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OpenAI launches Frontier, an AI agent management platform that provides shared context, onboarding, and permission boundaries, available to select customers (Robert Hart/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/874…

OpenAI Frontier is a single platform to control your AI agents
OpenAI launches its Frontier platform to manage AI agents for enterprises. 

Interviews with Anthropic executives and other tech industry leaders and engineers about Claude Code's success, which some say has been a long time coming (Hayden Field/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/report/874308/anthropic-claude-code-opus-hype-moment

Claude has been having a moment — can it keep it up?
“Now you’re just like, ‘Here’s the magic castle. Build it.’ And it gets done.”

Filing: Zuckerberg considered changing how Meta studies social issues after a WSJ story about Instagram and teen mental health, noting Apple faces less scrutiny (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/report/874176/meta-zuckerberg-new-me…

Zuckerberg considered changing how Meta studies social issues after research got it in trouble
In an email newly unsealed as part of the New Mexico Attorney General’s case against Meta, CEO Mark Zuckerberg discussed tradeoffs of researching its platforms’ harms.

Meta unveils teleprompter and EMG handwriting features for Meta Ray-Ban Display and expands Pedestrian Navigation for the glasses to four new US cities (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/856422/meta-ray-ban-display-emg-handwritin…

Meta is adding a teleprompter and virtual writing to its Ray-Ban Display glasses
The Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses are getting support for a few new features, including EMG handwriting with Meta’s neural band and a built-in teleprompter.

A look at the informal economy of rogue streaming box resellers, who sell hardware that offers free access to sports games, cable TV, and streaming services (Janko Roettgers/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/streaming/873416/piracy-streaming-boxes

Everyone is stealing TV
Rogue streaming boxes like SuperBox and vSeeBox are flooding the United States. They are being embraced by consumers fed up with ever-increasing subscription costs.

Researchers claim that prompts framed as riddle-like poems could skirt AI chatbots' safety features designed to block production of explicit or harmful content (Robert Hart/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/report/838167/ai-chatbots-can-be-wooed-…

AI chatbots can be wooed into crimes with poetry
New research suggests riddle-like poems are remarkably effective at circumventing AI safety features. 

Nvidia announces native apps for its GeForce NOW cloud gaming service for select Linux distributions and Amazon Fire TV sticks, available in early 2026 (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/854688/nvidias-geforce-now-is-getting…

Nvidia’s GeForce Now is getting native Linux and Fire TV apps
Nvidia is launching new GeForce Now apps for Linux and Amazon’s Fire TV devices. It’s also adding flight control support to its streaming service.

Nvidia launches the Vera Rubin platform, saying it will offer dramatic reductions in inference and training costs compared to Blackwell, across six new chips (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/855412/nvidia-launches-ve…

Nvidia launches Vera Rubin AI computing platform at CES 2026
Nvidia launched its new Vera Rubin computing architecture today at CES 2026, claiming it delivers more computing power at a lower cost than Blackwell.

Samsung upgrades its Family Hub refrigerators with AI features, such as voice control to open and close the door and Gemini-powered AI Vision to track inventory (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/853758/shut-the-fridge-door

Shut the fridge door!
Voice control opening and closing comes to Samsung’s Family Hub smart fridges.

Xreal partners with Asus to unveil ROG Xreal R1 gaming glasses with 1080p micro-OLED displays and a 240Hz refresh rate, launching in H1 2026 (Cameron Faulkner/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/848256/asus-rog-xreal-r1-smart-glasses-specs-release…

Asus ROG’s next ally is Xreal, with 240Hz AR glasses coming in 2026
Xreal and Asus announced the ROG Xreal R1 AR glasses at CES 2026. These gamer-focused glasses support USB-C video and include a dock with HDMI and DisplayPort.