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Q&A with OpenAI VP and Head of ChatGPT Nick Turley on ChatGPT's future, showing ads in chatbots, hallucinations, GPT-5 blowback, 4o, subscriptions, and more (Alex Heath/The Verge)

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Is Weapons a misogynist movie? The "hagsploitation" accusations, explained

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The Verge’s 2025 back-to-school shopping guide

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How bending works in the Magic: the Gathering Avatar set

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Google Flights can help you book a trip when you don’t know where to go

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How to beat the Libra Everdark boss fight in Elden Ring Nightreign

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Microsoft is getting ready to return to the office

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Google launches Flight Deals, an AI tool within Google Flights to let users find fares using natural language queries, in beta in the US, Canada, and India (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

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Is streaming about to have a Wordle moment?

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Ex-Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal launches Parallel Web Systems to build infrastructure for AI agents to search the web, raising $30M from Khosla Ventures and others (Bloomberg)

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Elon Musk’s gangster tech regulation comes for Apple

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Sola, which wants AI agents to automate businesses' repetitive tasks, raised $21M, including a $3.5M seed led by Conviction and a $17.5M Series A led by a16z (Emma Hinchliffe/Fortune)

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Verge readers can get a $25 exclusive discount on the Boox Palma 2

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Philips Hue’s new bridge could turn your lights into motion sensors

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How Europe can win the battle for tech talent

The Next Web

Toronto-based Cohere raised $500M led by Radical and Inovia at a $6.8B valuation, up from $5.5B in July 2024, and has doubled its ARR to $100M so far in 2025 (George Hammond/Financial Times)

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Cohere hires Joelle Pineau, who previously led Meta's FAIR lab, as Chief AI Officer, to oversee AI strategy across Cohere's research, product, and policy teams (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)

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The head of ChatGPT won’t rule out adding ads

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You can pivot this wireless smartphone power bank to charge an Apple Watch, too

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The head of ChatGPT on AI attachment, ads, and what’s next

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