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Published Apr 9, 2026, 9:10 PM

Samsung’s Galaxy Watch 8 is on sale in multiple colors. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Samsung’s Galaxy Watch 8 is one of the best Android smartwatches you can buy right now, especially if you’re already using a Samsung phone. Right now the 40mm, Bluetooth-enabled version’s on sale for $289.99 ($60 off) at Amazon, Best Buy, and Sams…
Published Apr 9, 2026, 8:11 PM

TechCrunch
ChatGPT had reportedly been used to plan the attack that killed two and injured five at Florida State University last April. The family of one victim has said that they plan to sue OpenAI over the incident.
Published Apr 9, 2026, 7:10 PM

The app was ranking No. 57 on the App Store just before Meta AI's new model launched. Now it's No. 5 — and rising.
Published Apr 9, 2026, 6:50 PM

Anthropic said this week that it limited the release of its newest model, dubbed Mythos, because it is too capable of finding security exploits in software relied upon by users around the world. Are real cybersecurity concerns a cover for a bigger problem at the frontier lab?
Published Apr 9, 2026, 6:27 PM

The two tech giants are looking to co-develop custom chips, at a time when demand for CPUs is high due to a growing global shortage.
Published Apr 9, 2026, 5:20 PM

Last month, Sierra launched Ghostwriter, an agent designed to build other agents. With this “agent as a service” tool, the startup intends to replace traditional click-based web applications with natural language. Users simply describe what they need, prompting Ghostwriter to autonomously create and deploy a specialized agent to execute the task.
Published Apr 9, 2026, 2:27 PM

Andy Jassy's annual shareholder letter reads something like a diss track to a wide range of competitors as he defends spending $200 billion in capex.
Published Apr 9, 2026, 12:25 PM

MIT Tech Review
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. Is fake grass a bad idea? The AstroTurf wars are far from over. In 2001, Americans installed just over 7 million square meters of synthetic turf. By 2024, that number was 79 million square meters—enough to carpe…
Published Apr 9, 2026, 12:06 AM

Google's Gemini is getting a feature called "notebooks" to help you organize things about certain topics in a single place while using the AI chatbot, the company announced on Wednesday. You can pull in things like files, past conversations, and custom instructions into notebooks that Gemini can then use as context while you're talking with it. No…
Published Apr 8, 2026, 9:05 PM

Poke brings AI agents to everyday users via text message by handling tasks and automations without complex setup, apps, or technical know-how.
Published Apr 8, 2026, 8:14 PM

Happy ceasefire day and welcome to Regulator, a newsletter for Verge subscribers about Big Tech's rocky journey through the world of politics. If you're not a subscriber yet, you can do so here, but my only request is that you sign up before Donald Trump decides to revisit his previous threats toward Iran and kickstart World War III. I'm back afte…
Published Apr 8, 2026, 8:09 PM

AWS has an ingrained culture of handling competition, he explained, because the cloud giant also competes with its partners.
Published Apr 8, 2026, 7:32 PM

I thought the WD Black SN850X 2TB SSD in my gaming PC was pricey when I bought it for $173 in 2024, but now that same SSD costs $649, more than what I paid for most of the parts in my PC combined. The price on my WD Black drive nearly quadrupled since November 2025, and consumer SSDs across the board are seeing similar increases, much like with RA…
Published Apr 8, 2026, 6:23 PM

Tubi becomes the first streaming service to offer an app integration within ChatGPT, the AI chatbot that millions of users turn to for answers.
Published Apr 8, 2026, 4:01 PM

Astropad’s Workbench lets users remotely monitor and control AI agents on Mac Minis from iPhone or iPad, with low-latency streaming and mobile access.
Published Apr 8, 2026, 3:23 PM

OpenAI's new Child Safety Blueprint aims to tackle the alarming rise in child sexual exploitation linked to advancements in AI.
Published Apr 8, 2026, 3:00 PM

Matei Zaharia has won the top honor from the Association for Computing Machinery. Now he's working on AI for research and says AGI is simply misunderstood.
Published Apr 8, 2026, 1:00 PM

Confluence users can now create visual assets within the software in addition to new third-party agents working with Lovable, Replit, and Gamma.
Published Apr 8, 2026, 5:40 AM

Google's new offline-first dictation app uses Gemma AI models to take on the apps like Wispr Flow.
Published Apr 7, 2026, 10:16 PM

It’s not every day you find a decent pair of wireless earbuds with active noise cancellation, a transparency mode, and app support for less than $20, which is why the current lighting deal on the CMF Buds 2A stands out. Now through 11:15PM ET today, April 7th, Nothing’s budget earbuds are available on Amazon in all three colors for just $19.99 ($2…
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