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Google is inviting third-party agents, including Claude and Open Claw, into Google Home. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge Google is opening up its smart home to AI agents, letting tools like Claude and Open Claw access and control your conne…

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Claude is getting a pair of new tools today: Docs and Slides.

Security researcher Matthew "Zigula" Gore-Kormanik was analyzing a fraudulent dating app called Dora when he got a pop-up message saying he was receiving a call from Jennifer.

USB-C-connected video glasses are a lot of fun if you want to see your games, movies (or just your computer screen) on a large, immersive virtual screen.

Ice cold. | Photo: Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Last week, Apple announced an iPhone unlike any it has made in the past.

Nintendo has gotten quite good at making open-ended games.

Over the past few days, a lot of people who stand to make a lot of money from AI all publicly agreed that it's time to make everyone slow down before we lose control - including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Google DeepMind cofounder…

Meta may be ready to reveal a new pair of smart glasses with no camera at all, amid a PR crisis for the company caused by the video recording capabilities of its flagship smart glasses.

Nearly two years after the last update to Boox's smartphone-sized black-and-white e-reader, the company announced the Palma 3 with a sleek redesign, new functionality, and a handful of other small updates that may justify its significant price bump depend…

Canon announced the second-generation of its EOS R8 with a new retro-inspired redesign and the addition of in-body stabilization.

Poll data released Tuesday by the New York Times and Siena University confirms what we've already been seeing, and what politicians are responding to - AI and data centers are incredibly unpopular.

It's been more than two years since the last major Windows event, so Microsoft is heading to San Francisco next month to outline the future of Windows and Surface devices.

Two years ago, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt released his New York Times bestseller The Anxious Generation.

You may not know it, but minivans are making a comeback in the US.

The Centauri Carbon 2 stores the filament on the outside to fit the bowden tube in the build space. | Image: The Verge If the high price tag of premium 3D printers have kept you from exploring the hobby, this deal is a great entry point.

Whether you played it in the back of your classroom or on your computer at home, if you were a kid in the last 30 years you almost certainly grew up playing The Oregon Trail.

There are a lot of movies that have tried to seamlessly integrate modern tech - text messages, livestreams, etc. - into their storytelling.

Shortly after launching its new do-everything AI assistant Muse, Meta's launching subscription bundles that pair its standalone app subscriptions with extra AI usage.

More than a decade after its Kickstarter proposed a "cell phone designed to be used as little as possible," Light is adding a direct connection to Uber and Lyft with a new Rideshare tool.

Fujifilm announced a follow-up to its tiny and quirky Instax Pal camera that debuted three years ago bundled with an instant printer.

The new SimpliSafe Video Doorbell Series 2 adds 2K resolution and dual band Wi-Fi. | Image: Simplisafe DIY home security company SimpliSafe is bringing its AI-powered proactive security feature to the front door.

The AirPods 5 earbuds and case look identical to the AirPods 4.

Voicemod announced a new mobile device that expands the capabilities of the Voicemod Key dongle it launched in late 2024 as a way to bring the company's real-time voice changing tech to consoles.

General Motors is polishing up the software experience in its bestselling trucks in an effort to reduce the amount of dangerous tapping and swiping that's required to access the most-used controls.

Microsoft has started rolling out an emergency out-of-band update to fix problems with its record-breaking September patch Tuesday update.

Most plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV) today get an average of around 30-50 miles of battery-only range: decent, but not mind-blowing.

Now that Valve has finally launched its entire 2026 hardware lineup - the Steam Controller, the Steam Machine, and today's Steam Frame - are we any closer to a next-gen Steam Deck handheld?

When OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Google DeepMind cofounder Demis Hassabis, and SpaceX head Elon Musk loosely agreed over the weekend to slow down AI development, skeptics spotted an ulterior motive immediately.

New Apple Intelligence features for HomeKit cameras start at $10 a month and go up to $60. | Image: The Verge With the public release of iOS 27 and tvOS 27, Apple Home is getting an injection of Apple Intelligence - but you'll have to pay more for it.

Dario Amodei kicked off a flood of statements over the past few days about AI safety by publishing a long essay titled "We Must Pace the Frontier" detailing why AI development should be slowed down.

The Environmental Protection Agency announced its plans today to kill any remaining standards on how much greenhouse gas pollution power plants are allowed to emit in the US.

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang speaks during the G20 Innovation Ministerial in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, on September 2, 2026.

The Steam Frame headset is here, and it may not surprise you: it was supposed to cost less than $1,059.

Super Mario Odyssey is among the discounted games. | Image: Nintendo As promised, Nintendo has marked down a wide variety of Switch games and accessories at Amazon, Best Buy, and Walmart, as well as its own digital storefront.

If you want an idea of what’s next in film, the Toronto International Film Festival is a good place to start.

Apple released macOS 27 Golden Gate on Monday, which brings the new Siri AI assistant, Liquid Glass improvements, improved performance, and more.

The iOS 27 update arrives just in time for the iPhone 18 Pro release. | Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge Apple is now rolling out its iOS 27 update to compatible devices today, alongside the watchOS 27, iPadOS 27, and visionOS 27 updates.

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Today, Valve is launching its first headset since 2019 - the new Steam Frame - while dodging our questions about whether it'll ever make another VR game to go with it.

Valve is finally releasing its Steam Frame headset, which can run both flat and VR games locally and stream both kinds of games from your PC.

For nearly three weeks, I've been testing the limits of Valve's Steam Frame, the company's new wearable PC.

Netflix has announced three new adaptations of Sega games: a Crazy Taxi film, a Sonic animated series "built for kids who want to feel a little edge," and a live-action movie based on the upcoming Stranger Than Heaven from Yakuza developer RGG Studio.

No, that's not a Tesla Cybercab.

Apple’s iPhone 18 Pro will release this Friday, September 18th, and it’s tough to see it as just a coincidence that Google’s latest Pixel phones are discounted.

Today, I’m joined by comedian, podcast host, and YouTuber Adam Conover.

It makes sense that Musk is a long film.

Microsoft is publishing a 37-page "humanist AI code of conduct" today, amid growing safety concerns over AI model progress.

Demonstrators hold a banner against Flock security cameras during a protest outside the G20 Innovation Ministerial in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, US, on Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2026.