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Google on Wednesday announced its latest frontier artificial intelligence (AI) model, Gemini 4 Argon, that it said is being rolled out to a set of trusted cyber defenders through its Fairwind Program. “It delivers frontier performance in complex workflows across real-world software engineering, enterprise knowledge work like legal and finance, and cybersecurity defense,” Koray Kavukcuoglu,
A federal judge has dismissed a pair of antitrust lawsuits filed by Chegg and Rolling Stone parent company Penske Media Corporation, which accused Google of driving away web traffic with its AI-powered search features, as reported earlier by Reuters. US District Judge Amit Mehta takes Google’s side in a ruling on Wednesday, writing that PMC…
I’m pretty sure I won’t be buying the $1,299 Meta VR Glasses. That’s too rich for my blood in today’s economy, and my feelings about Meta are… conflicted. But I want you to understand that Meta just changed the game. We’ve had glasses, but we’ve never had glasses like this. The Meta VR Glasses are…
Today I’m talking with Josh Dzieza, a longtime features writer here at The Verge, about Kevin O’Leary’s plans to build a massive data center in Utah. The idea was to build the world’s biggest data center — a 40,000-acre AI campus with nine gigawatts of power, or more than double the average power usage of…
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. An AI “mind-reading” tool can reconstruct what you’re looking at based on a brain scan A new AI tool can guess what you’re looking at just by analyzing your brain scans—and…
A massive community effort, aided by AI tools, has ported the original Halo: Combat Evolved to platforms including PlayStation, Linux, Android, and web browsers, supporting full multiplayer and campaign modes.
The company said individuals associated with Chinese company MoonshotAI were behind parts of the attack, but did not offer hard evidence for the claim. The post OpenAI reveals ‘novel’ encryption bypass used in distillation attack appeared first on CyberScoop.
In yet another ClickFix-style campaign, threat actors abuse legitimate domains from OpenAI and Google to fool unsuspecting users.
A fresh round of industry reporting is pointing to Naughty Dog’s next project after Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, and the word circulating among insiders is one PlayStation fans have waited nine years to hear: Uncharted. Multiple outlets published versions of the same claim on September 30, 2026, citing insider sourcing rather than any statement from…
Fortnite’s six-year exile from Android’s biggest storefront in Australia is ending in pieces, not all at once. On September 2, 2026, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) issued Final Determination AA1000718, authorizing Google and Epic Games to implement a settlement that unwinds the Google Play ban first imposed in August 2020. The authorization took…
