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AI super PACs, the hottest investment in tech
Tina Nguyen, The Verge
Hello and welcome to Regulator, a newsletter about the collision between Big Tech and Washington (last week of summer edition). If you enjoy this, consider subscribing to get this newsletter weekly and everything The Verge has to offer. Ever since the US Supr…
Aug 26, 2025, 8:14 PM
The winners and losers of Taylor Swift’s engagement announcement
Mia Sato, The Verge
The world’s most famous celebrity couple got engaged, and the first place the news broke was on Instagram. By now, it’s not much of a surprise that pop star Taylor Swift and football player Travis Kelce opted to announce their engagement on the platform on Tu…
Aug 26, 2025, 7:04 PM
Trump told a major offshore wind project to stop construction just before it reached the finish line.
Justine Calma, The Verge
The Revolution Wind farm was already 80 percent complete before the US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management sent it a letter Friday to “halt all ongoing activities” to address purported national security concerns and “interference” with other potential uses for …
Aug 25, 2025, 3:45 PM
Trump’s immigration crackdown could be slowing the hunt for child predators online
Lauren Feiner, The Verge
As President Donald Trump pushes federal law enforcement toward an immigration crackdown, agents and prosecutors fear he's drawing resources from one of the most vulnerable groups: victims of child sexual exploitation online. Current and former government emp…
Aug 25, 2025, 1:10 PM
Will Trump help 4Chan escape the UK’s internet police?
Tina Nguyen, The Verge
After the United Kingdom began enforcing its sweeping Online Safety Act in April, British regulator Ofcom served violation notices to three notorious sites: 4chan, Gab, and Kiwi Farms, each of which risked multimillion-dollar fines. Late last week, Preston By…
Aug 23, 2025, 12:43 AM
Trump says the US is taking a 10 percent stake in Intel
Emma Roth, The Verge
President Donald Trump has confirmed that the US will take a 10 percent stake in Intel. During a press conference on Friday, Trump said Intel CEO Lip Bu-Tan agreed to give the government the stake, which is valued at around $10 billion. Earlier this month, Tr…
Aug 22, 2025, 6:39 PM
Florida man orders beautification of America after gold-plating the White House
Jess Weatherbed, The Verge
President Donald Trump signed a new executive order on Thursday to improve the “usability and aesthetics” of US government services by creating “first-class online and offline experiences for Americans.” “It is time to update the Government’s design language …
Aug 22, 2025, 8:35 AM
Apple is reportedly making more of its new iPhones in India instead of China
Jay Peters, The Verge
Apple is manufacturing more of its iPhone 17 phones for the US in India instead of in China, and for the first time, the full lineup of new models will ship from India at launch, according to Bloomberg. The company is also working on a successor to the iPhone…
Aug 19, 2025, 6:02 PM
How the MAGA goon squad became tech lobbyists
Tina Nguyen, The Verge
Hello there, world! Welcome to the second issue of Regulator, a newsletter about the collision between Big Tech and Washington. If you enjoy this, consider subscribing to get this newsletter weekly and everything The Verge has to offer. Lobbying might be a du…
Aug 19, 2025, 4:20 PM
Palestine was the problem with TikTok
Sarah Jeong, The Verge
In the last month, the war in Gaza has become an inescapable facet of the public consciousness as a new surge of images of Palestinian children - their faces impossibly sunken, their limbs reduced to skin and bone - flooded the internet. As the pictures becam…
Aug 19, 2025, 4:14 PM
Fujifilm is raising the prices of its cameras again
Emma Roth, The Verge
Just two weeks after raising the prices of its cameras by up to $800, Fujifilm is warning customers about another increase for US customers. In a statement provided to DPReview, the Japanese company says it will “further adjust prices” as it contends with “vo…
Aug 18, 2025, 4:42 PM
Laura Loomer and the limits of posting everything
Tina Nguyen, The Verge
For all the power she wields with the White House's affairs, Laura Loomer does not have the traditional tools that her rivals in the MAGA influencer industrial complex have - the highest follower count, the most political power, the most internet platforms, e…
Aug 15, 2025, 11:36 PM
PBS is slashing its budget in response to Trump’s attack on public media
