Category: Tech
January 09, 2026
Tech
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…
January 09, 2026
Tech
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…
January 09, 2026
Tech
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…
January 09, 2026
Tech
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…
January 09, 2026
Tech
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…
January 09, 2026
Tech
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…
January 09, 2026
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…
January 09, 2026
Tech
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…
January 09, 2026
Tech
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…
January 09, 2026
Tech
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…