Microsoft is officially announcing its new Xbox Mythic Achievements today, and they're already available for Xbox Insiders to test. Mythic Achievements work a lot like Sony's PlayStation Platinum trophies and are unlocked once you've earned every original achievement for a game."Mythic Achievements have already been added to eligible games you completed in the past, including Xbox 360 titles," says the Xbox team. "The next time you visit your profile, you may discover that some of your favorite games have already reached Mythic status."Xbox profiles will soon include a new gaming tab that lets you track Gamerscore milestones and Mythic A …Read the full story at The Verge.

Image: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images As President Donald Trump prepares to meet tech and AI CEOs in Washington, Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) is calling for a treaty between the US and China to keep AI from wreaking havoc on the world. But wrangling leaders in both countries to take action could be a long shot.In letters shared exclusively with The Verge, Khanna - the top Democrat on the House Select Committee on China and a possible presidential contender - asked a US intelligence agency and Chinese AI companies whether they would be prepared for an incident like OpenAI agents' hack of Hugging Face this summer. The companies included DeepSeek, Alibaba, and Moonshot AI, all of which …Read the full story at The Verge.

As Anthropic gears up for its greatly anticipated public debut, a preview of the company's IPO filing reportedly details its mounting losses, leadership proposals to retain power, and how its AI development plans could "further increase the risk that our models cause harm." These disclosures come as Anthropic eyes a $2 trillion valuation, more than double the $965 billion it was valued at four months ago, making it a contender to overtake SpaceX as the largest IPO in history.According to Reuters, which reportedly reviewed Anthropic's prospectus, the AI startup plans to spend $518 billion on cloud, computing, and infrastructure obligations …Read the full story at The Verge.

Vibe coding tools have made building small apps pretty easy and more accessible than ever. All it takes is writing a prompt, technically. But I'd argue that the workspace you're in matters more than the ideas you have, because you'll eventually need to learn how to iterate, what a codebase is, and potentially how to publish your build. And the vibe coding tool you're using determines the quality of this experience.

Like Muse, OpenAI’s Dots are represented by cute, customizable avatars. | Image: OpenAI OpenAI is responding to Meta's buzzy Muse AI with agentic helpers of its own: Dots. During its DevDay keynote on Tuesday, OpenAI announced that Dots will serve as always-on AI assistants that can "do nearly anything" across connected apps in the background while learning your preferences over time.The company's capable GPT-6 Astra model powers Dots, which use their own cloud computer to access a web browser and more than 4,000 supported apps. You can interact with a Dot through a text-message-like interface that's similar to the one offered by Muse, as well as hop on a voice call with it from ChatGPT on the web, desktop, or mobile. Dots ca …Read the full story at The Verge.

Razer’s DeathStalker V2 Pro is discounted in both black and white. | Image: The Verge Woot has the Razer DeathStalker V2 Pro TKL on sale for $130, a significant discount from its usual $219.99 price point. This keyboard is built for competitive gaming, with a low latency 2.4GHz wireless connection, and low-profile linear optical switches for faster activations that require a lighter touch than regular mechanical switches. The TKL layout cuts the numpad, but affords you more desk space for your mouse.Razer DeathStalker V2 Pro TKLWhere to Buy: $219.99 $129.99 at WootRazer claims the battery will last up to 200 hours with the RGB lighting off, or up to 50 hours with the lights at half brightness. If you’re interested in staying wired, or using the keyboard wirelessly with other devices, it has both USB-C and Bluetooth connectivity. You can also enable Snap Tap (Razer’s term for Simultaneous Opposing Cardinal Directions, or SOCD), which lets you quickly swap between two keys for strafing in first person shooters, for example, although it’s worth nothing that Valve has banned the tech in Counter-Strike 2.Other deals to considerThe remastered version of The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt just released, and a number of retailers are celebrating with discounts. While the list price is $49.99, PC gamers can grab the game for $24.99 at Steam, GOG, and Epic Games, with discounts available for the Xbox and PlayStation versions as well. The remastered version includes visual upgrades, tweaks to progression and skills, and both DLC entries: Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine.Best Buy has the third-generation Amazon Fire TV Cube discounted to $89.99, just over half off its usual price of $199.99. This square streamer supports 4K video with Dolby Vision and HDR, Dolby Atmos audio, and hands-free Alexa controls. With a processor that Amazon claims is twice as powerful as the Fire TV Stick 4K Max, it’s also a great option for Xbox Cloud Gaming.Costco members can grab the Fellow Stagg EKG electric kettle for $99.99, a $30 discount from the usual price. I use this gooseneck kettle for my morning espresso, and I’m constantly impressed by its excellent temperature control and quick heating, and it adds a stylish touch to my coffee station.

You hear it all the time: Modern cars are basically smartphones on wheels. And just like the phone in your pocket, the car in your driveway collects vast amounts of data - tracking where you drive, how fast you accelerate, how hard you brake, how aggressively you turn, and much more.The legality of this data harvesting remains hotly debated. Last year, the Federal Trade Commission penalized General Motors for illegally collecting and selling precise location and driving behavior data without informed consent. Other automakers, like Ford and Honda, have faced minor fines for making it overly difficult for customers to opt out. While industr …Read the full story at The Verge.

On Tuesday, OpenAI's annual DevDay event began with protests, flyers, and chants. "Sam Altman, get off it, put people over profit," said a group of protesters marching in a circle in front of a series of signs that spelled out "PEOPLE OVER PROFIT." More than a dozen organizations came together to sponsor a rally outside the entrance to the event venue at San Francisco's Fort Mason, including Bay Resistance, Tech Workers Coalition, Service Employees International Union, San Francisco Rising, and the San Francisco Labor Council. A large orange sign read "Drop the ICE contract." Multiple people dressed in cardboard robot costumes waved cardbo …Read the full story at The Verge.

For weeks, I had been plagued by random crashes in one of my favorite games, and nothing about my system had changed. The symptoms of these crashes would vary between full system lockups, a sudden game freeze and closure, and even BSODs. Because nothing about my system had changed, I figured it was just the game itself acting up, but then the crashing started happening during desktop tasks as well, and I knew the cause was something deeper.

"The chance of human extinction is about a coin flip, in my view," Geoffrey Irving, a former OpenAI and Google DeepMind employee, said in a new interview. It's one of a dozen interviews with AI researchers, including current and former employees at OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic. Palisade Research, which says it's a nonprofit studying AIs' capabilities and motivations, collected and launched the interviews on frominside.ai. Several of the researchers joined Irving in warning about the possibility AI could drive humans extinct. Neel Nanda, a Google DeepMind research scientist, said there's "at least a 10 percent chance that it causes human e …Read the full story at The Verge.

John Ternus, Apple's new CEO, wants Apple to launch products more often than its usual splashy moments in the fall and the spring, according to a Bloomberg report detailing some of Ternus's initial plans for the company.Apple regularly holds iPhone launch events in September and often announces products later in the year and in springtime, but "Ternus has indicated that Apple must introduce products more quickly and become more experimental to remain competitive in the artificial intelligence era," Bloomberg says. The shift may not happen right away given Apple's "long-established" development practices. Apple is rumored to have a consider …Read the full story at The Verge.

The Snipping Tool on Windows is one of the most useful built-in apps Microsoft makes. I never used to touch it, but since it got modernized in Windows 11, it's become a very solid option for taking screenshots and recording my screen. Occasionally, though, it can become buggy and not work as intended, so I set out to replace it.