The apps, gadgets, and tools every reader needs
The apps, gadgets, and tools every reader needs

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 136, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, hope your neighborhood isn’t as smoky as mine, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I’ve been recording the next season of Version History […]

AI Startups, Solopreneurs, And Actual Numbers

AI is making solopreneurship increasingly attractive, enabling lean startups while reducing traditional corporate career stability and appeal.

AI Startups, Solopreneurs And Actual Numbers

AI is making solopreneurship increasingly attractive, enabling lean startups while reducing traditional corporate career stability and appeal.

Heralding The Minimal Clinically Important Difference When AI Is Used For Human Mental Health

MCID (minimal clinically important difference) is an important technique in the medical field, including mental health. And AI can be used too. It’s an AI Insider scoop.

Neil Rimer thinks the AI money is coming back out

Neil Rimer, the venture capitalist who co-founded Index Ventures, predicts the historic wealth AI is generating in Silicon Valley will have to be redistributed, voluntarily or involuntarily.

Google’s AI just recreated the best goal ever by Pele that was never actually filmed

Google used live stadium capture, and combined it with archival material to bring Pele’s legendary goal to life. The Veo video engine, Gemini Omni, and Nano Banana Pro AI tools tagged alongside in the journey to revive a lost marvel.

Vertu wants executives to pay $6,880 for an AI agent — here’s how it actually performs

From AI workflows to battery life and security, here’s what it’s really like to live with Vertu’s luxury foldable every day.

After YouTube, TikTok is testing its own AI likeness detection tool

As deepfakes spread, TikTok joins YouTube in giving creators tools to detect and report unauthorized AI likenesses of themselves.

Agentic ID? Vint Cerf Joins Project To Give Every AI Agent A Durable Identifier

If my agent talks to yours, how do you know it’s mine? How does your agent know? A new project might help with agentic ID … and eventually trust.

Databricks hits $188B valuation, extending its run as AI’s favorite second act

Databricks has remade its image into an AI company and has published research on the cost savings of open weight AI models for coding.