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May 23, 2026
I have a new go-to browser
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May 22, 2026
The post-search Google era begins
Google is many things, but most of the time it's a verb: It is what it is to search the internet for information. But what if it's an AI agent doing the searching? And it's doing it proactively? Wi...
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May 16, 2026
The app you need to clean up your computer
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May 14, 2026
You can make an app for that
The tyranny of software is almost over. Since the first computer programmers wrote the first computer programs, we, the users of that software, have been forced to live in the worlds those programs...
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May 9, 2026
The game that makes me actually want to exercise
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May 8, 2026
Everybody wants to rule the AI world
Sometimes, companies pick CEOs based on carefully laid succession plans designed to maximize investor confidence and future performance. Other times, apparently, companies pick CEOs based on a bunc...
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May 5, 2026
What an AI-designed car looks like
The cars rolling off production lines right now are filled with old ideas. From beginning to end, the creation of a new vehicle can take five years or longer - which is plenty of time for a lot of ...
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May 2, 2026
The things we’re building
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May 1, 2026
Elon Musk had a bad week in court
Elon Musk is the one who wanted this trial. He has spent months claiming OpenAI "stole a nonprofit," and saying he was the actual driving force behind one of the most important companies currently ...
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April 28, 2026
Musk and Altman go to court
The trial between Elon Musk and OpenAI is officially upon us. And it is going to be a mess. As the two sides fight over the early days of AI, who deserves credit and cash for what, and more, we're ...
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April 25, 2026
The most exciting laptop I’ve seen in forever
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April 24, 2026
AirPods, Touch Bars, and the rest of Tim Cook’s legacy
We knew at some point Tim Cook would step down from his position as Apple's CEO. Over the last year, it has become increasingly obvious that John Ternus was his likely successor. The news this week...
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April 21, 2026
Ordering with the Starbucks ChatGPT app was a true coffee nightmare
Venti iced coffee, light skim milk. That's what I get at Starbucks. It is what I have gotten at Starbucks every time I've been to Starbucks for as long as I can remember, other than a brief love af...
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April 21, 2026
The Vergecast Vergecast, 2026 edition
We get a lot of questions about how The Verge works. And how The Vergecast works. And how we make money. And whether some of that money helps Nilay buy more jackets, several yachts, or something el...
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April 18, 2026
The AI apps are coming for your PC
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April 17, 2026
The ‘AI is inevitable’ trap
In the latest sign of AI silly season, Allbirds, the shoe company, told the world it was now an AI company and briefly managed to septuple its stock price. The Newbird AI story is really just one o...
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April 16, 2026
The Cybertruck of e-bikes is here to replace your car
It was at about 36 miles per hour that I decided the Infinite Machine Olto is not a bike. Sure, it has pedals, you don't need a license to ride it in most (but not all!) places in the US, and the f...
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April 14, 2026
Ben McKenzie vs. crypto
A few years ago, during the absolute peak of the cryptocurrency craze, a somewhat surprising skeptic emerged. Most people know Ben McKenzie from his acting work on Southland or Gotham, or would rec...
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April 12, 2026
How AT&T created the most iconic phone ever
For years, even decades, virtually everyone in the United States had the same phone. Nobody really thought about it, it didn't even matter what it was called - it was just The Phone. Well, The Phon...
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April 12, 2026
The AI code wars are heating up
This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on the AI coding and vibe-coding booms, follow David Pierce. The Stepback arrives in our su...
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April 11, 2026
The new show making fun of tech bros
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April 10, 2026
Fear and loathing at OpenAI
Sam Altman's tenure at OpenAI has been… messy. Messy to the point where Altman was briefly fired from his role as CEO, only to be reinstated days later, at which point he began reshaping the organi...
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April 7, 2026
Vertical browser tabs are better and you should use them
Google's Chrome browser is getting a couple of new features, both of them extremely welcome and wildly overdue. The first is a reading mode, which does what it already does in most other browsers: ...
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April 7, 2026
The case for banning cookie banners
You almost certainly encounter cookie banners all the time. They're the kind of low-level annoyance that just seems to come with being a person on the internet: a pop-up asking you to agree to shar...
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April 5, 2026
How the Amazon Echo learned to talk — and listen
Jeff Bezos badly wanted a voice computer. He had been saying so publicly since the very early days of Amazon, telling anyone who would listen about why voice might make it easier and more natural t...
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April 4, 2026
The app for tracking TV, movies, podcasts, and everything
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April 3, 2026
Apple’s best product ever
All week, we've been asking you to help us rank the 50 best products Apple ever made, as we mark the company's 50th anniversary. Thanks to everyone who pitched in - we ended up with more than 1.6 m...
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April 2, 2026
Verge subscribers: Join us for a movie night in New York City, hosted by The Vergecast
The Vergecast is hosting a special in-person screening of Sneakers in partnership with IFC in New York City, and we're opening presale tickets exclusively to Verge subscribers. Sneakers is a movie ...
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April 2, 2026
Flipboard just launched Surf, its new social app and feed reader
Surf is a slightly hard app to explain. It's sort of three things: a client for fediverse apps like Bluesky and Mastodon; a feed reader that lets you subscribe to almost any website, podcast, or Yo...
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March 31, 2026
Apple at 50: the good and the bad
We're spending the week documenting and analyzing the first half-century of Apple's existence, from the oft-overlooked creation of QuickTime to the iconic MacBook Air to Apple's veering into antitr...
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