Valve’s Steam Machine sold out fast when it shipped on June 29, 2026, but the $1,049 price tag for the base 512GB unit left a lot of would-be couch gamers checking their bank balance twice. That gap in the market didn’t stay empty for long. Over the past six weeks, three very different mini PCs…
OpenAI on Thursday unveiled GPT-6 Astra, a new frontier AI model that CEO Sam Altman says represents a major jump in what people can hand off to artificial intelligence. The release arrives with an unusual twist: Astra is so capable […] The post OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra, its most powerful AI model with advanced cybersecurity…
Instagram’s visible AI labels are supposed to help people quickly spot synthetically generated content at a glance. Over the last few weeks, however, users have been reporting that the system has gone haywire. They say Meta has been automatically applying an “AI Content” label to images that they didn’t create or edit using generative AI…
Europe’s biggest tech trade show, IFA, has taken over Berlin this week – and we’ve been on the ground all week checking it out in person. We figure you have questions, so we’re hosting an AMA that’s exclusive to Verge subscribers at 12PM ET today. That’s when we’ll start dropping answers, but you can ask…
Bluetti doesn’t want you to call the Pioneer 5000 a solar generator (SoGen) even though that’s what it is. What makes it slightly different from other large power stations that can be charged off solar – aka, a SoGen – is the dolly cart and up to 18KW of instant surge power available to start…