Five architects of the AI economy explain where the wheels are coming off

Earlier this week, five people who touch every layer of the AI supply chain sat down at the Milken Global Conference in Beverly Hills, where they talked with TechCrunch about everything from chip shortages to orbital data centers to the possibility tha…

Musk’s biggest loyalist became his biggest liability
Musk’s biggest loyalist became his biggest liability

I sat down in the Musk v. Altman trial courtroom today, painfully aware that no one was going to ask Shivon Zilis the question on everyone’s minds: Girl, what the fuck are you doing? Zilis, who testified under oath that she is the mother of four of Musk’s children, was… What’s the best way to […]

ChatGPT Trend Has Users Requesting ‘Clumsy, Scribbly And Pathetic’ AI Images

Who needs high-quality AI-generated images when you can get horrible ones? A prompt shared by Sam Altman goes viral, with results looking like something out of MS Paint.

Analyzing That Controversial Super Prompt For Controlling AI That Billionaire Marc Andreessen Posted

Billionaire Marc Andreessen posted his personal custom instruction that he uses with AI. Controversy ensued. I unpack the prompt for you. An AI Insider analysis/scoop.

These Robot Hands Can Literally Make You An Egg Scramble Breakfast

“There are literally zero robot hands deployed right now doing routine work, … the best hands are hundreds of thousands of dollars, and they break all the time.”

Barry Diller trusts Sam Altman. But ‘trust is irrelevant’ as AGI nears, he says.

Barry Diller defended OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, while warning that AGI remains an unpredictable force needing guardrails.

Snap says its $400M deal with Perplexity ‘amicably ended’

The deal, announced last November, would have seen Perplexity’s AI search engine integrated directly into Snapchat.

Is xAI a neocloud now?

xAI’s real business may be more about building data centers than training AI models. 

Google shuts down Project Mariner
Google shuts down Project Mariner

Google has pulled the plug on Project Mariner, an experimental feature designed to perform tasks for you across the web, as reported earlier by Wired’s Maxwell Zeff. The Project Mariner landing page now contains a message that says: “Thank you for using Project Mariner. It was shut down on May 4th, 2026 and its technology […]

How David Sacks crashed and burned in the White House
How David Sacks crashed and burned in the White House

Hello and welcome to Regulator, a newsletter exclusively for Verge subscribers about tech, politics, and Washington intrigue. (It’s basically House of Cards, but for nerds.) Not a subscriber yet? You really should become one, and to save you a Google search, here is the direct link to do so! And do you think I should […]