Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Verizon has announced an exclusive combo offering Netflix Premium and NFL Plus Premium for $25 per month. Netflix Premium costs $19.99 / month right now (though it could go up soon!), and NFL Plus Premium is $16.99 / month. That sounds like a pretty good deal for Verizon
Read MoreThe Information: Sources: Anthropic is in talks to raise at least $2B from Google and others, seeking a $20B-$30B valuation, and projects a revenue of $200M by the end of 2023 — Anthropic, one of the main rivals of OpenAI, is in talks with investors to raise at least $2 billion in new funding …
Read MoreA banana bed, as created by DALL-E 3. | Image: OpenAI The image generator inside the AI-powered Bing Chat is getting a big upgrade today: Microsoft announced that OpenAI’s latest DALL-E 3 model is now available to all Bing Chat and Bing Image Creator users. It has been rolling out over the last week or
Read MoreThis is Hot Pod, The Verge’s newsletter about podcasting and the audio industry. Sign up here for more. Ariel and Amrita coming to you with another joint issue today. It’s a jam-packed Tuesday, with Spotify debuting its biggest audiobook development yet, an exclusive interview with the writer of the Audible Original Six Sermons, and Malcolm
Read MoreEverybody do the pinchy pinch. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Double tap, which lets Apple Watch users tap their thumb and index finger together twice to contextually control the watch, is one of the coolest features of the latest Apple Watch models. It wasn’t included at launch, but 9to5Mac reports that
Read MoreCat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: A US appeals court rules the CISA likely violated the First Amendment by encouraging social networks to reduce the spread of posts, expanding a September order — The 5th circuit order could have sweeping implications for government efforts to protect elections from disinformation campaigns
Read MoreNew York Times: Spotify starts offering Premium subscribers 15 hours of audiobook streaming per month across 150K+ titles, first in the UK and Australia, and the US this winter — A year after adding à la carte sales of audiobooks, Spotify is offering paying subscribers 15 hours of books a month.
Read MoreImage: Meta Meta’s text-based chat feature for Horizon Worlds will be available for all users beginning this week, Meta said in a blog post on Tuesday. The text chat, which Meta dubs “world chat,” offers a way to communicate with other people inside a Horizon Worlds experience without using your voice. Meta first launched world
Read MoreIan King / Bloomberg: Intel plans to turn its programmable chip unit created from its Altera acquisition into a standalone business, by selling shares publicly or seeking an investor — “Over the next two to three years, Intel intends to conduct an IPO for PSG and may explore opportunities with private investors …
Read MoreTom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft unveils new OneDrive features, like Copilot integration coming in December, a Fluent design refresh for its web app, better offline support, and more — Microsoft is announcing the third generation of its OneDrive cloud storage today, complete with the company’s AI-powered Copilot system …
Read MoreCharlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette: The UK’s Independent Publishers Alliance urges members to block OpenAI and Google crawling, as OpenAI extends ChatGPT’s training database beyond September 2021 — Independent Publishers Alliance urges members to block GPTBot and Google Bard crawler ASAP. — ChatGPT’s threat …
Read MoreDavid Pierce / The Verge: Microsoft rolls out DALL-E 3 to all Bing Chat and Bing Image Creator users; OpenAI plans to roll out DALL-E 3 to paying ChatGPT subscribers later in October — ‘Bing, make me a picture of a dog taking a bath in a waterfall but the water is all Skittles.’ —
Read MoreJef Feeley / Bloomberg: A US judge rules X violated its duties to cover employee legal expenses and must pay $1.1M in fees to Parag Agrawal, Vijaya Gadde, and other former executives — – Former CEO, general counsel say Twitter stiffed them on fees — X’s lawyers said amount of fees sought was a ‘clear
Read MoreJack Kubinec / Blockworks: Helium, the decentralized cellular network working with T-Mobile, debuts $250 home hotspots for Miamians, as the company looks for a sustainable business model — The Web3 telecommunications company is rolling out plug-and-play hotspots that Miami residents can purchase for $250
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge At Zoomtopia 2023 today, Zoom announced Zoom Docs, a collaboration-focused “modular workspace” that integrates the company’s Zoom AI Companion for generating new content or populating a doc from other sources — you know the drill by now. Along with the Mail and Calendar offerings launched during last year’s
Read MoreJustine Calma / The Verge: Report: Apple should explain what “carbon-neutral products” mean after the company in 2023 stopped requiring suppliers to disclose greenhouse gas emissions data — Apple needs to disclose more information about its suppliers to back up claims about its first carbon-neutral products …
Read MoreEven though it seems the worst of COVID has passed, October generally kicks off cold and flu season, so why not continue to pass out Halloween treats in a socially-distanced fashion? That is, of course the idea behind [Gord Payne]’s Halloween Treat Trough of Terror. Lay a treat at the top of the trough and
Read MoreEmoji reactions are coming to a Gmail inbox near you. | Image: Gmail It’s finally here — the tool that could turn your email inbox into a nightmare or a pure delight, depending on your POV. Google is adding the ability to react to an email with an emoji. First rumored last month, Google has
Read MoreGeorgia Wells / Wall Street Journal: In a letter to TikTok, Senators Blackburn and Blumenthal ask about executives who transferred from ByteDance to TikTok in the US despite “its independence” — In a letter to TikTok, Sens. Marsha Blackburn and Richard Blumenthal seek information about ties to parent company
Read MoreCredit: Netflix Netflix is discussing raising prices in several markets globally. The price hike will likely hit the US and Canada first. It’s unknown how much Netflix is planning to raise the price. SAG-AFTRA is still in negotiations with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP). It’s unknown when the two parties will
Read MoreBill Toulas / BleepingComputer: Oligo Security finds since-patched RCE flaws in open-source AI model-serving tool TorchServe and vulnerable instances at tens of thousands of IP addresses — A set of critical vulnerabilities dubbed ‘ShellTorch’ in the open-source TorchServe AI model-serving tool impact tens of thousands …
Read MoreImage: Microsoft Microsoft is announcing the third generation of its OneDrive cloud storage today, complete with the company’s AI-powered Copilot system, a Fluent design refresh, and big improvements to the way businesses share and use cloud documents. OneDrive hosts trillions of files for consumers and businesses, with 2 billion files added every single day. Microsoft
Read MoreAt the risk of stating the obvious, a PC is more than just its processor. And if you want to accurately emulate what’s going on inside the CPU, you’d do well to pay attention to the rest of the machine, as [GloriousCow] shows us by bus-sniffing the original IBM Model 5150. A little background is
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon deployed a secret algorithm to gauge how high it could raise prices before its competitors stopped increasing their prices as well, according to a new report from The Wall Street Journal Tuesday. The existence of the algorithm, codenamed Project Nessie, was first revealed late last month in
Read MoreIllustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge Issue As Chrome continues to develop — or, rather, as Google continues to tweak it — it is more and more likely that you may find features that you weren’t aware of or suddenly be confronted by an icon that means absolutely nothing to you. This happened to
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