Kevin Nguyen

george russell, dying inside

being an athlete in 2026 just means being tortured by answering the stupidest questions for social video

100%! i don’t want to say this work is easy, but also, it’s not as hard as a16z made it seem

Future was so funny. it’s like they barely tried?

Trae Stephens Wants to Buy Wired. He's Right. A 2011 article about male birth control became a Founders Fund investment. That's what great journalism does. Wired forgot.

oh yeah here it is garryslist.org/posts/trae-s...

Trae Stephens Wants to Buy Wired. He's Right. A 2011 article about male birth control became a Founders Fund investment. That's what great journalism does. Wired forgot.

gotchu

Believing the point of Wired—or journalism at large—is to give ideas for venture capitalists to invest in is bafflingly ahistorical and narcissistic.

MA/RI/ME/NH-oooh la la, want your bad romance

i think we are on the same train 🥲

gotta be a martini too

oooo jealous

omg you're totally right

how does he look both 22 and 52 at the same time

Why is SpaceX going public? Musk in 2013:  “I am hesitant to foist being public on SpaceX, especially given the long term nature of our mission.”

[furiously smoking four cigarettes at once] I wrote about the SpaceX IPO www.theverge.com/tech/887899/...

great interview!

When Life Gave Her Ageism, She Created Oldster

Had the good fortune to talk a bit about Oldster Magazine with Kasia Pilat at The New York Times.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/s...

How OpenAI caved to the Pentagon on AI surveillance The law doesn’t say what Sam Altman claims it does.

NEW: On Friday night when OpenAI announced its Pentagon deal, people immediately challenged Sam Altman's claims. Why, they asked, would the DoD suddenly agree to red lines when it had clearly said it would never budge?

The answer, sources told me, is that it didn't.
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Across social media and the Al industry, people immediately began to challenge Altman's claim. Why, they asked, would the Pentagon suddenly agree to the red lines that it had said — in no uncertain terms — that it would never do so? The answer, sources told The Verge, is that the Pentagon didn't budge. OpenAl agreed to follow laws that have allowed for mass surveillance in the past, while insisting they protect its red lines. One source familiar with the Pentagon's negotiations with Al companies confirmed that OpenAl's deal is much softer than the one Anthropic was pushing for, thanks largely to three words: "any lawful use." In negotiations, the person said, the Pentagon wouldn't back down on its desire to collect and analyze bulk data on Americans. If you look line-by-line at the OpenAl terms, the source said, every aspect of it boils down to: If it's technically legal, then the US military can use OpenAl's technology to carry it out. And over the past decades, the US government has stretched the definition of "technically legal" to cover sweeping mass surveillance programs - and more.

Sam Altman got played and spun it like a win - @haydenfield.bsky.social has the scoop from a weekend’s worth of reporting from inside the Pentagon AI negotiations. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

“Rutherford Statement on Operation Epic Furry” “Furry” highlighted by me http://rutherford.house.gov/media/press-releases/rutherford-statement-operation-epic-furry

Google result showing the presser for Rutherford’s statement on “Operation Epic Furry” was posted 11 hours ago

What a time to be alive

listen you removed her because you didn’t want look at her feet anymore

One million percent psyched that ASMEs and the National Magazine Awards honored @theverge.com art team's work with FIVE nominations. SO proud of our scrappy little team and stuff we made. Threading the eye candy: asme.memberclicks.net/national-mag...

We don’t have to have unsupervised killer robots It’s the day of the Pentagon’s looming ultimatum for Anthropic. The situation has left employees at some companies with defense contracts feeling betrayed.

NEW: Amid the Anthropic-Pentagon situation, all week, I've been speaking to employees at OpenAI, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and more companies, who have expressed similar feelings about the changing moral landscapes internally.

Here's what's going on. (Gift link) www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

I think the coolest thing we do at The Verge is publish comics. This one is brilliant (and behind the scenes, an absolute beast of engineering)

lmao true you really will love dispatch tho

ah yes the game i told you to get MONTHS ago

what writer were they posing as?

A Slackbot reminder with the text above

Reminder: A Slave ended

we finally reached the end of this calendar event i accidentally made 12 years ago

i do this constantly but i’m like… maybe i lent it to someone?

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