You just never realize how stupid living through the formation of the Church of England would have been

Was just incredible fun to talk about the history of the phone system with Tim Wu on Version History (also @davidpierce.xyz, he's fine) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2a1...

you can just ask Anthropic how hard they want to dance on the head of this pin! www.theverge.com/report/88376...

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. 🧵

Every time I tell anyone that my Whoop band suggested I literally 10x my testosterone levels they say something “please don’t” www.theverge.com/column/90973...

I guess what I’m saying is great consumer products don’t make young people feel anger and despair the more they use them www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/s...

This video from @theverge.com about the Apple Macintosh's history is very good, especially due to the respect @davidpierce.xyz , @reckless.bsky.social and of course @gruber.foo have for the product. They did their homework youtu.be/p0v1cWk71xw?...

lol at openai buying the google results for claude

Me: there are no great consumer AI apps Also me: I have wasted every free minute of the day writing python scripts with Claude Code to change the art on the podcast studio Frame TV with a Stream Deck

When ads came to ChatGPT, users were mad — those who had been using it as an editor or therapist suddenly saw ChatGPT as vulnerable to manipulation by brands and marketers. The reality is that it was happening the whole time. I wrote about the new SEO gold rush: www.theverge.com/tech/900302/...

This was obvious at the time if you took even 30 seconds to look at sourcing, but a lot of people who should have known better went along with the doomiest take available. There are traffic declines, yes, and the open Web is under threat. But we can say that without relying on junk data.

Remember that viral report about Google traffic to tech sites plummeting? It was massaged data from a firm selling “AI SEO” which just wanted attention - and search referrals! @miasato.bsky.social reports on the shady new ways SEO hustlers are trying to game search www.theverge.com/tech/900302/...

eek

For some reason this is cracking me up

Suno will happily generate AI covers of Beyoncé and the Dead Kennedys (and anything else) with just a little effort. Music industry just isn’t ready for this. Big dive from @terrenceobrien.bsky.social Gift link! www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Trump advisers think the age of imperialism ended because of wokeness, not because 1) colonized peoples made colonialism untenable 2) technology made territorial empire unnecessary. They thought mere brutality and perceived genetic superiority would make wars against countries like Iran easy.

“We have a population that has learned — correctly — that pharmaceutical companies have lied, that institutions have failed them…But the response has not been better skepticism. It has been the migration of trust from one set of financially motivated actors to another.” Great point here

OpenAI says ChatGPT has 900m users and it has 6.4m App Store ratings. Let’s look at what this tiny self-selected sample has to say

If hundreds of millions of people have used your products and AI is still polling below ICE and OpenAI is spending hundreds of millions on a podcast with 70k viewers because Altman explicitly thinks AI has a marketing problem… you know I think the products just aren’t great

ladies and gentlemen, the x information ecosystem www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

I keep saying “there are no great consumer AI products” and people keep replying to me with like model capability updates and wild OpenClaw setups and I really fear Software Brain is irreversible

Is Polymarket paying influencers to hype up fake insider trading? www.theverge.com/business/905...

My sympathetic read of this is that everyone just wants to reach other people and the reason artists get held in such high regard is that they are able to do that in ways most of us can’t. AI offers a chance to steal the magic; of course it’s seductive. But it’s still not the thing

Whoops the buzzy AI notetaking app is a privacy minefield that also trains on your notes www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

I will be there

The headline was my idea but the ! was all @lopatto.bsky.social www.theverge.com/tech/906027/...

this is so funny, all of tbpn's distribution is on X and elon is going to throttle them so hard www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

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

Had a great time joining Decoder with @reckless.bsky.social and @caseynewton.bsky.social to dissect the really tricky question of what happens now that Meta's lost two jury trials over its product design.

A little known skeleton key to understanding Donald Trump is that in 2017 he announced Foxconn would spend $10 billion building an LCD factory in Wisconsin that would create 13,000 jobs

iMac display retrofit needs a very sketchy firmware update with instructions in Chinese that can only be installed via Windows over DisplayPort so... here we are again, Parallels Desktop

“The Constitution isn’t a suicide pact,” like “you can’t yell fire in a crowded theater,” is a vapid content-free bromide that translates to “my policy preferences override the constitution.” It doesn‘t mean a Goddamned thing and never has.

Apple is 50 today and we have a huge package of fun stories on the site -- my little contribution is thinking about the iPhone and how the entire world bent around it. Gift link! -> www.theverge.com/tech/905398/...

@davidpierce.xyz @reckless.bsky.social I’m going to call this one a real “Siri’s choice” matchup

Oh hey! I got a chance to drop in on The Vergecast, one of my favorite tech podcasts, and @davidpierce.xyz let me nerd out about how important it is that technologies like podcasts stay open. I promise it is fun and not horrible and tedious. youtu.be/JLNShOwOaig?... (Starts at 43:38.)

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:

Wait till they find out there are thousands of unsettling deepfakes of her all over X and TikTok with virtually no moderation in place

Really honored to be asked by The Verge to write a couple of pieces about Apple at 50. Here's the first one, about the computer that made Apple a success long before the Mac: The Apple II.

Took apart my 2019 iMac to turn it into a monitor and realizing I can sell the 64GB of DDR4 inside for more than I bought the retrofit board for

As @davidpierce.xyz keeps saying, AI is fundamentally enterprise tech! I am convinced shoving it onto consumers without actually-great products is like forcing everyone to really really consider the consequences of giving SAP first-strike capabilities

A Decoder first: the CEO of a multibillion-dollar enterprise software company saying we'll need better antitrust enforcement if you want AI to work well across systems. Good convo with Todd McKinnon, CEO of Okta: www.theverge.com/podcast/9022...

Absolute word-salad of a response from YouTube's CEO about the decision to ban Donald Trump and its content moderation policies. "We're doing the best we can and work with whoever is in power" is definitely reassuring stuff! www.nytimes.com/2026/03/28/m...

This weekend's Version History is about an obscure li'l machine you've probably never heard of

"Reminder that the thing you're fundamentally buying when you subscribe to The Verge is our ethics policy" - Nilay Patel 🩵 subscribe 🩷 to ❤️‍🔥 the 🩷 verge 🩵

This and their whole package on being trans on the internet(www.theverge.com/cs/features/...) is why one should subscribe to journalism with a good ethics policy.

This is an excellent rundown of what I was getting at on the Vergecast this week - there just isn’t some competitive market that will generate better experiences for people, and there’s virtually no regulation, so instead we’re going to get real weird litigation forever. America, basically

very glad as a verge subscriber and see this argument made with clarity and hard data!

I mean it was right there www.theverge.com/report/90181...

Glad to chat with @thedextriarchy.bsky.social about the uncertain ramifications of the social media verdicts this week, on which @masnick.com and I are (surprisingly) not all that far apart.