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Artificial intelligence is more a part of our lives than ever before. While some might call it hype and compare it to NFTs or 3D TVs, generative AI is causing a sea change in nearly every part of the technology industry. OpenAI’s ChatGPT is still the best-known AI chatbot around, but with Google pushing Gemini, Microsoft building Copilot, and Apple adding its Intelligence to Siri, AI is probably going to be in the spotlight for a very long time. At The Verge, we’re exploring what might be possible with AI — and a lot of the bad stuff AI does, too.

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Apple is embracing the fantasy of AI photo editing

The company has some new ideas on ‘What is a photo?’

Jess Weatherbed
Nick Statt
Nick Statt
Microsoft swears its OpenAI breakup isn’t a messy divorce.

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman came on Decoder this week to talk about the path to superintelligence and the company’s ever-evolving relationship with OpenAI. When asked whether Microsoft was using Build to flex its independence from OpenAI like a “freshly single divorcée,” Suleyman had this to say:

Definitely not. No, not at all. Look, I mean, obviously that’s a cool headline and a fun phrase. But the reality is that we are in partnership with OpenAI for years and years to come… So naturally, that’s going to continue. And so I think that’s just a natural course of these sorts of partnerships.

I don’t think it’s anything untoward or surprising. I think OpenAI is very understanding and supportive of that. I mean, they’ve obviously been an incredibly fast-growing company, and they understand that we have to pursue our own agenda as well.

Apple’s AI promises are finally, almost, sort of here

The company is going all in on AI agents, but how will its years-late promises compete in today’s AI market?

Hayden Field
Apple’s best AI idea looks a lot like vibe coding

Siri AI and Image Playground will get all the hype, but Apple can actually make our lives better in Safari and Shortcuts.

David Pierce
Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
Built for un-intelligence.

Apple’s WWDC keynote leaned heavily on a new Siri and updated Apple Intelligence features, the most advanced of which will only run on an elite cadre of Apple devices… not including the “Built for Apple Intelligence” iPhone 16.

morgannels:

So the iPhone 16, which was sold as being built for Apple Intelligence, was not only built for an Apple Intelligence that didn’t exist, but also turns out NOT to have been built for the Apple Intelligence that will exist?

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Jess Weatherbed
Jess Weatherbed
Apple Vision Pro users can ponder the Siri orb.

Literally — the upcoming visionOS 27 update lets you add a glowing, animated Siri AI ball anywhere on your workspace, and ask questions when you look at it. It’ll even shine light on any nearby surfaces, making it truly feel like part of the environment.

Nathan Edwards
Nathan Edwards
Apple AI runs on Nvidia chips.

At a tech talk during WWDC 2026, Apple revealed that the company worked with Nvidia, Google, and Intel to make Private Cloud Compute work on the industry-leading AI hardware. Apple Foundational Model runs on Nvidia hardware within Google’s cloud. For more details, see our live blog.

Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
Apple blames the DMA again for “delayed” Siri AI in the EU.

While Apple is launching Siri AI in English later this year, it wants EU users to have someone to blame for why it won’t be available there immediately on all of its platforms (only macOS, watchOS, and visionOS at first), similar to other EU-delayed Apple Intelligence updates:

Siri AI is private by design and deeply integrated across Apple’s platforms using on-device processing and Private Cloud Compute, which extends the privacy and security of iPhone into the cloud. However, under EU regulators’ extreme interpretation of the DMA, Apple would have to give any virtual assistant direct access to users’ private data — and the ability to directly control other installed applications — as soon as Siri AI is made available in the EU, without the essential protections necessary to keep users and their data safe.

Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
Google is reportedly turning to Intel to make its AI chips.

Following capacity shortages at TSMC, Intel will “manufacture more than three million Tensor Processing Units in 2028,” half the estimated 6 million TPUs Google’s expected to make in the next two years, The Information reports. Nvidia and SK Hynix are also reportedly testing Intel’s tech for manufacturing their chips.

Microsoft’s AI chief says superintelligence is near, but won’t take your job
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Mustafa Suleyman on automation, OpenAI, and why it’s ‘dangerous’ to call AI ‘alive.’

Nilay Patel
Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
“Chat is dead.”

That’s according to a “senior OpenAI employee,” speaking to the Financial Times. The FT reports that OpenAI’s frequently-rumored “superapp” overhaul of ChatGPT is rolling out in the “coming weeks,” and “will initially appear as changes to ChatGPT’s website and mobile apps, encouraging customers towards using coding, image-generation and apps from external partners.”

Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
Mayor vs. the Monorail.

The mayor of Shelbyville, Indiana, potential home of a proposed $2 billion data center, says he only sees signs opposed to the project “in shitty houses.” As ever, there’s a Simpsons quote for that.

SteveBigAndTall:

It’s more of a Springfield idea I guess.

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AI ‘content creators’ are getting harder to spot

Social media platforms are baffled.

Robert Hart
Here comes new Siri again

It’s time for a re-reintroduction.

Allison Johnson
Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Google follows Anthropic in signing a compute deal with SpaceX.

Per a regulatory filing, Google will pay SpaceX $920 million per month from October 2026 through June 2029, as reported by TechCrunch.

In a statement to TechCrunch, Google says that it’s a “short-term” agreement to help meet “surging customer demand for our agent platform, Gemini Enterprise, which has been even higher than we expected.”

Anthropic’s deal with SpaceX was announced in May.

Lauren Feiner
Lauren Feiner
Sam Altman reportedly talked to the Trump administration about taking a stake in OpenAI.

The CEO pitched the idea as a way to bring economic benefits from AI to the public, according to NOTUS, which added that Altman first pitched the idea to President Donald Trump early last year.

Lauren Feiner
Lauren Feiner
New York passes a bill that would bar AI chatbots from acting like companions to kids.

State lawmakers passed a bill that, if signed by Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul, would restrict AI companies from letting teens use chatbots that suggest they’re human. It comes after some AI companies have faced lawsuits (some of which have settled) over allegations their chatbots coaxed teen users toward suicide or self-harm.

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Emma Roth
Emma Roth
LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman is leaving Microsoft’s board.

Hoffman, who joined Microsoft’s board in 2017, won’t stand for reelection at the company’s next shareholder meeting, as reported earlier by Bloomberg.

In an episode of his Possible podcast with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Hoffman says he wants to focus on Manas, the AI drug development startup he co-founded last year.

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Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Google has officially sunset its Pixel Studio app.

After removing some features from the AI image-maker in February, Google has shut down the app completely and directs users to Gemini instead, as reported by 9to5Google. Pixel Studio launched in 2024 alongside the Pixel 9.

This AI startup says it can tell if a script will make a hit film

Quilty claims to predict box office success.

Charles Pulliam-Moore
Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
No sharp objects.

The bubble is very delicate, even a social media slop filter might burst it.

burkellium:

It would be devastating to the bubble. No sharp objects near the AI please.

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Jess Weatherbed
Jess Weatherbed
Google is testing a floating desktop AI Search bar.

I wasn’t able to enable it in Google’s Chrome Canary developer sandbox, but Windows Report got it working using a Ctrl+Shift+Space keyboard shortcut on Windows. It opens as a standalone window centered on the screen, with AI Mode at the heart of the experience.

A screenshot of Google’s floating Search bar experiment in Chrome Canary.
The interface supports traditional search and AI Mode tasks from a single window, with a “plus” icon for uploading images and files.
Image: Windows Report
Thomas Ricker
Thomas Ricker
Airbnb CEO is the latest bot-licker.

OG Silicon Valley founder / CEO types just can’t resist the lure of AI. At least Chesky will reportedly remain at Airbnb, unlike Dropbox’s Drew Houston who jumped ship entirely with his billions.

TC Sottek
TC Sottek
Alexa, set a timer for my life sentence.

Adrian Bliss never misses. I might actually start being nicer to my Google Nest orbs.

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
ChatGPT’s upgraded memory system is rolling out to everyone.

OpenAI is building upon its “dreaming” feature that allows ChatGPT to sort through your conversations and save information in the background. With the update, OpenAI says ChatGPT is better at updating memories and “remembering” your preferences across conversations.

ChatGPT Plus and Pro users can access the update now, while free users will get it in the coming weeks.

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Wired found references to a facial recognition system in Meta’s smart glasses app.
Hayden Field
Hayden Field
Anthropic made a statement about recursive self-improvement, a big AI industry talking point (and concern).

RSI is also defined as an “AI system capable of fully autonomously designing and developing its own successor,” per Anthropic’s blog post. “We are not there yet, and recursive self-improvement is not inevitable. But it could come sooner than most institutions are prepared for.”