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nilay patel
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Editor-in-chief of The Verge, host of Decoder, cohost of The Vergecast. I am in love with spectacle.
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Psychotic YouTube TV multiview preset
America's Funniest Home Videos, golden globes, football night in America, the whole story Kamala’s fight for the White House
January 12, 2026 at 1:05 AM
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made some ai art, thinking about making some real art just like it
a screenshot of a gemini prompt for an image. Generate a screenshot of four headlines on the verge all in the form "big tech company ceo contributes to ai-powered deepfake site GOOGLE GOOGLE SUNDAR PICHAI CONTRIBUTES TO AI-POWERED DEEPFAKE SITE APPLE TIM BEZOK CONTRIBUTES TO AI-POWERED DEEPFAKE SITE AMAZON JEFF BEZOS CONTRIBUTES TO AI-POWERED DEEPFAKE SITE META MARK ZUCHBERGK CONTRIBUTES TO AI-POWERED DEEPFAKE SITE
January 9, 2026 at 4:22 PM
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I encourage you to read the article - and millions of people are pasting MyChart screenshots into this tool already. Making it a product like this only increases scrutiny and focus. Could go bad! But the reality is the reality today
January 8, 2026 at 5:01 PM
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Homeboy went too hard last night
January 7, 2026 at 12:36 AM
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Anyway here’s Wall-E in a tux as a vision of his life in servitude
January 7, 2026 at 12:33 AM
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Going great here at the robot show
January 7, 2026 at 12:27 AM
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just checking the list of published stories real quick to see how @vicmsong.bsky.social is doing at ces oooookay
Just Published: APP 9:29 PM / The taint bandaid has evolved into the taint zapper has just been published by Victoria Song
January 6, 2026 at 2:48 AM
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Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev told that all the prediction markets had rules against insider trading last April as part of a large conversation about turning the economy into gambling. This is all zeroed out by today’s insider trading on Venezuela strikes, I think www.theverge.com/decoder-podc...
Sure, but how does that track with your sense that this is the new source of information? Because the information only enters the market if people have it and they begin trading on it. If you want to outlaw insider information, you have to prevent people who have that information from trading on it. How does that get into the prediction market? Yeah, basically individuals who have proprietary information shouldn’t participate in the prediction markets, and all of the DCMs basically have rules against this. Because we know who’s making the trades, everyone has to be KYC’d (know your customer) at regulated DCM / FCM (futures commission merchant)-regulated prediction markets, we have the capabilities of identifying abuse. And of course all of these rules can evolve over time. If there’s new vectors for abuse as the markets expand, there’s mechanisms for those to be incorporated and to become new rulemaking.
January 3, 2026 at 9:46 PM
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His list is entirely conservative grievance politics so this is going to go great
I get it. I've been hearing about it from just about everybody, for more than 20 years, as I've traveled America on assignment. My mom's neighbors in West Virginia. My own neighbors in New York City. Thousands of conversations in between. Sometimes they want to talk to me about our coverage of NAFTA or the Iraq War. Other times, it's about Hillary Clinton's emails or Russiagate. Or more recently, COVID lockdowns, Hunter Biden's laptop or the president's fitness for office. The point is that on too many stories the press missed the story. Because we've taken into account the perspective of advocates and not the average American. Or we put too much weight in the analysis of academics or elites, and not enough on you.
January 1, 2026 at 8:30 PM
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It really just boggles the mind how consistently nonsensical AI Overviews are
AI Overview +4 Beyoncé – Hold Up – The Singles Jukebox Beyoncé's "Hold Up" samples the iconic "Maps" by Yeah Yeah Yeahs through an interpolation of its chorus, stemming from a tweet by Vampire Weekend's Ezra Koenig, who co-wrote the demo with Diplo, connecting a fan tweet about "Maps" to the song's foundation, making it a "song born from a tweet" with layered inspirations. This video breaks down the sample in Beyoncé's "Crazy in Love":
December 29, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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Broken TikTok algorithm resurfaced this video of me saying the web is dying on Vergecast and this amazing comment. Yes Comcast loves me so much you guys
December 29, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Ring’s Jamie Simonoff offered me the same framework recently - increase the perceived cost of stealing from a Ring house so criminals go elsewhere - but he’s selling $129 doorbell cameras and little stickers, not a vaporware surveillance system for crypto dudes www.theverge.com/podcast/8220...
Do you think when you talk about zero out crime in a neighborhood, the idea that everyone in a neighborhood has one of those illuminated Ring signs in the front yard, is that enough to — It’s a part of it. Is that just enough of a deterrent? The bad guys will know their face is going to be captured on video, and that will be analyzed by an AI, and something will happen. Do you have to do more outbound deterrents? How do you talk about — I think that’s a part of it. Awareness is a big part of it. I think there are ways with lights also, using lighting to do stuff, that’s a big part of it. I think having just ... If, all of a sudden, someone comes outside because something’s an anomaly, that’s a big part of it. It doesn’t have to be some crazy thing, I think a lot of these ... And that’s what I was saying, is a lot of these little things add up to make that work.
