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Sam Altman to return as OpenAI’s CEO
Just days after he was fired by the OpenAI board, Sam Altman is set to return to the firm he
Spotify’s new royalty scheme picks the winners
Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge This is Hot Pod, The Verge’s newsletter about podcasting and the audio industry.
GameMaker ditches subscription model for indie developers
Image: Devolver Digital Christmas has come early for indie / solo game developers. GameMaker, the game engine software program used
Starting from behind: EU vies to gain ground in green tech race
STRASBOURG — The race to control the technology of tomorrow is on, and Europe is desperately playing catch-up. The European
OpenAI rival Anthropic makes its Claude chatbot even more useful
Anthropic gives Claude more abilities. | Image: Anthropic While OpenAI is in the middle of an existential crisis, there’s a
Bad business is breaking the smart home — good regulation can fix it
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Business arrangements and opaque contracts have broken the pitch of the smart home. Better
Binance criminal settlement could include a $4 billion fine and CEO’s guilty plea
Nick Barclay / The Verge Binance owner and CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao has agreed to step down and plead guilty
A24’s Dream Scenario is a shapeshifting parable about our obsessions with viral fame
Nicolas Cage as Paul Matthews. | Image: A24 Writer / director Kristoffer Borgli’s Dream Scenario capitalizes on Nicolas Cage’s status
The World Press Photo Contest’s updated AI rules help define what a modern photograph is
“Here, The Doors Don’t Know Me” by Mohamed Mahdy (pictured) was the winning Open Format entry in 2023. | Image: