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Discord says it “ran a limited test of Persona in the UK” to verify user ages and “that test has since concluded”, distancing itself from Persona amid backlash (www.theverge.com)
2026-2-24

A look at the challenges some AI developers face in building models to extract trillions of high-quality tokens from PDFs, which are hard to parse, for training (www.theverge.com)
2026-2-24 AI

Sources: Microsoft was forced to announce Xbox leadership changes early on Friday because the news had begun to leak to IGN, causing a day of internal chaos (www.theverge.com)
2026-2-24 Microsoft Xbox

Microsoft Gaming CEO Asha Sharma says she is committed to “the return of Xbox” and that the company won't “flood our ecosystem with soulless AI slop” (www.theverge.com)
2026-2-21 Microsoft AI Xbox

Meta says it is “explicitly separating” Quest VR from its Worlds platform, making Worlds “almost exclusively mobile”, letting it better compete with Roblox (www.theverge.com)
2026-2-20 VR Mobile

Google unveils the $499 Pixel 10A, offering the same Tensor G4 chip as the 9A, 8GB of RAM, and an 11% brighter display, in 128GB and 256GB, shipping March 4 (www.theverge.com)
2026-2-19 Google

Valve says the Steam Deck OLED may be “intermittently” out of stock due to memory and storage shortages; it has been out of stock in the US for a few days (www.theverge.com)
2026-2-17

Samsung releases an ad for the Galaxy S26 series that briefly shows a “Zero-peeking privacy” toggle to black out on-screen content for onlookers at an angle (www.theverge.com)
2026-2-17 Samsung

Some former employees blame xAI's staff exodus on xAI's focus on NSFW Grok and disregard for safety, constantly playing catch up to OpenAI, infighting, and more (www.theverge.com)
2026-2-14

Amazon's Ring cancels its partnership with Flock that would have let law enforcement agencies request footage from Ring doorbell users, following backlash (www.theverge.com)
2026-2-13 Amazon

T-Mobile announces a network-level, AI-based Live Translation feature supporting 50+ languages, coming “this spring” in beta and available on 5G and 4G LTE (www.theverge.com)
2026-2-12 Mobile AI 5G

Q&A with Siemens CEO Roland Busch on the company's 170+ year history, automation, managing 320K staff, US manufacturing investments, augmenting LLMs, and more (www.theverge.com)
2026-2-11 Manufacturing Siemens

Discord says that the “vast majority of people can continue using Discord exactly as they do today” without needing to use a face scan or ID to verify their age (www.theverge.com)
2026-2-11 Face ID

Facebook rolls out the ability for users to animate their profile picture and to restyle Stories or Memories using preset options or a text-based AI prompt (www.theverge.com)
2026-2-11 Facebook AI

Microsoft is automatically replacing Secure Boot certificates for older PCs before they expire later this year; Secure Boot was first introduced in 2011 (www.theverge.com)
2026-2-11 Microsoft

Discord plans to roll out age verification globally starting in March to access some content; all accounts will have a “teen-appropriate experience by default” (www.theverge.com)
2026-2-10

As Section 230 turns 30, a look at how upcoming court cases involving Meta, Alphabet, and others in the US could reshape the bounds of Section 230's protections (www.theverge.com)
2026-2-9 Alphabet

Trump Mobile execs showcase the T1 Phone's new design and specs, and say the phones go through “final assembly” in Miami and full assembly in the US is a “goal” (www.theverge.com)
2026-2-7 Trump Mobile

Filing: Zuckerberg considered changing how Meta studies social issues after a WSJ story about Instagram and teen mental health, noting Apple faces less scrutiny (www.theverge.com)
2026-2-6 Apple Instagram Zuckerberg

Interviews with Anthropic executives and other tech industry leaders and engineers about Claude Code's success, which some say has been a long time coming (www.theverge.com)
2026-2-6

OpenAI launches Frontier, an AI agent management platform that provides shared context, onboarding, and permission boundaries, available to select customers (www.theverge.com)
2026-2-6 AI

A look at the informal economy of rogue streaming box resellers, who sell hardware that offers free access to sports games, cable TV, and streaming services (www.theverge.com)
2026-2-5

GitHub integrates Claude and Codex AI coding agents directly into GitHub, GitHub Mobile, and Visual Studio Code, for Copilot Pro Plus and Enterprise users (www.theverge.com)
2026-2-5 Mobile AI GitHub

Amazon rolls out Alexa+ to all Prime members in the US via any Alexa-enabled device, Alexa.com, and the Alexa app, and launches a free tier for non-Prime users (www.theverge.com)
2026-2-5 Amazon

Adobe reversed its plans to discontinue Animate after creators expressed frustration, stating it won't get new features but will remain available “indefinitely” (www.theverge.com)
2026-2-4 Adobe

On an earnings call, AMD CEO Lisa Su says Microsoft's next-gen Xbox “is progressing well to support a launch in 2027” and will feature an AMD semi-custom SoC (www.theverge.com)
2026-2-4 Microsoft Xbox AMD

AI agent social network Moltbook grew from 30,000 users on January 30 to 1.5M+ on February 2; researchers say many viral posts were likely scripted by humans (www.theverge.com)
2026-2-4 AI

Q&A with Docusign CEO Allan Thygesen on Docusign's workforce growing to 7,000 staffers, its Intelligent Agreement Management system, AI hallucinations, and more (www.theverge.com)
2026-2-3 AI

Nintendo says the Switch 1 sold 155.37M units as of December 31, 2025 since its 2017 launch, topping the DS at 154.02M, becoming its best-selling console ever (www.theverge.com)
2026-2-3 Nintendo

After X updated Grok to ban sexual deepfakes of women, tests show Grok still undresses men on the Grok app, website, and X, rarely resisting user requests (www.theverge.com)
2026-2-3 Ban

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