This is an excerpt of Sources by Alex Heath, a newsletter about AI and the tech industry, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week.
Sam Altman has tapped Mikhail Shapiro, an award-winning biomolecular engineer, to join the Merge Labs…

This is an excerpt of Sources by Alex Heath, a newsletter about AI and the tech industry, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week.
Sam Altman has tapped Mikhail Shapiro, an award-winning biomolecular engineer, to join the Merge Labs…

Computer scientists at UC Berkeley say that AI models show promise as a way to discover and optimize algorithms.
In a preprint paper titled “Barbarians at the Gate: How AI is Upending Systems Research,” 17 UC Berkeley researchers describe how…

Stephen BuffardiAs Stephen Buffardi was transferring photos to his new phone, the progress bar reached halfway – then it crashed.
Thousands of pictures with…

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Knowles has launched the MM60 MEMS microphone at EUHA 2025, engineered with a new MEMS motor and advanced ASIC to optimize AI chipset performance in hearing aids through enhanced durability, programmability, and acoustic…

If you’re new to Starlink, don’t be surprised if you get a notice warning you about your copyright infringement, regardless of whether you’ve downloaded copyrighted material or not.
These types of notices aren’t unique to Starlink, but…

Earlier this week, Jon Prosser, who is being sued by Apple for allegedly stealing trade secrets, told The Verge that he has been “in active communications with Apple since the beginning stages of this case.” But Apple, in a new filing on…

Xbox Game Pass will have a new, higher price for the game subscription service starting Nov. 4.
With the news that Microsoft’s popular franchise Halo will make the jump to the PlayStation platform for the first time with next year’s Halo:…

Here you’ll find a list of hotfixes that address various issues related to World of Warcraft: The War Within, Mists of Pandaria Classic, Season of Discovery, WoW Classic Era, and Hardcore. Some of the hotfixes below take effect the moment they…

Newswise — (MEMPHIS, Tenn. – October 24, 2025) Metabolism guides the activation states of regulatory T cells, the immune cells that prevent inappropriate activation of the immune system. St. Jude Children’s…

SAVE $20: As of Oct. 24, get the Renpho Scale for $59.99, down from its usual price of $79.99, at Amazon. That’s a discount of 25%.
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