excited to announce The Verge is now THE VERGE

AI research papers are getting better, and it’s a big problem for scientists

At this year’s Border Security Expo, the most insidious surveillance tools were the ones you couldn’t see. Read more from @gabydvj.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/report/92872...

- i need a new video game - you should play one called READING A BOOK - is that on switch

Wrote about the Palantir chore coat — an item that is both an investor outreach strategy as well as a marketing effort to try to convince the public it's cool. W/ insights from @dieworkwear.bsky.social and @trufelman.bsky.social (whose podcast you should listen to) www.theverge.com/report/92802...

mira murati on sam altman:

not sure how it happened, but chili crisp has become overrated and regular chili oil is underrated

Your feed is overrun with clips of podcasts, videos, and events — this is the cutthroat community of "clippers" behind it Read more from @miasato.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/report/92000...

"By sharing their personal inheritances, they prevent history from becoming a faded-sepia matter of the past." A list by Tamiko Nimura about books that pull from the family archive:

"A lot of what I find very worthwhile are pursuits that are full of friction... This notion that everything is supposed to get more and more convenient simply because it can is really poisonous to the development of taste and the work of making art."

brilliant piece from @jwherrman.bsky.social on the experience of using openclaw — and more broadly on the capacity of AI to generate meaningless forms of work nymag.com/intelligence...

Beethoven’s Fifth Mambo

"Musk’s team may have opened the door for more digging into it. ... More discovery? Maybe something about anticompetitive behavior from Musk? It doesn’t sound like it’s going to be good for Musk"

a pro-tip for reporters covering trials: ALWAYS listen to the motions www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Elon Musk tells the jury that all he wants to do is save humanity

but is it okay if i look the gift horse in the ass

this has stood up pretty well www.theverge.com/games/883159...

One last thing before we go. Today, after 2+ (or 10+??) years of work, we’re launching XOXO Explore, a complete archive of all eight years of the festival. xoxofest.com

This copy is so frustrating to read. It should be "an American born in Argentina" and "an American born in Nigeria."

I won the LA Times Book Prize for YA literature!!!

To be fair, the dead raccoon was a head coach trying to win a Super Bowl

had the ending of interstellar explained to me and it finally makes sense. i thought mccounaghey was shouting “smurf”

"And what doesn’t really come across in all these memes is it’s a heartbreaking story... It’s a deranged penguin." - Werner Herzog to @knguyen.bsky.social on the DHS using a clip from Encounters at the End of the World, in @tinanguyen.bsky.social Regulator this week www.theverge.com/column/91262...

I have an extra little bit from my Werner Herzog interview in @tinanguyen.bsky.social’s newsletter—Herzog tells us how he feels about the Trump admin posting clips of the penguin from Encounters at the End of the World.

Dammit it’s already happening

Maybe the most self-indulgent, confident feature I've read in a long time. So much of how this is written and structured violates every editorial instinct I have. But also: it really, really works!

Some personal news ;)

As for AI-generated film, Werner Herzog is unimpressed. www.theverge.com/entertainmen...

I talked to Werner Herzog (gift link)

after orban, i hope vance is extremely involved during the midterms

i am watching the strokes coachella set and making burritos for meal prep. i am the ultimate old millennial

the strokes are probably the part of old millennial culture that aged the best

i have 4 plans today. pray for me

Our special series, American War, just won an ASME Award for Design, Photography and Illustration for Best News and Information Design! The series challenges the legacy and misconceptions of the conflict commonly referred to as the Vietnam War, 50 years after the fall of Saigon. 🧵

Helen DeWitt on turning down a $175k Windham-Campbell Prize because she wasn't able to handle the prize's mandatory publicity requirements. Imo a moving, deeply relatable, and darkly funny story about money, obligation, mental health, & executive dysfunction paperpools.blogspot.com/2026/04/we-l...

I wrote about The Drama, and the way it is being discussed, which I find very strange simulacrum.pika.page/posts/the-dr...

Who Is Satoshi Nakamura? My Quest to Solve Bitcoin’s Great Mystery:

we are satoshi

New: 150 unionized ProPublica workers are on strike TODAY over AI, layoff protections, wages, and more. They're asking readers to not visit ProPublica or engage with content on other platforms. It's the first work stoppage of its kind at the newsroom. www.theverge.com/news/908401/...

how editing feels on a monday morning

all my axes live in taxes :(

some people keep a list of people that have betrayed them; i keep a list of idiots who’ve said the hot ones guy is good at interviews

okay this is based on a really good book of short stories tho

Describe your Bluesky account in a single image

WE'RE DOING A VERGECAST SCREENING OF SNEAKERS IN NYC www.theverge.com/podcast/9055...

New: You’ve seen the X posts claiming to find “insiders” on Polymarket. Some may be legit, but many more are potentially bogus, often marked as ads. False flag insider trading has become lucrative — for traders and prediction market exchanges. Gift link: www.theverge.com/business/905...

It's Trans Day of Visibility, so we've made our special series about being trans on the internet completely free to read for everyone, forever. www.theverge.com/cs/features/... Here are a few stories from the collection:

I talked to Julia Ringo and Naomi Huffman of the very cool small press HAGFISH that focuses on literary resurrections of underread women authors. countercraft.substack.com/p/interview-...

Shen Yun: America before gamergate