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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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reckless.bsky.social
A totally workable antitrust policy in the United States would be making it illegal to buy Warner
theverge.com The Verge @theverge.com · 3h
From October 2025: History tells us that Warner Bros. Discovery’s plan to sell itself is probably going to end in disaster.

Read more from @charlespulliam.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/entertainmen...
It is hard to overstate just how catastrophically the AOL Time Warner deal worked out in the end. The general idea was that AOL’s online platform could become a digital home for Time Warner’s wide array of content, which would theoretically attract new subscribers. Time Warner’s high-speed cable lines would provide the physical infrastructure necessary for AOL subscribers to access this media-rich content. This plan might have worked were it not for the advent of broadband internet, which was faster and more reliable than AOL’s dial-up offerings, and within a couple years of the company’s merger it was already bleeding billions of dollars.
December 5, 2025 at 2:13 PM
reckless.bsky.social
Big @tinanguyen.bsky.social scoop - the Trump MAGA / tech coalition continues to fracture as the hard right pushes back against David Sacks and his attempt to preempt state AI laws. Caught in the middle: Vance. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
The far right is mobilizing against Trump AI czar David Sacks
A controversial executive order dictating America’s AI policy has MAGA scrambling against the White House and its Special Advisor on AI and Crypto.
www.theverge.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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noupside.bsky.social
“Censorship” is a thought-terminating cliché. These people want you to believe that:

- labeling is censorship
- fact-checking is censorship
- transparency is censorship
- research is censorship

What they’re doing is redefining anything that might inconvenience a hard-right populist as censorship.
davidakaye.bsky.social David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 19h
american reporters, you've got to call bullshit on this. vance, purveyor of hate/propaganda, wants the public to believe rules on, for instance, transparency in advertising and forms of deception on X are censorship.

don't fall for it.
JD Vance post: "Rumors swirling that the EU commission will fine X hundreds of millions of dollars for not engaging in censorship. The EU should be supporting free speech not attacking American companies over garbage."
December 5, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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haydenfield.bsky.social
Great chatting with @reckless.bsky.social on The Verge's Decoder podcast about my latest profile of Anthropic's societal impacts team—a 9-person team with the sole job of reckoning with AI's effect on humans and the world at large. Episode out today on all platforms. www.theverge.com/podcast/8380...
Anthropic’s quest to study the negative effects of AI is under pressure
Anthropic’s societal impact team is empowered to publish unflattering and even politically fraught research on AI. Is it just for show?
www.theverge.com
December 4, 2025 at 6:57 PM
reckless.bsky.social
Major country stars like Jelly Roll are being pitched music with their own voices deepfaked onto the demo tracks, just a small part of how AI tools like Suno have taken over Nashville. Wild piece by @charlieharding.bsky.social for us -> www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Songwriter Trannie Anderson — who’s written for Lainey Wilson, Dan + Shay, and Reba McEntire — says the tech is ubiquitous. Though she doesn’t use it herself, she sees wide use “from entry-level songwriters to the top dogs.” She isn’t exaggerating; multiple sources have told me that even stars like Dustin Lynch and Jelly Roll are being sent pitches with their voices artificially generated into demos, something AI voice transfer makes possible. Lynch’s manager Brad Belanger confirmed this, adding, “What a world we’re moving into.” Jelly Roll’s representatives declined to comment on the record.
December 4, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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billbarnwell.com
I'm at the combination
a combination urgent care and taco bell
December 4, 2025 at 3:17 AM
reckless.bsky.social
I love it when these dorks call us the mainstream media
This is exactly why people are abandoning mainstream media: cheap insults instead of actual reporting You don’t have to agree with @DavidSacks on everything, but pretending he “sucks” while ignoring his actual track record is unserious. A few reminders: -Co-founded PayPal, one of the most consequential fintech platforms in history. -Built Yammer, sold to Microsoft for $1.2B -Backed Airbnb, SpaceX, Facebook, Uber, OpenAI, and Palantir in their early days -Hosts All-In, one of the most influential political podcasts -Major philanthropist and consistent supporter of free speech and open debate If the media wants to rebuild trust, maybe start by covering people honestly instead of writing headlines like YouTubers chasing clicks
December 4, 2025 at 3:45 AM
reckless.bsky.social
A mere vessel for my children
December 4, 2025 at 12:14 AM
reckless.bsky.social
Sam Altman hired an Apple designer to develop vaporware products current AI tech cannot deliver so naturally Zuck had to have one too www.theverge.com/news/837654/...
Apple’s head of UI design is leaving for Meta
Liquid Glass has a new leader.
www.theverge.com
December 3, 2025 at 11:24 PM
reckless.bsky.social
Nice to hear the new iX3 is a great car but my new theory is that BMW is intentionally making these this ugly to stand out like 2010s Soundcloud rappers getting face tats www.theverge.com/transportati...
BMW iX3 first drive: a ‘New Class’ is in session
A major step forward for BMW’s electric efforts
www.theverge.com
December 3, 2025 at 11:14 PM
reckless.bsky.social
Holy shit this rules
benjaminjriley.bsky.social Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 1d
Last week @theverge.com published my essay exploring the limitations of large-language models. This week, that same essay is cited by a federal judge in Michigan to distinguish the process of human reasoning from what these models do. Very, very gratifying.
ali-alkhatib.com ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 1d
h/t @robertfreundlaw.bsky.social

