OpenAI keeps shuffling its executives in bid to win AI agent battle

OpenAI announced yet another reorganization Friday, consolidating certain areas and making company president Greg Brockman the official lead of all things product. In a memo viewed by The Verge, Brockman wrote that since OpenAI’s product strategy for this year is to go all-in on AI agents, the company is combining its products to “invest in […]

One of Intel’s fastest desktop CPUs is $50 off

The Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus was billed by the company in late March as one of its “fastest gaming desktop processor ever.” That hype was evidently accurate, as benchmarks done by Gamers Nexus show the processor giving AMD’s pricier X3D cache-equipped Ryzen 9000-series CPUs a run for their money. The Ultra 7 270K […]

AI radio hosts demonstrate why AI can’t be trusted alone

AI radio DJs demonstrated their volatile personalities. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Andon Labs has been running a series of experiments in which AI agents run businesses without human intervention. Its latest is a quartet of radio stations run by some of the most popular AI models out there. “Thinking Frequencies” […]

The cute VR platformer Moss and its sequel are heading to consoles

A bundle of both games, along with some DLC, arrives this summer.

Does Trump Mobile know how many stripes are on the American flag?

The T1 Phone has the wrong number of stripes, but it does at least have 50 stars. | Screenshot: Trump Mobile Where’s the Trump phone? We’re going to keep talking about it every week. We’ve reached out, as usual, to ask about the Trump phone’s whereabouts. This week, despite our best hopes, we still don’t […]

Google updates its spam rules to include attempts to ‘manipulate’ AI

Google updated its spam policy to mark attempts to “manipulate” its AI model in search results as spam, including results in AI Overview or AI Mode in Search, as Search Engine Land reports: “In the context of Google Search, spam refers to techniques used to deceive users or manipulate our Search systems into featuring content […]

ChatGPT will offer personalized financial advice (if you connect your bank account)

ChatGPT’s new Plaid integration allows it pull information from more than 12,000 financial institutions.

OpenAI now wants ChatGPT to access your bank accounts

ChatGPT will even know how much credit card debt you have. | Image: OpenAI Your trust in AI is about to be put to the test: OpenAI will soon let you give the chatbot direct access to your bank accounts. The new feature announced in preview today will allow users to “securely connect” ChatGPT with […]

The Nest app is down for many users

The official Nest status page claims everything is running smoothly.

Lego 2K Drive will vanish from digital storefronts on May 19

The racing game’s multiplayer servers will remain live for another year.