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Microsoft’s next Xbox, Project Helix, won’t reach alpha until 2027

Jay Peters • March 11, 2026 We’re here at the 2026 Game Developers Conference, where Microsoft “VP of Next Generation” Jason Ronald is talking about a topic near and dear to many gamers’ hearts: the future of Xbox. Ronald says the next Xbox, codenamed Project Helix, will have a custom AMD chip with “an order

Valve says it will fight New York’s loot box lawsuit

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Emma Roth • March 11, 2026 Valve wants players to know that it plans on fighting New York Attorney General Letitia James’ lawsuit, which last month accused the company of promoting “illegal gambling” through its in-game loot boxes. In an email sent to Counter-Strike 2, Dota 2, and Team Fortress 2 players in New York,

Grammarly says it will stop using AI to clone experts without permission

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Stevie Bonifield • March 11, 2026 Superhuman says it has disabled Grammarly’s “expert review” AI feature that said its edit suggestions were “inspired by” real writers, including our editor-in-chief and other Verge staff members. “After careful consideration, we have decided to disable Expert Review as we reimagine the feature to make it more useful for

The Live Nation settlement has industry insiders baffled

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Lauren Feiner • March 11, 2026 Instead of moving forward with a jury trial against Live Nation-Ticketmaster as expected, the Justice Department announced a settlement Monday that omitted what used to be on the top of its wish list: a breakup. What the DOJ did get was a series of concessions that some industry stakeholders

Some of the best horror games ever made are included in Humble’s latest $15 bundle

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Cameron Faulkner • March 11, 2026 Humble has teamed up with Frictional Games for a new bundle of PC games that pushed the horror genre forward. The bundle includes the Penumbra Collectors Pack, all four Amnesia titles (The Dark Descent, A Machine for Pigs, The Bunker, and Rebirth), and Soma, which I consider to be

One of Grammarly’s ‘experts’ is suing the company over its identity-stealing AI feature

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Stevie Bonifield • March 11, 2026 Journalist Julia Angwin is one of the writers whose likeness was used in Grammarly’s “expert review” feature. | Photo: Eóin Noonan / Sportsfile via Getty Images For months, Grammarly has been using the identities of real people (including us) for its “Expert Review” AI suggestions without getting their permission,

iPhone Fold rumor: iPad-like multitasking, but no iPad apps and no Face ID

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Emma Roth • March 11, 2026 The folding iPhone might come with an inner display the size of an iPad Mini, according to Bloomberg. Apple’s rumored foldable iPhone will come with an iPad-style interface that will allow users to view apps side-by-side, according to a report from Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman. Gurman also reports that the

Iran-linked cyber attack targets US medtech giant Stryker

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Jess Weatherbed • March 12, 2026 This marks Iran’s first significant cyberattack against the US since the war started. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images US medical equipment provider Stryker said its global networks were disrupted by a cyberattack on Wednesday, allegedly carried out by a hacking group linked to Iran. The

The Download: 10 things that matter in AI, plus Anthropic’s plan to sue the Pentagon

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Thomas Macaulay • March 6, 2026 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. Coming soon: our 10 Things That Matter in AI Right Now For years, MIT Technology Review’s newsroom has been ahead of the curve, tracking the

Is the Pentagon allowed to surveil Americans with AI?

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Michelle Kim • March 6, 2026 The ongoing public feud between the Department of Defense and the AI company Anthropic has raised a deep and still unanswered question: Does the law actually allow the US government to conduct mass surveillance on Americans? Surprisingly, the answer is not straightforward. More than a decade after Edward Snowden