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The latest tech news about the world’s best (and sometimes worst) hardware, apps, and much more. From top companies like Google and Apple to tiny startups vying for your attention, Verge Tech has the latest in what matters in technology daily.

My first 24 hours with Siri AI on the Mac

Siri is better, but its limitations are much more obvious on a Mac than an iPhone.

Antonio G. Di Benedetto
Never Post’s Mike Rugnetta on the creative process and the value of reliable power

The podcast host, YouTuber, musician, and audio engineer has a lot on his plate.

Terrence O'Brien
Apple’s new AI photo editing tools mostly work, for better and worse

What is a photo, iOS 27 edition.

Allison Johnson
The future of Hollywood isn’t feeding prompts into vanilla gen AI models 

AI wasn’t just slop at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival.

Charles Pulliam-Moore
Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
SpaceX reportedly rented out Colossus 1 AI data center after it ran into latency issues.

While SpaceX plans satellite-based AI servers, Bloomberg reports it ran into trouble trying to develop and run Grok AI in Memphis, citing unnamed sources. They claim that deals renting capacity to Anthropic ($15 billion annually) and Google ($920 million per month) happened following hardware variation and lag issues:

Elon Musk’s company had planned to train its most cutting-edge AI models on a massive amount of computing power by using a cluster of three data center campuses. However, the firm encountered latency issues when connecting Colossus 1 with two other sites located more than 10 miles away, the people said, compounded by aging network infrastructure.

Sean Hollister
Sean Hollister
DJI and Insta360 are suing each other over baby steadicams.

DJI sued in China when Insta360 muscled in on drones, and both companies are Spider-Man Pointing in US lawsuits now they’re competing on stickcams. Recall: Insta360 just launched its Osmo Pocket competitor Luna Ultra in the US, but DJI can’t sell its Osmo Pocket 4 here.

Find the complaints here, here, here, and here.

An Osmo Pocket and an Insta360 Luna baby stabilized gimbal camera face off in the spiderman pointing meme image.
DJI is suing over both visual similarities and control methods; Insta360 is suing over stabilization methods and location sharing.
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David Pierce
Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
Forbes Real-Time Billionaires list adds a trillionaire.

With the debut of SPCX, Elon Musk’s 4.8 billion shares are enough to push his wealth beyond $1.1 trillion, as noted on Forbes’ “definitive, minute-by-minute guide to every billionaire around the globe.”

Screenshot of Forbes website showing Elon Musk net worth $1.1 trillion.
Screenshot: Forbes.com
Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Meta is donating its AI glasses to the more than 130,000 blind veterans in the US.

Smart glasses, like the Ray-Ban Meta, have become a resource for people with disabilities. Meta says the company and its partners will provide hands-on training for all the veterans who receive a free pair of AI glasses through the Blinded Veterans Association or TechSoup.

Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
SPCX opens at $150 per share.

As reported by CNBC, the New York Times, and others, trading commenced at a price 11 percent above the $135 IPO price, but lower than the $175 shown in some earlier indications. It’s already spiked as high as $167, before falling back to $155. As long as the share price remains above $138, that is enough to make Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire.

It also gives SpaceX a market cap of over $2 trillion, making it currently the 6th most valuable public company in the US.

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Allison Johnson
Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
“I shouldn’t have half a billion subscribers.”

Jimmy “MrBeast” Donaldson said that today during a special event livestream for his YouTube channel becoming the first one to hit 500 million subscribers.

Who agrees with him?

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Nothing in Best Buy.

If you’re in the US, you can now find the Nothing Phone 4A Pro, Phone 3, Headphone A, and Ear 3 in person at over 500 Best Buy stores across the country, giving you a chance to toy around with the devices before you buy one.

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Andrew J. Hawkins
Lauren Feiner
Lauren Feiner
Google is suing to dismantle a phishing kit operation it says has scammed hundreds of thousands of people.

“Outsider Enterprise” allegedly distributes phishing templates that have scammed people out of millions of dollars. Google says over a million fraudulent URLs are linked to the group, and that over just two weeks, it sent 2.5 million messages to Android users with links to fraudulent websites.

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Verge Staff
This portable light is great for way more than camping

Even at home, I keep reaching for it again and again.

Thomas Ricker
Jess Weatherbed
Jess Weatherbed
TCL TVs have new Gemini voice controls.

The upgraded Gemini for Google TV experience lets you speak to open settings, adjust sound and picture, and fix issues by describing them, such as by saying “the screen is too dark.” It’s exclusive to select 2025 and 2026 TCL Google TV models for 60 days, and rolling out now in the US.

Andrew Webster
Andrew Webster
”Season 2 is about how everything is great on the island and there’s nothing to worry about.”

That’s Katie Dippold, creator and showrunner of the horror / comedy hybrid Widow’s Bay, which Apple just confirmed has been renewed. The news comes just ahead of the season 1 finale, which streams on June 17th.

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
SpaceX sets IPO price at $135 / share.

That price puts SpaceX at a market valuation of around $1.77 trillion ahead of its record-breaking stock market debut on Friday. CNBC reports that SpaceX may allocate 20 percent of shares to retail investors, down from the previous expectation of 30 percent.

Andrew Liszewski
Andrew Liszewski
Elgato’s video conferencing kit now bundles everything you need except a laptop.

If you crunch the numbers the new $499.99 Conferencing Kit Plus is cheaper buy than buying Elgato’s Prompter, Facecam 1080P webcam, and Wave Desk Stand mounting arm individually. The kit also includes a laptop stand, a USB-C hub so there’s just one cable to plug into your computer, and a one year subscription to all of Elgato’s Airtime Video Essentials apps.

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Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
Expect to hear about Google’s new Home speaker next week.

A Thursday email to Google Home users says there are over 3.5 million Gemini for Home early access testers, and that people should “keep a very close eye on your inbox next week” for news about “a certain speaker.” That sounds like the Google Home speaker we previewed in October, which was projected to launch in spring 2026.

Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge
Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Plex is getting more social.

After launching the abilty to create and share lists of movies and TV shows, Plex is now rolling out a “discussions” feature that will allow you to chat about content in its app. Other social features, like emoji reactions, are set to arrive throughout the year.

Image: Plex
Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
Bluesky’s getting group chats.

The feature is rolling out now and supports groups of up to 50 people, but you still can’t send pictures or videos in Bluesky’s DMs. Yesterday, Bluesky also announced a “communities” feature it’s planning to add later this year that will offer smaller public or private spaces with their own feeds, like a subreddit.

A graphic showing group chat messages on Bluesky in front of a cloudy sky
Image: Bluesky
Andrew Liszewski
Andrew Liszewski
This exposure-tracking pendant will help you stay safe in the sun.

It’s a similar idea as L’Oréal’s My Skin Track UV sensor, but the $299 (discounted to $199 at launch) Gem smart jewelry wearable from The90 is a more stylish alternative. Its sensors measure UVA and UVB exposure throughout the day and based on your skin profile it will tell you how much sun is safe to get and when to reapply sunscreen through an app.

A person holds The Gem smart exposure pendant between the fingers while it’s worn around their neck.
The Gem is available for preorder now and the earliest orders are expected to ship this month.
Image: The90
Andrew Liszewski
Andrew Liszewski
3D print this Star Trek garden hose sprayser and set your garden to stunning.

Still not convinced you need a 3D printer? If you head on over to Printables you’ll find all the model files and instructions you’ll need to turn a standard garden hose nozzle into Curt Turner’s sprayser; a detailed Star Trek phaser replica for blasting begonias instead of the Borg.