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Can Apple Home’s AI camera features outsmart Amazon’s and Google’s? I put them to the test

Apple Intelligence has arrived on HomeKit Secure Video. Here’s how its new features compare with Ring and Nest.

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
Jess Weatherbed
Jess Weatherbed
Photoshop and Lightroom tools are now in Gemini.

After bringing its plugin to ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, and Slack, Adobe’s app is now available in Google’s chatbot too. Just tag “@Adobe” in Gemini with your request after installing the plugin, and it’ll surface the best Creative Suite tools for editing photos, generating marketing designs, and more.

an image illustrating Adobe tools arriving in Gemini.
Adobe is aggressively expanding it’s creative tool suite to third-party platforms.
Image: Adobe
Insta360 conquered 360 cameras — now it’s eyeing glasses

The Chinese brand has 73 percent of the worldwide 360 camera market. What’s next?

Sean Hollister
Jess Weatherbed
Jess Weatherbed
Get ready for The Witcher 3 remaster.

11 years after the game first launched, the free upgrade for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt hit RPG includes improved visuals, combat mechanics, UI designs, and more. It’s rolling out on September 29th, and you can now check the release map below for the exact global availability timings. Happy hunting!

A global release map for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — Remastered.
Mark your calendars for the exact release time in your region if you’re as excited as I am to jump back into Redania.
Image: CD Projekt Red
Thomas Ricker
Thomas Ricker
Zuck wants everyone to know, he doesn’t need everyone to know he’s jacked.

The NYT takes a look at Mark Zuckerberg’s style metamorphosis from “robotic coder in a gray hoodie to fashion-conscious bro next door.” Unlike, say, the newly buff Jeff Bezos who loves a tight tee, Zuck is trying to find 20 polo-collared shirts with boxier ’fits favored by MMA fighters.

“That’s like a fun thing to go do, right? […] Everyone knows I’m in really good shape, so I don’t need to show my muscles.”

He’s also experimenting with “fun shorts.”
He’s also experimenting with “fun shorts.”
Bloomberg via Getty Images
Thomas Ricker
Thomas Ricker
Silicon Valley’s power ranking.

If you want to know where the power in tech currently lies, you only need to look at this photo of the head table at Donald Trump’s state dinner for Chinese President Xi Jinping. I see Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, AMD’s Lisa Su, Apple’s Tim Cook, and SpaceXaiTesla’s Elon Musk seated by the leaders of the world’s two superpowers. The CEOs and / or founders of Alphabet (Google), OpenAI, Microsoft, Amazon, Qualcomm, Micron, Dell, and… Zoom, were also in attendance.

Xi Jinping, China’s president, speaks during the state dinner.
Xi Jinping, China’s president, speaks during the state dinner.
Bloomberg via Getty Images
Thomas Ricker
Thomas Ricker
The US backs Elon Musk in fight to overturn €120M EU fine.

Trump officials filed a motion to support X’s appeal, arguing the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA) enforcement overreached when levying the fine last December, and unfairly targets American tech platforms while threatening digital free speech and global market operations.

“The European Commission inappropriately attempted to expand its regulatory authority to reach American companies not present or operating within its jurisdiction.”

Here’s the Tesla Semi… again

The long-delayed truck is finally in production and reaching customers this week. Now Tesla has to prove that it was worth the wait.

Andrew J. Hawkins
Andrew J. Hawkins
Andrew J. Hawkins
Tesla teases next week’s Roadster reveal.

The teaser came at the very end of tonight’s Semi re-launch, showing a brief flash of an illuminated light bar, followed by a glowing “Roadster” logo. Not much to go on, but we’ll likely see a lot more at the October 1st event.

Sean Hollister
Sean Hollister
I tried the Meta VR Glasses, too — here are my first impressions.
  • “VR Glasses” is the right name. These don’t have a VR headset’s huge, immersive field of view at just 70° horizontal by 66° vertical, but it’s similar to looking through glasses, without a headset’s significant weight.
  • I didn’t terribly mind the reduced immersion outside of games. Movies and desktop windows opened at the proper size without edges cut off.
  • I carried on a conversation with several real human beings in a room and didn’t feel like I had tunnel vision.
  • You can’t see your hands unless they’re in your direct field of view, but the headset can track hands far outside that FoV. I could hit Beat Saber targets while looking an entirely different direction.
  • I got 32WPM touch typing on a keyboard that doesn’t physically exist. That’s less than a third my normal speed, but not bad for a first try.
Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
Nicolas Cage’s Madden movie just got its first full trailer.

The biopic arrives on Prime Video on November 18th, starring Cage as the famed NFL coach. The full trailer and some new photos also give a first look at the rest of the cast, including John Mulaney as EA founder Trip Hawkins and Christian Bale as Raiders owner Al Davis, as well as Kathryn Hahn, Sienna Miller, and Shane Gillis.

A still from the Prime Video Madden movie showing Nicolas Cage and John Mulaney
A still from the Prime Video Madden movie with Nicolas Cage, Christian Bale, Kathryn Hahn, and Sienna Miller
A shot from the Prime Video Madden movie with Nicolas Cage and Joel Murray
A shot from the Prime Video Madden movie with Sienna Miller and Christian Bale
1/4Image: Prime Video
Travis Larchuk
Travis Larchuk
Today’s Vergecast: Meta and Snap battle for your face.

Meta and Snap both want to get on your face. The Verge’s Victoria Song and Jay Peters tried out all the new hardware: Specs, audio-only Ray-Bans, and Meta VR. Today, they join guest host David Imel to talk about how these new smart glasses feel, both physically and emotionally.

Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
Who wants to buy Letterboxd?

A24, Sony Pictures Entertainment, and The New York Times Company are all reportedly interested.

Other rumored potential buyers include Versant and The Ankler, as well as Netflix, Paramount, and Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian.

Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
YouTuber Elliot Choy says an AI Kalshi ad stole one of his videos and changed his race.

Choy shared a screenshot of the ad on X that appears nearly identical to one of his videos, except the person in the ad is white. NPR’s Bobby Allyn reported in a separate post that the ad is real, adding, “A Kalshi rep says the ad is old and that they no longer use AI-generated ads.”

Meredith Haggerty
Meredith Haggerty
What’s going on with this Trump picture?

On Thursday, Trump posted a picture to Truth Social of himself with Chinese President Xi Jinping that doesn’t comport with Getty Images of the event. Why does Trump only have one glove? Why did the face of the woman in the background change? The answer could include anything from uprezzing to “zooming out” the camera to deliberately replacing faces with AI.

If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement.

@realDonaldTrump / Truth Social
Andrew Liszewski
Andrew Liszewski
This over-engineered desk wirelessly charges your phone wherever you place it.

Instead of relying on a large array of charging coils to power up a Qi-compatible smartphone, this desk uses an overhead camera to locate devices and reposition a single moving charging coil beneath them. It first prioritizes charging phones before moving on to other devices and incorporates a transparent LCD as the desk’s surface that plays animations as power flows.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Meta wants to make game development multiplayer.

During a Meta Connect developer keynote today, the company showed off a “glimpse of the future” where multiple people were in a shared virtual world as playable characters but were also developing it in real time (including with the help of AI). I saw a live demo of it yesterday. As a concept, it’s pretty wild.

Check it out at the one hour and seven minute-mark of Meta’s Developer State of the Union.

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
More people can view their digital wardrobe in Google Photos now.

Google is rolling out the feature to all Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers in the US, India, and Brazil. It scans your photos to build a digital wardrobe of your clothes, allowing you to view separate pieces and try on new outfits virtually.

Muse sure looks a lot like OpenClaw

Meta’s new tool is very cute — and heavily inspired by its open-source predecessor.

Hayden Field
Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Meta’s Developer State of the Union show is about to begin.

Check out the livestream from Meta Connect 2026 on YouTube. I’ll be watching.

It’s sinister that Meta’s Muse AI mascot is so cute

Meta wants to stuff this guy into everything and entrust it with productivity, health, and relationship goals.

Victoria Song
Jess Weatherbed
Jess Weatherbed
Here come those promised Pixel Watch health features.

The blood pressure trends, insulin resistance trends, and sleep breathing quality metrics mentioned at the 2026 Made By Google event weren’t available when the Pixel Watch 5 launched last month, but now Google says they’ll start rolling out to Watch 3 models and later this week. You can set them up in the Google Health app, and trend reports will arrive in “early October.”

Here’s the preview of the blood pressure trend feature we got last month.
Here’s the preview of the blood pressure trend feature we got last month.
Photo: Victoria Song / The Verge
Andrew Liszewski
Andrew Liszewski
8BitDo gives two of its controllers a Tomb Raider makeover.

To celebrate 30 years of Lara Croft’s adventures, reskinned versions of the $119.99 8BitDo Ultimate 3 for Xbox and $79.99 Pro 3 Bluetooth Gamepad are now available for preorder with an official release starting on October 24th.

1/3Image: 8BitDo
Allison Johnson
Allison Johnson
Hot Jimothy summer is over; now it’s “three bowls of water” fall.

The Jimothy craze has died down up here in Seattle just in time for a new Weird Internet Thing: three mysterious bowls of water on the walking path around Green Lake. It started with an innocent question on r/Seattle: what’s up with the bowls? Commenters turned it into a bit, because we can’t resist a bit, which inspired an on-the-scene report by City Cast Seattle. Spoiler alert: it’s probably just water for dogs, but I like the mysterious “geese” theory.

Andrew Webster
Andrew Webster
A quick look at a long movie.

While there are still some questions around the international rollout of Alex Gibney’s Elon Musk documentary, US distributor Bleecker Street is forging ahead, and has a new trailer to prove it. The trailer does a good job of summing up what to expect from a very, very lengthy film.

Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
Rockstar’s GTA VI collectible box packs a “swizzle stick,” mirror, hat, and more for $399.99, but no game.

Not only is the price higher than the $90 GTA IV and $150 GTA V collectible sets, but this time around Rockstar says “Grand Theft Auto VI game sold separately,” for $79.99 or $99.99, respectively.

What you do get in that $400 box is a 6-inch figurine of Macca the Gator with a stash compartment, a matching spoon and magnetic mirror that are definitely not made to snort stuff stored in said stash compartment, plus GTA-branded Oakley sunglasses, hat, a crossbody bag, a shot glass, stickers, pins, and a souvenir poster.

Small figurine of a pink alligator in a hawaiian shirt holding a drink and smoking a joint
a box with GTA VI logos
GTA VI swizzle stick aka coke spoon
GTA VI magnetic mirror with a “macca” alligator on the front
promo image of a printed GTA VI Vice City map
GTA VI Oakley sunglasses on a pink background
GTA VI promo stickers
two GTA VI pins with logos from the game on them
a keychain with with vice city printed on the side
a shot glass with a vice city logo on it
a snapback hat with vice city and macca the gator
GTA VI branded crossbody bag
1/12Image: Rockstar Games
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Tom Warren