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Pika, a startup building AI tools to generate and edit videos, raised $55M led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, after emerging from stealth six months ago (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Pika, a startup building AI tools to generate and edit videos, raised $55M led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, after emerging from stealth six months ago — The generative AI hype hasn’t died down yet. — Case in point, Pika, a startup creating an AI-powered platform to edit and generate videos …

AWS launches Guardrails in preview to help companies implement safeguards for LLMs, available for foundational models and agents on Amazon Bedrock (Ron Miller/TechCrunch)

Ron Miller / TechCrunch: AWS launches Guardrails in preview to help companies implement safeguards for LLMs, available for foundational models and agents on Amazon Bedrock — We are all talking about the business gains from using large language models, but there are lot of known issues with these models and finding ways …

Amazon launches Amazon Q, a workplace-focused AI assistant starting at $20/user/month that competes with ChatGPT Enterprise, Microsoft’s Copilot, and others (Karen Weise/New York Times)

Karen Weise / New York Times: Amazon launches Amazon Q, a workplace-focused AI assistant starting at $20/user/month that competes with ChatGPT Enterprise, Microsoft’s Copilot, and others — Amazon has been racing to shake off the perception that it is lagging in the push to take advantage of artificial intelligence.

The best Cyber Monday deals you can still grab for under $100

You can still buy a pack of four AirTags for $20 off. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge It’s the most wonderful time of the year? Pfft, more like the most expensive. Gifts, travel, decorations, parties… these can all put a real dent in your wallet. That’s why we’re working hard to help

Verizon’s holiday deals can land you $1,900 of tech for any old phone

Verizon might just have the best holiday deals of any carrier. Not only can trading in your old phone land you a flagship smartphone such as the Pixel 8 Pro or the iPhone 15 Pro, but you can also get a free wearable and tablet thrown in for good measure. The total value you could

Google is now actively encouraging people to make meme websites

Credit: C. Scott Brown / Android Authority Google is introducing a new top-level domain — .meme. The new domain is debuting this week and is available for registration if you take part in the early access period. The .meme domain will be available publically on December 5, 2023. Whether you create them or share them,

Survey of Substack and Telegram finds “scores” of white supremacist, neo-Confederate, and Nazi newsletters among Substack’s ~17K total; over 16 use Nazi symbols (Jonathan M. Katz/The Atlantic)

Jonathan M. Katz / The Atlantic: Survey of Substack and Telegram finds “scores” of white supremacist, neo-Confederate, and Nazi newsletters among Substack’s ~17K total; over 16 use Nazi symbols — The newsletter platform’s lax content moderation creates an opening for white nationalists eager to get their message out.

Google Assistant’s ‘animal of the day’ is no more

Credit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Google Assistant’s “animal of the day”command is no longer available. Google put an end to the command on November 27, 2023. Users can still ask questions about animals. Google Assistant has numerous helpful and interesting commands you can use to do things like control your smart home, shop, or

Challenges for chip startups: TSMC and Nvidia dominate and hold thousands of patents, buying chipmaking gear, and complexity; Nvidia’s HGX H100 has 35K parts (June Yoon/Financial Times)

June Yoon / Financial Times: Challenges for chip startups: TSMC and Nvidia dominate and hold thousands of patents, buying chipmaking gear, and complexity; Nvidia’s HGX H100 has 35K parts — Barriers to entry in an industry dominated by TSMC and Nvidia are very high — In the drama that has just played out in Silicon

UK watchdog slams the brakes on Adobe’s $20 billion bid for Figma

Adobe and Figma have until December 19th to respond with potential remedies. | Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge Adobe’s conquest of the creative software industry appears to be facing some difficulties following an in-depth investigation by the UK’s competition watchdog. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has provisionally determined that Adobe’s proposed $20

Wix CEO Avishai Abrahami on why the web isn’t dying after all

Photo illustration by Alex Parkin / The Verge The co-founder of website builder Wix is embracing generative AI, and he’s not too worried that it might destroy the business models of the web. Continue reading…

How humans are engineering the future of coral reefs

Alex Parkin How do you bring back a vanishing coral reef? That’s what conservationists are racing to do in the Florida Keys, where they’re coming up with a whole new playbook for saving corals. Over the summer, they did what used to be the unthinkable: they took thousands of corals out of the sea to

Mobile Phones and The Question of Declining Sperm Quality

In a world increasingly reliant on technology, a pressing question arises: can our dependence on gadgets, particularly mobile phones, be affecting our health in unexpected ways? A growing body of research is now pointing towards a startling trend – declining sperm quality in the human population – with mobile phones emerging as a potential culprit.

