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OpenAI gives some employees a ‘special’ multimillion-dollar bonus It’s good to be an AI researcher.

love a midnight surprise scoop from @alexeheath.com in command line: sam altman gets in the mix on huge payouts to keep ai researchers www.theverge.com/command-line...

Google TV’s uncertain future Google isn’t very good at selling ads for its own smart TV platform, Google TV.

Very excited to have our first column from @jank0.bsky.social and Lowpass on the site. Starting off with a banger about Google's struggle in the TV business www.theverge.com/lowpass-news...

Microsoft is cautiously onboarding Grok 4 following Hitler concerns Grok 4 is going into private preview, for now

Another scoop from @tomwarren.co.uk in NOTEPAD on @theverge.com: safety concerns with Grok 4 are preventing Microsoft from distributing it widely www.theverge.com/notepad-micr...

It has to be your subscription email, but they'll also run on the site and subscribers will get access to individual RSS feeds for both, so you've got some options

Lowpass Filtering the future: Join 17,000 AR, VR and streaming executives and enthusiasts and receive in-depth reporting about the future of entertainment every Thursday.

finally, LOWPASS has been a must-read for us since @jank0.bsky.social launched it, and I'm thrilled to bring his writing to our site on a regular basis. Verge subs will see his coverage of the future of tech and entertainment once per week (and can head over to Lowpass for more!) www.lowpass.cc

Welcome to The Stepback, a weekly breakdown of one essential story from across the tech world Subscribe to our new newsletter for stories from the writers that know them best.

THE STEPBACK is a weekly deep dive into a single issue we can't stop thinking about. Writers from across our team will break down an essential story, why it matters, and what comes next — everything from the explosion of big trucks to the dangers of deep sea mining www.theverge.com/the-stepback...

Welcome to Regulator The future of tech and politics is only getting weirder.

REGULATOR is a deep dive into politics for people who care about and work in tech. Tina does the smartest writing around about how the tech world and policy worlds have smashed together, and now Verge subscribers can get her breakdowns weekly www.theverge.com/regulator-ne...

Introducing Regulator and The Stepback, our new subscriber-exclusive newsletters We’re launching two exclusive newsletters and a partnership with Lowpass by Janko Roettgers.

🚨 another big launch day at @theverge.com

introducing...
REGULATOR by @tinanguyen.bsky.social
THE STEPBACK by @mfortki.bsky.social

and I'm very excited to be partnering with @jank0.bsky.social to bring issues of LOWPASS to the site, too! www.theverge.com/bulletin/719...