Sent @haydenfield.bsky.social to straight-up ask if Anthropic thinks Claude is alive. The answer is essentially a company inviting you to have a metaphysical crisis about whether “alive” requires flesh and blood www.theverge.com/report/88376...

Is there some way for me to watch the sotu professionally but not personally

Suddenly remembering the years Blackburn spent screaming about how net neutrality was "the government takeover of the Internet."

The CEO of Siemens, a giant manufacturing supplier, flat out told me on Decoder that US factory buildout talk was partially theater, and that anything being built here should be as automated as possible because we don't have the skilled labor supply anyway www.theverge.com/podcast/8752...

This is one of the best accounts I’ve seen of why OCR problems haven’t been “solved” by AI

This conversation with @hankgreen.bsky.social & @reckless.bsky.social is well worth your time: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMjL... Amongst many other things, it talks about a way out from the reality that media, like most businesses, is not a venture-capital-shaped enterprise!

Thank you to creators that create good content! Great interview, highly recommend!

Nilay describes Gemini interaction with his daughter as "a Terminator about space facts, it never gets tired". That's worth the price of admission at least, and Hank says some pretty smart stuff about AI and pedagogy too.

wrote about the mess at xbox www.theverge.com/games/883159...

I have some suspicions about why prediction markets are striking deals with newsrooms. www.theverge.com/business/881...

When I interviewed Jordan Cowan in 2021, he shared a dream of shooting the winter Olympics. If you've been watching figure skating coverage, those dramatic close-ups (including the viral Alysa Liu "that's what I'm fkn' talking about!" clip) - that's Jordan. He did it www.theverge.com/22303559/on-...

Great Decoder episode this week with @hankgreen.bsky.social and @reckless.bsky.social discussing nonprofits and liberal arts. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

Here's @hankgreen.bsky.social talking about converting Complexly into a nonprofit, why more people should just ask the billionaires for money, and why my platform / AI nihilism isn't inevitable. An all-time Decoder, really www.theverge.com/podcast/8820...

Too much snow for our single stage Ryobi 40v snow blower! This means I need to buy a skid steer, right? Say yes

Told you so www.theverge.com/24282022/kam...

I’m trying to come up with a tech metaphor for the doctrinal stupidity of the tariff decision and it’s like… if Apple loudly and proudly completed the transition to Apple Silicon but then we heard the company was being torn apart internally by an argument over error handling on x86?

I am so old I remember when state action in the form of a prior restraint was considered bad. And by bad, I mean like the worst thing ever. But this is prior restraint jacked up on book banning steroids mixed with horrific bigotry.

Subaru with a thin blue line sticker AND a vision zero sticker. NYC contains multitudes

i told you i was doing a mini-profile of you as part of a broader series out of minneapolis. and that’s what i did!

you can read Phil Spencer's full retirement memo here: www.theverge.com/news/882340/...

Seismic gaming industry news: Microsoft's Xbox bosses are out. www.theverge.com/news/882241/...

This fuckin guy

Prediction markets vs. the news (gift link) www.theverge.com/business/881...

The NY Times dutifully reporting that the Supreme Court sided with Trump only 42% of the time and with Biden 54% of the time sort of leaves out the necessary context that Biden was doing normal, completely legal presidential stuff, and Trump was doing insane crimes

local Mercedes dealer taking a total halfcourt shot into my email and I’m kinda like, hmmm

The entire editorial ethos of The Verge is that scene at the end of Pump Up The Volume where the FCC chases Christian Slater around in little vans while he illegally broadcasts Everybody Knows by Leonard Cohen from his girlfriend’s Jeep Wrangler

we might be informed but no one has ever accused us of being mature

There should be awards for the best podcast within a podcast.

Brendan Carr is a dummy.

My favourite podcast within a podcast.

This fuckin guy

Family trip update: Max wanted to watch Enola Holmes on the hotel TV, which is a Samsung with motion smoothing turned on and the relevant menu option somehow disabled. I want to die. We are never leaving the house again

This fuckin guy

While we waited to hear who would get one of the 15 public lottery seats to see Zuckerberg testify, parent advocates cheered when one of their own got a seat. Here’s what they told me about why it’s so important that the Meta CEO sees them there www.theverge.com/policy/88037...

"we'll keep that in mind next time you give us a chance to explain ourselves and ensure our talking points are distributed, buster!"

Phil Gonzalez from CBS, welcome to the Verge’s background policy www.theverge.com/policy/88000...

The mainstream media wants you to believe AI is more socially significant than the most impactful joy-inducing technology product category of the past decade

retail traders colocating for physical edge in prediction-market bets, now i've seen it all

I do like that the big bet on AI replacing the entire software industry requires everyone to take for granted that random people across every industry can imagine useful applications and then describe them in sufficient detail to make them real. I love this optimism for us

What’s with all the equals signs in the Epstein files? @joshdzieza.bsky.social dives in with an all time expert source motivation www.theverge.com/policy/87901...

He just wanted to control his DJI Romo robot vacuum with a PS5 gamepad. But it wasn't just one robot that answered his call. Thousands of them, all around the world, reported for duty. When he showed me, I couldn't believe my eyes. www.theverge.com/tech/879088/...

Here’s @jp2e.bsky.social pointing out the obvious: Ring’s still partnered with Axon, which is still partnered with ICE www.theverge.com/report/87932...

Why won’t the mainstream media cover the most impactful product category of the last decade

I promise that when there's interesting consumer tech we will always go crazy for it but damn all the dorks on X want tech coverage to be breathless coverage of ai causing b2b saas drama and it's so so boring

You know it's bad when Christopher Poole, founder of 4chan, is reaching out to tell us on the record that Jeffrey Epstein had nothing to do with the creation of /pol/ --> www.theverge.com/tech/879132/...

Ring walks away from Flock. Statement is a doozy! www.theverge.com/news/878447/...

The Justice Department's top antitrust enforcer is out just weeks before it's set to go to trial against Live Nation over its alleged entertainment monopoly. Semafor recently reported that Slater had been sidelined in negotiations over the case. www.theverge.com/policy/87816...

Talked to the former chief justice of the Michigan Supreme Court about why studies show people prefer AI judges — they ALSO perceive human judges to be biased in lots of ways and the AI at least makes them feel heard. A complicated one -> www.theverge.com/podcast/8772...

i went to minneapolis and wrote about what i saw (a massive, robust mutual aid network that is ultimately just a bunch of regular people) and what i didn’t see (thousands of people who are terrified to leave their homes)

Incredible, on-the-ground reporting from @gabydvj.bsky.social. It's easy to embrace the triumphalist "Minnesotans fought back" narrative, but the reality is that the Trump administration has done long-term damage