VLGE is making it easier to world build and shop on Roblox
50 fashion brands are launching their shoppable worlds for VLGE’s World Fashion Week, founder Evelyn Mora says.
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SK Telecom’s AI unit offers staff voluntary retirement program just weeks after launch
All staff employed by SK Telecom’s new AI division are being offered a voluntary retirement program as part of a broader effort to bring together its various AI-related divisions, the company confirmed to TechCrunch.
Meta is adding more parental controls for teen AI use
After enthusiastically rolling AI chatbots out everywhere, Meta has announced new options for parents to get an idea of how teens are chatting with the digital characters and set some limits on use. The move comes as Meta works to rehabilitate its image after disturbing reports of its tools’ romantic interactions with minors and faces […]
Meta previews new parental controls for its AI experiences
Meta on Friday previewed its upcoming parental control features for teens’ conversations with AI characters on its platforms. The features, which will be rolled out next year, include the ability to block certain characters and monitor conversation topics. Starting in the coming months, parents will be able to turn off chats with AI characters entirely […]
Anthropic connects Claude to Microsoft Teams, Outlook, and OneDrive
Anthropic is integrating its Claude AI assistant with Microsoft 365 services so it can surface content from Word documents, Teams messages, and Outlook emails in conversations with the chatbot. It’s part of a series of updates to Claude to make the chatbot more useful at work. Claude will now connect with Microsoft SharePoint and OneDrive […]
AT&T is raising home internet prices for the second year in a row
Everything seems to be getting back-to-back price hikes right now, why not your home internet bill too? AT&T is raising prices by $5 a month on all AT&T Internet plans, the company confirms to The Verge. That’s on top of its $5-a-month increase from November 2024, and, it appears, a $5-a-month increase on some customers […]
Reddit expands its AI-powered search to five new languages
Reddit announced Thursday that it is expanding its AI-powered search experience to five new languages: French, German, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese. With this expansion, the feature is now available in countries like Brazil, France, Germany, Spain, Mexico, and Italy. Users who have set one of these languages as their default, instead of English, can now […]
OpenAI pauses Sora video generations of Martin Luther King Jr.
OpenAI is pausing AI video generations of Martin Luther King at the request of the late civil rights activists’ estate.
Why world models are the next big thing in AI
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. Around the middle of last year, Pim de Witte started reaching out to a handful of prominent AI labs to see if they’d be interested in using data from […]
MacBook Pro rumor points to OLED, touchscreen upgrades next year
Apple just announced 14-inch MacBook Pro updates that add a new generation M5 processor, faster storage, and a promise of 24-hour battery life, but Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman now reports next year’s refresh will be more thorough. For several years, Gurman has said that, according to his sources, the next major MacBook Pro revamp would add […]