OpenAI hires the team behind Xcode coding assistant Alex
The team behind Alex, which built a popular tool that let devs use AI models within Apple’s development suite Xcode, is joining OpenAI.
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The blueprint for lasting companies and communities with Discord’s Jason Citron and Campuswire’s Tade Oyerinde at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
When you design for people instead of institutions, you don’t just build a product. You build a movement. That’s the idea behind this Builders Stage session called “Creating Communities and Companies That Last.”
Tesla offers $1 trillion to Elon Musk to unleash his army of robots
Elon Musk could become the world’s first trillionaire if Tesla shareholders approve a new pay package that was just put forward by the company’s board. Musk would need to meet certain milestones in order to receive that eye-popping compensation, such as producing 1 million robotaxis and 1 million humanoid robots, as well as increase Tesla’s […]
Tesla shareholders to vote on investing in Musk’s AI startup xAI
A shareholder proposal would allow Tesla to invest in Elon Musk’s rival AI firm, xAI if approved. Tesla’s board didn’t recommend one way or another.
Today is your last chance to exhibit your brand in front of 10K tech leaders at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
If you want to get in front of more than 10,000 startup and VC leaders, connect with media, and generate a nonstop pipeline this October, you need to act now.
What would actually make the Apple Watch better?
This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent every Friday from Verge Senior Reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest phones, smartwatches, apps, and other gizmos that swear they’re going to change your life. Optimizer arrives in our subscribers’ inboxes at 10AM ET. Opt in for Optimizer here. I’ve been thinking ahead to Apple’s […]
Columbia tries using AI to cool off student tensions
Can AI help “smooth over” discussion on abortion, racism, immigration, or Israel-Palestine? Columbia University sure hopes so. The Verge has learned that the university recently began testing Sway, an AI debate program currently in beta. Developed by two researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, Sway matches up students with opposing views to chat one-on-one about hot-button […]
Bose announces QuietComfort Ultra headphones with support for lossless audio over USB-C
Bose has announced a second-generation version of its QuietComfort Ultra wireless headphones that it introduced nearly two years ago. The name is the same, but the new one finally adds support for listening to lossless audio over a USB-C cable, while still carrying forward the 2.5-millimeter analog headphone jack for those who don’t always want […]
I called the MSI Claw an embarrassment, so imagine my surprise: its successor is the best Windows handheld yet
I wrote that no one should buy MSI and Intel’s original handheld gaming PC. I literally called it an embarrassment, and the company blacklisted me after that. MSI stopped pitching me news, and stopped answering my emails, even after the company began to write off its dud of a handheld. So you can imagine my […]
Your robot is about to get its own robot
This year’s IFA seems to be all about putting one piece of tech inside another piece of tech. Motion sensing inside of light bulbs. Projectors inside of party speakers. And my personal favorite: a robot that’s built to ferry another robot. This week on The Vergecast, we’re talking about our favorite tech (so far!) from […]