OpenAI has allegedly been trying to poach Google employees to work on its own search product offering. | Illustration: The Verge OpenAI is reportedly gearing up to announce a search product powered by artificial intelligence on Monday that could threaten Google’s dominance. That target date, provided to Reuters by “two sources familiar with the matter,” would time the announcement a day before Google kicks off its annual I/O conference, which is expected to focus on the search giant’s own AI model offerings like Gemini and Gemma.This new rumor tracks with earlier reports from both Bloomberg and The Information that also suggest OpenAI is developing an AI-based product capable of searching the internet. According to Bloomberg, OpenAI’s search feature will be built into its ChatGPT chatbot and include citations, while The Information reports OpenAI’s search service... Continue reading…

Microsoft places a lot of emphasis on Teams as its premier app for online communication and collaboration, both in personal and enterprise environments. However, it still updates Skype on a regular basis too, which is a bit confusing considering that the two services directly compete with each other in core areas. If you think that two competing services offered by the same company are too many, gear up to be reminded of a third one, as Microsoft has now updated its GroupMe messaging app, offering a Windows 11 flavor with Copilot integration too.

The Riffgat offshore wind farm, around 15 kilometers north of the island of Borkum. | Photo: Getty Images Data centers and offshore wind farms could prove to be a perfect pair as AI grows increasingly energy-hungry. Many of the companies racing to roll out new generative AI tools have also made big commitments to rein in their greenhouse gas emissions. A rush of new AI data centers could throw those climate goals off — unless they find a clean source of energy.Conveniently, some of the quirks with AI data centers make them a good match for wind farms at sea. And the offshore wind industry, which has already cozied up with Big Tech, could certainly use a boost as it looks ahead to more uncertain economic waters.“Data centers and AI ... We are excited about that opportunity,” Mads Nipper, CEO of leading offshore wind developer Ørsted, said... Continue reading…

OpenAI has been teasing that it has some new technology cooking for quite a while, and GPT-5 has been long-teased with that. In a surprising twist, though, OpenAI is poised to announce a new AI-powered search product on Monday, Reuters has reported. This announcement is said to be scheduled a day before Google's I/O conference, maybe even as a calculated preemptive strike against the search behemoth's expected assortment of AI innovations.

If you have a NAS, you're probably already aware of how useful they can be. I built one recently using an old PC and already use it to host a media server, a Minecraft server, and Pi-hole DNS filter for my home. However, some of those things (like the media server) you may want to access from outside your home, but it's not immediately obvious how you would do that.

Stanford’s holographic AR glasses prototype. | Image: Andrew Brodhead / Stanford A research team at Stanford is developing a new AI-assisted holographic imaging technology it claims is thinner, lighter, and higher quality than anything its researchers have seen. Could it take augmented reality (AR) headsets to the next level? For now, the lab version has an anemic field of view — just 11.7 degrees in the lab, far smaller than a Magic Leap 2 or even a Microsoft HoloLens. But Stanford’s Computational Imaging Lab has an entire page with visual aid after visual aid that suggests it could be onto something special: a thinner stack of holographic components that could nearly fit into standard glasses frames, and be trained to project realistic, full-color, moving 3D images that appear at varying depths. ... Continue reading…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft has been talking about plans for an Xbox mobile gaming store for a couple of years now, and the company now plans to launch it in July. Speaking at the Bloomberg Technology Summit earlier today, Xbox president Sarah Bond revealed the launch date and how Microsoft is going to avoid Apple’s strict App Store rules.“We’re going to start by bringing our own first-party portfolio to [the Xbox mobile store], so you’re going to see games like Candy Crush show up in that experience, games like Minecraft,” says Bond. “We’re going to start on the web, and we’re doing that because that really allows us to have it be an experience that’s accessible across all devices, all countries, no matter what and independent of the policies of closed... Continue reading…

From midsized and midrange stars to big, beefy monsters, these are the best technically portable gaming rigs you can get. Continue reading…

YubiKeys are one of the best ways to secure your online life. Widely adopted by enterprise and consumers alike since their launch in the late nineties, these hardware tokens can help take two-factor authentication (2FA) away from your vulnerable mobile phone, while also offering the peace of mind that a physical key provides. But support for YubiKeys is not ubiquitous, and while many important apps and websites offer FIDO YubiKey support, not all do. Luckily, there's another way to go about using them.

That’s a skinny XPS. | Image: Windows Report Want a look at Dell’s new notebook lineup that’s apparently powered by Qualcomm’s upcoming Snapdragon X Elite processors? Courtesy of Windows Report, these leaked images come ahead of Microsoft’s May 20th event where new Surfaces (and other laptops) are expected to sport the same chips.They unsurprisingly look like laptops — albeit with overall slimmer profiles.The most interesting model is Dell’s new XPS 13 9345, which seems to be a sleeker rebirth of the XPS 13 Plus from 2022. It’s got the same touchy touch-bar on the top row and comes with only two USB-C ports for I/O. Image: Windows Report Dell XPS 9345 Image: Windows Report Dell Inspiron 14 7441 Plus There’s also a leaked... Continue reading…

The Windows operating system has existed for over 40 years, and in that time, it's obviously evolved a lot, and it looks radically different from what debuted in 1983. But not every part of Windows can be abandoned or replaced when a new version releases, and sometimes, old code can be left lingering around for years or even decades.

Despite the AirPods Max making its initial debut four years ago, it's still one of the best headphones you can buy if you're an Apple device user. Not only do the headphones look fantastic, but they also provide sound great too. Plus, it features top-tier ANC capabilities, along with support for Apple's Spatial Audio.