What's New This Week
in AI
Your weekly roundup of the latest AI tools, trending apps, and top news. Never miss what's happening in the AI world.
Just Landed
The 12 newest AI tools added to the directory this week.
Trending This Week
What the community is upvoting right now — top tools by upvotes in the last 7 days.
Top AI News
The headlines worth your attention this week.
AI News
A week with RTX Spark: everything we’ve learned using Nvidia’s new laptops
Nvidia’s new SoC is available in Windows laptops from six different manufacturers. We’ve collectively tested four of them so far. | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge Nvidia's RTX Spark N1X processor is finally here, and we've been collectively testing a small fortune's worth of powerful lap
AI News
Benn Jordan on Flock, privacy, and the new surveillance backlash
Today, I’m talking with Benn Jordan, musician, YouTuber, researcher, and investigative journalist. You might know Benn from those first two titles — he’s got a prolific discography of experimental music dating back decades. But in the last couple of years, he’s become a high-profile face in the crea
AI News
The AI race is back on
Mark Zuckerberg at the Meta Connect developer conference. | Photo: Andrej Sokolow/dpa/picture alliance via Getty Images Last week, Anthropic and OpenAI looked like they had the AI race to themselves, pulling ahead with increasingly powerful models that left their rivals in the dust. Google seemed ho
AI News
Shopify opens its catalog up to more AI agents
CANADA - 2025/07/20: In this photo illustration, the Shopify logo is seen displayed on a smartphone screen. (Photo Illustration by Thomas Fuller/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) More AI agents will soon be able to browse and purchase from Shopify listings, marking an expansion of the compan
AI News
Can you trust Meta’s Muse or OpenAI’s Dots to run your life?
My Decoder guest today is Hayden Field, The Verge’s senior AI reporter, and we’re discussing the new wave of consumer-friendly AI agents. If you’ve been paying attention to this space, you know AI enthusiasts have been using agents for a minute now — homebrew OpenClaw setups led to a surge in Mac Mi
AI News
Everything announced at Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra event
Microsoft just wrapped up a big Windows and Surface-focused keynote in San Francisco. The biggest announcement was arguably the release details about the Surface Laptop Ultra, its new laptop that's powered by Nvidia's RTX Spark Arm-based chip. The machine will start at $2,599 for a configuration wit














