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Apple turnover / Tim Cook is stepping down as CEO, to be replaced by John Ternus. What is Cook’s legacy and what’s next for Apple?

John Ternus’ first big problem is AIJohn Ternus’ first big problem is AI

Does Tim Cook’s newly announced successor have what it takes to regain the company’s lost ground in the AI race?

Hayden Field
Will a new CEO help realize Apple’s smart home potential?

John Ternus inherits a smart home platform that’s been waiting a decade to matter. His first act could be making it happen.

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
The AirPods are Tim Cook’s most underrated achievement

Cook and incoming CEO John Ternus made a computer company the most important audio company of the 21st century.

John Higgins
Apple will have a product guy as CEO again

Who is John Ternus, Apple’s new CEO?

Jay Peters and Stevie Bonifield

IP…no? / SpaceX is reportedly preparing to go public, but more than data centers in space stand in its way.

The SpaceX IPO is a trillion-dollar gamble on the future of spaceThe SpaceX IPO is a trillion-dollar gamble on the future of space

It’s either a gilded pathway to the stars or a financial black hole.

Georgina Torbet
Elon Musk is about to be a very busy boy!

I’m sure he’d call it ‘freaking epic.’

Elizabeth Lopatto
Why is SpaceX going public?

“I am hesitant to foist being public on SpaceX, especially given the long term nature of our mission.”

Elizabeth Lopatto
Elon Musk merges SpaceX with xAI (and X)

So that’s what he meant by the everything app.

Jay Peters

The AI vibe shift / AI usage is exploding. So is the backlash.

The vibes are off at OpenAIThe vibes are off at OpenAI

OpenAI is juggling public controversies, strategy shifts, and increasing competition.

Hayden Field
The attacks on Sam Altman are a warning for the AI world

The vast majority of AI resistance is nonviolent, but recent attacks highlight the risk.

Lauren Feiner
Why people really hate AI

On The Vergecast: AI apps we really want, the future of foldables, and the DLSS 5 backlash.

David Pierce
Ronan Farrow on Sam Altman’s ‘unconstrained’ relationship with the truth
Play

The head of OpenAI has a reputation for deception. The New Yorker’s Ronan Farrow on why that matters.

Nilay Patel

Apple @ 50 / Apple celebrated 50 years this month. Look back at the biggest moments from the last five decades.

Between JobsBetween Jobs

With Steve Jobs in exile, Apple’s ‘90s featured some of its most lasting triumphs and weirdest failures.

Jason Snell
Apple’s best product ever

On The Vergecast: AI’s pivot to business, and the impossible task of ranking Apple’s 50 best products.

David Pierce
Everything is iPhone now

The iPhone changed Apple — and the world — forever.

Nilay Patel
Apple at 50: a visual history

Bondi Blue iMacs, block-long iPhone lines, and other moments from the company’s first 50 years.

Amelia Holowaty Krales and T.C. Sottek
The Iranian women Trump ‘saved’ from execution are simultaneously real and AI-manipulatedThe Iranian women Trump ‘saved’ from execution are simultaneously real and AI-manipulated

He also probably didn’t save them from execution.

Sarah Jeong
Sean Hollister
Sean Hollister
Framework couch keyboard, meet Logitech couch keyboard.

Yes, I really did bring my own Logitech K400 to the Framework event to compare with Framework’s new keyboard+touchpad. I also accidentally left the Logitech there and had to go back; my colleague Victoria can confirm! Also in this video: check out what I am now calling Framework’s “anti-dongle.”

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Bluesky posts can now have higher quality images.

The platform has doubled the maximum file size to 2MB, and the resolution limit has been upped to 4000x4000. There are photo carousels now, too.

A screenshot of Bluesky’s photo carousels.
Check out the carousels in motion in Bluesky’s post.
Image: Bluesky
Jay Peters
Jay Peters
NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani shared his Citi Bike stats.
Jay Peters
Jay Peters
The company behind Sam Altman’s World orb said it had a partnership with Bruno Mars, except it actually doesn’t.

Wired has the story about the not-real partnership, which was promoted alongside other announcements last week. How did this happen??

Elon Musk admits that millions of Tesla vehicles won’t get unsupervised FSDElon Musk admits that millions of Tesla vehicles won’t get unsupervised FSD

Tesla cars on HW3 won’t be getting unsupervised FSD.

Jay Peters
Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
Google says 75 percent of all its new code is AI-generated.

That’s “up from 50% last fall,” according to a blog post from Google CEO Sundar Pichai. Google recently created a “strike team” to improve its AI models’ coding capabilities and catch up to Anthropic, which as of February writes 70 to 90 percent of its code with Claude Code.

Terrence O'Brien
Terrence O'Brien
Spotify starts rolling out its voluntary AI labels.

After announcing in September it was working with industry group DDEX on a standard for disclosing when AI is used in a song, AI credits are launching with DistroKid as the first partner. Unfortunately, even if the rest of the industry gets on board, voluntary labels likely won’t be enough as AI uploads threaten to overtake humans.

