David Pierce

Editor-at-Large

How to un-Big Tech your online life

David PierceFeb 14

Ring’s adorable surveillance hellscape

David PierceFeb 13

Could the Trump Phone be a good phone?

David PierceFeb 10

The best way to watch the Olympics

David PierceFeb 7

How Epstein became a tech influencer

David PierceFeb 6

David PierceFeb 5

Our friend Joanna Stern is becoming a YouTuber.

Notable Verge traitor (and current occasional Vergecast prognosticator) Joanna Stern is leaving The Wall Street Journal to join the creator world, starting with a YouTube channel. She’s got big plans, which I can only assume include many more terrifying robots living in her house.

We asked the Journal for comment, and got a statement from editor-in-chief Emma Tucker that is so nice I almost don’t want to reprint it, but here it is anyway:

“Joanna’s been a brilliant colleague on our tech beat and on our video team, bringing a sharp, unmistakable energy and voice to our coverage. We’ve loved her distinctive take on the industry, and while we’re sad to see her go, we’re delighted that she’ll continue to contribute for us and we wish her the very best as she heads off on a fresh new adventure.”

David PierceFeb 3

Sam Altman kinda-sorta-almost declares AGI.

In the middle of a Forbes profile of Altman’s journey through the AI world — which is just astoundingly chaotic, when you see it all laid out in a row — Altman says that “we basically have built AGI, or very close to it.” Which, uh, okay! But then he changes his mind, sort of. From the story:

A few days later, Altman dials things back. “I meant that as a spiritual statement, not a literal one,” he says. Achieving AGI, he concedes, will require “a lot of medium-sized breakthroughs. I don’t think we need a big one.”