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Imagine a radiologist is using a cutting-edge AI tool to analyze your brain scan. The scan flags a problem in your "basilar ganglia." The problem is, there's no such thing.

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Verge headline: Google's healthcare AI made up a body part -- what happens when doctors don't notice? by Hayden Field 2025 Year in Review Illustration shows a brain wearing a stethoscope
December 21, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Grassroots groups, voters, and local lawmakers have managed to block or stall tens of billions of dollars’ worth of potential investment in proposed data centers. And they’re not letting up.

This report from @justcalma.bsky.social is free to read for today only: www.theverge.com/science/8411...
Verge Headline: Communities are rising up against data centers -- and winning by Justine Calma 2025 Year in Review Photo illustration of a series of servers
December 20, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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Since his appointment, RFK Jr. has pursued a brutal vision of American health that several experts liken to a sort of eugenics. Kennedy has made it clear that certain deaths are acceptable or even preferable to a world where every child is vaccinated.

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Verge headline: Death is the Policy 2025 Year in review Photo illustration depicts RFK Jr surrounded by disease particles
December 20, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Space-based AI data centers are Big Tech’s latest fad and Silicon Valley’s newest investable venture.

Yet, scientists who study space remain skeptical of the idea.

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Verge headline: Billionaires want data centers everywhere, including space Photo illustration: the Earth in space, with a floating data center nearby
December 18, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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"I think it’s really important that Wikipedia remain neutral and that we refrain from saying things that are controversial in wiki voice."

Read our full interview with Wikipedia cofounder Jimmy Wales: www.theverge.com/tech/846184/...
Quote: "I think we have to always dig deep and examine it, and I think it’s absolutely fine to say, “The consensus of academic genocide researchers is that this was genocide.” [...] That doesn’t mean that Wikipedia should say it in our own voice. - Jimmy Wales, cofounder of Wikipedia
December 17, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Wikipedia is under attack — from accusations of bias, from AI scrapers, from Elon Musk — but the encyclopedia’s founder believes that transparency is the key to survival.

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Verge headline: Jimmy Wales on Wikipedia, bias, and the "Gaza genocide" page Photo: Jimmy Wales
December 17, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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iRobot’s collapse marks the end of an era. Co-founder Colin Angle calls it a blow for robotics.

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Verge headline: Roomba invented the home robot - and lost the future by Jennfier Pattison Tuohy Photo: A roomba
December 16, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Media is a business about dreams, and Larry Ellison’s son is dreaming big. This might explain why the case for Paramount Skydance to buy Warner Bros. Discovery is so incoherent.

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Verge headline: Larry Ellison’s big dumb gift to his large adult son Photo of Larry Ellison
December 16, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Frontier labs like OpenAI and Anthropic need vast amounts of data in the race to achieve AGI. That’s why they’re spending billions on it.

Meanwhile, the data companies are banking on AGI requiring countless new datasets to get there.

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December 16, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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It's a new day, and that means a new batch of Verge articles are completely free to read (until tomorow).

First up, from @joshdzieza.bsky.social: The world’s largest encyclopedia became the factual foundation of the web, but now it’s under attack.
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December 16, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Some of the world’s biggest tech companies have yet to find a way to make money from AI — but the startups selling them training data and hiring data annotators have.

Read more from @joshdzieza.bsky.social and @haydenfield.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
Verge headline: Feeding the Machine The fastest-growing companies in the world aren't AI companies but the startups that supply them with warm bodies. Written by Josh Dzieza and Hayden Field Art by Kristen Radtke
December 16, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Get ready: we've got a fresh batch of Verge articles that are free to read for the day.

First up, @andrewrweb.bsky.social interviews Rian Johnson about the direction of the Knives Out series.
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Rian Johnson quote: I especially want to be reacting to where I’m at in life at that moment. And that’s going to be tied up in the world that I’m reading about, and the present moment that we’re all living in. That’s a big part of these movies for me. Each one is very much a reaction to the present moment.
December 12, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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"[This ruling] completely shuts down, I think, for all time, Apple’s theory that they should be able to charge arbitrary junk fees for access.”

