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How Last Samurai Standing adds kinetic action to the Battle Royale formula

Junichi Okada talks about the new Netflix series and how his role as action planner touches nearly every part of it.

Geoffrey Bunting
The year the government broke

2025 was the year the federal government and consumer protections were gutted.

Lauren Feiner
The best books we read in 2025The best books we read in 2025
Verge Staff
2025: a year in art on The Verge2025: a year in art on The Verge
Verge Staff
Don’t expect Trump Media’s nuclear fusion power plant to generate electricity soon

The energy demands of AI are driving investment in futuristic fusion reactors from Big Tech and now Trump Media. Is it viable?

Justine Calma
Who owns Trump Mobile?Who owns Trump Mobile?
Dominic Preston
iRobot’s bankruptcy isn’t the end — it’s a reboot

The Roomba maker is being sold to its Chinese contract manufacturer, a move CEO Gary Cohen says will keep the company alive and allow it to grow.

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
It’s the great AGI rebrand

AI companies are sick of their favorite buzzword.

Hayden Field
Billionaires want data centers everywhere, including space

Astronomers and environmental scientists are skeptical.

Elissa Welle
The Verge’s 2025 in reviewThe Verge’s 2025 in review
Barbara Krasnoff
What could’ve been Google’s worst year turned into one of its best

In 2025, the company staved off monopoly charges and AI upstarts to set revenue records.

Dominic Preston
A vague study on Nazi bots created chaos in the Taylor Swift fan universe

An analysis of social media posts following Swift’s album release found “inauthentic” activity online. The Taylor Swift media ecosystem is divided over what it means.

Mia Sato
Larry Ellison’s big dumb gift to his large adult son

A plan so astonishingly dumb, even Warner Bros. doesn’t believe it’ll happen.

Elizabeth Lopatto
What 1,000 pages of documents tell us about DOGE

As Brendan Carr heads to Capitol Hill, newly released documents still don’t say much about what DOGE did at the FCC.

Lauren Feiner
Racks of AI chips are too damn heavy

Old data centers physically cannot support rows and rows of GPUs, which is one reason for the massive AI data center buildout.

Elissa Welle
The ‘mad rush’ to install solar panels before tax credits run out

The solar industry is pivoting to survive Donald Trump’s attacks on clean energy.

Justine Calma
How Roomba invented the home robot — and lost the future

iRobot’s collapse marks the end of an era. Co-founder Colin Angle calls it a blow for robotics.

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
Musicians are getting really tired of this AI clone ‘bullshit’

The anger over fake songs is boiling over into action.

Terrence O'Brien
Mamoru Hosoda explains why Hamlet is everywhere this year

The director behind Belle and Summer Wars on why his fantasy epic Scarlet is so timely.

Andrew Webster
AI companies want a new internet — and they think they’ve found the key

MCP has already taken the industry by storm, and now Anthropic is giving it away.

Hayden Field