The animated VTuber Ironmouse won Content Creator of the Year at the Game Awards

This year at the Game Awards, the coveted Content Creator of the Year award went to Ironmouse, a fan-favorite VTuber. It marks the first time that an animated character has won the award, showing how…

An ‘AI’ fast food drive-thru is mostly just human workers in the Philippines

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Artificial intelligence-powered drive-thru company Presto Automation described itself as “one of the largest labor automation technology providers in the industry,” and boasted its ability to increase sales and…

Navigating 2024: The impact of interest rate plateau on financial startups

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Google’s AI note-taking app is now available to users in the US

Illustration: The Verge NotebookLM, Google’s experimental AI-powered note-taking app, is now widely available in the US. It’s also getting several new features and is “starting” to use Google’s Gemini Pro AI model “to help with…

Ex-Uber CSO Joe Sullivan on why he ‘had to get over’ shock data breach conviction

Before joining Uber as chief security officer in 2015, Joe Sullivan served for two years as a federal prosecutor with the United States Department of Justice, where he specialized in computer hacking and IP issues.…