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Elon Musk and the plot to hijack America’s broadband

BEAD was a once-in-a-generation chance to fix the digital divide — then turned into a gift for tech moguls.

Karl Bode and Sean Gonsalves
Musician and YouTuber Hainbach on ‘Breath of the Wild’ and Swiss Army Knives

The experimental composer has a new album, a new plugin, and strong feelings about mattresses.

Terrence O'Brien
Barret Zoph is out at OpenAI again after just five months

He rejoined the company in January after a stint as cofounder of Mira Murati’s competitor, Thinking Machines Lab.

Hayden Field
Amazon employees say they’re facing termination for backing data center limits

After speaking up for regulation on data centers, Seattle activists say they were called into meetings with HR.

Hayden Field
Can anyone look cool wearing Snap’s $2,000 glasses?

Short answer: Of course not.

Victoria Song
Pour one out for Roku City

Under Lachlan Murdoch’s leadership, Roku will become a doorway to all things Fox.

Charles Pulliam-Moore
Inside the fight over Claude Mythos 5

The government torpedoed Anthropic’s newest, most powerful model. Sources tell The Verge that the AI lab and other AI boosters spent the weekend trying to explain that Fable 5 wasn’t too powerful.

Hayden Field