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Nilay Patel

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    Sowmyanarayan Sampath on the 5G race with China and the challenges of standing up to the Trump administration.

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    How Trump’s tariffs actually work on the ground

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    From meme stocks to bank accounts, how Robinhood is expanding its turf.

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    Why DOGE is killing the agency that keeps banks from ripping you off

    Rohit Chopra, Trump’s fired Wall Street watchdog, on the future of financial regulation.

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    UiPath CEO Daniel Dines on AI agents replacing our jobs

    After some time away, the head of UiPath is placing a big bet on agentic AI being the future of automation.

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    What AI anime memes tell us about the future of art and humanity

    The Studio Ghibli saga has blown the AI art debate wide open.

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    The Cadillac Vistiq EV is already quietly on sale.

    The three-row Cadillac Vistiq SUV was scheduled to arrive in “spring” as a 2026 model, which usually means late June, but they’re already popping up for sale — here’s a dramatic TikTok from a dealer in Indiana. It’s expensive, with a starting price of $77,395, but it’s in the same zone as similar Rivian R1S and Kia EV9 trims, and you get the feeling Cadillac is pushing these out to capitalize on the wave of Tesla trade-ins and general anxiety about the $7500 EV tax credit going away.

    CEO Matt Bromberg on ending Unity’s ‘war’ against its customers

    How Unity weathered a user revolt and refocused on its game engine

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    AI is going to make personalized ads even creepier.

    We talked about this on the Vergecast today, but Nvidia showed off fully AI-generated ads recently, something it’s been testing with big partners like Unilever. If you’re wondering why big platform companies like Meta and Google are so excited about AI video generation, it’s because the dream is to serve an infinite variety of custom personalized video ads after a brand uploads some basic creative assets and demographic targeting information. Get ready, it’s going to get weird.