Trump summoned tech leaders to the White House on Wednesday, March 4, 2026 to sign pledges committing their companies to foot the electricity bill for energy-hungry data centers.  | Photo: Getty Images Leaders from Google, Meta, Microsoft, Oracle, OpenAI, Amazon, and xAI met with President Donald Trump today to sign a "rate payer protection pledge." It's one way they're responding to growing bipartisan concerns about electricity rates rising as tech companies and the Trump administration rush to build out a new generation of AI data centers. "[Tech companies] need some PR help because people think that if a data center goes in, their electricity prices are going to go up," Trump said during the event. "Some centers were rejected by communities for that and now I think it's going to be the opposite."Trump signed a proclamation formally …Read the full story at The Verge.

John Abbamondi had orders to let the CEO of Ticketmaster down easy.In April 2021, Abbamondi was the CEO of BSE Global, the company that ran Brooklyn arena the Barclays Center. BSE Global's existing Ticketmaster contract would expire at the end of September, and Abbamondi and his team had evaluated proposals from SeatGeek, AXS, and Ticketmaster. The economics of Ticketmaster offer, according to Abbamondi, "was nowhere near as good as the other two." SeatGeek's technology was "superior" to Ticketmaster's on balance, on top of better financial terms including an equity stake in the company, the arena decided. It clinched their decision to go …Read the full story at The Verge.

How in-depth do you think a vibe-coded app can go in terms of features and complexity? Depending on who you'd ask, you'd likely get different replies. Fans of AI programming will likely predict that programmers will end up more as AI wranglers than coders, while critics will point to vibe coding's high bugginess rate and lack of security measures.

Your smart TV likes to pretend that it's capable of running apps like a smartphone or PC, but it's more than likely horrifically underpowered, both in terms of software and hardware. I have a Samsung RU7100 from 2019, making it almost seven years old at this point. It's not ancient by any means, but it's notably behind the trend compared to newer screens. Still, this entry-level smart TV offered some impressive specs and experience at a reasonable price, and we decided to pick up the 65-inch model for the living room. Unfortunately, it turned out to be not that smart.

Whenever my gaming friends tell me that HDR looks bad on Windows, I usually ask a simple follow-up question: "Did you actually calibrate it?" Most of the time, the answer is no. And honestly, I get it. HDR on Windows isn't exactly all that straightforward, even though it seems that way in the settings app. You flip the HDR toggle, expecting cinematic highlights and deeper contrast, and instead get a washed-out desktop, making you wonder if it's all worth the trouble for a couple of HDR videos or a handful of supported games.

Non-plant related construction broke ground at the Wyoming facility in June 2024. | Image: TerraPower Bill Gates-founded nuclear energy startup TerraPower has been granted approval from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to build a next-generation reactor in Wyoming. This is the first commercial-scale, advanced nuclear power plant to ever receive the federal permit, according to the press release, and will be the first commercial reactor constructed in the US in almost a decade.Construction at the Wyoming plant is expected to be completed by 2030. TerraPower is one of several companies racing to build smaller, more efficient reactors to augment electrical grids under strain from AI data centers. In a 2024 interview with The Verge, Bill Gate …Read the full story at The Verge.

I’ve been using Google Translate for a long time, and honestly, I never had any major issues with it. It’s fast, accurate, and easy to use. But as I started self-hosting more tools in my workflow, I began wondering if I could move translation in-house as well.

The Headphone A keep the shape and style of Nothing’s over-ear design, but with an opaque instead of transparent case. After the release of the Headphone 1 last year - Nothing's first over-ear headphones - the company is back with the Headphone A. They're a slimmed-down over-ear option that keep the Nothing design aesthetic and excellent controls while decreasing the weight and bumping battery life up to a maximum of 135 hours. There are some concessions - middling call quality and a carrying bag instead of a case - but they're also cheaper at $199. The Headphone A makes more sense to me than the Headphone 1 ever did, and are a great second offering from Nothing.The Headphone A's design is incredibly similar to the Headphone 1's. Each earpiece has the same …Read the full story at The Verge.

OpenAI is launching GPT-5.4, the latest version of its AI model that the company says combines advancements in reasoning, coding, and professional work involving spreadsheets, documents, and presentations. It's also OpenAI's first model with native computer use capabilities, meaning it can operate a computer on your behalf and complete tasks across different applications.The new model is a step toward the agentic future that AI companies are aiming to build, where a network of AI-powered agents operates in the background to complete complex jobs online and within software. OpenAI introduced ChatGPT Agent amid a flurry of other agentic tool …Read the full story at The Verge.

How far would you trust an AI assistant with your passwords? On one hand, they are programmed to be your loyal digital assistant and likely won't use your credentials to shop for RAM on Amazon to upgrade themselves. On the other hand, it just feels wrong from a cybersecurity point of view. If someone can fool an AI to spit out your passwords without you knowing, they can do some serious damage.

A screenshot of the Call of Duty footage in the White House’s video. On Wednesday, the White House posted a video of actual military strikes on Iran in the style usually seen in Call of Duty highlight videos, and started the video with a clip from Call of Duty. The real-life footage of missiles and other munitions hitting targets in Iran shows clips seen in other Trump administration videos, like this one posted to the U.S. Central Command X account.Courtesy of the Red, White & Blue. pic.twitter.com/kTO0DZ56IJ- The White House (@WhiteHouse) March 4, 2026As noted by The Washington Post's Drew Harwell, the animation at the start appears to be from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III when a player activates a …Read the full story at The Verge.

Today Nothing has revealed the 4A and 4A Pro, its latest midrange phones. The two look startlingly different from one another, with varying designs and Glyph Light interfaces. The Pro is especially striking: it's the first Nothing phone to almost entirely abandon the brand's trademark transparent design.I'm currently at Nothing's launch event in London, where I'm about to get my first look at the 4A Pro in person, so stay tuned for hands-on impressions coming up shortly.The 4A Pro, which will go on sale in the US later this month, adopts a metal unibody design instead of the usual clear plastic. In a press release the company claims that …Read the full story at The Verge.