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UN climate negotiations burned up and then fizzled out
Justine Calma, The Verge
"It's a wrap … Don't forget to buy an 'i survived Belém' shirt," reads the opening line of an email I got Saturday, the final day of highly anticipated United Nations climate negotiations in Belém, Brazil. The email was sent from Shravya Jain-Conti, the US cl…
Nov 24, 2025, 11:57 PM
Why college students prefer News Daddy over The New York Times
Victoria Le, The Verge
Ankit Khanal gets his news from News Daddy. More than 20 times a day, Khanal, a sophomore at George Mason University, opens TikTok to have the biggest stories of the day delivered to him by a bleach-blonde 26-year-old named Dylan Page, one of the leading face…
Nov 24, 2025, 12:06 PM
‘Jmail’ is like any other inbox, except this one has Jeffrey Epstein’s emails
Richard Lawler, The Verge
The more than 20,000 pages of Jeffrey Epstein emails released earlier this month by the House Oversight Committee have been enough to prompt more investigations into the convicted child sex offender and the people around him, like former Harvard president and…
Nov 22, 2025, 12:58 AM
The new silicon valley (literally)
Justine Calma, The Verge
Arizona's economy was once dominated by the "five C's": cotton, cattle, citrus, copper, and climate. But a new C has emerged that could grow to overshadow the rest: chips. New semiconductor manufacturing facilities are springing up across the greater Phoenix …
Nov 21, 2025, 12:55 AM
Here’s the Trump executive order that would ban state AI laws
Tina Nguyen, The Verge
President Donald Trump is considering signing an executive order as soon as Friday that would give the federal government unilateral power over regulating artificial intelligence, including the creation of an "AI Litigation Task Force" overseen by the Attorne…
Nov 19, 2025, 11:03 PM
Europe is scaling back its landmark privacy and AI laws
Robert Hart, Dominic Preston, The Verge
After years of staring down the world’s biggest tech companies and setting the bar for tough regulation worldwide, Europe has blinked. Under intense pressure from industry and the US government, Brussels is stripping protections from its flagship General Data…
Nov 19, 2025, 12:49 PM
Senator Warren presses Trump admin on potential AI bailout plans
Emma Roth, The Verge
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is pressing the Trump administration for more information on potential plans to “prop up” major AI companies with money from taxpayers. In a letter to David Sacks, the White House special advisor for AI and Crypto, and Michael …
Nov 18, 2025, 6:01 PM
Why we’re going to keep talking about the Trump phone
Dominic Preston, The Verge
For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been asking — repeatedly — where the promised Trump phone is, whether it exists, and what happened to all the money people have already paid for deposits. And I’m going to keep doing that every week for the foreseeable futur…
Nov 14, 2025, 4:34 PM
Anthropic will invest $50 billion in building AI data centers in the US
Emma Roth, The Verge
Anthropic just announced plans to put $50 billion toward bolstering computing infrastructure in the US. As part of the initiative, the company is working with the AI cloud platform Fluidstack to build datacenters in Texas and New York, “with more sites to com…
Nov 12, 2025, 5:17 PM
Big Tech tax breaks could’ve funded benefits for millions, Senator Warren finds
Emma Roth, The Verge
President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” is handing out billions in tax breaks, and a new analysis from Senator Elizabeth Warren’s (D-MA) office is demonstrating just how substantial those sums are. Under the law, Google’s parent company, Alphabet, will …
Nov 7, 2025, 1:52 PM
Tesla shareholders approve Elon Musk’s $1 trillion pay package
Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge
Tesla shareholders voted Thursday to approve Elon Musk’s staggering new pay package, in a move aimed at retaining the controversial CEO’s leadership during a time of great upheaval for the automaker. Over 75 percent of shares voted in favor of the proposal. T…
Nov 6, 2025, 9:55 PM
How deep-sea mining could threaten a vital ocean food source
Justine Calma, The Verge
The race to mine battery minerals from the ocean floor would create a new stream of waste that could rob sea life of a critical food source, according to new research published today in the journal Nature Communications. That could have far-reaching effects a…