Read more of our interview with Tim Sweeney from @jaypeters.net: www.theverge.com/news/843265/...
Verge headline: Tim Sweeney on the future of Fortnite after another win over Apple Photo illustration shows Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney
December 12, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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INIU has shared a useful guide to determine if your power bank has been recalled.
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How to check whether your power bank is affected Step 1 - Confirm the model on the back of the unit. • If the model is BI-B41, go to Step 2. Model: BI-B41 Input(USB-C): DCS Step 2 - Check the last two characters of the serial number • If the last two characters end with one of these: 25, 24, 23, 22, 20, 19, 18, 17 → Safe to use. • If the last two characters end with 21→ go to Step 3. Step 3 - Check the 4th character (from left to right) • If the 4th character is G, H, I, or L → Stop using the power bank immediately and submit a recall request.
December 11, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Donald Trump reminds the entire world he has no idea what 6G means
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Trump quote: So we’re into 6G now, yeesh. 5G — I was a leader on 5G, getting that done, and now they’re up to 6. What does that do, give you a little bit deeper view into somebody’s skin? See how perfect it is. I liked the cameras of the old days.
December 11, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Price hikes related to the memory shortage aren’t just coming for PC gamers; smartphones, laptops, and storage drives could soon get increases, too.

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Verge headline reads "RAM is ruining everything" by Emma Roth Illustration depicts a stick of RAM with a warning sign on it
December 10, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Getting copied is devastating — but not necessarily illegal. Who owns what in an era of unprecedented mass consumption?

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December 9, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Hunter Biden's laptop. The lab leak theory. QAnon.

What started with a row over fact-checking and moderation of particular stories on social media has turned into a worldwide battle on the nature and limits of free speech online.

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December 9, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Being influenced is nothing new, of course. But the short- and mid-form video format creates a new type of intimacy and allure, especially if you are already looking for something to buy.

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The content doesn’t even have to be explicitly promotional: I recall a video I made last year about my reporting being used without credit by content creators. My frustration had hit a breaking point, so I recorded a selfie-style TikTok complaining about the contemporary media ecosystem. Only my head and a portion of my shoulders were in the video, but someone wanted to know where my blouse was from.
December 8, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Our first free story is from @miasato.bsky.social:

We have never been so aware of all the things there are to purchase, and the frictionlessness of shopping apps disguised as social media has created an army of voracious buyers. What has this abundance done to us?

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December 8, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Mad Men’s vomiting mistake is a testament to the invisible special effects work that goes into TV.
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Q: What all goes into creating juicy projectile vomit that looks believable and not too ridiculous? A: [laughing] Honestly, you spend a lot of time studying and researching the real thing. I had to watch a lot of videos of people vomiting, but then there was the process of testing out how to make that effect, practically. We have this thing called a pressure pot that we fill up whatever liquid they want the vomit to look like in the final shot. You study how that liquid comes out of the hose normally. But then sometimes you have to manipulate the opening on the hose to make the liquid look like it's actually coming out of someone's mouth.
December 6, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Unlike in September, when Mangione had spent his time at court shackled and in a khaki prison uniform, his hands were uncuffed during the hours-long hearing, allowing him to take notes and move more freely. Supporters still questioned procedure.
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Why was Mangione brought into court through a side door, rather than past the gaggle of photographers waiting in the hallway? Whose idea was it to do it this way? What's with the officers of the court standing behind him in courtroom pictures? Why isn't Mangione sitting next to his lawyer, Karen Friedman Agnifilo? Are they on bad terms? Why'd they cut his hair like that? And most importantly, does all of this benefit New York State prosecutors or Mangione's defense?
December 5, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Pre-trial hearings are usually empty for most cases. The Luigi Mangione hearings, on the other hand, are happening in a packed courtroom — and not everyone is happy about the coverage.

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Verge headline: The Luigi Mangione trial is all about narrative control A photo depicts protesters, one in a pink inflatable frog suit that says "AMPHIFA" on it. The frog is holding a sign that says "LUIGI BEFORE PARASITES" and another protester is holding a sign that says "NO DEATH FOR LUIGI MANGIONE"
December 5, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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From October 2025: History tells us that Warner Bros. Discovery’s plan to sell itself is probably going to end in disaster.

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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 2:08 PM
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Despite the concerns, Suno just secured $250 million in funding, is making $200 million in annual revenue, and adoption is accelerating. Wait around two years and you’re going to hear songs made with the help of Suno all over country radio.
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There are also legal and ethical headaches: “If Suno spits out a lead line an artist uses, what’s the protocol?” asks Reaves. The copyright office doesn’t protect AI work, which makes the ownership of these hybrid songs messy; plus, the AI was trained on existing music. “AI learns from my songs, my friends’ songs … We aren’t being compensated,” says Anderson. And there’s the “ick” factor. Durrett hates when the AI outputs a voice that sounds exactly like a friend of his. (He claims it’s happened many times.)
December 4, 2025 at 4:57 PM