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February 19, 2026
It’s MAGA v Broligarch in the battle over prediction markets
Hello and welcome to Regulator, a newsletter for Verge subscribers about the love-hate (but mostly hate) relationship between Silicon Valley and Washington. I hope everyone got to celebrate George ...
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February 10, 2026
Bezos could have saved The Washington Post’s local news and sports reporters
Hello and welcome to Regulator, a newsletter for Verge subscribers about tech politicking in the age of Trump. If you're a subscriber, you are dominant and talented, like the Seattle Seahawks. If y...
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February 6, 2026
There isn’t even a cynical explanation for Jeff Bezos destroying The Washington Post
300 journalists have lost their jobs at The Washington Post. Over 300,000 readers have canceled their subscriptions. Owner Jeff Bezos, who purchased the legendary publication in 2013, has driven hi...
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February 4, 2026
This Town, 2.0
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January 28, 2026
The crypto bill is falling apart in Congress
Hello and welcome to Regulator, the Verge newsletter about the technology politics happening in our nation's capital. I hope our snowstorm-affected readers are safe, warm, and haven't reenacted The...
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January 21, 2026
One year in, Big Tech has out-maneuvered MAGA populists
Welcome to Regulator, a newsletter for Verge subscribers about the technology and the tech bros upending American politics and the Trump administration. If you're not a subscriber yet, and you're i...
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January 18, 2026
Why Coinbase derailed the crypto industry’s political future
January was going to be a landmark month for the crypto industry. The Senate would start negotiating the finer details of the CLARITY Act, a major law that would finally enshrine the fundamental st...
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January 13, 2026
Why the White House keeps shitposting
Hello and welcome to Regulator, a newsletter for Verge subscribers about the technology, broligarchs and brainrot rapidly transforming politics and civic society. Not subscribed to The Verge yet? Y...
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January 6, 2026
Jake Sullivan is furious that Trump destroyed his AI foreign policy
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December 22, 2025
Bitcoin does cultural diplomacy in a dive bar
Bitcoin culture, by nature, is anarchical and chaotic. It has to be, given the nature of Bitcoin itself and the people who adopted it: free-market libertarians who've gone all in on turning compute...
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December 17, 2025
Even Trump’s chief of staff was ‘aghast’ at Elon Musk’s deadly USAID cuts
Elon Musk, a billionaire who decimated the United States federal workforce using the Department of Government Efficiency, is not remembered fondly by the most powerful woman in Washington: Susie Wi...
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December 17, 2025
How Silicon Valley turned Trump into a fellow broligarch
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December 12, 2025
Trump signs AI executive order pushing to ban state laws
On Thursday evening, with White House AI and crypto czar David Sacks looking over his shoulder, Donald Trump signed an executive order aiming to grab unilateral power over regulating artificial int...
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December 9, 2025
Both sides of the aisle hate the AI moratorium
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December 5, 2025
The far right is mobilizing against Trump AI czar David Sacks
Washington lawmakers had barely finished processing the news that Congress would not put a state AI law ban into the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) when a new rumor began trickling out o...
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December 2, 2025
Silicon Valley is rallying behind a guy who sucks
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November 26, 2025
What the leaked AI executive order tells us about the Big Tech power grab
Hello and welcome back to Regulator. It's been a very long two weeks away from your inboxes, but luckily for us, Big Tech and Big Government did not stop fighting. In fact, it's gotten even spicier...
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