Nov 6, 2025, 1:22 AM
Baseball broke containment during the World Series
Mia Sato, The Verge
With the swing of a bat, another October came and went for those of us who love baseball. As languid and habitual as the rest of the season can feel, October baseball at its best is pure chaos: Night after night, there's a promise of something new, that you m…
Nov 5, 2025, 8:26 PM
Zohran Mamdani won because he knew when to be online — and when not to
Adi Robertson, The Verge
Zohran Mamdani owes his win as New York City mayor substantially to his internet presence. Mamdani - as numerous writers have outlined - is good on social video. He picked a message, stuck to it, and adapted that platform to snappy soundbites across multiple …
Nov 5, 2025, 1:21 PM
Trump re-nominates billionaire Jared Isaacman to lead NASA
Jess Weatherbed, The Verge
President Donald Trump has once again picked tech billionaire Jared Isaacman to be the next NASA Administrator, five months after pulling the initial nomination he made last year. Isaacman, an Elon Musk ally and commercial astronaut who has travelled into orb…
Nov 5, 2025, 10:47 AM
Influencers have fractured reality in Portland
Sarah Jeong, The Verge
The legal fight over whether the president can send troops into Portland, Oregon, depends on whether judges believe their own eyes or their smartphones. Even before inception, the lawsuit has been dogged by a war on reality fueled by social media influencers,…
Nov 4, 2025, 8:44 PM
President Trump’s ballroom design might not be AI — but it’s still a mess
Emma Roth, The Verge
When President Donald Trump revealed the physical model of the sprawling ballroom that will replace the now-demolished East Wing of the White House, something just seemed off. The model, small enough to fit on a table, is supposed to be a representation of th…
Oct 30, 2025, 3:37 PM
Meta repents again to Republicans in hearing over moderation, while Google stands its ground
Lauren Feiner, The Verge
At a Senate hearing Wednesday on government censorship of tech platforms, a Meta executive expressed regret to Republican lawmakers for failing to speak out more against the Biden administration's requests that it remove health and election misinformation, in…
Oct 29, 2025, 10:06 PM
Trump administration charges influencer and congressional candidate over ICE protests
Stevie Bonifield, The Verge
Kat Abughazaleh, a 26-year-old Palestinian American and Democratic candidate for Congress in the 9th District of Illinois, has been indicted by the Department of Justice on charges connected to protests outside an ICE facility. The indictment alleges that Abu…
Oct 29, 2025, 9:57 PM
Halo on PlayStation might be what Xbox needs to survive
Ash Parrish, The Verge
Halo coming to PlayStation is one of those events that, five years ago, would have been the tell that "something is not right here" in a show about time travel or alternate universes. Looking at the state of Xbox with its layoffs, game cancellations, price hi…
Oct 29, 2025, 4:26 PM
The FCC just gave itself the power to make a DJI drone ban stick
Sean Hollister, The Verge
This morning, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted 3-0 to let itself retroactively ban gadgets and radio components that it previously approved for entry into the United States, if the company that makes them is deemed a national security risk. O…
Oct 28, 2025, 6:33 PM
ExxonMobil accuses California of violating its free speech
Justine Calma, The Verge
ExxonMobil is suing California over state laws that compel large companies to share a more comprehensive picture of their greenhouse gas emissions, as well as disclose financial risks that climate change might pose to their investors. The oil and gas company …
Oct 27, 2025, 10:42 PM
Trump’s DHS is recruiting ICE officers with a Halo meme
Jay Peters, The Verge
After using the original Pokémon theme song in a montage of ICE raids, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is using another popular video game franchise to promote itself on social media: Halo. This morning, the DHS posted an image featuring Halo charac…
Oct 27, 2025, 10:21 PM
Trump’s got Big Tech and crypto bankrolling White House ballroom
Robert Hart, The Verge
Trump is demolishing the East Wing of the White House to make way for a gilded grand ballroom. The president says taxpayers won’t be footing the $300 million bill and that private donors, himself included, will pick up the tab. Big Tech will be paying for a …
Oct 24, 2025, 11:34 AM
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