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Spotify celebrates its 20th anniversary with a Wrapped-like experience that features “never-before-shared data” going back to when users first joined Spotify (www.theverge.com)
2026-5-12 Spotify

Venmo is implementing a major privacy update to set new users' posts to “friends only” by default during onboarding; in 2021, a reporter found Joe Biden's Venmo (www.theverge.com)
2026-5-12

OpenAI launches Trusted Contact, an optional safety feature for ChatGPT that lets adult users assign an emergency contact for mental health and safety concerns (www.theverge.com)
2026-5-8

Spotify launches Save to Spotify, a command-line tool that allows AI agents to upload generated audio summaries and personal podcasts to a user's account (www.theverge.com)
2026-5-8 AI Spotify

Musk v. Altman: Mira Murati testifies that Sam Altman lied to her about the safety standards for a new OpenAI model and that he made her work more difficult (www.theverge.com)
2026-5-7

Google updates AI Mode and AI Overviews to add “a preview of perspectives” from firsthand sources like social media and Reddit, presented as “Expert Advice” (www.theverge.com)
2026-5-6 Google AI Reddit

Sources: in a reshuffle, LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky will lead Microsoft's new Work Experiences Group, including Teams, after 35-year veteran Rajesh Jha retired (www.theverge.com)
2026-5-6 Microsoft LinkedIn

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma says Xbox “will begin winding down Copilot on mobile and will stop development of Copilot on console” as part of a strategic shift (www.theverge.com)
2026-5-6 Mobile Xbox

Meta is using AI on Facebook and Instagram to detect under-13 users by analyzing bone structure, height, and visual cues, but says it's “not facial recognition” (www.theverge.com)
2026-5-5 Facebook AI Instagram Facial Recognition

Q&A with Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi on his plan to make Uber an everything app, Uber's AI integrations, investing in autonomous cars, and more (www.theverge.com)
2026-5-5 Uber AI Autonomous Car

How music streaming services are adapting to the rise of AI-generated music by labeling, deranking, and demonetizing tracks, using AI detection tools, and more (www.theverge.com)
2026-5-4 AI

Google is rolling out Gemini to cars that have Google built-in, replacing Google Assistant, starting with English in the US (www.theverge.com)
2026-5-1 Google

Netflix starts rolling out its new Clips vertical video feed as a separate tab in the UK, the US, Canada, Australia, India, and four other countries (www.theverge.com)
2026-4-30 Australia India Netflix Canada

Instagram is expanding its recommendation restrictions beyond Reels to photos and carousels, targeting accounts that post unoriginal content like tweet roundups (www.theverge.com)
2026-4-30 Instagram

Microsoft reports Q3 Xbox hardware revenue fell 33% YoY and Xbox content and services revenue, which includes Game Pass, dropped 5% YoY (www.theverge.com)
2026-4-30 Microsoft Xbox

YouTube CEO Neal Mohan says YouTube TV is getting “fully customizable” multiview, letting users pin up to four live streams, after a limited rollout in 2023 (www.theverge.com)
2026-4-29 YouTube

Google launches Ask YouTube, a conversational AI search “experiment” that generates pages with videos and text summaries, for Premium users in the US aged 18+ (www.theverge.com)
2026-4-28 Google AI YouTube

Canva says it “moved quickly to investigate and fix” an issue with its Magic Layers feature that replaced the word “Palestine” in designs, after a viral X post (www.theverge.com)
2026-4-28

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma and Chief Content Officer Matt Booty detail their “return of Xbox” strategy, including daily active players as its “new north star” (www.theverge.com)
2026-4-24 Xbox

GPT-5.5 is rolling out to Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise users in ChatGPT and Codex, and GPT-5.5 Pro to Pro, Business, and Enterprise users in ChatGPT (www.theverge.com)
2026-4-24

At a town hall, Asha Sharma said Microsoft is returning to using Xbox for its gaming division, instead of Microsoft Gaming, as “Xbox needs to be our identity” (www.theverge.com)
2026-4-24 Microsoft Xbox

A look at Microsoft's recent wave of executive departures, as it struggles to retain talent and changes its annual rewards and performance programs in response (www.theverge.com)
2026-4-24 Microsoft

Microsoft announces the first voluntary retirement program in its 50-year history, for US staffers whose combined years of service added to their age totals 70+ (www.theverge.com)
2026-4-24 Microsoft

Anker announces Thus, a compute-in-memory chip it says will bring on-device AI to its products and accessories, starting with its upcoming Soundcore earbuds (www.theverge.com)
2026-4-22 AI

OpenAI releases ChatGPT Images 2.0 with new “thinking capabilities”, allowing it to search the web to help it create multiple images from a single prompt (www.theverge.com)
2026-4-22

Microsoft cuts Xbox Game Pass Ultimate price from $29.99 to $22.99/month and PC Game Pass from $16.49 to $13.99, but both tiers won't get new Call of Duty games (www.theverge.com)
2026-4-22 Microsoft Xbox

Q&A with Canva CEO Melanie Perkins on the company's growth in enterprise, competing with AI labs, token pricing, investing in its own models, and more (www.theverge.com)
2026-4-21 AI

Huawei launches the Pura X Max, a passport-style foldable with a 5.4-inch cover display and a 7.7-inch internal display, in China, starting at ~$1,613 (www.theverge.com)
2026-4-20 China

Q&A: Ronan Farrow on his Sam Altman profile in The New Yorker, how Altman changed in 18 months of reporting, OpenAI's board drama and enterprise shift, and more (www.theverge.com)
2026-4-17

Meta is increasing the price of the Quest 3 by $100 to $599.99 and both Quest 3S models by $50 to $349.99 for 128GB and $449.99 for 256GB, starting April 19 (www.theverge.com)
2026-4-17

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