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Terrence O'Brien

Terrence O'Brien

Weekend Editor

Weekend Editor

Terrence O’Brien is a journalist, editor, and producer from New York City with over 18 years of experience and is The Verge’s weekend editor. In addition to spending 10 years as managing editor at Engadget, his work has appeared on Wired, MusicTech, Guitar.com, Refinery 29, and more. He has also composed music for podcasts and feature films. In his spare time, Terrence collects hobbies at an alarming rate.

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Vibe coding is turning the music gear world upside down

LLMs have led to an explosion of custom firmware and hacks for synths, samplers, and grooveboxes.

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Anthropic is committing 5 percent of its shares to a ‘Public Benefit Fund’

The new Anthropic Public Benefit Fund will be a wholly owned LLC, which the company says will give it “flexibility.” It offered little information about how it would use the money, other than saying it wouldn’t fund lobbying or political donations. It offered limited examples of what it might do:

… we might explore large donations to traditional nonprofits or direct distributions to specific populations.

One example is labor market impacts. AI may generate enormous economic value, but it could also cause instability for many workers. Anthropic has already committed $200 million to studying and addressing this issue, but given the pace of AI progress, bolder approaches may be needed.

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Terrence O'Brien
You Can See Everything has the biggest opening weekend for a doc in 20 years.

Nathan Fielder’s three-hour documentary about Elizabeth Holmes raked in $15 million in its opening weekend. That’s double expectations and enough to place it in second place at the box office this weekend, behind only Street Fighter. What’s more, it’s the largest opening for a non-music or concert documentary since 2004’s Fahrenheit 9/11.

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Terrence O'Brien
Nicolas Cage and Antonio Banderas will star in True Detective season five.

Cage will play Henry Logan, and Banderas will play Rai Garcia. The season will take place in Jamaica Bay, New York and beyond that, not much is known. The series is set to enter production in 2027, and showrunner Issa López will return after the reasonably well-received season four, Night Country.

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Terrence O'Brien
What’s your favorite documentary feature film?

There are two hugely hyped docs out right now that I am eager to see — Musk and You Can See Everything. But it’s rare for a feature-length documentary to get this much attention and a wide theatrical release. So, what are your favorite docs that others might have missed?

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Terrence O'Brien
The Musk documentary’s TikTok ad account has ‘been restored after an error.’

Yesterday it was reported that the TikTok account for Alex Gibney’s Musk documentary had been “permanently suspended.” Today, TikTok US spokesperson Mahsau Cullinane told The Verge, “I can confirm that the advertising account has been restored after an error,” which was described as technical.