As AI gets better, it reveals an empty promise
This week we’ve got tandem hands-ons with Google’s new Gemini AI agent — Spark — from my colleagues David Pierce and Jay Peters. Their takeaways are similar: It’s so effective…
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I went looking for the AI weed vape that gives you Bitcoin for smoking
…the first agentic cannabis device” combining “premium cannabis, blockchain rewards, and AI-powered asset tools in one product.” This alleged device wasn’t just running on crypto hype: now AI was in…
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Researchers gaslit Claude into giving instructions to build explosives
…As AI agents, which are capable of acting autonomously, become more common, so too will attacks using social manipulation rather than technical exploits. While Garraghan says other chatbots are equally vulnerable to…
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Apple’s AI pitch will live or die by its privacy promise
…There’s a dedicated Siri AI app, with a ChatGPT-esque chatbot experience, new AI-powered camera and photo editing features, and the beginnings of an agentic experience that will let Siri…
Apple’s best AI idea looks a lot like vibe coding
…This is the eternal problem of agentic AI, of course, and Apple’s going to experience it in its own proprietary way. [Image: https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2…
Tim Cook will still be Apple’s Trump whisperer
…Cook’s maneuvering reportedly helped win an exclusion to Trump’s tariffs for the iPhone in the president’s first term, and smartphones dodged some new tariffs in his second term, too…