AI credits on Spotify’s mobile app showing generative AI being used to create the synthesizer track.
1/2Image: Spotify
X is going to let Grok curate your timelineX is going to let Grok curate your timeline

Grok will personalize your timeline based on the topics you select.

Emma Roth
Tesla’s revenue rises again as it prepares for more AI and roboticsTesla’s revenue rises again as it prepares for more AI and robotics

Tesla says it will soon begin preparations for its first ‘large-scale’ factory to make Optimus robots.

Andrew J. Hawkins
Jacob Kastrenakes
Jacob Kastrenakes
Spotted on the Google stage: a giant Apple logo.

Per 9to5Mac, Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian was excited to boast about Gemini’s big new customer. The upgraded Siri is still coming “later this year.”

AI failure could trigger the next financial crisis, warns Elizabeth WarrenAI failure could trigger the next financial crisis, warns Elizabeth Warren

“The first big stumble will have everyone running for the exits.”

Lauren Feiner
Victoria Song
Victoria Song
RFK Jr. says AI could make the FDA “irrelevant.”

Kennedy’s remarks come from congressional hearings today. He claims AI, while “very dangerous” has the opportunity to “develop new drugs and personalized medicine for every citizen.” Please, a moment of silence for my sanity.

Mia Sato
Mia Sato
Kalshi fined and banned three political candidates for insider trading.

The prediction market took action against a handful of congressional candidates: Ezekiel Enriquez (a Republican running in Texas); Mark Moran (an Independent in Virginia, who says he meant to get caught); and Matt Klein (a Democrat in Minnesota) for betting in markets related to their political races. Each was banned from the platform for five years and fined modest amounts ranging from several hundred to several thousand dollars.

OpenAI now lets teams make custom bots that can do work on their ownOpenAI now lets teams make custom bots that can do work on their own

The new workspace agents can perform tasks like reporting on product feedback on their own in the cloud.

Jay Peters
Alexis Ohanian shocks Washington with pro-immigration remarksAlexis Ohanian shocks Washington with pro-immigration remarks

The Reddit cofounder took a stand against the administration’s deportation policies, breaking from the tech CEOs trying to curry favor with Trump.

Tina Nguyen
Emma Roth
Emma Roth
The latest iOS 26.4.2 update appears to fix the Signal notification bug.

Earlier this month, 404 Media reported that the FBI obtained deleted Signal messages saved inside an iPhone’s notification database. It looks like the iOS 26.4.2 security update addresses this, as Apple says it has fixed an issue where “notifications marked for deletion could be unexpectedly retained on the device.”

Former MrBeast exec sues over ‘years’ of alleged harassmentFormer MrBeast exec sues over ‘years’ of alleged harassment

A former executive at Beast Industries says she and other women at the company were harassed by male colleagues.

Stevie Bonifield
Nilay Patel
Nilay Patel
Even the fancy lawyers are getting pantsed by AI.

Sullivan and Cromwell, the law firm representing President Trump in many of his cases and which handled the SpaceX and xAI merger, was just forced to apologize to a federal judge for filing documents full of fake case citations hallucinated by AI. The list of errors ran three pages long, the NYT reports. Just the latest in the legal profession forgetting that language is not actually intelligence.

Sean Hollister
Sean Hollister
Turns out Framework’s eGPU is even more powerful than I thought.

Framework told PCWorld that its new eGPU kit will include the first OCuLink 8i connector in a laptop — meaning eight lanes and 128Gbps of PCI-Express connectivity, which means it should be even faster than Thunderbolt 5 and shouldn’t bottleneck a GPU as much as the four-lane solutions we’ve tried before.

Sean Hollister
Sean Hollister
We found Microsoft’s amicus brief about the Xbox mobile game store.

Microsoft’s new gaming boss said the “idea” isn’t dead, pointing onlookers to a legal brief it filed in a case. That case is Epic v. Google, and the brief is an argument that Judge Donato should stay the course and force Google to carry stores like Microsoft’s. There, Microsoft claims it’s put “significant efforts” behind “new consumer offerings” for Android.

Ember’s self-heating smart mug is more than $50 off ahead of Mother’s DayEmber’s self-heating smart mug is more than $50 off ahead of Mother’s Day

The Ember Mug 2 can keep your cup of joe at the perfect temperature for hours on end.

Sheena Vasani
Watch Sony’s elite ping-pong robot beat top-ranked playersWatch Sony’s elite ping-pong robot beat top-ranked players

Ace is an AI-powered articulated robot that uses 12 cameras to compete against top table tennis players.

Andrew Liszewski
Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Chrome Enterprise is keeping watch for unauthorized AI use.

A new security feature in Chrome Enterprise can help businesses detect and combat “anomalous” activity by AI-powered agents within compromised extensions or online services. Google is rolling out its AI auto browse feature to enterprise customers as well, which can perform multi-step tasks in Chrome on your behalf.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Threads is getting live chats.

When you’re in a Threads Community’s live chat, you can talk with real time with other users about what’s going on. For the NBA playoffs, the NBA Threads Community will be hosting some live chats to follow games. Live chats will come to other Community feeds in the coming months, Meta says.

