Couple allegedly tricked AI investors into funding wedding, houses
The founder of an AI startup in San Francisco was indicted this week for allegedly conspiring with his wife for six years to defraud investors out of $60 million. According…
Anthropic builds RAG directly into Claude models with new Citations API
On Thursday, Anthropic announced Citations, a new API feature that helps Claude models avoid confabulations (also called hallucinations) by linking their responses directly to source documents. The feature lets developers…
Nvidia starts to wind down support for old GPUs, including the long-lived GTX 1060
Nvidia is launching the first volley of RTX 50-series GPUs based on its new Blackwell architecture, starting with the RTX 5090 and working downward from there. The company also appears…
WHO starts cutting costs as US withdrawal date set for January 2026
The World Health Organization has begun cost-cutting measures in preparation for a US withdrawal next year, according to reporting by Reuters. On his first day in office, President Trump signed…
3D-printed “ghost gun” ring comes to my community—and leaves a man dead
It’s a truism at this point to say that Americans own a lot of guns. Case in point: This week, a fire chief in rural Alabama stopped to help a…
This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through January 25)
These were our favorite articles in science and tech this week. Open-Source DeepSeek-R1 Uses Pure Reinforcement Learning to Match OpenAI o1—at 95% Less Cost Shubham Sharma | VentureBeat “Based on…
The Surprising Longevity of Electric Vehicles: They Now Live as Long as Gas-Powered Cars
Analysis of 29.8 million cars found the median EV lasts 124,000 miles—8,000 more than a gasoline car. One of the biggest barriers to widespread adoption of electric vehicles is concern…
Millions of Subarus could be remotely unlocked, tracked due to security flaws
About a year ago, security researcher Sam Curry bought his mother a Subaru, on the condition that, at some point in the near future, she let him hack it. It…
Samsung’s thin, big, boring AI phones
Image: The Verge Samsung’s new phones will almost certainly be the most popular Android phones of 2025. They’ll probably also be among the best Android phones of 2025. And yet…
Microsoft is closing its British flagship store in London
Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge Microsoft says it’s shutting down its UK “experience center” in London next month, nearly six years after it first opened as a 21,000-square-foot…