The Xbox handheld showed me that handhelds are better with prongs

Here’s a hot take: gaming handhelds are better with prongs. How do I know? I hold a lot of handhelds (and gamepads) here at The Verge, but Microsoft and Asus’s…

Microsoft avoids EU fine after Slack complained about Teams bundling

“The commitments address the Commission’s concerns related to the tying of Microsoft Teams to the company’s popular productivity applications Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, included in its Office 365 and Microsoft…

Asus gives its $4,000 creator laptop a 4K tandem OLED and RTX 5090

Asus’ ProArt P16 laptop is getting RTX 50-series GPUs and a unique new screen in its high-end configuration. Its biggest upgrades include Nvidia’s top-tier RTX 5090 mobile GPU and a…

Apple Watch hypertension alerts cleared by FDA for new and old watches

Starting next week, Apple’s new hypertension notification feature will be coming to Watch Series 9 and later and Apple Watch Ultra 2 and later with the launch of watchOS 26.…

Amazon’s Thursday Night Football broadcasts add more AI to the NFL

Amazon’s Prime Video is bringing more AI to the football field with new features designed to give viewers more insight into Thursday Night Football games, as highlighted earlier by Deadline.…

Internet detectives are misusing AI to find Charlie Kirk’s alleged shooter

Earlier today, the FBI shared two blurry photos on X of a person of interest in the shooting of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk. Numerous users replied with AI-upscaled, “enhanced” versions…

Republicans pledge censorship crackdown to avenge Charlie Kirk’s death

In the wake of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk’s fatal shooting, some political figures are threatening a crackdown on free speech — a cause Kirk claimed to fight for. Members of…

Microsoft and OpenAI have a new deal that could clear the way for an IPO

As OpenAI attempts to restructure itself and eventually go public, a hurdle for the startup, recently valued at $500 billion, is its increasingly complicated partnership with Microsoft. On Thursday afternoon,…

Microsoft is making ‘significant investments’ in training its own AI models

Microsoft AI launched its first in-house models last month, adding to the already complicated relationship with its OpenAI partner. Now, Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman says the company is making…

Anthropic’s Claude AI can now automatically ‘remember’ past chats

Anthropic will now let its Claude AI chatbot “remember” the details of previous conversations without prompting. The feature is only rolling out for Team and Enterprise users for now, allowing…