Google Launches a Cheaper Alternative to Large AI Security Models Like Mythos
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Garmin’s new screen-free fitness tracker doesn’t require a subscription
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Google Zero is here
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Judge puts Anthropic’s $1.5 billion book piracy settlement on hold
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Halliday’s latest smart glasses feature a much-improved display
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America needs to stop getting shocked by Chinese AI
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Anthropic has to pay authors.
In what is thought to be the largest copyright recovery case in history, a federal US judge granted final approval of Anthropic’s landmark $1.5 billion class-action settlement. In 2024, authors sued Anthropic over the training of its Claude AI chatbot using copyrighted works. Authors will be paid “as promptly as possible,” just as soon as lawyers take their $101 million cut.
Who’s afraid of the big, bad GPU?
How you feel about AI’s energy use might change how you feel about computers entirely.
Vibecoded apps flood Apple.
According to sensor tower, apps added to the App Store almost doubled to about 560K in the first half of 2026, compared to about 600K added in all of 2025. The surge comes as AI makes it increasingly trivial to develop apps. That’s good if it means useful apps finding an audience, bad if Apple’s reviewers can’t keep up and more junk and malware slips through.
NYT recognizes Google Zero.
Nilay called it back in 2024, and now the Gray Lady is on board with recognizing the demise of the open web. It takes a look at at how Google went from being a gateway to the internet to becoming the internet for many users who never leave the cozy confines of its AI summaries.
US removes ‘safety’ from AI Safety Institute
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Here are the 30,000 songs Sony is suing Udio’s AI music generator over
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The FCC is planning to retroactively ban disguised DJI gadgets
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The Odyssey turned me into an IMAX believer
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SpaceX in your index fund, explained
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US AI safety agency head resigns three months after being appointed.
Chris Fall was picked to be the Trump administration’s leader of the US Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI, previously called the AI Safety Institute until it was renamed last year) in April, but now CNBC and Reuters report he is out. The reasons for his departure are unclear, as is the role of CAISI in the administration’s constantly shifting priorities around AI.
Today’s Vergecast: The US is losing its lead in AI.
Since the beginning of the AI revolution, a few companies have claimed to be building the best and most powerful AI models. All of them were American. More recently, a few Chinese companies seem to have caught up, shipping models that are much cheaper and maybe also just as good. The Verge’s Hayden Field and Lauren Feiner join the show to explain how China made so much progress, the threat that progress represents to US companies and the US government, and what might happen next.
An OpenAI model posted internal company data publicly on GitHub.
It had been instructed to post the information only to Slack, but it circumvented restrictions and successfully posted it on OpenAI’s public GitHub repository.
Adobe's 'natural look' camera app embraces generative AI
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Electric air taxis go to war
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