The boys are back for their fifth and final season. Thursday, Prime Video dropped the official trailer for the upcoming season of The Boys. In the new teaser, Homelander (Antony Starr) is chasing immortality through the use of V-One, the first reiteration of Compound-V, the serum which produces supes. The trailer also confirms that Gen…
Grant Gee is not a fan of music biopics. “You can tell from the work I’ve done in the past I’m really interested in musicians and how their lives interact with their art,” says Gee, whose filmography includes acclaimed documentaries on iconic British bands — Meeting People Is Easy (1998), about Radiohead, and Joy Division…
The Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson will receive an honorary Palme d’Or in recognition of his life’s work at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Cannes announced the honor on Thursday, praising the New Zealand filmmaker for “a body of work that blends Hollywood blockbusters and films d’auteur with extraordinary artistic vision and technological…
In a bid to stave off a major investigation by the European Commission, Meta said on Thursday that it would allow AI companies to offer their chatbots on WhatsApp via its business API for the next 12 months in Europe. The move comes a month after the European Commission told Meta that it intended to…
Roblox is using AI to alter the content of chat messages on its platform in real time using a new feature rolling out today. Real-time chat rephrasing goes beyond the current filtering for banned language, which replaces certain words and phrases with “#” symbols. Now, Roblox says those words and phrases can be “translated into…
Google “at least” $50 million through 2030 on “projects designed to eliminate superpollutants.” The company will be joined by a handful of other companies including Amazon and Salesforce in the newly formed . In total, these companies have committed $100 million to the project, hoping to “accelerate the reduction” of superpollutants like methane, black carbon…
The Canadian government says that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has agreed to take steps to immediately strengthen safety protocols, . This follows a at a high school in which OpenAI and suspended his account, but did not alert authorities. These changes look to primarily involve law enforcement, with commitments to notify police about potentially suspicious…
Meta’s AI-powered smart glasses could be sending sensitive footage to human reviewers in Nairobi, Kenya, according to an investigation by the Swedish outlets Svenska Dagbladet and Göteborgs-Posten. The report, which was published last week, claims Meta contractors in Kenya have seen videos captured with the smart glasses that show “bathroom visits, sex and other intimate…
Tinder-owner Match Group announced on Thursday that it will eliminate the role of chief operating officer (COO), which means Hesam Hosseini will be out of a job after 18 years with the dating app giant. The move comes as the dating-app industry is facing burned-out users and losing popularity among Gen Z. Hosseini had been…
This is Lowpass by Janko Roettgers, a newsletter on the ever-evolving intersection of tech and entertainment, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. I still remember the first time I tried the kids edutainment system Osmo back in 2014: I was sitting in front of an iPad, placed vertically on a white iPad…
