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Why Hasan Piker thinks Democrats are moving in his direction
Hasan Piker in Vancouver, Canada, on May 13, 2026. | Florencia Tan Jun/Web Summit via Sportsfile via Getty Images Here’s what’s undeniable: The Democratic electorate has dramatically...
The mystery of how China is keeping down the world’s oil prices
An ultra-large crude oil tanker at the Beihai shipyard in Qingdao City, Shandong Province, China on June 10, 2026. | CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images Gas prices are high right now — an...
The future of Hollywood isn’t feeding prompts into vanilla gen AI models
Concept art from Dear Upstairs Neighbors that used to train custom builds of Google’s Veo and Imagen models. | Image: Google DeepMind For all the noise that's been made about how generative AI is...
OpenAI is facing investigation from a group of state attorneys general
A coalition of state attorneys general is asking OpenAI for documents about its activities.
Anthropic blocks all customers’ access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
Anthropic has suspended all access to its new AI models Fable 5 and Mythos 5 to comply with a government order citing national security concerns.
Valve just imported 13 tons of VR headsets in one day
On June 10th, the German container ship Posen docked in Los Angeles after a two-week voyage from Shanghai. As Valve watcher Brad Lynch notes, it was almost certainly carrying the first mass...
Nothing CEO says phone prices are going to keep going up
Nothing Phone 4A Pro | Photo: Dominic Preston / The Verge If you're thinking about upgrading your phone, "the best time was yesterday," according to Nothing CEO and co-founder Carl Pei, echoing a...
The SpaceX IPO broke Robinhood for some people
Some Robinhood users looking to cash in on the SpaceX IPO were met with technical issues.
DJI and Insta360 are in a patent battle over vlogging cameras
DJI and Insta360 are suing and counter-suing each other over their respective vlogging cameras.
The world’s first trillionaire is a killer
Hm! | Photo: Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images Elon Musk's SpaceX IPO will probably make him the richest person to ever walk the planet. And while his mountain of horrible personal conduct...