Jay Peters

Reddit is enlisting AI to help moderate new subreddits - and eventually the rest of site. The company is introducing automated moderation tools that rely on LLMs to help mods manage their communities, and it's expanding who can use those tools today ahead of a full launch later this year. The company calls the… Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence

Google's AI head Demis Hassabis is stepping down from his role to become the Google DeepMind chair and Alphabet's chief scientist.

Xbox Insiders will be able to choose if they want game chat and party chat audio in their captures, according to a blog post. Players can individually control if their voice is included in a capture. The post also includes details about new ways to their sort achievement history, the ability to restore previous versions of cloud saves, and an upgrade to wishlists that now lets you add up to 1,000 games. [Image: https://platform.theverge/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/08/1.-Voice-chat-in-captures-8f7eeb43129f9201f619.png?quality=90&strip=all]

VILE: Exhumed had been banned last year following pressures from payment processors affecting Valve and other platforms, though the game was made free to download from its website. From the website, you can now sign up to be notified about an upcoming CD-ROM release, as reported by Polygon. It will cost $9.99 plus taxes and shipping when it’s available. [Media: https://bsky.app/profile/dreadxp.bsky.social/post/3msdtfxk3qy2x]

The game launches on Switch 2 on October 27th. Microsoft says there will be a “digital upgrade path” for players who own the game on the original Switch, though it’s planning to share more details on that later. [Link: Minecraft for Nintendo Switch™ 2 is coming October 27th!

Right now, I can see two images and a video on CMF by Nothing’s X feed about its Clip Pro earbuds that include hard-to-see disclosures about the use of AI: “Contains AI-generated imagery. Any resemblance to real persons is purely coincidental.” 9to5Google reports that some other images have been deleted as well. [Image: The AI disclosure is alongside the right side of this image. It’s very faint. https://platform.theverge/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/08/HO4cIFbb0AAIhZp-2.jpeg?quality=90&strip=all]

Muse Code, a terminal coding agent in beta powered by the new Muse Spark 1.2 AI model, can take on “complex software engineering tasks across large repositories: planning changes, writing code, and validating the results,” Meta says. CEO Mark Zuckerberg also showed off a game built by the agent that you can play for yourself in Meta’s research blog post. [Image: Meta’s Embervault, built by Muse Code. https://platform.theverge/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/08/Screenshot-2026-08-05-at-12.33.37-PM.png?quality=90&strip=all]

15 pts xAI's Grokipedia, an online encyclopedia with AI-generated articles that Elon Musk once promised would be a "massive improvement" over Wikipedia, apparently hasn't been updated since April 24th, according to a report from Lawfare. "As far as we can tell, no entry has changed in more than three months," Lawfare…

Suggested Grokipedia edits haven't been addressed since April, according to a report.

That’s Toby Fox writing about the fandom around Deltarune. He says he doesn’t follow theories because “I already know what my game is.” But he also recognizes that theorizing is part of the fun: “It’s not an exaggeration to say that thinking about this game can be just as much of the experience as playing it is. Anyone who keeps thinking about it, like I have, gets my highest blessing.“ Fox also says that “I believe” Deltarune Chapter 6 will release in 2027. Chapter 5 launched in June, and it’s great, building on an already excellent package. [Link: DELTARUNE Summer Newsletter 2026