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Tina Nguyen

www.theverge.com
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Anthropic and OpenAI take their beef to the midterm elections
Hello and welcome to Regulator, a newsletter for Verge subscribers about the car crashes piling up on a daily basis at the Washington-based intersection of technology and politics. If you're not a ...
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The crypto Clarity Act returns to the Senate this week. The banks are already trying to kill it.
Hello and welcome to Regulator, the newsletter for Verge subscribers that goes into tech shenanigans that take place in the backrooms of Washington. Really, it sometimes does feel like the online s...
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How David Sacks crashed and burned in the White House
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Grindr — yes, Grindr — won the WHCD party circuit
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Trump turns the WHCD shooting into a pitch for the White House ballroom
Within hours of an armed gunman's attempt to enter the White House Correspondents Dinner, attended by top administration officials and hundreds of journalists, President Donald Trump did what he do...
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Alexis Ohanian shocks Washington with pro-immigration remarks
Hello and welcome to Regulator, a newsletter for Verge readers about tech politics, political tech, and how they're muddying the waters of Washington, DC. My birthday is this week, and if you're no...
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Behind the unraveling of Dan Crenshaw
In 2019, a 36-year-old Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX), newly elected to Congress, was photographed for the inaugural Time 100 Next List, wearing a dashing eye patch and looking upwards with hope. A Harva...
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The future of local TV news has taken a Trumpian turn
This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more stories on Big Tech versus politics in Washington, DC, follow Tina Nguyen and read Regulato...
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Trump’s posting even more AI-generated Trump-Jesus fan art
Hello and welcome to Regulator, a newsletter for Verge subscribers about Big Tech power plays in Washington and beyond. (And when I say beyond, I mean the great beyond, like Heaven, maybe.) If you'...
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OpenAI made economic proposals — here’s what DC thinks of them
Happy ceasefire day and welcome to Regulator, a newsletter for Verge subscribers about Big Tech's rocky journey through the world of politics. If you're not a subscriber yet, you can do so here, bu...
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David Sacks is no longer the White House AI and Crypto Czar
David Sacks, the venture capitalist and tech billionaire who'd become Silicon Valley's primary advocate inside the White House and a key architect of its aggressive AI policy initiatives, revealed ...
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Can you monitor a situation without monitors? The Polymarket sports bar tried
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Trump’s AI chief’s big Iran warning gets big time ignored
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I went to the Pentagon to watch Pete Hegseth scold war reporters
It is day 13 of America's surprise war with Iran - by sheer coincidence, it's Friday the 13th - and I am delirious. I haven't had a coffee since I woke up at 5AM, because I'm not allowed to bring o...
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The mysterious case of the DHS white supremacist memelord
Hello and welcome to Regulator, a newsletter that takes Verge subscribers into the smoke-filled back rooms of Washington as they become the Zyn-filled back rooms of Washington. (Although Tucker Car...
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The Pentagon formally labels Anthropic a supply-chain risk
After weeks of failed negotiations, public ultimatums, and lawsuit threats, the Defense Department has formally labeled Anthropic a "supply-chain risk", escalating its fight with the AI company ove...
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AI is now part of the culture wars — and real wars
Hello and welcome to Regulator, the newsletter for Verge subscribers that goes inside Washington's increasingly existential clashes between tech and politics. If this was forwarded to you, can I in...
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Inside the secret meeting that led to the AI political resistance
In early January, a group of 90 or so political, community and thought leaders gathered in a New Orleans Marriott for a secret conference on artificial intelligence - so secret, in fact, that no on...
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Defense secretary Pete Hegseth designates Anthropic a supply chain risk
Nearly two hours after President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that he was banning Anthropic products from the federal government, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth took it one step furthe...
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Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon AI bro squad includes a former Uber executive and a private equity billionaire
Hello and welcome to Regulator, a newsletter for Verge subscribers covering the broligarchs, the influencers, and the (potentially conscious) artificial intelligence models scrambling for power in ...
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Inside Anthropic’s existential negotiations with the Pentagon
Anthropic's weekslong battle with the Department of Defense has played out over social media posts, admonishing public statements, and direct quotes from unnamed Pentagon officials to the news medi...
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