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Nilay Patel

@reckless
1175 posts
2026-04-07
Remember that viral report about Google traffic to tech sites plummeting?  It was massaged data from a firm selling “AI SEO” which just wanted attention - and search referrals!  —  @miasato.bsky.social reports on the shady new ways SEO hustlers are trying to game search www.theverge.com/tech/900302/ ... …
2026-04-07 View on X
The Verge

A look at the gold rush for firms claiming to help brands get cited by AI search tools, via tactics like hiding instructions behind “Summarize with AI” buttons

Let's pretend you work in IT and you're looking for a new digital service desk platform to help your employees reset passwords or onboard new hires.

2026-03-31
As @davidpierce.xyz keeps saying, AI is fundamentally enterprise tech!  I am convinced shoving it onto consumers without actually-great products is like forcing everyone to really really consider the consequences of giving SAP first-strike capabilities [embedded post]
2026-03-31 View on X
Bloomberg

Quinnipiac poll: 55% of Americans say AI will do more harm than good in their day-to-day lives, and 65% oppose building data centers in their community

Americans are increasingly turning against artificial intelligence, with growing majorities saying they fear the fast-moving technology …

2026-03-30
As @davidpierce.xyz keeps saying, AI is fundamentally enterprise tech!  I am convinced shoving it onto consumers without actually-great products is like forcing everyone to really really consider the consequences of giving SAP first-strike capabilities [embedded post]
2026-03-30 View on X
Bloomberg

Quinnipiac poll: 55% of Americans say AI will do more harm than good in their day-to-day lives, and 65% oppose building data centers in their community

Americans are increasingly turning against artificial intelligence, with growing majorities saying they fear the fast-moving technology …

2026-03-24
Here's my interview with Shishir Mehotra, the CEO behind Grammarly's “expert review” feature which attributed writing advice to people - including me lol - without permission.  Or, as you will hear us talk about a lot, compensation. www.theverge.com/podcast/8987...  [image]
2026-03-24 View on X
The Verge

Q&A with Superhuman CEO Shishir Mehrotra, who apologized for Grammarly's Expert Review feature, on impersonation, attribution, compensating creators, and more

Today, I'm talking with Shishir Mehrotra, who is CEO of Superhuman — that's the company formerly known as Grammarly, which is still its flagship product.

2026-03-21
Google is now screwing with the 10 blue links in traditional search and rewriting headlines - including ours - to be the worst kind of slop.  This sucks so bad www.theverge.com/tech/896490/ ...  [image]
2026-03-21 View on X
The Verge

Google is running a “small” experiment replacing news headlines in search results with AI-generated ones, after adding the feature in Google Discover in January

We're seeing Verge headlines rewritten by Google AI. … Since roughly the turn of the millennium, Google Search has been the bedrock of the web.

2026-03-20
Google is now screwing with the 10 blue links in traditional search and rewriting headlines - including ours - to be the worst kind of slop.  This sucks so bad www.theverge.com/tech/896490/ ...  [image]
2026-03-20 View on X
The Verge

Google is running a “small” experiment replacing news headlines in search results with AI-generated ones, after adding the feature in Google Discover in January

We're seeing Verge headlines rewritten by Google AI. … Since roughly the turn of the millennium, Google Search has been the bedrock of the web.

2026-03-19
Incredible all timer hero for us today (and great Lina Khan interview by @vicmsong.bsky.social!) www.theverge.com/report/89682...  [image]
2026-03-19 View on X
Lowpass

Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth says Meta will keep Horizon Worlds in VR “for existing games”, a day after Meta said Quest owners will lose access from June 15

VR Worlds will be available for “foreseeable future”  —  One day after announcing the wind-down of its Horizon …

Incredible all timer hero for us today (and great Lina Khan interview by @vicmsong.bsky.social!) www.theverge.com/report/89682...  [image]
2026-03-19 View on X
New York Times

Mark Zuckerberg's original metaverse vision is effectively over, after renaming Facebook to Meta and spending ~$80B on the endeavor, as his focus shifts to AI

Five years ago, Mark Zuckerberg proclaimed that the future of Facebook would be the metaverse.

