The Brutalist Report

The Verge

• Wear OS 7 will keep track of deliveries and sports scores on your wrist [16d]
• Plex is tripling the price of a lifetime pass to $750 after doubling it last year [16d]
• Demis Hassabis said this might be the ‘foothills of the singularity.’ What? [16d]
• We react to Google I/O 2026 [16d]
• The future of Google is a search box that does everything [16d]
• Nintendo’s $500 Switch 2 bundle includes a game, and it’s available now [16d]
• Google’s AI future demands trust — and your personal data [16d]
• Here are our favorite Memorial Day tech deals so far [16d]
• Democrats preview how they’d go after the Ticketmaster settlement if they regain power [16d]
• Ugreen’s new soccer ball-shaped tracker has up to 7 years of battery life [16d]
• Kickstarter just killed its new mature content rules [16d]
• Gemini will use Volvo’s external cameras to interpret parking signs [16d]
• The 13 biggest announcements at Google I/O 2026 [16d]
• Google wants to compete with Anthropic’s Mythos [16d]
• Google can now vibe-code you an Android app [16d]
• Would you let robots spend your money? Google is betting on it [16d]
• Google Search is getting its biggest changes ever [16d]
• Gmail is going to start talking to you [16d]
• Google is launching its own version of OpenClaw [16d]
• Google Pics is a new app that tries to fix AI image editing [16d]
• A first (and second) look at the Android XR glasses launching this year [16d]
• Inside Google’s Beam Lab, an AI face appears [16d]
• Google is trying to make deepfake detection more accessible for everyone [16d]
• The noise-canceling Nothing Headphone A are down to their lowest price to date [16d]
• Google I/O 2026 live blog: On the ground at Google’s keynote [16d]
• Sony’s 1000X The Collexion are a luxurious and expensive celebration of its iconic headphones [16d]
• Google I/O 2026: All the news and announcements [16d]
• An AI announcer mispronounced and skipped names during a graduation [16d]
• America’s dangerous, messy deepfakes crackdown is here [16d]
• Apple’s accessibility features add more AI-powered processing [16d]
• Anker fixes the two worst things about power stations [16d]
• Nintendo keeps finding new ways to reinvent platformers [16d]
• Microsoft launches Surface Pro 12 and Surface Laptop 8 with Intel chips [16d]
• The Mandalorian and Grogu should have been a season of TV [16d]
• These are the robot vacuum-mops I recommend for every type of home [17d]
• Marshall brings ANC back to its smaller on-ear wireless headphones [17d]