Blizzard Entertainment president Mike Ybarra and Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer at BlizzCon 2023. | Photo by Robert Paul for Blizzard Entertainment Mike Ybarra is confident about the studio’s future. Continue reading…

Apple's 24-inch iMac (M3, 2023) is easily one of the best Macs out there in 2023. The much-needed 2023 iMac refresh brings the company's latest silicon chip and faster Wi-Fi to the table, improving an already excellent desktop computer for those who prefer a stationary setup for working from home. I just wish the new 24-inch iMac had more ports, because the current selection is quite limited. You really only have a couple of Thunderbolt ports and a headphone jack, just like its predecessor. It's nothing a Thunderbolt dock can't solve, though, and there are plenty of them available on the market right now.

Apple’s second-gen AirPods Pro are often on sale. If you know where to look, there are often some great discounts available on Apple’s ever-popular AirPods. Since Apple launched the third-gen AirPods toward the end of 2021, we’ve seen the starting price of the second-gen, entry-level model slowly dip to around $100. And now that the second-gen AirPods Pro has been on the market for a year, we’re also seeing their price fall more often, too. With Black Friday quickly approaching, we’re starting to see a number of great deals trickle in — including those on the new AirPods Pro with USB-C. We’ll likely see even steeper discounts as we get closer to the main event, too, which is why we’ve started tracking the best early Black Friday deals. In the meantime, however, here are the best deals... Continue reading…

Apple's all-new M3 chips have finally been announced, and the refreshed M3 iMac looks to be an excellent value. However, the Mac Mini also got an update in 2023, and as the most affordable Mac computer around, many are wondering if the Mini is worth considering over the iMac. So, should you go for the all-in-one or a compact mini-PC?

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge One hundred million people are using ChatGPT on a weekly basis, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced at its first-ever developer conference on Monday. Since releasing its ChatGPT and Whisper models via API in March, the company also now boasts over two million developers, including over 92 percent of Fortune 500 companies.OpenAI announced the figures as it detailed a range of new features, including a platform for building custom versions of ChatGPT to help with specific tasks and GPT-4 Turbo, a new model that has knowledge of world events up to April 2023 and which can fit the equivalent of over 300 pages of text in a single prompt.ChatGPT was widely seen as the fastest-growing consumer internet app of all time after its launch nearly a... Continue reading…

Illustration: The Verge The GPT platform is a no-code way to make custom AI agents for all sorts of tasks, and it’s available exclusively for ChatGPT Plus subscribers. Continue reading…

Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge TikTok’s $1 billion creator fund will come to an end on December 16th, 2023, the company told users today. Creators in the US, UK, Germany, and France will no longer be able to monetize their content through the original fund, TikTok spokesperson Maria Jung says. TikTokers in Italy and Spain aren’t affected by the change.The creator fund was originally introduced in 2020, with the company promising to pay out $1 billion over the course of three years to people making the app’s viral content. Along the way, influencers and other content creators have noted the low payouts — sometimes just a few dollars for millions of views — making it impossible to earn a living through the creator fund alone. TikTok didn’t respond to questions about... Continue reading…

Just weeks after Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 launch, MediaTek is here with the Dimensity 9300 with some surprising changes. Not only does it buck the trend of having three CPU clusters, it packs four big Cortex-X4 cores and four Cortex A720 cores, too. Even crazier is that MediaTek is going big on AI, promising Stable Diffusion generation of under one second and support for LLMs of up to 33 billion parameters.

Illustration: The Verge OpenAI announced more improvements to its large language models, GPT-4 and GPT-3.5, including updated knowledge bases and a much longer context window. The company says it will also follow Google and Microsoft’s lead and begin protecting customers against copyright lawsuits. GPT-4 Turbo, currently available via an API preview, has been trained with information dating to April 2023, the company announced Monday at its first-ever developer conference. The earlier version of GPT-4 released in March only learned from data dated up to September 2021. OpenAI plans to release a production-ready Turbo model in the next few weeks but did not give an exact date.GPT-4 Turbo is cheaper to run for developersGPT-4 Turbo will also “see” more data,... Continue reading…

The iPhone 15 has been one of the most intriguing smartphone releases this year. With a 6.1-inch OLED display and top-tier performance with the A16 Bionic chip, it ensures seamless multitasking and an overall smooth smartphone experience. The big changes this year include significantly slimmer display bezels, a USB-C charging port, and a better peak brightness of 2,000 nits.

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Sony is terminating its X (formerly Twitter) integrations for PS5 and PS4, meaning you soon won’t be able to post screenshots and clips to X from those consoles.“As of November 13, 2023, integration with X (formerly known as Twitter) will no longer function on PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 consoles,” Sony said in a support message on its website. “This includes the ability to view any content published on X on PS5/PS4, and the ability to post and view content, trophies, and other gameplay-related activities on X directly from PS5/PS4 (or link an X account to do so).” Wario64 posted a screenshot of a similar message on Threads that appears to have popped up on a PS5 console.Sony didn’t elaborate on why it’s cutting off its X... Continue reading…

The Marvel Spotlight logo. | Image: Marvel Studios In an effort to help viewers understand which of its spinoff projects will have significant connections to the larger Marvel Cinematic Universe and which are really meant to work as standalone stories, Marvel’s rolling out a new kind of branding just in time for its upcoming Echo series.Ahead of Echo’s debut on both Disney Plus and Hulu, Marvel announced today that it will be the first series to arrive under the studio’s new Marvel Spotlight banner: the brand consisting of all the MCU’s spinoffs that, while set in the same universe where the Avengers exist, are not required watching to understand what’s happening in the next Avengers movie, for example.Speaking to Marvel.com, Marvel’s head of streaming, Brad Winderbaum, likened the... Continue reading…