Amazon previews 3 AI agents, including ‘Kiro’ that can code on its own for days
Amazon Web Services on Tuesday announced three new AI agents it calls “Frontier agents” for coding, security, and DevOps.
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Google is experimentally replacing news headlines with AI clickbait nonsense
Did you know that BG3 players exploit children? Are you aware that Qi2 slows older Pixels? If we wrote those misleading headlines, readers would rip us a new one – but Google is experimentally beginning to replace the original headlines on stories it serves with AI nonsense like that. I read a lot of my […]
Amazon’s bet that AI benchmarks don’t matter
This is an excerpt of Sources by Alex Heath, a newsletter about AI and the tech industry, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. Amazon’s AI chief has a message for the model benchmark obsessives: Stop looking at the leaderboards. “I want real-world utility. None of these benchmarks are real,” Rohit Prasad, Amazon’s […]
Silicon Valley is rallying behind a guy who sucks
Hello and welcome to Regulator, a newsletter for Verge subscribers that covers the political intrigue and power struggles between Big Tech and Big Government. Subscribe here for a weekly dispatch of tech oligarchs fighting regular oligarchs. Prior to last week, only highly specialized political insiders knew the extent of David Sacks’ influence in the Trump […]
The future of deep tech will be explained to you at StrictlyVC Palo Alto on Dec 3
On Wednesday evening at Playground Global in Palo Alto, some very smart people who are building things you don’t understand yet will explain what’s coming. This is the final StrictlyVC event of 2025, and truly, the lineup is ridiculous.
Helldivers 2’s new ‘slim’ version saves 131GB of space on your drive
If you’ve been short on storage on your PC, the latest Helldivers 2 beta update might help. The developers said Tuesday they’ve managed to cut down the PC file size for Helldivers 2 by about 85 percent, freeing up enough space for at least one or two more large games. In a post on the […]
Microreactor startup Antares raises $96M for land, sea, and space-based nuclear power
Antares is designing and building small modular reactors that it plans to deploy for commercial, space, and defense applications.
HBO Max’s Mad Men 4K release is the opposite of a remaster
Though HBO Max was very proud to announce that it would be the first platform to stream Mad Men in 4K, the show’s new rollout has been an absolute mess. When HBO Max subscribers fired up the app yesterday hoping to see Don Draper and company in glorious 4K, many were dismayed to see that […]
Roborock’s powerful Saros 10 robovac is still at its lowest price ever
Black Friday and Cyber Monday brought some of the best deals of the year on robot vacuums. One of the handful of great discounts remaining is on the Roborock Saros 10, which we recently crowned the runner-up in our buying guide to the best robovac you can buy. This robovac and mop hybrid is still […]
Steam Machine today, Steam Phones tomorrow
It’s a big deal that Valve is making a game console. But I’m beginning to think the Steam Machine may end up a footnote in gaming history. What if Valve could bring PC games not just to its own living room consoles, but also to the Arm chips that billions of people have in their […]