December 29, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Everything in this bizarrely credulous story about a home security startup named “Sauron” is insane, down to their big idea to deter criminals being… flashing lights at them techcrunch.com/2025/12/28/f...
So what exactly is Sauron building? The answer is still evolving. The offering starts with camera pods containing multiple sensors — “40 cameras and different types of sensors, potentially LiDAR and radar, potentially thermal,” Bouvat-Merlin said. These pods connect to servers running machine learning software for computer vision, all linked to a 24/7 concierge service staffed by former military and law enforcement personnel. “Those people understand patterns,” he said. “They’re good at helping us mature our machine learning solution and train our system to detect weird behaviors.” The deterrence system remains somewhat vague. Options being considered include loudspeakers, flashing lights, and other methods. But Bouvat-Merlin emphasized that deterrence should begin before someone enters a property, detecting when homes are being surveilled, noticing cars circling neighborhoods multiple times, and identifying threats at each stage.
December 29, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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The enduring legacy of Trump 2 - and really, unbridled Stephen Miller - will be that government can claim vastly more power than anyone thinks, and it should use it as quickly and ruthlessly as possible. Will be fascinating to see how this strategy plays out in the hands of progressives
December 27, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Just pure incoherence from a product Google is shipping to billions of people. Also already being hacked by SEO games
Snow falling off solar panels is usually a good thing, as the dark, warm surfaces cause it to melt and slide off, often in large, heavy sheets called "roof avalanches" that can be dangerous to property and people below; installing /nav!/nav>> snow guards or "snow retention" helps manage this by holding snow until it melts gradually, protecting roofs, gutters, and anything underneath from sudden, forceful releases.
December 27, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Anyway I love this little Leviton scene controller and if this turns out to be the right setup I’ll order the custom labeled buttons ;)
December 26, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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A little ridiculous that HomeKit doesn’t support toggling lights on and off with a single button so you have to write silly little shortcuts
December 26, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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December 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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AI ran into a brick wall trying to control smart home devices this year, which feels like the canary in the coal mine for a lot of things. Excellent @jp2e.bsky.social dive into why and what comes next www.theverge.com/tech/845958/...
The problem is that the new assistants aren’t as consistent at controlling smart home devices as the old ones. While they were often frustrating to use, the old Alexa and Google Assistant (and the current Siri) would generally always turn on the lights when you asked them to, provided you used precise nomenclature. Today, their “upgraded” counterparts struggle with consistency in basic functions like turning on the lights, setting timers, reporting on the weather, playing music, and running the routines and automations on which many of us have built our smart homes. I’ve noticed this in my testing, and online forums are full of users who have encountered it. Amazon and Google have acknowledged the struggles they’ve had in making their revamped generative AI-powered assistants reliably perform basic tasks. And it’s not limited to smart home assistants; ChatGPT can’t consistently tell time or count.
December 23, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Free stories box on theverge.com is sharp today
Rivian's Al pivot is about more than chasing Tesla / The EV maker was known for its outdoor-themed off-roaders. Why is it now chasing Elon Musk down an Al rabbit hole? ANDREW J. HAWKINS |口53 Don't expect Trump Media's nuclear fusion power plant to generate electricity soon The energy demands of Al are driving investment in futuristic fusion reactors from Big Tech and now Trump Media. Is it viable? JUSTINE CALMA • 19 Memo to Bari Weiss Re: CBS News: You're doomed / This is the glass cliff to end all glass
December 22, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Sometimes the no comment is the entire story ;) www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Figuring out how much GPUs are worth and how long they’ll last is not as clear as it is with a house Nvidia declined to comment. CoreWeave declined to comment.
December 22, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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You can just say that to the White House, it’s easy
The available choices that meet our longstanding policy are participating in the story with a named spox or us printing all of this since it’s all on the record as far as we are concerned and reasonably illuminating into how this White House operates. Let us know, we’re going to hit publish shortly. Were your sources on record when you published the original story about this hypothetical EO? This appears to be our answer. Thanks for the time. Nilay Patel • Editor-in-Chief, The Verge
December 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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What I understand is that this product fails, constantly
December 21, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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No I am saying we have reviewed a lot of products for a long time and “out of the box” is the standard. This is just a few weeks ago www.theverge.com/tech/817807/...
December 21, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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Did I say that? I mean I wrote it and I don’t recall saying that, in any way. And here you are arguing that reviewing the major new control on a new phone is the same as telling people.. what, exactly? That ChatGPT overpromising what it could do was user error?
There is almost no reason to upgrade to the 16 Pro or 16 Pro Max from the 15 Pro or 15 Pro Max it’s possible to argue that this one single camera adjustment makes upgrading to an iPhone 16 or 16 Pro worth it. I am a huge photo nerd who cares a lot about these things, and even I don’t think that that argument is 100 percent convincing
December 21, 2025 at 11:21 PM