2026-03-04
hey let's hastily migrate hbo max and discovery to the same oracle-hosted backend that takes five years to start a paramount+ stream and is regularly cracking under the strain of tiktok, this will go great www.theverge.com/tech/888647/ ...
2026-03-04 View on X
The Verge

TikTok USDS says users “may temporarily experience lags in posting content” due to an issue at Oracle's Ashburn data center, the second Oracle outage in a month

TikTok users in the US may experience lag while trying to post content until the outage is resolved.

the verge is turning 15 this year, almost as many owners as engadget has had in that time www.theverge.com/tech/888364/ ...
2026-03-04 View on X
The Verge

Yahoo sold tech news site Engadget to Static Media in a deal that was signed in early February and is scheduled to close later in March

2026-03-03
the verge is turning 15 this year, almost as many owners as engadget has had in that time www.theverge.com/tech/888364/ ...
2026-03-03 View on X
The Verge

Yahoo sold tech news site Engadget to Static Media in a deal that was signed in early February and is scheduled to close later in March

The consolidation of iconic internet publishing brands continues, as Static Media takes over another site. … Engadget, the long-running tech news website, has a new owner.

Ben Thompson making a full-throated case for fascism here stratechery.com/2026/anthrop...  [image]
2026-03-03 View on X
Bloomberg

Sources: amid negotiations with the DOD, Anthropic submitted a bid to compete in a $100M DOD contest to develop voice-controlled, autonomous drone swarming tech

Anthropic PBC was among the artificial intelligence companies that submitted a proposal earlier this year to compete …

Ben Thompson making a full-throated case for fascism here stratechery.com/2026/anthrop...  [image]
2026-03-03 View on X
Stratechery

Anthropic's concerns are legitimate, but its position is intolerable and misaligned with a reality where US foes are developing autonomous fighting capabilities

Ben Thompson, writing at Stratechery:Charlesarthur /The Overspill:Start Up No.2621: Anthropic's doomed military standoff, chatbots v PDFs, ChatGPT's bad health, 25 years after the ...

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...  [image]
2026-03-03 View on X
Bloomberg

Sources: amid negotiations with the DOD, Anthropic submitted a bid to compete in a $100M DOD contest to develop voice-controlled, autonomous drone swarming tech

Anthropic PBC was among the artificial intelligence companies that submitted a proposal earlier this year to compete …

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...  [image]
2026-03-03 View on X
The Verge

Sources: OpenAI agreed to follow US laws that have allowed for mass surveillance in the past, and the DOD didn't budge from its demands over bulk analyzing data

On Friday evening, amidst fallout from a standoff between the Department of Defense and Anthropic, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced …

2026-03-02
Ben Thompson making a full-throated case for fascism here stratechery.com/2026/anthrop...  [image]
2026-03-02 View on X
The Verge

Sources: OpenAI agreed to follow US laws that have allowed for mass surveillance in the past, and the DOD didn't budge from its demands over bulk analyzing data

On Friday evening, amidst fallout from a standoff between the Department of Defense and Anthropic, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced …

Ben Thompson making a full-throated case for fascism here stratechery.com/2026/anthrop...  [image]
2026-03-02 View on X
Stratechery

Anthropic's concerns are legitimate, but its position is intolerable and misaligned with a reality where US foes are developing autonomous fighting capabilities

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.  —  ― Pericles

Ben Thompson making a full-throated case for fascism here stratechery.com/2026/anthrop...  [image]
2026-03-02 View on X
Hyperdimensional

The Anthropic-DOD skirmish is the first major public debate on control over frontier AI, and institutions behaved erratically, maliciously, and without clarity

On Anthropic and the Department of War  —  I.  —  A little more than a decade ago, I sat with my father and watched him die.

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...  [image]
2026-03-02 View on X
The Verge

Sources: OpenAI agreed to follow US laws that have allowed for mass surveillance in the past, and the DOD didn't budge from its demands over bulk analyzing data

On Friday evening, amidst fallout from a standoff between the Department of Defense and Anthropic, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced …

2026-02-26
Pretty wild that Google just showed up at the Galaxy S26 launch and announced an agentic Gemini that does all the things Apple promised Siri would do www.theverge.com/tech/884703/ ...
2026-02-26 View on X
The Verge

Google launches task automation for Gemini on Pixel 10 and Samsung Galaxy S26, enabling Gemini to autonomously perform tasks using apps like Uber and DoorDash

Gemini's in the driver's seat. … Google's Gemini AI is getting one step closer to being more like an actual assistant.