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Mark Zuckerberg says Threads users will soon be able to send direct messages to each other without having to leave the platform, adding a separate inbox for DMs (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/684120/threads-direct…

Threads is finally getting DMs
Threads will soon test its own private messaging system that’s distinct from Instagram’s, starting in Hong Kong, Thailand, and Argentina.

Apple adds a 3x playback option for podcasts in iOS26, an Enhance Dialogue tool to hear speech more clearly, and a puzzle game for Apple News Plus subscribers (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/684708/apple-podcasts-speed-news-emoji-game…

Apple turns up the speed on Podcasts and adds a new emoji game to News
Apple will let users listen to podcasts at up to 3x speed in the Podcast app, and Apple News Plus subscribers will be able to play a new Emoji Game.

HP unveils Dimension, the first hardware built with Google's 3D video conferencing tech, featuring a 65-inch light field display, launching in 2025 for $25,000 (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/684859/hp-dimension-google-b…

HP reveals $24,999 hardware created just for Google Beam
HP has revealed the first third-party hardware built using Google’s 3D video conferencing technology, Beam. The HP Dimension costs $24,999 and features a 65-inch light field display to create a “true-to-life” 3D video of your caller.

Sam Altman claims an "average" ChatGPT query uses about 0.34 watt-hours and about 0.000085 gallons of water, or "roughly one fifteenth of a teaspoon" (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/685045/sam-altman-average-cha…

Sam Altman claims an average ChatGPT query uses ‘roughly one fifteenth of a teaspoon’ of water
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, in a blog post published Tuesday, says an average ChatGPT query uses about 0.000085 gallons of water, or “roughly one fifteenth of a teaspoon.”

OpenAI says it is "working on implementing a mitigation" to a ChatGPT, Sora, and API issue causing "elevated error rates", starting at around 3am ET (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/684141/openai-chatgpt…

ChatGPT is having some issues
OpenAI’s ChatGPT service is currently down for some users after the platform started experiencing performance issues on Tuesday morning.

The Browser Company launches Dia, a macOS browser in beta for Arc users based around an AI chat sidebar that can access tabs, history, and logged-in sites (David Pierce/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/web/685232/dia-browser-ai-arc

The Dia browser is a big bet on the web — and an even bigger bet on AI
Dia uses a simple interface and a chatbot that lets you chat with tabs and get more done. It’s a big bet that AI is the future of the internet.

macOS Tahoe 26 hands-on: Liquid Glass is slick but slightly overwrought, and the new Spotlight search features are nifty and useful, but fall short of Raycast (Antonio G. Di Benedetto/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/apple/685052/appl

Hands on with macOS Tahoe 26: Liquid Glass, new theme options, and Spotlight
macOS Tahoe 26 developer beta 1 is here, with our first glimpse at Liquid Glass on the desktop, plus the first glimmers of Spotlight’s big new moves.

Amazon's Ad Video Generator, a free tool to create gen AI ads and depict items as they would be used in the real world, is now available for sellers in the US (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/685160/amazon-ads-…

Amazon is about to be flooded with AI-generated video ads
Amazon Ad’s Video Generator has some new tricks and is now generally available in the US to create “photorealistic video assets” in five minutes or less.

Amazon says over 1M people now have access to Alexa , up from "hundreds of thousands" in May, and plans to "make it even more broadly available over the summer" (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/684560/amazo

More than a million people now have Alexa Plus
Amazon’s generative AI-powered smart voice assistant launched in March and is slowly reaching more homes.

Meta adds AI video editing tools to the Edits app and Meta AI, letting users edit up to 10 seconds of a video with 50 preset prompts, free for a "limited time" (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/685581/meta-video-editing-ai-pre…

Meta’s new AI video tool can put you in a desert (or at least try to)
Meta is rolling out new AI video editing tools that lets you change the theme of your video, change the background, or even transform what you’re wearing.