How David Sacks crashed and burned in the White House
…On Monday, The New York Times reported that the White House was considering having the government review AI models before release. To the casual Verge reader, it appeared to be a total…
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…I expect that kind of behavior from a Meta app, not a piece of software I use for work. I don’t want to “ask Gmail” when I open my inbox, I…
The Vergecast Vergecast, 2026 edition
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Joanna Stern is not a robot, but she lived with them
…Meta has talked about building that app.But that’s a privacy nightmare, just a straightforward privacy nightmare, to do that. But it is also the killer app. You’ve spent…
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CEO Melanie Perkins explains Canva’s big pivot to AI
…icing.” Is that still the metaphor? Yeah, that’s a fair metaphor. That one’s been around for... The cupcake and the icing is actually so applicable in so many different ways…