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Anthropic spent the last week of August 2026 doing something no AI lab has managed before: fighting off the Pentagon in federal court, opening its Claude models to control physical lab equipment, and telling prospective IPO investors that its total addressable market is bigger than the one SpaceX pitched before its record-setting public debut. Three…
Anthropic spent the last week of August 2026 doing something no AI lab has managed before: fighting off the Pentagon in federal court, opening its Claude models to control physical lab equipment, and telling prospective IPO investors that its total addressable market is bigger than the one SpaceX pitched before its record-setting public debut. Three…
Nvidia used its Gamescom 2026 keynote to confirm what Valve fans had been asking for since the Steam Machine’s June 30 launch: GeForce NOW is getting official support for the Steam Controller and the Steam Machine itself. The Verge first reported the news on August 25, 2026, and Nvidia followed up with a Gamescom stage…
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Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 142, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, how is it almost September already, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I’ve been remembering Dolly Parton, Tim Curry, and Peter Cullen, absorbing…
Chess.com has done one thing, and one thing very well, for almost 20 years, but now it’s going beyond its domain name. The biggest name in online chess quietly launched its first companion site in beta back in May: Gambit, a free online poker website where players can learn the game without risking any real…
As backlash grows over Flock’s AI surveillance cameras, Texas Governor Greg Abbott has frozen state spending on them. The move came just ahead of the publication of a Texas Tribune investigation that revealed the state spent over $30 million on Flock cameras. That money was primarily raised by tacking a $1 fee onto insurance policies,…
After funding struggles and a name change, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has been successfully launched. It will now make a three-month, one-million-mile journey to its orbit at the second Sun-Earth Lagrange point (L2) beyond the Moon. From this vantage point, Roman will conduct an unprecedented survey of the universe. Its field of view…
Over 12 terabytes of data, containing builds of every game uploaded to Steam between 2003 and 2013, has been leaked. We don’t know everything in the archives yet because of its massive size. But people have already dug up assets related to the canceled Half-Life 2: Episode 3, content cut from Portal 2, and a…
I recently dug out my CDs and started reripping them all. I’ve found a few forgotten gems in there, but few hit harder for me than the beautifully concise Professor Murder Rides the Subway EP. There was a period of time in the mid-aughts in NYC where it seemed like every indie band wanted you…
