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AI deepfakes are a train wreck and Samsung’s selling tickets

  • Technology
  • Sean Hollister
  • Feb 27, 2026

On Thursday morning, I attended a Q&A panel with four top Samsung smartphone executives. Until 2025, Samsung was the world's largest smartphone manufacturer, and by association, the world's largest ma...

FedEx promises to refund customers for ‘illegal’ tariffs

  • Technology
  • Emma Roth
  • Feb 27, 2026

FedEx plans to pass along any refunds resulting from the Supreme Court's ruling that some of President Donald Trump's tariffs are "illegal." In a statement on its website, FedEx notes that while "no r...

Amazon’s Fire TV Stick 4K Plus gets a better interface and a 40 percent discount

  • Technology
  • Sheena Vasani
  • Feb 27, 2026

When Amazon first showed off its redesigned Fire TV OS at CES, we were impressed. It’s faster, better organized, and feels similar to Google’s top-notch TV interface. The update is now finally rolling...

Paramount and Warner Bros' deal is about merging studios, and a whole lot more

  • Business
  • David Folkenflik
  • Feb 27, 2026
  • US

The nearly $111 billion marriage would unite Paramount and Warner film studios, streamers and television properties — including CNN — under the control of the wealthy Ellison family.

AI vs. the Pentagon: killer robots, mass surveillance, and red lines

  • Technology
  • Stevie Bonifield
  • Feb 27, 2026

Can AI firms set limits on how and where the military uses their models? Anthropic is in heated negotiations with the Pentagon after refusing to comply with new military contract terms that would requ...

Woot’s ‘Video Games for All’ sale features some of our favorite games

  • Technology
  • Cameron Faulkner
  • Feb 27, 2026

There’s a sale happening at Woot that’s delivering Black Friday-esque deals on video games through March 5th. The “Video Games for All” sale includes discounts on physical games for most modern consol...

We don’t have to have unsupervised killer robots

  • Technology
  • Hayden Field
  • Feb 27, 2026

It's the day of the Pentagon's looming ultimatum for Anthropic: allow the US military unchecked access to its technology, including for mass surveillance and fully autonomous lethal weapons, or potent...

The US military reportedly shot down a CBP drone with a laser

  • Technology
  • Emma Roth
  • Feb 27, 2026

The US military mistakenly shot down a drone belonging to Customs and Border Protection near the Mexican border in Fort Hancock, Texas, according to reports from Reuters and The New York Times. The Th...

Here’s your first look at Kratos in Amazon’s God of War show

  • Technology
  • Andrew Webster
  • Feb 27, 2026

Amazon has slowly been teasing out casting details for its live-action adaptation of God of War, and now we have our first look at the show. It's a single image but a notable one showing protagonist K...

The Galaxy S26 is a photography nightmare

  • Technology
  • David Pierce
  • Feb 27, 2026

In many ways, Samsung's new phones are fairly normal upgrades. The S26 lines come with some useful new things - particularly the Privacy Display on the S26 Ultra, which looks like an extremely cool bi...

Pokémon Winds and Waves launch on the Switch 2 in 2027

  • Technology
  • Charles Pulliam-Moore
  • Feb 27, 2026

It's time to say goodbye to the Paldea region because a new generation of mainline Pokémon games are on the way. During today's big Pokémon Presents stream, Nintendo announced that Pokémon Wind and Wa...

Huel tries to solve the ‘burden’ of eating

  • Technology
  • Victoria Song
  • Feb 27, 2026

This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent every Friday from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they're going to change your life...