Saturday

2 May 2026 Vol 19

Category: Tech

Lego’s first Smart Brick sets are now available for preorder

Lego’s first Smart Brick sets are now available for preorder

The most expensive option is the $159.99 Smart Play: Throne Room Duel & A-Wing. It comes with 962 pieces including…
Democrats ask Apple and Google to remove X’s undressing bot from their app stores

Democrats ask Apple and Google to remove X’s undressing bot from their app stores

Apple and Google are being dragged into the uproar around X’s AI chatbot that has continued to virtually undress women…
Anker’s new AeroFit Pro 2 earbuds are already $30 off

Anker’s new AeroFit Pro 2 earbuds are already $30 off

We saw a ton of cool new products at CES 2026, but not all of them made the cut when…
Silicon Valley Billionaires Panic Over California’s Proposed Wealth Tax

Silicon Valley Billionaires Panic Over California’s Proposed Wealth Tax

Did California lose Larry Page? The Google and Alphabet cofounder, who left day-to-day operations in 2019, has seen his net…
X Didn’t Fix Grok’s ‘Undressing’ Problem. It Just Makes People Pay for It

X Didn’t Fix Grok’s ‘Undressing’ Problem. It Just Makes People Pay for It

After creating thousands of “undressing” pictures of women and sexualized imagery of apparent minors, Elon Musk’s X has apparently limited…
CES 2026 was awash in bodily fluids

CES 2026 was awash in bodily fluids

This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent every Friday from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the…
The Vergecast Live at CES 2026: the biggest stories and trends in tech

The Vergecast Live at CES 2026: the biggest stories and trends in tech

This year’s CES was an odd one. This is a conference usually dominated by futuristic, expensive TVs and futuristic, expensive…
X restricts Grok’s image generation to paying subscribers only after drawing the world’s ire

X restricts Grok’s image generation to paying subscribers only after drawing the world’s ire

Elon Musk’s AI company has restricted Grok’s controversial AI image-generation feature to only paying subscribers on X, after the tool…
The Download: The case for AI slop, and helping CRISPR fulfill its promise

The Download: The case for AI slop, and helping CRISPR fulfill its promise

—Caiwei Chen If I were to locate the moment AI slop broke through into popular consciousness, I’d pick the video…
The venture firm that ate Silicon Valley just raised another $15 billion

The venture firm that ate Silicon Valley just raised another $15 billion

Andreessen Horowitz just announced the firm has just raised a little more than $15 billion in new funding. The haul…