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During its big GPT-5 livestream on Thursday, OpenAI showed off a few charts that made the model seem quite impressive — but if you look closely, some graphs were a little bit off. In one, ironically showing how well GPT-5 does in “deception evals across models,” the scale is all over the place. For “coding […]

The Browser Company — the makers of the Arc browser — just launched a $20 per month subscription to its new AI-powered web browser, Dia, as reported earlier by TechCrunch. The new Dia Pro subscription comes with unlimited access to the browser’s chat feature, which lets you ask questions about the content in your tabs. […]

Laptops are great, but sometimes it’s simply just more convenient to use a tablet like the iPad Air. The Air’s easier to carry, after all, and still powerful enough to handle everything from streaming to taking notes and reading. And right now, the latest version of the Air is down to a new low price. […]

GPT-5 has finally arrived. Along with the announcement of the highly anticipated AI model, OpenAI also previewed several updates coming to ChatGPT, ranging from visual changes to improvements to the chatbot’s performance. Here’s a rundown of all of the changes you can expect to see in ChatGPT. Say goodbye to the model picker With the […]

During today's Nintendo Indie World showcase, I had two epiphanies. The first was the realization that friendslop games are about to hit the Switch 2 like a falling piano in a Road Runner cartoon. The second was that I love that for me, because that means I can finally play them. My friends love "friendslop," […]

It’s official: Skydance Media’s deal to purchase CBS parent company Paramount Global for $8 billion is complete, and incoming chairman / CEO David Ellison’s first order of business is a massive restructuring. In an open letter about his plans for Paramount, a Skydance Corporation (the merged companies’ new name), Ellison announced that, going forward, the […]

Samsung’s latest Unpacked event came and went with no major announcements related to the company’s Galaxy Buds lineup. However, if you don’t want to wait for what’s next, you can currently save on the Samsung Galaxy Buds FE, which are down to $46.99 ($53 off) at Woot. That’s their best price yet and a deal […]

Meta’s consumer VR headsets are already among the best you can get for their price points, but at a conference next week, the company is showing off some impressive-sounding research prototypes that could be a peek at what its headsets might be capable of in the future.  One headset, called “Tiramisu,” brings a “new milestone […]

Zach Cregger's first major film Barbarian was tense and frightening, but it was also infused with a healthy dose of absurdity. The movie's twisted sense of humor made it easier to stomach its grotesque violence and a bit more difficult to anticipate how its unhinged story would unfold. But Barbarian also worked surprisingly well as […]

OpenAI officially launched its new GPT-5 models today, and Microsoft is now bringing GPT-5 to Copilot, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Azure AI Foundry, GitHub Copilot, and more. It’s part of a big simultaneous release of GPT-5 that will show up in Copilot as the new smart mode that I detailed in Notepad last month. The new […]

Elon Musk has long bragged that the Tesla Cybertruck is a uniquely impervious vehicle thanks to its stainless steel body and “bulletproof” windows, calling it “an armored personnel carrier from the future.” Now that claim will be put to the test by none other than the US Air Force, which aims to use the Cybertruck […]

OpenAI is releasing GPT-5, its new flagship model, to all of its ChatGPT users and developers. CEO Sam Altman says GPT-5 is a dramatic leap from OpenAI's previous models. He compares it to "something that I just don't wanna ever have to go back from," like the first iPhone with a Retina display. OpenAI says […]

Lawmakers have introduced a new bill aimed at countering “foreign piracy sites,” as reported earlier by TorrentFreak. The bill, called the Block Bad Electronic Art and Recording Distributors (Block BEARD) Act, would allow copyright holders to ask a federal court to block piracy websites. The bipartisan legislation, led by Sens. Thom Tillis (R-NC), Chris Coons […]

Earlier this year, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella moved with haste to get engineers to test and deploy DeepSeek's R1 model on Azure AI Foundry. It was an unusually quick turnaround for a new model on Azure that also set a new bar for success. A few months later, Nadella then pushed to onboard xAI's Grok […]

Last year, Google surprised online video publishers with some stunning news: the company, which now generates over a quarter trillion dollars with advertising every year, effectively admitted that it isn't very good at selling ads for its own smart TV platform, Google TV. The issue at heart: Google has long required publishers to share a […]

Peloton has pivoted many times over the past few years in its quest to return to profitability. The latest, as announced in its Q4 2025 earnings call, is leaning into health and wellness instead of “just” cardio fitness. “With each passing year, we are coming to understand better the importance of strength, stress management, sleep, […]

Framework has built a name for itself by taking the locked down world of laptops and making them modular, upgradable, and repairable. So it's surprising - and maybe even controversial - the way that Framework has approached its first desktop: it's made a PC that's actually less modular than most. Don't worry; this isn't a […]

Stop me if you've heard this one before: a new wave of tariffs are taking effect today. Announced on July 31st, the latest set of tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump on foreign imports - possibly illegally - will set a floor of 15 percent for around 40 countries with a trade deficit with the […]

Following the reveal of its first 360-degree action camera a week ago, DJI has announced its first robot vacuum cleaner. The DJI Romo is available in three versions that are mostly differentiated by their appearance  — two use transparent shells to reveal their inner workings — but they all borrow technology from the company’s drones […]

HBO Max’s password-sharing crackdown is about to get stricter. During an earnings call on Thursday, Warner Bros. Discovery streaming head JB Perette said prompts surrounding account sharing will become more persistent starting next month, pushing people toward paying an extra $7.99 per month to add an extra member to their account. “In September, you’ll actually […]

President Donald Trump has called for Lip-Bu Tan to immediately resign as Intel’s CEO over his reported ties to Chinese tech firms. The demand follows Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton questioning Intel’s board chairman whether Tan’s alleged connections to China would conflict with security regulations. “The CEO of INTEL is highly CONFLICTED and must resign, immediately,” […]

Donald Trump’s Truth Social has launched a new AI search feature that consistently pushes conservative media sources. The feature, Truth Search AI, is powered by the AI startup Perlexity and is now available on the web version of Trump’s social media platform, with public testing coming to the iOS and Android apps “in the near […]

Over the past decade and a half, Eurogamer's Digital Foundry has become the most knowledgeable and trustworthy place to find out just how powerful a new video game console might be, where the hottest new games run the best, and why they sometimes don't! Even Sony and Microsoft often favor DF for exclusive access to […]

Welcome to Decoder! This is Alex Heath, your Thursday episode guest host and deputy editor at The Verge. It’s AI coding week at Decoder. You just heard Casey Newton’s interview with the CEO behind Cursor, Michael Truell. Now, I have a conversation with GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke. In many ways, GitHub Copilot set off the […]