Toys “R” Us riles critics with “first-ever” AI-generated commercial using Sora

AI-generated commercials are here, and critics are displeased—but human work is still key.

SCOTUS: White House can keep yelling at Facebook about covid misinfo, for now

Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos via Getty Images On Wednesday, the Supreme Court issued its decision in Murthy v. Missouri , a case spurred by conservative state attorneys general about whether the Biden administration illegally coerced social media

The Verge: Policy • 3h

Oops, a Meta ‘error’ limited political content on Instagram and Threads

Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge After Democratic strategist Keith Edwards urged Threads users to check the Instagram setting limiting political content from people they don’t follow, many people noticed theirs had abruptly changed. Journalist Taylor Lorenz

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The RIAA versus AI, explained

Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo from Getty Images Udio and Suno are not, despite their names, the hottest new restaurants on the Lower East Side. They’re AI startups that let people generate impressively real-sounding songs — complete with instrumentation and vocal

The Verge: Policy • 6h

Kathmandu is making taxi drivers switch to EVs. Not all drivers can afford one

The Xpres-T, made by Indian carmaker Tata, is the only EV approved for use as a taxi in Nepal. It costs $27,000 — several years’ income.

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VW to invest up to $5bn in Tesla rival Rivian

Shares in the US-based electric truck and SUV maker jumped by almost 50% after the announcement.

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Researchers upend AI status quo by eliminating matrix multiplication in LLMs

Running AI models without floating point matrix math could mean far less power consumption.

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EFF Welcomes Tarah Wheeler to Its Board of Directors

Wheeler Brings Perspectives on Information Security and International Conflict to the Board of Directors SAN FRANCISCO—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is honored to announce today that Tarah Wheeler — a social scientist studying international conflict, an author, and a

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