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DayOne was spun out from Shanghai-based GDS Holdings in 2022 and rebranded in January 2025 after separating from its parent.

This is an excerpt of Sources by Alex Heath, a newsletter about AI and the tech industry, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. Sam Altman has tapped Mikhail Shapiro, an award-winning biomolecular engineer, to join the Merge Labs brain-computer interface startup he’s set to announce soon with co-founder Alex Blania. While Shapiro’s…

While the world's leading artificial intelligence companies race to build ever-larger models, betting billions that scale alone will unlock artificial general intelligence, a researcher at one of the industry's most secretive and valuable startups delivered a pointed challenge to that orthodoxy this week: The path forward isn't about training bigger — it's about learning better….

From price increases to apps going away, a Warner Bros. Discovery sale could have big implications for consumers. One of Hollywood’s crown jewels is on the block: Warner Bros. Discovery, the parent company of HBO, CNN, and major movie franchises like Harry Potter and the DC Universe, officially confirmed this week that it is open…

The tech layoff wave is still kicking in 2025. Last year saw more than 150,000 job cuts across 549 companies, according to independent layoffs tracker Layoffs.fyi. So far this year, more than 22,000 workers have been the victim of reductions across the tech industry, with a staggering 16,084 cuts taking place in February alone. We’re…

Other investors included Bright Pixel, StageOne Ventures, Cardumen, Signals VC, and Zoom, which is also a customer.

I use a DJI Osmo Pocket 3 every single week to help film Today I’m Toying With, and I love it to pieces. The baby steadicam’s one of the most popular gadgets the company’s ever sold, because it’s so good at automatically capturing stabilized video of whatever I want, far better than a phone. What…

In a striking act of self-critique, one of the architects of the transformer technology that powers ChatGPT, Claude, and virtually every major AI system told an audience of industry leaders this week that artificial intelligence research has become dangerously narrow — and that he's moving on from his own creation. Llion Jones, who co-authored the…

Despite mounting trade tensions, China intends to remain a global manufacturing power while building stronger economic growth at home. China‘s leaders are vowing to reduce reliance on foreign advanced technology and spur stronger domestic demand as it weathers “high winds” amid elevated trade tensions with the U.S.

An investigation by EU regulators has found TikTok and Meta in breach of the Union’s rules concerning illegal or harmful online content. The European Commission (EC) said on Friday that preliminarily findings show both companies are not complying with Digital Services Act (DSA) rules that require them to give researchers adequate access to public data….