Both Amazon and Costco are offering some solid deals. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge We spotted a great deal on Tile trackers earlier this week that’s still live, but if you’re an iPhone owner, we ultimately … Continue reading Apple’s new AirTags are back down to their best price

Pompeii reimagined with Nano Banana 2 in Google Earth. | Image: Google Google has shut down Google Earth feature it launched Thursday that allowed users to edit satellite images with text prompts using AI. The tool essentially let users create … Continue reading Google Earth’s AI deepfake tool only lasted one day

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is probing nearly 1.2 million Tesla vehicles after receiving complaints about a suspension failure that could cause “a loss of vehicle directional control,” as reported earlier by Reuters. The preliminary investigation includes the … Continue reading The NHTSA is investigating 1.2 million Tesla vehicles over suspension failure reports

Google is seemingly working on an item tracker that might compete with Apple’s AirTag. 9to5Google obtained an image of something called a “Google Pixel Tag” that has a small oval shape. The publication also linked to a Slovenian store listing … Continue reading Google might launch a ‘Pixel Tag’

All future robot vacuums manufactured outside the USA (i.e., all of them) have been banned by the FCC. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge No other gadget knows as much about your home as a robot vacuum. … Continue reading The ban on robot vacuums won’t make them safer, only worse

Looking to start your own island paradise full of Miis based on family, friends, and celebrities, but don’t feel like paying full fare? Woot has Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream for Switch on sale for $52.99 (usually $59.95). Sort of … Continue reading Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream is a quirky life sim that’s worth buying at this discount

Now a text prompt is all it takes to generate reality-warping images using Google Earth’s satellite, aerial, and 3D imagery, like these images generated by Digital Digging‘s Henk van Ess that show “refugees near the Mexican border” and a bomb … Continue reading Here’s the problem with putting an AI image generator in Google Earth

Several record labels, including the big three – Universal Music Group, Sony Music, and Warner Music Group – have proposed rules regarding chart eligibility for AI songs. In short, they wouldn’t be. The proposal goes quite a bit further than … Continue reading The major labels propose rules to keep AI slop off the charts

New York is suing Kalshi over claims the prediction market is running “an illegal gambling operation.” In the lawsuit, New York Attorney General Letitia James accuses Kalshi of violating state laws by accepting wagers without a license from the state’s … Continue reading New York sues Kalshi for allegedly running an ‘illegal gambling operation’

When the phrase “OpenAI hacked Hugging Face” has more or less entered mainstream culture, you know we have an AI problem. This week, we learned more about exactly how OpenAI’s agent broke out of a sandbox and autonomously traversed the … Continue reading It’s time to panic about AI safety