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Silicon Valley has forgotten what normal people want

One of the most mortifying things about knowing a lot of techies is listening to them tell me excitedly about some very important discovery that they believe they have made. Recently, I ran into an acquaintance of mine, who began talking my ear off about an amazing discovery he’d made with LLMs. Knowledge, it turns […]

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Ben McKenzie vs. crypto

A few years ago, during the absolute peak of the cryptocurrency craze, a somewhat surprising skeptic emerged. Most people know Ben McKenzie from his acting work on Southland or Gotham, or would recognize him instantly as Ryan Atwood from The O.C. While seemingly everyone else was buying Bitcoin, McKenzie decided to figure out what Bitcoin […]

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David Sacks is no longer the White House AI and Crypto Czar

David Sacks, the venture capitalist and tech billionaire who’d become Silicon Valley’s primary advocate inside the White House and a key architect of its aggressive AI policy initiatives, revealed on Thursday that he was no longer a special government employee – and therefore no longer President Donald Trump’s Special Advisor on AI and Crypto. Sacks’ […]

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Trump’s AI chief’s big Iran warning gets big time ignored

Hello and welcome to Regulator, a newsletter for Verge subscribers about the politics of technology and the technology of politics – now landing in your inbox on Wednesdays! If someone has forwarded this email to you, and you’re not a Verge subscriber yet, you should sign up right here, and not just because it would […]

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Oh, you think the government will regulate Kalshi and Polymarket? Wanna bet?

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has a problem: It’s not very good at policing insider trading. And insider trading has become a pressing concern for prediction markets. Even Kalshi’s recently publicized fines for insider trading – levied against a politician and an employee of YouTube influencer MrBeast – were effectively self-policing. The exchange says it’s […]

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Prediction markets in the news are a dangerous gamble

Today on Decoder, let’s talk about prediction markets, which continue to insert themselves into the news cycle and the news itself in increasingly weird, unsettling, and potentially illegal ways.  My guest today is Liz Lopatto, senior reporter at The Verge, who owns what we cheerfully call the chaos beat. Liz has been writing a lot […]

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Jeffrey Epstein saw promise in Bitcoin — and its far-right supporters

The tranche of Jeffrey Epstein emails and files released on January 30th tie the infamous pedophile, sex trafficker, and influence peddler to elite figures across the tech industry. The world of cryptocurrency is no exception. Epstein’s connections are intriguing, disturbing – and worth mapping closely. With his interest first piqued as early as 2011, Epstein […]

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