… It’s already been nice having three choices: AMD options typically offer great performance at the cost of some battery life, Qualcomm offers the absolute best battery life and standby time but sadly poor games support, and Intel is often a balanced option that maintains full x86 compatibility. …
… Image: https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/05/project-mariner-shutdown.png?quality=90&strip=all Earlier this year, Google showed off a new AI-powered feature, called “auto-browse,” that can perform multi-step tasks in Chrome, like researching flight costs. …
… Last month, Intel announced that it would help design and build Terafab, saying, “Our ability to design, fabricate, and package ultra-high-performance chips at scale will help accelerate Terafab’s aim to produce 1 TW/year of compute to power future advances in AI and robotics.”
… Mazumdar said it’s been testing out Cerebras, which is popular for open-weight models, lately, “in anticipation of how expensive things will get” from the premier labs like OpenAI and Anthropic. “ Big AI companies have been giving this away for free,” Mazumdar said. “What they’re trying to do is, t… …
… Compared to dedicated AI companies under increasing financial pressure, it’s able to at least temporarily subsidize costs to attract users. …
… The matter at question is model distillation, a common industry practice by which one larger AI model acts as a “teacher” of sorts to pass on knowledge to a smaller AI model, the “student.” Although it’s often used legitimately within companies using one of their own AI models to train another, it’… …
Snap is laying off roughly 16 percent of its global workforce in a cost-cutting effort to chase improved profitability with the help of AI. …
… Adobe’s AI chief Alexandru Costin told The Verge that creatives will be able to choose whether to enable this feature, and can select specific projects for the AI assistant to learn from. …
… While first establishing their company, Horsman and Wood solicited feedback from a number of other creatives who often voiced concerns about gen AI’s potential to negatively impact jobs and leave human workers deskilled. “We agree with a lot of the negative sentiment towards AI, but what we’re tryi… …
… Frontier ties model intelligence directly to agent performance. As our models improve, the platform gets more valuable. As the platform gets embedded, switching costs rise. As customers run more workflows through the system, OpenAI becomes harder to replace and more central to how work gets done. …