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AI toys are telling kids how to find knives, and senators are mad

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Sexual fetish content. How to light a match. Where to find knives in the home. These are all conversation topics that recently-recalled children’s toys – built atop AI chatbots like OpenAI’s GPT-4o – are capable of bringing up to children. On Tuesday, U.S. senators Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) sent a letter to […]

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Tesla would have to rein in FSD under new Democratic bill

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Tesla and other automakers working on Level 2 and higher driving systems would be required to restrict their vehicles to specific road types or clearly defined operational domains under a new bill introduced today by Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey (D). Operational design domains, or ODDs, are a set of conditions, either geographic or weather-related, in […]

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What could’ve been Google’s worst year turned into one of its best

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2025 could have been a pretty disastrous year for Google. The company came in knowing it had three major legal battles to fight, increasing competition in the burgeoning AI market, and a new US president to adapt to. It looked possible – perhaps likely – that the company might be broken up and forced to […]

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Even Trump’s chief of staff was ‘aghast’ at Elon Musk’s deadly USAID cuts

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Elon Musk, a billionaire who decimated the United States federal workforce using the Department of Government Efficiency, is not remembered fondly by the most powerful woman in Washington: Susie Wiles, White House Chief of Staff and the gatekeeper to President Donald Trump. In several on-the-record interviews with Vanity Fair’s Chris Whipple conducted over the past […]

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How Silicon Valley turned Trump into a fellow broligarch

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Hello and welcome to 2025’s last issue of Regulator. If you’re not a Verge subscriber, get off the 2026 naughty list by signing up here. And if you’re a Verge subscriber – well, dang, that’s really nice of you. Last week, I appeared on The Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC to talk about my reporting […]

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‘Twitter never left:’ X sues Operation Bluebird for trademark infringement

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X Corp. is suing Operation Bluebird, a recently-announced startup that aims to reclaim the Twitter brand for a new social network. In a lawsuit filed on Tuesday, the Elon Musk-owned company alleges Operation Bluebird is “brazenly attempting to steal” Twitter’s trademarks, claiming “Twitter never left and continues to be exclusively owned by X Corp.” Last […]

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Trump admin threatens retaliation against Spotify and others over EU tech regulation

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The Office of the US Trade Representative posted on X Tuesday, claiming that US service providers have been hit by “a continuing course of discriminatory and harassing lawsuits, taxes, fines, and directives” from the EU. Earlier this month, X was fined $140 million under the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA), in addition to new laws, […]

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What 1,000 pages of documents tell us about DOGE

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Months after staffers from the Department of Government Efficiency were found in the Federal Communications Commission directory, the FCC is being accused of slow-walking demands for information about what they did there. On February 24th, advocacy group Frequency Forward and journalist Nina Burleigh filed a public records request to the FCC, seeking details about DOGE’s […]

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