Richard Lawler

Through four days, at least, after moving 3.5 million units over the weekend. You’ve heard our thoughts on the system, what are yours?

You might recognize this TeslaVision campaign seeking fan-submitted ads as a callback to the Project Loveday contest from 2017 (that was the year the Model 3 started shipping, but the new Roadster and Semi did not).

The Verge’s new senior AI reporter, Hayden Field, noticed we didn’t hear the name of Apple’s assistant very much during the WWDC 2025 keynote on Monday.

While Comcast / NBCUniversal argued for a Hulu valuation that could’ve cost Disney another $5 billion on top of the $8.6 billion it had already paid, a third-party appraiser reached a number much closer to Disney’s. That ended their dispute -- simmering since 2019 -- for only an extra $438.7 million, as reported by THR and Axios.

If you ask The Verge reporters who were there liveblogging Apple’s keynote today, the answer is (mostly) Spotlight.

At WWDC 2025, Apple just showed off a new update coming to its wearables this fall.

There’s a flood of reports about college students apparently using AI to cheat their way through college, and debating whether or not that’s the actual problem. Now, NBC4 in Columbus points out Ohio State’s new AI Fluency plan that targets the class of 2029 (with some level of assumptions that our current view of generative AI will still be relevant by then), focusing on a few steps:

Atkinson’s family announced that he passed away last Thursday due to pancreatic cancer. Employee number 51 at Apple, Atkinson worked on the Macintosh, MacPaint, and HyperCard.

Mark Gurman’s Bloomberg newsletter brings one more pre-WWDC 25 rumor, saying the most exciting part of the conference will be the rumored design overhaul for iPhone, Mac, and other platforms that he says is called Liquid Glass (remember Microsoft’s Aero Glass, and Apple’s iOS 7 shift away from skeuomorphism?).

If you already bought a Windows gaming handheld, you might not need to upgrade your hardware to get the overhauled Xbox app, Game Bar, and Windows OS that Microsoft and Asus just announced.