JPMorgan expands blockchain goals, plans to build ‘interoperable digital money’

A close up photo of an Asus monitor showing its RGB stripe sub pixel layout. CES is a lot — a deluge of consumer tech surrounded by lots of bad carpeting. The Verge’s on-the-ground team of super nerds covered so many new products and technologies that it’s understandable if it was all a little overwhelming. That’s why we’ve gathered up a collection of trend reports from the show to help make sense of everything that happened at CES 2026, which, by extension, is a preview of the big tech stories for the year to come. Most dubious uses of AI at CES 2026 TV makers are taking AI too far Is this the world’s first solid-state battery? The gap between premium and budget TV brands is quickly closing What surprised us the most at CES 2026 Wi-Fi 8 is appearing at CES before most of us have switched to Wi-Fi 7 CES promises the robot butler, but delivers better Roombas instead AI moves into the real world as companion robots and pets Power bank feature creep is out of control  I tested Nvidia’s Tesla Full Self-Driving competitor — Tesla should be worried RGB is the next big thing in OLED gaming monitors

Elon Musk's X has partially restricted access to Grok's image editing capabilities amid growing backlash to the flood of nonconsensual, sexualized deepfakes of adults and minors generated by the platform. As of this writing, it no longer generates images as @grok replies for free, but Grok's image editing tools remain readily available for any X user to churn out images, both sexualized and tame. X users were previously able to ask Grok - by tagging @grok in a tweet - to edit or create images on the platform by tagging it in a post. Users now attempting this are met with an automated response from the chatbot's account, telling them that " … Read the full story at The Verge.

In a blog post published Friday morning, Ben Horowitz writes that "as the American leader in Venture Capital, the fate of new technology in the United States rests partly on our shoulders." It's the kind of statement certain to cause agita at rival firms.

The first video I saw of the Minneapolis shooting was bad enough. Shortly after I saw it, I had the terrible realization that there were multiple people in the clip holding their phones up - another angle was bound to surface. Within minutes, a second video was all over social media, and it was even more horrifying. In another recording, seemingly made by a neighbor, a man approaches to render aid. As armed agents rush toward him with guns, he shouts, "I'm a physician!" You can also hear someone sobbing just outside the frame: "That's my wife!" Much of America has now seen the first few seconds of this video obtained by the Minnesota Refo … Read the full story at The Verge.

Ripple has gained FCA registration through its U.K. subsidiary, marking a key regulatory milestone as Britain moves to bring crypto into its financial framework.

Every January, the world of consumer electronics heads to Las Vegas to spend the first full week of the year in the desert presenting, prodding, and gawking at all the new gadgets and gear debuting at CES. The show has once again delivered an avalanche of products, both innovative and vaporous, that will shape the industry in 2026. The Verge's team has been working around the clock to share the experience. Some of it wowed us while some of it weirded us out, but that's part of the fun of CES. After taking it all in over the past week, there are some gadgets that stood out from the rest. They innovated on an existing product, entirely ret … Read the full story at The Verge.