‘Solve all diseases,’ you say?
…https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/demis-hassabis-2.jpeg?quality=90&strip=all] Meanwhile, AlphaGenome is another model that helps researchers predict mutations in human DNA…
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Roids were all the rage at the Enhanced Games
…https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/268551_Enhanced_Games_ALoius_0034.jpg?quality=90&strip=all] As the first athlete to sign up for the Enhanced Games…
My baby deer plushie told me that Mitski’s dad was a CIA operative
…Fawn Friends cofounder Peter Fitzpatrick said this was written by an AI agent based on my conversations with Coral. I have to go lie down now. https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content…
Microsoft AI chief on why it’s ‘dangerous’ to call AI ‘alive’
…friendly thing that controls an agent. I was a big Chumby fan. I got my career started writing about Chumbies for Engadget. It was the first thing that came to mind. All…
Labor and worker’s rights in tech
…growth company operates and creates value in the agentic AI era. Dominic Preston May 6 Will Apple do right by workers at its first unionized store? That’s the question nine senators…
Cybersecurity
…Separately, XBOW released data suggesting “frontier models have taken a major step forward in vulnerability discovery.” Meanwhile, Microsoft said its multi-model agentic setup, MDASH , was used to discover 16 CVEs in…
Google Assistant
…Increasingly frustrated users of Google’s smart home platform just got tossed a lifeline. After apologizing for Google Assistant’s reliability, the platform’s chief product officer offered this promise: Ecobee’s…
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…
Microsoft’s new Xbox chief starts making her mark
…In her internal memo this week, Sharma lays out what she’s learned about the Xbox platform: > It’s clear that our ambitions require deeper investment in the Xbox platform foundations than…
What’s next for Microsoft’s Surface PCs?
…A new Snapdragon C platform runs Qualcomm’s older Kryo cores, and Acer, HP, and Lenovo will be among the first partners. Qualcomm isn’t sharing detailed specs or release dates for…