Call of Duty never made much sense for Xbox Game Pass
…After that, Microsoft adopted a “day one” strategy, with subsequent releases Black Ops 6 and Black Ops 7 available on Game Pass at the same time they launched everywhere else. It was…
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You’re about to feel the AI money squeeze
…OpenAI introduced in-platform advertisements. Anthropic, of course, restricted third-party tools. In some ways, this is a tale as old as time, and particularly, a clear echo of the…
Inside the return of Xbox
…s strategy here over the past two years. Sharma is now focusing on winning back fans, either way. “We will focus on players coming back every single day, because our platform and…
The future of AI regulation is courting the strangest, most anxious bedfellows
…https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/06/sagrada-familia-recess.png?quality=90&strip=all] See you next week.
Moves of the Diamond Hand is an unfinished, irresistibly weird dice-based RPG
…You can selectively re-roll dice in a manner similar to Yahtzee, introducing an element of strategy within each encounter, and your final score (win or lose) is translated into experience points…
Can Puck reinvent news for the influencer age?
…Making people spend money on the platforms. Elon’s approach to advertisers who had concerns about that platform after he bought it was to sue them, and to threaten them, and to…
Why Jonah Peretti sold BuzzFeed
…And, of course, I’m very interested in what digital media companies are doing to adapt and survive in an information landscape dominated by algorithmic social platforms. --- [Image: https://platform.theverge.com…
AI is blowing up music production
…And I see a lot of people spending a lot of time and energy trying to figure out that strategy. How do we use it? How do we leverage that platform to…
Attack of the killer script kiddies
…In June 2025, the autonomous offensive security platform XBOW beat out human hackers to top the leaderboard of HackerOne, a bug bounty platform, indicating big leaps in the ability of AI models…
Virtual Reality
…Meta says the event will offer “the first glimpse of what’s coming to the next computing platform,” with an “evening keynote” and “developer sessions where we’ll share the latest in…