The real story of the iPhone 18 Pro’s camera
The real story of the iPhone 18 Pro’s camera

It’s one of the most fascinating years in a while when it comes to iPhone camera upgrades. The big story of the iPhone 18 Pro is the variable aperture main lens, which lets you open the aperture up wider for better low light shots and make the aperture smaller for better depth of field in […]

Gavin Newsom is pushing for an AI kill switch
Gavin Newsom is pushing for an AI kill switch

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) is positioning the state to take the lead on AI oversight, including the potential to mandate a “kill switch” for frontier models, with a new executive order issued Friday. Newsom’s order directs the state to convene a group of experts that will deliver recommendations within two months on how to […]

AI Has a Cost Most Companies Aren’t Accounting for Yet. Here’s What They’re Missing. 

The true cost of AI isn’t just tokens, GPUs, or infrastructure. It’s how AI changes the way people think, question and make decisions.

AI Agents Outread Humans, VCs Fund The Knowledge Engineers Fixing Docs

AI agents now generate two thirds of documentation traffic. Inside the $500M bet on knowledge engineers and the Air Canada ruling every company should read.

2,000 UK flight cancellations caused by ‘previously unknown defect’ that happened in the ‘space of a millisecond’ — travel chaos took days to fix and left hundreds of thousands stranded

A report from Nats found that the disruption stemmed from a manual request for a squawk code that was corrupted during processing.

Coders lose their DMCA case against GitHub Copilot and Codex
Coders lose their DMCA case against GitHub Copilot and Codex

“We decline plaintiffs’ invitation to transform run-of-the-mill copyright-infringement claims into DMCA claims,” Judge Eric Miller wrote for a unanimous Ninth Circuit panel. The opinion came on Wednesday in Doe v GitHub, number 24-7700. Anonymous progr…

Keeping people connected during disasters requires looking beyond network coverage
Keeping people connected during disasters requires looking beyond network coverage

A communication outage can complicate the decisions people need to make during a disaster. On September 28, 2024, the Federal Communications Commission reported that 74.31% of cell sites in its Hurricane Helene reporting area in North Carolina were out…

Amodei Wants To Pace The AI Frontier — But He’s Not Going Far Enough

Frontier labs are treating a structural problem of agentic risk as a messaging problem, and the public isn’t buying the reassurance. They shouldn’t have to.

Manus seeks $4B valuation in new $500M fundraise as it resumes independent ops

Manus, which earlier this year had to break off a merger with Meta, is in discussions to raise $500M at a $4B valuation.

What Hollywood thinks about existential AI warnings
What Hollywood thinks about existential AI warnings

As the tech sector sounds alarms about AI’s potential to destroy humanity, entertainment labor groups are urging the public to stay focused on what’s already happening. The Verge reached out to Disney, Netflix, Amazon, Lionsgate, and other studios who have started using AI, as well film startups focused on bringing generative AI into the mainstream […]