holy shit, an accurate legal critique of LLMs. LLMs don't reason because they're just stitching together plausible-looking sentences indifferent to the content
December 3, 2025 at 10:01 PM
reckless.bsky.social
Surprise! AI-powered web browsers aren't nearly as capable as the industry is promising they'll be, as @vicmsong.bsky.social discovered after putting five of them to the test www.theverge.com/tech/837287/...
One day, AI might be better than you at surfing the web. That day isn’t today
For sale: walking shoes? Not with AI
www.theverge.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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tinanguyen.bsky.social
We had to ensure several times that Nilay did, indeed, want this to be the official headline of this story
December 3, 2025 at 4:36 PM
reckless.bsky.social
Wrote another headline www.theverge.com/column/83693...
Silicon Valley is rallying behind a guy who sucks The coordinated support of David Sacks after a New York Times report is only drawing more attention to the story
December 2, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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seanhollister.bsky.social
So. Remember when Valve announced a VR headset that also plays Windows games?

Remember when I played a Windows copy of Silksong on my Android phone?

Valve planted the seeds for *all* of that. It's the same technology. Valve is behind Fex. www.theverge.com/report/82065...
Steam Machine today, Steam Phones tomorrow
The Steam Frame is a Trojan horse carrying Arm’s gaming future.
www.theverge.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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medievalmvb.bsky.social
IBM’s Arvind Krishna doing the math that AI tends to struggle with

This is from an interview with @reckless.bsky.social on @theverge.com
So, let's ground this in today's costs because anything in the future is speculative. It takes about $80 billion to fill up a one-gigawatt data center. That's today's number. If one company is going to commit 20-30 gigawatts, that's $1.5 trillion of CapEx. To the point we just made, you've got to use it all in five years because at that point, you've got to throw it away and refill it. Then, if I look at the total commits in the world in this space, in chasing AGI, it seems to be like 100 gigawatts with these announcements. That's $8 trillion of CapEx. It's my view that there's no way you're going to get a return on that because $8 trillion of CapEx means you need roughly $800 billion of profit just to pay for the interest.
December 2, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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kcoxdc.bsky.social
Hey Bluesky! I'm off work this week to deal with some memorial stuff, but I'd love if when I went back to work next week the Decoder inbox was full of questions for @reckless.bsky.social to answer in our EOY special! decoder @ theverge dot com.
December 2, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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abili.bsky.social
@theverge.com is my first, and hopefully, only news website that I've decided to subscribe to. Plus the black friday deal combined with @reckless.bsky.social reiterating their ethics policy are convincing ways to sell a subscription.
December 2, 2025 at 2:19 AM
reckless.bsky.social
This quote is so funny. “Our voters are dying and we have no policies that appeal to young people!”
clarajeffery.bsky.social Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 3d
Also…my dudes you guys are the ones killing vaccines!
December 2, 2025 at 2:25 AM
reckless.bsky.social
sometimes the headline just writes the story www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
The race to AGI-pill the pope A team of believers want the Vatican to take AI doomsday scenarios seriously.
December 1, 2025 at 6:21 PM
reckless.bsky.social
"I am not convinced that the current set of known technologies gets us to AGI."

CEO of IBM volunteers that language is not intelligence on Decoder and throws cold water on LLMs alone getting to AGI. A good one! -> www.theverge.com/podcast/8298...
Have you told Sam [Altman]? Because he seems to think he can get both the CapEx and the return. But that’s a belief. It’s a belief that one company is going to be the only company that gets the entire market. I got it, that’s a belief. That’s what some people like to chase. I understand that from their perspective, but that’s different from agreeing with them. “Understand” is different from “agree.” I think it’s fine. I mean, they’re chasing it. Some people will make money, some people will lose money. All the [infrastructure] being built will be useful if it goes away, but if they make it, then they are the sole surviving company. Nilay, I will be clear. I am not convinced, or rather I give it really low odds — we’re talking like 0 to 1 percent — that the current set of known technologies gets us to AGI. That’s my bigger gap. I think that this current set is great. I think it’s incredibly useful for enterprise. I think it’s going to unlock trillions of dollars of productivity in the enterprise, just to be absolutely clear. That said, I think AGI will require more technologies than the current LLM path. I think it’ll require fusing knowledge with LLMs. We have words, and I’m not sure that’s the only way to create knowledge.
December 1, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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agb.bsky.social
EMAILS x @theverge.com @reckless.bsky.social
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November 30, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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FWIW, I've found my subscription this past yearish to be 100% worth it, even as an OG follower of the site. @theverge.com staff have put out some phenomenal work.
reckless.bsky.social nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 5d
Reminder that the thing you’re fundamentally buying when you subscribe to The Verge is our ethics policy: we don’t do brand deals and pretend they’re reviews and we insist companies (and the White House) be on the record if they want quotes in our stories. Worth it! www.theverge.com/ethics-state...
November 29, 2025 at 9:17 PM
reckless.bsky.social
Reminder that the thing you’re fundamentally buying when you subscribe to The Verge is our ethics policy: we don’t do brand deals and pretend they’re reviews and we insist companies (and the White House) be on the record if they want quotes in our stories. Worth it! www.theverge.com/ethics-state...
November 29, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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November 28, 2025 at 7:32 PM