In our second annual trend forecast, The Verge staff weighs in on Labubus, tariffs, The Hague, and AI slop.

Elemental co-writers Kat Likkel and John Hoberg set out to tell a story about romantic and familial love — not just one about watery racism and fiery bigotry.

The Threads team at Meta has spent the past year working on supporting the broader fediverse and social web, and is launching ...

Several writers have launched a lawsuit against Microsoft over claims it used a collection of nearly 200,000 pirated books to ...

The service is also revealing the top 500 most-streamed songs from the last decade.

Former Polygon guides writers Ryan Gilliam and Jeffrey Parkin have launched Big Friendly Guide, a new video game guides-focused site that they own.

Substack is teaming up with the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) to offer legal assistance to writers “targeted” by the US government.

Books written by humans are getting their own certification Books not created by AI will be listed in a US Authors Guild database that anyone can access.

We asked the staff of The Verge what their favorite reads were in 2024. Their answers ranged from fantasy and science fiction to histories of engineering and clothing.

Language models like ChatGPT are known to hallucinate pretty badly, and this has led to real outlets like the Chicago Sun-Times printing a summer reading list full of fake books.

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Google is rolling out its AI search summaries to more than 100 additional countries, including Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and many more.