Fri. 12/11 - Disney+ Is About to Get a Bit Mo...

Stripe was in talks to buy OpenRouter for as much as $10B while still chasing PayPal. Midjourney bought astrology app Co-Star, Meta launched Facebook Verified and a standalone Seller app, and Nvidia and Microsoft defended open-weight AI. Sources: Stripe is in talks to acquire Ope ...  Show more

OpenAI staff were reportedly freaked out after its models breached Hugging Face, as aggressive training raced Anthropic. Google posted its first-ever negative free cash flow on AI spending, added selfie-video account recovery, and Light unveiled a minimalist flip phone. Sources: ...  Show more

The Verge's Nilay Patel, David Pierce, and Alex Cranz break down the chaotic and increasingly more expensive state of streaming video. Are we just recreating cable TV? And afterwards, the crew explores the wild world enterprise software. Further reading: Disney Plus and Hulu are ...  Show more

Elon Musk buys Twitter; Apple, YouTube raise prices; Samsung S22 smartphones add Astrophoto mode; Apple announces new Apple TV and iPad; Amazon Fire Tablet 8 review; Duolingo Math App; recapping my Japan trip and hiring a "vacation photographer."Viewers ask whether Facebook Messe ...  Show more

0:00 TGIF 0:07 Windows Arm Qualcomm exclusivity 1:18 Xbox bundles + metaverse 2:45 AMD upping Radeon prices? 3:56 Made In Cookware 4:41 QUICK BITS 4:50 Tesla using FSD footage 5:15 Fairphone 2 gets Android 10 5:45 Tile acquired 6:23 Turn down the 5G 6 ...  Show more

The Verge's Nilay Patel, David Pierce, and Alex Cranz discuss the next Apple event, a Twitter successor, and Windows Phone regrets. Further reading: Apple plans ‘Scary Fast’ product event just before Halloween Apple’s future AirPods roadmap just leaked, and big changes are coming ...  Show more