Month: December 2025
The AI industry’s biggest week: Google’s rise, RL mania, and a party boat
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. Reinforcement learning (RL) is the next frontier, Google is surging, and the party scene has gotten completely out of hand. Those were the through…
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Think AI actions in Windows 11 are pointless? Microsoft is letting you banish them from the right-click menu
Windows 11 has a new preview build It fully removes AI actions if you’ve disabled them all in File Explorer This means there will no longer be an empty folder in the right-click menu for AI actions that have been turned off Windows 11 just got a change for the…
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Call of Duty won’t release Modern Warfare or Black Ops back to back anymore
Future Call of Duty releases will no longer include back-to-back launches of Modern Warfare or Black Ops games, Activision announced on Tuesday. The past four releases in the series have been Modern Warfare II (2022), Modern Warfare III (2023), Black Ops 6 (2024), and Black Ops 7 (2025), but moving…
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This Is the Best Razor I’ve Ever Used—Save Big With This Sale
Henson Razors are engineered to give a spectacular shave with dirt-cheap generic blades. Source
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Now we’ve got robots that can chase and kick us — is this the robot revolution we signed up for?
A robot may not injure a human being, at least according to the late science fiction author Isaac Asimov. It’s a rule that the EngineAI T800 robot may have missed, as evidenced by the “combat robot” forcefully kicking its company’s CEO in a now-viral video. This is apparently the season…
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Both sides of the aisle hate the AI moratorium
Hello and welcome to Regulator. If you’re a subscriber, you are stalwart and true, and if you’re here from the internet, prove your chivalry and worth by subscribing to The Verge here. (And if you’re David Sacks: we said what we said.) As of Tuesday, President Donald Trump has committed…
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