One of Grammarly’s ‘experts’ is suing the company over its identity-stealing AI feature
For months, Grammarly has been using the identities of real people (including us) for its "Expert Review" AI suggestions without getting their permission, and now it's facing a lawsuit from one of the journalists included, as previously reported by Wired. The class-action complaint filed by journalist Julia Angwin on Wednesday alleges that Superhuman violated the "experts'" privacy and publicity rights by breaking laws against using someone's identity for commercial purposes without their consent.
Angwin says she found out her identity was used by way of Casey Newton, who is also one of the experts that The Verge uncovered being used by Gra …
iPhone Fold rumor: iPad-like multitasking, but no iPad apps and no Face ID
Apple's rumored foldable iPhone will come with an iPad-style interface that will allow users to view apps side-by-side, according to a report from Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. Gurman also reports that the outer display will be around the size of a small iPhone. The inner display will reportedly come with a wider aspect ratio, similar to Google's first-generation Pixel Fold, but not foldable flagships currently on the market, like the Pixel Fold 10 or Galaxy Z Fold 7.
Though the updated layout could make multitasking easier, Gurman reports that the folding iPhone won't run existing iPad apps. Still, Apple is reportedly trying to take advantage o …
Some of the best horror games ever made are included in Humble’s latest $15 bundle
Humble has teamed up with Frictional Games for a new bundle of PC games that pushed the horror genre forward. The bundle includes the Penumbra Collectors Pack, all four Amnesia titles (The Dark Descent, A Machine for Pigs, The Bunker, and Rebirth), and Soma, which I consider to be its opus in terms of visual aesthetics. All six games are $15 each and redeemable on Steam (buying the same set on Steam would currently cost you $78). Some of the titles work on Mac and Linux, too, and all are at least playable on the Steam Deck.
I know, I know — you probably can’t tell much of what’s going on in the images in this post. You often have to venture into these dark places (sometimes while being pursued by a creature that’s drawn to you when you look at it) to get to the other end. Something I give these games credit for is that the thrills mostly aren’t cheap, and they don’t beat you over the head with jump scares. Mind you, there are plenty of scary moments, but the games afford you enough time to marinate as peacefully as one is able to in the horrendousness of their worlds, some of which are filled with hissing cockroaches.
You can get the games to play now, or get them so you have plenty to scare yourself with during Halloween. Either way, it’s a great deal, one that will last until April 1st, with part of your pledge going to the Against Malaria Foundation. The keys expire if unused on April 1st, 2027, so make sure you redeem them beforehand.
Valve says it will fight New York’s loot box lawsuit
Valve wants players to know that it plans on fighting New York Attorney General Letitia James' lawsuit, which last month accused the company of promoting "illegal gambling" through its in-game loot boxes. In an email sent to Counter-Strike 2, Dota 2, and Team Fortress 2 players in New York, Valve says it's "disappointed" in the lawsuit's claims, arguing that mystery boxes are "widely used" across other games and also exist in the physical world with baseball cards, Pokémon, and Labubu.
Since 2023, Valve says it has worked with the AGs to explain how its virtual items and mystery boxes work. It argues that players "don't have to open mystery …
The Live Nation settlement has industry insiders baffled
Instead of moving forward with a jury trial against Live Nation-Ticketmaster as expected, the Justice Department announced a settlement Monday that omitted what used to be on the top of its wish list: a breakup.
What the DOJ did get was a series of concessions that some industry stakeholders found unsatisfying and even baffling. There are a few bright spots, those who spoke to The Verge said: a 15 percent cap on Ticketmaster service fees at Live Nation-owned or operated amphitheaters, for instance, and a pledge to give artists more transparency on their own ticket sales. But they remained unconvinced the deal would usher in the large-scale …
Grammarly says it will stop using AI to clone experts without permission
Superhuman says it has disabled Grammarly's "expert review" AI feature that said its edit suggestions were "inspired by" real writers, including our editor-in-chief and other Verge staff members.
"After careful consideration, we have decided to disable Expert Review as we reimagine the feature to make it more useful for users, while giving experts real control over how they want to be represented - or not represented at all," Ailian Gan, Superhuman's director of product management, said in a statement to The Verge. "Based on the feedback we've received, we clearly missed the mark. We are sorry and will do things differently going forward."
…Microsoft’s ‘Xbox mode’ is coming to every Windows 11 PC
Microsoft seems more determined than ever to combine Xbox and Windows - to the point that its next-gen Xbox, codenamed Project Helix, will play PC games too. Today, we learned Helix will go alpha in 2027. But the company isn't waiting for Helix before it points Windows gamers in the Xbox direction. Starting in April, it's bringing its full-screen Xbox mode to every kind of Windows 11 PC, including laptops, desktops, and tablets. And it's renamed it "Xbox mode."
Technically, you've been able to try the Xbox Full Screen Experience (FSE) in preview since November 2025, if you were part of both the Windows Insider and Xbox Insider Programs. But …
Microsoft’s next Xbox, Project Helix, won’t reach alpha until 2027
We're here at the 2026 Game Developers Conference, where Microsoft "VP of Next Generation" Jason Ronald is talking about a topic near and dear to many gamers' hearts: the future of Xbox. Ronald says the next Xbox, codenamed Project Helix, will have a custom AMD chip with "an order of magnitude increase in raytracing performance" up to and including path tracing.
It will also include a next-gen version of AMD's FSR upscaling technology that relies on machine learning and includes frame generation that can improve the perceived smoothness of a game by imagining new frames between existing ones. In a post on X, AMD exec Jack Hyunh called it …
OpenAI’s Sora video generator is reportedly coming to ChatGPT
OpenAI's Sora video generator could soon become a built-in feature in ChatGPT, as reported by The Information. Sora is currently only available on its website or as a standalone app, which has fallen shy of the popularity of ChatGPT. This update would allow users to access Sora's video generation capabilities directly within ChatGPT itself, much like the addition of image generation capabilities in the chatbot last year.
Sora could help attract more users to ChatGPT, but it may also worsen the flood of deepfakes coming from OpenAI's video generator. When the Sora app initially launched less than a year ago, users generated realistic-lookin …
Alternative app store AltStore PAL is joining the fediverse
AltStore PAL, the alternative iOS app store available in the European Union and Japan, is joining the social web. In a post on Wednesday, AltStore PAL announced that users across Mastodon, Threads, and Bluesky can now interact with apps that developers choose to federate on its explore.alt.store website.
Any likes from the social web will appear on AltStore PAL, according to creator Riley Testut, who shared last October that "you'll be able to comment on an app on Mastodon, like a news update on Threads, then open AltStore and view all these same interactions in-app." Users can also now sign into the AltStore PAL with their Mastodon or Blue …