Jury Selection Set to Start March 25 in Donald Trump's NY 'Hush Money' Trial

Illustration by Erik Carter Thanks to AI‚ rote tasks are ripe for automation. But is that really a good thing? Continue reading…

Gemini is still new — and it’s already getting an upgrade. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Barely two months after launching Gemini‚ the large language model Google hopes will bring it to the top of the AI industry‚ the company is already announcing its successor. Google is launching Gemini 1.5 today and making it available to developers and enterprise users ahead of a full consumer rollout coming soon. The company has made clear that it is all in on Gemini as a business tool‚ a personal assistant‚ and everything in between‚ and it’s pushing hard on that plan. There are a lot of improvements in Gemini 1.5: Gemini 1.5 Pro‚ the general-purpose model in Google’s system‚ is apparently on par with the high-end Gemini Ultra that the company only recently launched‚ and it bested Gemini 1.0 Pro on 87 percent of benchmark tests. It was... Continue reading…

Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Meta said Thursday that it will start charging a 30 percent fee when advertisers pay to boost the visibility of their posts in Facebook’s and Instagram’s iOS apps. The change‚ which goes into effect later this month‚ stems from a 2022 App Store update where Apple extended its typical 30 percent cut of digital purchases to boosted posts‚ which are essentially ads. The change particularly targeted Meta and other social apps that let people pay in app to increase the reach of their content. Meta notes in a statement shared with The Verge that small business owners and influencers who want to purchase a boost on iOS will now be billed through Apple‚ “which retains a 30% service charge on the total ad payment‚ before any applicable taxes.” M... Continue reading…

Illustration: The Verge Our new Thursday episodes of Decoder are all about deep dives into big topics in the news‚ and for the next few weeks‚ we’re going to stay focused on one of the biggest topics of all: generative AI. There’s a lot going on in the world of generative AI‚ but maybe the biggest is the increasing number of copyright lawsuits being filed against AI companies like OpenAI and Stability AI. So for this episode‚ we brought on Verge features editor Sarah Jeong‚ who’s a former lawyer just like me‚ and we’re going to talk about those cases and the main defense the AI companies are relying on in those copyright cases: an idea called fair use. All the big generative AI models from every company are tried on huge swaths of data that are scraped from... Continue reading…

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A missile strike on the Russian city of Belgorod near the Ukraine border Thursday killed six people‚ including a child‚ and injured 18 others‚ a Russian official said. It was the latest in exchanges of long-range missile and rocket fire in Russia's war on Ukraine.

Donald Trump said Russian President Vladimir Putin gave him "a great compliment" by saying he preferred President Joe Biden over the former president.

Fewer Americans filed for jobless claims last week as the labor market continues to show resilience in the face of elevated interest rates intended to cool economic growth in the U.S.

CBS News is being criticized for firing veteran correspondent Catherine Herridge this week after sources said she had hit "internal roadblocks" with her coverage of the Hunter Biden laptop story.