Charles Pulliam-Moore, The Verge
Now that Congress has passed a bill that will defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, PBS is taking drastic measures to stay alive. In an email sent out to PBS station managers on Wednesday, PBS president and CEO Paula Kerger announced that the organi…
Aug 15, 2025, 6:01 PM
Elon Musk’s gangster tech regulation comes for Apple
Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge
Elon Musk is calling in another return on his investment in American politics: he's threatening Apple with a lawsuit because neither X nor xAI's Grok have been recommended on the iOS App Store. How serious this threat is - well, that's hard to say, as it was …
Aug 14, 2025, 3:13 PM
Chatbots aren’t telling you their secrets
Adi Robertson, The Verge
On Monday, xAI's Grok chatbot suffered a mysterious suspension from X, and faced with questions from curious users, it happily explained why. "My account was suspended after I stated that Israel and the US are committing genocide in Gaza," it told one user. "…
Aug 13, 2025, 12:46 PM
Blackwater’s founder would like to sell you a privacy phone made in the USA
Dominic Preston, The Verge
Unplugged, a company cofounded and backed by Erik Prince, who is also the founder of infamous private military contractor Blackwater, has just released a new version of its "privacy-first" UP Phone that will be made in the US - at some point. The original UP …
Aug 12, 2025, 3:52 PM
Ford is doubling down on EVs — the timing is awful
Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge
On Monday, Ford introduced an innovative new manufacturing process that it says will help make its EVs more sustainable, more desirable, and more importantly, more affordable. The timing couldn't have been worse. EV tax credits were set to expire at the end o…
Aug 12, 2025, 11:58 AM
US demands cut of Nvidia sales in order to ship AI chips to China
Emma Roth, The Verge
The Trump administration has ordered Nvidia and AMD to pay the federal government a 15 percent cut of their AI chip sales revenue to China, according to reports from The New York Times and The Financial Times. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang reportedly reached an agr…
Aug 11, 2025, 2:54 PM
Why Donald Trump’s environmental data purge is so much worse this time
Justine Calma, The Verge
Now that we're about halfway into the first year of President Donald Trump's second term, we can take stock of his administration's destruction of online environmental resources. It's worse than last time. It's also, seemingly, just the beginning - paving the…
Aug 8, 2025, 11:25 PM
Sex is getting scrubbed from the internet, but a billionaire can sell you AI nudes
Adi Robertson, The Verge
In the fascinating new reality of the internet, teen girls can't learn about periods on Reddit and indie artists can't sell smutty games on Itch.io, but a military contractor will make you nonconsensual deepfakes of Taylor Swift taking her top off for $30 a m…
Aug 8, 2025, 6:22 PM
What is Laura Loomer?
Tina Nguyen, The Verge
For the uninitiated, watching a Jeffrey Epstein truther such as Laura Loomer have such influence over the White House's decisions is nothing short of baffling. ABC News attributes "the ouster of at least 15 individuals from Trump's second administration" to L…
Aug 8, 2025, 1:51 PM
Paramount is now a Skydance Corporation
Charles Pulliam-Moore, The Verge
It’s official: Skydance Media’s deal to purchase CBS parent company Paramount Global for $8 billion is complete, and incoming chairman / CEO David Ellison’s first order of business is a massive restructuring. In an open letter about his plans for Paramount, a…
Aug 7, 2025, 7:35 PM
Trump demands CEO of Intel resign over ties to China
Jess Weatherbed, The Verge
President Donald Trump has called for Lip-Bu Tan to immediately resign as Intel’s CEO over his reported ties to Chinese tech firms. The demand follows Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton questioning Intel’s board chairman whether Tan’s alleged connections to China wo…
Aug 7, 2025, 2:25 PM
Truth Social’s new AI search engine basically just pushes Fox News
Jess Weatherbed, The Verge
Donald Trump’s Truth Social has launched a new AI search feature that consistently pushes conservative media sources. The feature, Truth Search AI, is powered by the AI startup Perlexity and is now available on the web version of Trump’s social media platform…
Aug 7, 2025, 2:04 PM
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