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The AI sexting era has arrived

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on AI and the industry’s power dynamics and societal implications, follow Hayden Field. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers’ inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. Since ChatGPT became a household name, people have…

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Meta is building a smart TV — in VR

This is Lowpass by Janko Roettgers, a newsletter on the ever-evolving intersection of tech and entertainment, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. Big hero images highlighting select TV shows and movies, a row of app icons, a bunch of additional content recommendations: At first glance, Meta’s new Horizon TV app looks a…

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Tales from the AI hiring frenzy

This is an excerpt of Sources by Alex Heath, a newsletter about AI and the tech industry, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. The billboard didn’t say “Listen Labs.” It didn’t say anything about hiring. It consisted of just a plain white background with “https://” and a single line of grouped numbers…

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With a Friend like this, who needs enemies?

This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent every Friday from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest phones, smartwatches, apps, and other gizmos that swear they’re going to change your life. Optimizer arrives in our subscribers’ inboxes at 10AM ET. Opt in for Optimizer here. The New York City subway is…

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Amazon’s Vega OS launch trick: cloud-streamed apps

This is Lowpass by Janko Roettgers, a newsletter on the ever-evolving intersection of tech and entertainment, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. Vega OS is finally here: On Tuesday, Amazon officially unveiled its new, custom-built Vega entertainment devices operating system with the launch of the Fire TV Stick 4K Select, a new…

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Column | Lost in Carroll Land

On September 25, Netflix released the third and final season of its popular Japanese sci-fi thriller series Alice in Borderland. The show’s protagonist, the lonely, video-game obsessed Arisu (Kento Yamazaki) is trapped in a dystopian version of Tokyo (…the Borderland) alongside his friends as they are forced to participate in a series of sadistic games…

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TikTok, #freedom edition | The Verge

Hello and welcome to Regulator. Today is the last day of The Verge’s very good subscription sale: $4 for a month and $35 for the year, for full access to the entire site. Don’t delay! When we launched Regulator two months ago, the premise was that I’d write about the collision between Big Tech and…

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James Cameron on AI: it’s ‘just as creative’ as people, but with no ‘unique lived experience’

In December, Meta announced a multiyear partnership with James Cameron’s Lightstorm Vision to bring 3D entertainment to Meta’s Quest headsets. This week, Cameron joined Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth on stage during the company’s Meta Connect conference to share a first result of that partnership: Quest owners are able to watch an exclusive preview clip for…

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