Screenshots of Threads’ live chat feature.
Image: Meta
Anthropic’s Mythos rollout has missed America’s cybersecurity agencyAnthropic’s Mythos rollout has missed America’s cybersecurity agency

CISA, embattled under the Trump administration, reportedly hasn’t gotten Anthropic’s powerful AI.

Lauren Feiner
Microsoft teases mysterious Discord and Xbox Game Pass partnershipMicrosoft teases mysterious Discord and Xbox Game Pass partnership

Microsoft is looking at new ways to bundle third-party services into Game Pass.

Tom Warren
Charles Pulliam-Moore
Charles Pulliam-Moore
Why the long face?

The latest poster for DC Studios’ upcoming Clayface movie — out October 23rd — from director James Watkins definitely leans into a kind of body horror that’s very different for the DCU. That kind of energy could be nice change of pace as the studio builds its new cinematic universe.

Update: And now we’ve got a trailer.

Google Meet will take AI notes for in-person meetings tooGoogle Meet will take AI notes for in-person meetings too

Users can also get AI summaries and transcripts for meetings in Zoom and Teams.

Stevie Bonifield
Microsoft says the ‘idea’ of an Xbox mobile store ‘is not dead’Microsoft says the ‘idea’ of an Xbox mobile store ‘is not dead’

Microsoft has been trying to launch an Xbox mobile store for years, but it has been counting on app stores opening up.

Tom Warren
Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Gmail’s AI Overviews is expanding to business users.

The feature, which first arrived for AI Pro and Ultra subscribers in January, lets you use Gmail’s search bar to ask questions about what’s in your inbox. Gmail will then provide an AI-generated summary that draws from the information in your emails.

Image: Google
David Pierce
David Pierce
It’s smart home season on Version History.

We’re recording the next six episodes of Version History next week, and I’d love your input on all of them! We want to feature your stories and memories and try to answer your questions. Here are the next six episodes, all related to the smart home:

  • The Nest thermostat
  • The Clapper
  • The Harmony remote
  • The Hue lights
  • The Roomba
  • The Keurig

If any of those spark any kind of reaction, tell me! I’m [email protected], and you can also call the hotline at 866-VERGE11. Make sure you subscribe to get all the new episodes as soon as they drop. Thanks in advance!

Victoria Song
Victoria Song
Oura’s the official wearable of US soccer.

Unsurprising, given Oura’s discreet form-factor and its long-term relationships with several professional sports organizations. You likely won’t see it on the pitch during this year’s World Cup (FIFA is a no-go for wearables during play). That said, it is another example of how professional athletes are integrating wearables into their training.

Will a new CEO help realize Apple’s smart home potential?Will a new CEO help realize Apple’s smart home potential?

John Ternus inherits a smart home platform that’s been waiting a decade to matter. His first act could be making it happen.

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
David Pierce
David Pierce
New things from... New Things, from Joanna Stern.

Our pal Joanna recently left The Wall Street Journal to go start her own thing, and just dropped the first episode of her new YouTube show! Casey Neistat makes an appearance, and Joanna writes with a Sharpie on camera, so you know it’s good YouTube.

Sony’s PlayStation 5 is $200 off for the first time since DecemberSony’s PlayStation 5 is $200 off for the first time since December

We also found some great deals on Google-made fitness trackers starting at $109.95.

Cameron Faulkner
Andrew Webster
Andrew Webster
The long wait is over.

Boards of Canada have just confirmed that their first album in well over a decade, called Inferno, will be out on May 29th. I was already sold, but this cryptic 40-second-long teaser has me even more excited.

Now Meta will track what employees do on their computers to train its AI agentsNow Meta will track what employees do on their computers to train its AI agents

The ‘Model Capability Initiative’ records mouse activity, keystrokes, and screenshots to use as AI training data.

Stevie Bonifield
Andrew Liszewski
Andrew Liszewski
Razer says its new Atlas Pro is the world’s thinnest glass mouse mat.

The original Atlas is 5mm thick, but the $129.99 Atlas Pro slims that down to just 1.9mm with a 1.1 mm sheet of tempered glass atop a 0.8 mm anti-slip base. The surface of the mat features a micro-etched texture, ensuring it’s compatible with optical sensors, while the edges of the glass have been CNC-milled to create a comfortable rounded finish.

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<em>The mat is available in a black or white finish and measures 19.69 inches by 15.75 inches in size.</em>
<em>Razer says the Atlas Pro is thinner than a US nickel, but given its size it doesn’t feature any LED lighting.</em>
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The mat is available in a black or white finish and measures 19.69 inches by 15.75 inches in size.
Image: Razer
Charles Pulliam-Moore
Charles Pulliam-Moore
Wile E. Coyote lives to scheme another day.

Though Warner Bros. tried to kill Coyote vs. Acme for the insurance money tax write-offs, Ketchup Entertainment has released the long overdue movie’s first trailer ahead of its theatrical debut on August 28th.

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