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Netflix says it's on track to double its advertising revenue this year and that it will roll out interactive ads in the second half of 2025 (www.theverge.com)
2025-7-18 Netflix

The News/Media Alliance says the webhost of 12ft.io, which helped users bypass paywalls, took down the site on July 14 following the trade association's efforts (www.theverge.com)
2025-7-18

OpenAI debuts ChatGPT Agent, which can control an entire computer and perform multi-step tasks, powered by a new dedicated model, rolling out to paid users (www.theverge.com)
2025-7-18

AMD unveils the Zen 5-based Ryzen Threadripper Pro 9000 WX-Series CPUs, including the flagship $11,699 Threadripper Pro 9995WX with 96 cores, set for July 23 (www.theverge.com)
2025-7-18 AMD

Q&A with Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas on the browser as AI's killer app, AI talent wars, why users will eventually pay thousands for a single AI prompt, more (www.theverge.com)
2025-7-18 AI Browser

Uber plans to make “multi-hundred-million dollar investments” in Nuro and Lucid and aims to deploy “20,000 or more” robotaxis in the US over the next six years (www.theverge.com)
2025-7-17 Uber

Roblox partners with Persona to estimate user ages and verify they are 13+, renames Friends to Connections, and says 13+ users can message Trusted Connections (www.theverge.com)
2025-7-17

Nextdoor unveils new features like an interactive neighborhood map called Alerts, partners with 3,500+ local news outlets, and more, to revitalize its app (www.theverge.com)
2025-7-15

Anthropic now uses Canva's MCP server, letting Canva users manage designs via Claude's UI, following similar integrations with Figma, Notion, Stripe, and Prisma (www.theverge.com)
2025-7-15

Google hires Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan, co-founder Douglas Chen, and some of Windsurf's R&D employees to focus on agentic coding efforts at DeepMind (www.theverge.com)
2025-7-12 Google

HMD says it will “scale back” US operations, citing “a challenging geopolitical and economic environment”, and appears to have stopped US sales of Nokia devices (www.theverge.com)
2025-7-12 Nokia

Missouri AG Andrew Bailey is investigating Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Meta, claiming the companies' AI chatbots are discriminating against President Trump (www.theverge.com)
2025-7-11 Trump Google Microsoft AI chatbot

Bluesky rolls out age verification in the UK to comply with the Online Safety Act; users under 18 or those opting out of verification will get limited access (www.theverge.com)
2025-7-11

Sources: some AI researchers rejected Meta's offers to stay at jobs that align with their values; far fewer defected from Anthropic and DeepMind than OpenAI (www.theverge.com)
2025-7-11 AI

OpenAI closes its nearly $6.5B acquisition of Jony Ive's startup, which it refers to as io Products after a trademark lawsuit from hearing device startup Iyo (www.theverge.com)
2025-7-10 Startup

OpenAI officially closes its ~$6.5B acquisition of Jony Ive's startup, which it refers to as io Products, after a trademark suit from hearing device startup Iyo (www.theverge.com)
2025-7-10 Startup

Sources: OpenAI plans to launch an open-weight model as soon as next week on Hugging Face and other platforms, its first open-weight release since GPT-2 in 2019 (www.theverge.com)
2025-7-10

Google adds new AI and gaming features to Android's Circle to Search, and Gemini Live support for foldables and third-party apps, starting with Samsung devices (www.theverge.com)
2025-7-10 Android Google Samsung AI

Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 hands-on: vastly thinner and lighter than the Fold 6, wider display format, no S Pen support, and feels like a normal phone when closed (www.theverge.com)
2025-7-10 Samsung

Ikea plans to relaunch its smart home line with 20+ new Matter-over-Thread devices, set to release in January 2026, and updates its Dirigera smart home hub (www.theverge.com)
2025-7-9

Google rolls out a new Gmail feature to manage subscriptions, showing a list of emails delivered via active subscriptions, sorted by the most frequent senders (www.theverge.com)
2025-7-9 Google

Waymo introduces teen accounts in Phoenix, allowing teenagers aged 14-17 to use its Waymo One ridehailing service alone with parental approval (www.theverge.com)
2025-7-9

Bluesky rolls out Activity Notifications, letting users receive notifications of new posts and replies from selected accounts, as it expands its sports presence (www.theverge.com)
2025-7-8

OnePlus launches five products: the midrange €449 Nord 5 smartphone, the €349 Nord CE 5, a smaller €299 Watch 3 wearable, the €119 Buds 4, and the €229 Pad Lite (www.theverge.com)
2025-7-8

Epic reaches a settlement with Samsung, which it sued over allegedly conspiring with Google to undermine third party app stores (www.theverge.com)
2025-7-8 Google Samsung

Xbox says Arrowhead's Helldivers 2 will arrive on the Xbox Series X and S on August 26 for $40, the first PlayStation-published title to launch on Xbox (www.theverge.com)
2025-7-4 Xbox

ICEBlock, an app for reporting sightings of ICE officials, was the top free app in the US App Store on Tuesday; the app claims to collect no personal data (www.theverge.com)
2025-7-3

AT&T launches Account Lock to protect wireless users against SIM swapping attacks, following similar features from T-Mobile, Verizon, and Google Fi (www.theverge.com)
2025-7-2 Google Mobile AT&T

Threads launches DMs for users aged 18 and older, without support for E2EE, and announces a “highlighter” feature to emphasize trending topics (www.theverge.com)
2025-7-2

Q&A with Matt Mullenweg on licensing deals with AI companies, putting Tumblr's backend migration to WordPress “on hold”, fediverse, content moderation, and more (www.theverge.com)
2025-7-1 WordPress AI

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