David Bahnsen discusses OpenAI scaling back its fundraising target. Bahnsen warns Taylor Riggs that OpenAI’s $1.25 trillion valuation is insanely high for a company projected to lose money with no positive free cash flow for nearly a decade. Former Army Secretary Dan Driscoll is joining the artificial intelligence company OpenAI in a national security-related role,…
What’s on your mind right now? You can probably answer this question without thinking too hard about it. Being aware of our own thought processes — a capacity called introspection — seems to come naturally to us. Yet among philosophers and psychologists, introspection is a subject of active debate. Some think it’s closely related to…
This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they’re going to change your life. Opt in for Optimizer here. “How does that make you feel?” I get asked this a lot in therapy. Plenty of life events, big and…
Kenny Polcari discusses the historical S&P 500 performance following midterm elections. He predicts the stock market will be higher in 12 months, continuing a trend seen in every midterm cycle since World War II. Democrats’ takeover of both chambers of Congress in the midterm elections drew mixed reactions from investors and business leaders Wednesday, with…
On Tuesday, Apple rolled out a potentially controversial set of Audio Intelligence features into testing with the first developer beta versions of iOS 27.3 and watchOS 27.3. The betas bring four new AI features that allow Apple Watch Series 12 wearers to detect important sounds, identify songs, catch up on conversations, and take notes. After…
OpenAI (OPAI.PVT) and Meta (META) could buy 320 million AMD (AMD) shares for a penny apiece. That’s $3.2 million for stock worth about $155 billion, and AMD just got its first bill for the deal. The chipmaker beat Wall Street’s estimates on Tuesday, with record data center sales of about $8.5 billion, nearly double a…
World of Warcraft: Forever, a re-imaginging of the legendary MMO, comes out Wednesday. The idea is to recapture the feeling of discovery and wonder players had when adventuring across its world for the first time back in 2004. But 2026 is a very different time. Subreddits dedicated to the game are already overrun with AI-generated…
The US Capitol in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2026. Aaron Schwartz | Bloomberg | Getty Images Artificial intelligence stocks came under pressure overnight as Democrats — seen as proponents of data center moratoriums — won big in midterm elections, with a key victory in the gubernatorial race in Texas, a key tech…
Key Findings Enterprise AI deployment spend scaled to $177B by September 2026, up from $33B last year. Growth is accelerating: 5.4x vs. 3.9x a year ago. Every dollar that went into developing models this year is generating $1.70 of revenue. Agents changed the math: OpenRouter agent traffic is up 37x since overtaking human traffic in…
A photograph showing thousands of satellites cross-hatching the night sky over New Zealand appeared so extraordinary the astrophotographer who captured it is fighting accusations it was created by AI. To create his spectacular image – now viewed millions of times online – Brendan Larsen spent two hours in September snapping hundreds of photographs of the…