a solid rep for itself as an AI investor, all based on one gutsy $750 million move in 2024.
Klue says hackers stole credential from 2022 that led to customer data breaches
It’s unclear why Klue had not revoked the credential after the limited pilot, which hackers then used to breach a system holding keys for accessing customers’ data.
Prime Day has served up several great deals on 4K TVs
The 77-inch Sony A95L is one of the best TVs of the past few years, and it’s discounted during Prime Day. | Image: Sony There are three times of year that are best for buying a new TV: leading up to the Super Bowl, Black Friday, and of course now, during Amazon Prime Day. Many … Read more
Mark Zuckerberg wants Meta to launch its own prediction market
The app would be independent of Meta’s other social media offerings, although sources told the NYT that those social sites could direct users to engagement with the app.
Tesla claims driver ‘manually overrode self-driving’ in deadly Texas crash
Tesla is pushing back on claims that its Full Self-Driving (FSD) system caused a fatal Texas crash, where a speeding Model 3 barreled into a home, killing a 76-year-old woman inside. In a reply on X, Tesla AI head Ashok Elluswamy says the driver “manually overrode self-driving by pressing the accelerator all the way to … Read more
Multi-year Bitcoin holder selling falls to 19-month low as halving model flags new market bottom date
OG Bitcoin holders’ spending dropped to a 19-month low, as market cycle indicators point to September as a potential market bottom.
Here are the best Prime Day deals on the Verge staff’s favorite stuff
While there are several thousand products discounted for Prime Day 2026, most of them aren’t what we’d call winners. We’ve already gathered the best Prime Day deals in our main roundup, but we’re dedicating this page to discounts on Verge-favorite items to help you find useful gear, whether it’s tech-adjacent or not. We’re covering Prime … Read more
The Lenovo Legion Go S gaming handheld is $549 for Prime Day
If gaming hardware prices have you looking for less expensive alternatives, Amazon has the Windows version of the Lenovo Legion Go S on sale for $549.99 (typically around $700) for Prime Day, matching a previous low we spotted at Woot a month or so ago. What it lacks in raw performance, it makes up for … Read more
Eufy’s Omni C28 is one of the best Prime Day deals on robot vacuums
Eufy’s Omni C28 is almost half off for Prime Day. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge If you’re in the market for a robot vacuum, Amazon Prime Day has brought a ton of discounts that we’re tracking, but the Eufy Omni C28 is one of the best deals we’ve spotted so far. … Read more
OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 Cyber AI Beats Anthropic’s Banned Mythos Model—And Nobody’s Shutting It Down
GPT-5.5-Cyber tops the CyberGym leaderboard as Anthropic’s best models sit offline under a Trump administration export ban.