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Disney Plus tries a new AI-powered search

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Jay Peters • August 7, 2026 Disney’s AI tools for Disney Plus and ESPN. Disney is testing a new AI-powered tool for Disney Plus that uses a natural language search, a voice query, or a suggested prompt to create a customized row of show and movie recommendations. Disney Plus, like other streaming services, can recommend

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OpenAI puts the brakes on a new model because it’s supposedly too powerful

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Jay Peters • August 7, 2026 OpenAI says it is pausing “internal activities” around an in-development AI model, Astra, because it doesn’t yet meet new security standards the company is putting in place. The announcement follows its recent disclosure that OpenAI models accidentally hacked Hugging Face. Anthropic and Meta have also since admitted that they

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The only instant cameras worth your money

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Sheena Vasani • August 7, 2026 There’s something magical about using instant cameras that smartphones can’t match. You can capture a moment, print it out, and then give the photo as a gift or hold onto it. Image quality won’t be all that good, but imperfections are part of the allure. We tested instant camera

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The gaming site sponsored by Walmart lays off its editorial staff

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Jay Peters • August 7, 2026 Restart, a games media website launched in late 2024 that was sponsored by Walmart, has laid off its “entire editorial team,” according to a Friday post from Brandy Berthelson, the site’s former editor-in-chief. Other staffers have also posted about being laid off. Restart is operated by Moonrock, a content

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Fenix Flexin isn’t even denying using AI to make ‘Rubberz’ anymore

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Terrence O’Brien • August 7, 2026 That cover art is almost certainly AI too. | Image: Fenix Flexin It took long enough, but now LA rapper Fenix Flexin appears to have admitted using AI for the 80s synth pop-themed song “Rubberz.” His comments follow the producer Medasin’s videos claiming that an AI tool called Treblo

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Watching Roku’s AI channel is like eating from a trough

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Charles Pulliam-Moore • August 7, 2026 The appeal of free ad-supported streaming television (FAST) channels has always been the way they make it easier to (re)discover classic films and series. But Roku’s latest experiment in the FAST space has less to do with traditionally produced entertainment and is entirely focused on giving viewers access to

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Nitecore’s latest power bank is the lightest and most compact yet

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Thomas Ricker • August 8, 2026 The Nitecore NB10000 Gen 4 power bank is a great option for endurance athletes and backpackers. | Photo by Thomas Ricker / The Verge There’s two things you should know about me, your intrepid reviewer: I hate the feature creep associated with modern power banks, and I love shaving

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AI isn’t enough to protect social media communities from AI

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Scharon Harding • August 6, 2026 Sometimes you have to fight fire with fire. But when it comes to AI slop and hateful content threatening the safety and value of social media platforms, adding more fire—in this case, more AI—can make the problem worse. At its best, social media can be a haven for people

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The Download: Google’s AI shake-up and Meta’s rogue model

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Thomas Macaulay • August 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. Google’s AI empire is being reshaped. Here’s what’s changed. After a wave of painful losses in the tech talent wars, delays to its next flagship

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Parasitic zombie-ant fungus thrives in mosses, too

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Jennifer Ouellette • August 6, 2026 The parasitic fungi in the Cordyceps genus are a favorite subject of nature documentaries. They’ve also infiltrated popular culture via the zombie-apocalypse video game The Last of Us (2013) and its TV adaptation, in which a parasitic fungus mutates to infect humans. Scientists are keen to study Cordyceps to

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