The best Cyber Monday streaming deals on Hulu, Paramount Plus, and more you can still get

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Black Friday and Cyber Monday may be in the past, but some sales are still hanging around (although maybe not for long). For more leftover deals we recommend across all categories, be sure to check out the rest of the Cyber Monday still available here. If it feels

American Airlines will pay to bury 10,000 tons of CO2 underground

Airplanes at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) in Arlington, Virginia, on Tuesday, November 21st, 2023. | Image: Haiyun Jiang / Bloomberg via Getty Images American Airlines signed a deal to trap 10,000 tons of carbon dioxide underground. It’s part of the airline’s plans to limit the pollution causing climate change, and it marks the

The best Cyber Monday deals still happening on some Verge favorites

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Black Friday and Cyber Monday may be in the past, but some sales are still hanging around (although maybe not for long). For more leftover deals we recommend across all categories, be sure to check out the rest of the Cyber Monday still available here. Every month or

Apple Music Replay is back — and it’s still mostly a web experience

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple Music Replay has arrived. The year-end summary of your most-listened-to songs, artists, albums, and more is now available from Apple Music’s webpage — just days before Spotify is expected to drop its Wrapped stats. While Apple launched Replay in 2019, it gave the feature a major update

Elon Musk Is Giving QAnon Believers Hope Just in Time for the 2024 Elections

Musk’s recent use of the term “Q*Anon” is his most explicit endorsement of the movement to date. Conspiracists have since spent days dissecting its meaning and cheering on his apparent support.

Google confirms reason for missing Google Drive files

Credit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority After receiving reports of missing Google Drive files, Google acknowledged the issue and began investigating. Google has confirmed the issue stems from the Google Drive for Desktop app. Google is now providing recommendations until the problem is fixed. If you noticed some of your Google Drive files have gone

Sources: Chinese payments group Alipay plans to sell its 3.4% stake in Indian food delivery giant Zomato for ~$400M; Zomato shares have surged 90%+ in 2023 (M. Sriram/Reuters)

M. Sriram / Reuters: Sources: Chinese payments group Alipay plans to sell its 3.4% stake in Indian food delivery giant Zomato for ~$400M; Zomato shares have surged 90%+ in 2023 — Chinese payments group Alipay plans to sell its 3.4% stake in Indian food delivery giant Zomato (ZOMT.NS) for nearly $400 million through block deals

The Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 is now cheaper than it was on Black Friday

We have no idea why, but you do occasionally see some amazing offers cropping up right after the Black Friday sales end. Samsung has sprung this surprise on us today, with the Galaxy Tab S9 dropping by 10% in a new Amazon deal. Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 for $722.33 ($78 off)

These 123 Last-Chance Cyber Monday Deals Are Still Going Strong Right Now

The sale extravaganza may be over, but many of the same discounts are alive, including deals on office chairs and TCL TVs.

The UK CMA provisionally finds Adobe’s $20B Figma acquisition would likely harm innovation for design software and invites responses ahead of a final decision (Joseph Hoppe/Wall Street Journal)

Joseph Hoppe / Wall Street Journal: The UK CMA provisionally finds Adobe’s $20B Figma acquisition would likely harm innovation for design software and invites responses ahead of a final decision — The U.K. Competition and Markets Authority said it has provisionally found Adobe’s planned $20 billion acquisition …

Here are the best AI content detectors to use

With AI writing software such as ChatGPT becoming more popular and efficient than ever before, more and more people are using it to save time when writing essays and other assignments. Plagiarism is considered stealing and highly frowned upon, and maintaining integrity and originality in your work cannot be understated, whether you’re a student, professional

A New Type of Geothermal Power Plant Just Made the Internet a Little Greener

A new approach to geothermal energy makes it possible to tap the energy of hot rocks just about anywhere. A pilot plant in Nevada is now helping to power Google data centers.

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