I sat down in the Musk v. Altman trial courtroom today, painfully aware that no one was going to ask Shivon Zilis the question on everyone’s minds: Girl, what the fuck are you doing? Zilis, who testified under oath that she is the mother of four of Musk’s children, was… what’s the best way to…
Google Home users can now ask Gemini to complete more complex, multi-step tasks and combine multiple tasks in a single command. Google has updated Gemini for Home to Gemini 3.1, which it says will improve the smart home assistant’s ability to interpret and act on requests. The upgrade will also make Gemini for Home better…
Google is considering adding ads to the Gemini app, according to comments made by Alphabet’s chief business officer Philipp Schindler during the company’s first quarter 2026 earnings call. Schindler confirmed that Google’s current focus is on developing an ad format for AI Mode in Google Search first, with the Gemini app as a potential follow-up…
Starting June 1, 2026, GitHub Copilot will switch to token-based billing, moving away from the current Premium Requests system, where each query counts as one request regardless of complexity. Under the new model, charges will be based on the number of tokens processed, with rates depending on the chosen model, input and output volume, cache…
Okay, I am not a lawyer so I only understood about half of what just happened. But I am fairly sure, given the context, that Elon Musk’s lawyers may have just fucked up big. Jared “James Brickhouse” Birchall, Musk’s finance guy and all-around fixer, took the stand after Musk today. Most of his testimony was…
Just a simple country CEO who was being tricked by that sophisticated lawyer | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images About five hours into Elon Musk’s testimony, I typed the following sentence into my notes: “I have never been more sympathetic to Sam Altman in my life.” Musk’s direct testimony was an improvement…
Google is trying out an AI Mode-like search experience for YouTube. The company is now testing “a new way to search on YouTube that feels more like a conversation,” with results pulling in things like longform videos, YouTube Shorts, and text about what you’re searching for. The “experiment” is now available if you’re a YouTube…
DeepSeek has introduced two new open-weight models in preview: DeepSeek V4, a mixture-of-experts model with 284 billion parameters and 13 billion active parameters, and DeepSeek V4-Pro, a 1.6 trillion parameter model with 49 billion active parameters. Both are available for download on Hugging Face as well as through DeepSeek’s API and web service. V4-Pro was…
Google is planning to invest up to $40 billion in Anthropic, the AI company behind the Claude models, according to Bloomberg. The investment will happen in two stages and is contingent on Anthropic reaching specific development milestones. The first part of the deal involves a $10 billion cash commitment, which values Anthropic at $350 billion….
Meta is laying off around 8,000 employees and cutting approximately 6,000 open positions, with the changes taking effect on May 20. These reductions amount to about 10% of Meta’s global workforce of 78,865 employees. The layoffs were announced in an internal memo from Meta’s head of HR, Janelle Gale, and confirmed by a company spokesperson….
