Google DeepMind CEO claims China trails Western AI by only months
Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, stated on CNBC‘s podcast “The Tech Download” that Chinese AI models trail U.S. and Western capabilities by merely months, countering perceptions of a larg...
Samsung revamps Mobile Gaming Hub to fix broken game discovery
At CES 2026 in Las Vegas, Samsung announced a refresh of its Mobile Gaming Hub for smartphones to provide more personalized and faster ways to play games while emphasizing upcoming titles, as explaine...
US Senate slams tech giants over “failing” deepfake guardrails
A coalition of U.S. senators has launched an inquiry into X, Meta, Alphabet, Snap, Reddit, and TikTok, demanding they explain how they are combating the proliferation of nonconsensual, sexualized deep...
Mythbuster: What AI is not about to do in advertising
As the hype around AI thins into something closer to reality, the ad industry is quietly drawing a line between what the tech can do and what it will not be trusted to touch.
Here are the myths, an...
The EC further pushes to rein-in Google’s ad tech monopoly
The European Commission published provisional findings on Google’s ad tech stack, ruling that its wares (primarily AdX and DoubleClick for Publishers) have been dominant for more than a decade, furt...
Casting is dead. Long live casting!
This is Lowpass by Janko Roettgers, a newsletter on the ever-evolving intersection of tech and entertainment, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week.
Last month, Netflix made the...
