Nvidia is now a $1 trillion company thanks to the AI boom

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Nvidia has just become a $1 trillion company, with its rising valuation fueled by tech companies big and small racing to add generative artificial intelligence tools to their products. AI tools made up the vast bulk of recent Google I/O and Microsoft Build presentations, and Nvidia’s chips make it More...

League of Legends esports players voted ‘overwhelmingly’ for a walkout
Photo by Colin Young-Wolff / Riot Games Players in the North American League of Legends esports league have voted to walk out in protest of Riot Games’ decision to no longer require franchises to field More...

WhatsApp is working on usernames and screen sharing
Image: The Verge WhatsApp is developing a number of new features, including usernames and screen sharing, as reported by WABetaInfo. The username feature was spotted in the beta version 2.23.11.15 for More...

Watch this Nvidia demo and imagine actually speaking to AI game characters
Image: Nvidia At Computex 2023 in Taipei, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang just gave the world a glimpse of what it might be like when gaming and AI collide — with a graphically breathtaking rendering of a cyberpunk More...

Quest 3 hands-on confirms Meta’s building a ‘far thinner and lighter’ headset
The Quest 3 will improve on the Quest 2 (pictured above) in many important ways. | Photo by Owen Grove / The Verge A hands-on look at the Meta Quest 3 reveals a massive set of improvements to the Meta More...

A lawyer used ChatGPT and now has to answer for its ‘bogus’ citations
OpenAI’s ChatGPT is a lot of things, but a lawyer it is not. | Illustration: The Verge Lawyers suing the Colombian airline Avianca submitted a brief full of previous cases that were just made up by ChatGPT, More...

Apple’s $50 million butterfly keyboard settlement is finally approved
People who owned MacBooks with butterfly keyboards will now get paid. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge The $50 million settlement over Apple’s bad butterfly keyboard design got final approval by a More...

Somebody cracked Windows XP activation for offline use
Windows lives on. | Image: Microsoft The activation algorithm for Windows XP has, incredibly, finally been completely cracked, allowing for totally offline activation, according to The Register (via Ars More...

Google’s Magic Compose beta is here — but it sends your messages to Google
Image: Google Google has finally started to roll out the beta of Magic Compose, its new Messages feature that uses AI to help you write text messages. However, as pointed out by Android Police, the feature More...

Taylor Swift’s new song was a CD-only exclusive — that didn’t last long
Photo by Scott Eisen / TAS23 / Getty Images for TAS Rights Management Nobody is faster with news and updates — or more prepared for something to happen — than fans of pop artists. But Taylor Swift More...