nilay patel

nilay patel

@reckless.bsky.social

Editor-in-chief of The Verge, host of Decoder, cohost of The Vergecast. I am in love with spectacle.

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nilay patel
@reckless.bsky.social

Trump 2 antitrust is like, giant mergers require no oversight and AI companies do not need any narrow exceptions to antitrust law to coordinate on safety, but the White House press pool must provide duplicative independent cameras covering speeches or else ummmmmm consumer prices will rise

nilay patel
@reckless.bsky.social

This fuckin guy

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social

(Politico) - ABC programs are already tempering their election coverage ahead of the midterms to avoid angering President Donald Trump, a lawyer for the broadcast company told a federal judge on Tuesday .. @politico.com $DIS www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

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Jess Miers 🦝
@jmiers230.bsky.social

Can we like impeach trump instead? Or do literally anything else? Surely the Democrats aren't this bored.

nilay patel@reckless.bsky.social

Asked Sen @schiff.senate.gov about getting rid of 230, and he suggested there might be immunity if a platform has "best practices." Just gonna go ahead and tag @jkosseff.bsky.social @klonick.bsky.social @noupside.bsky.social @masnick.com now bc dying for their reax www.theverge.com/podcast/1004...

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Kevin Nguyen
@knguyen.bsky.social

I think @joshdzieza.bsky.social has written the first great data center feature. It encapsulates and explains everything with clarity and humor—a feat of reporting that’s accessible enough to send to your parents, and that maybe we will be reading 10 years from now when we look back at this moment.

theverge.comThe People of Utah vs. Kevin O’LearyMr. Wonderful wanted to build the world’s largest data center. The neighbors had other ideas.
nilay patel
@reckless.bsky.social

Software brain, you might call it ;) www.theverge.com/podcast/9170...

theverge.comBEWARE SOFTWARE BRAINSoftware brain is changing the world, but most people still aren’t buying.
Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social

In practice, AI literacy doesn’t start with building the tool for your personal use. It starts with understanding yourself as a collection of tasks who should subcontract those out to a machine. Almost no regular person’s life currently exists as such.

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Peter Labuza
@labuzamovies.com

@reckless.bsky.social has described this as the "door dash problem." I still feel the monopoly of Google/Amazon/Apple will be big enough to bully any other business into relenting into their systems. www.theverge.com/podcast/8239...

theverge.comThe DoorDash problem and the great AI browser fightAmazon sued Perplexity this month over its Comet browser, which uses AI agents to do online shopping on your behalf. This is the first major front in the war over who gets to browse the web.
Jacob Kramer-Duffield@jaykaydee.bsky.social

Very good rundown of the wide gulf between promise and reality for agents. For Muse to really work like Facebook wants, every other company with a digital presence would have to unilaterally surrender and turn over their experience to Zuck; same with any other agent. Idk seems unlikely!

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John
@roqueig.bsky.social

another really good Decoder episode this week ... this time with @reckless.bsky.social and @markgurman.bsky.social. Really, really good pod * I was surprised to hear Mark's take on the Johny Srouji situation. Still one silicon product left to conquer I would think ... datacenter AI XPUs

theverge.comCan John Ternus find Apple’s next big thing?Bloomberg’s chief Apple correspondent Mark Gurman on Siri, Tim Cook’s legacy, and what to expect from new CEO John Ternus.

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Hayden Field
@haydenfield.bsky.social

NEW: Muse is Zuck’s latest bid to reinvent Meta. But can a company synonymous with safety & privacy debacles become the AI-powered voice in everyone’s ear? A deep dive from me, @miasato.bsky.social, @vicmsong.bsky.social & @laurenfeiner.bsky.social. www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

theverge.comCan you forget how you feel about Meta?‘Pervert glasses.’ Thousands of lawsuits. Mark Zuckerberg wants to sweep it all away with a new bid on AI.

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Quotes from MSNOW
@msnowquotes.bsky.social

"The problem here is the amount of circular financing in [the AI] industry. If you think Hugging Face should have sued OpenAI for the attack [...] that would require Nvidia to not be an investor in both." — Nilay Patel, 𝘔𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘺 𝘗𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳 𝘗𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘴, 21 Sept 2026

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Neil Turkewitz
@neilturkewitz.bsky.social

A fantastic piece that I encourage everyone to read. @reckless.bsky.social conducts an amazing interview, & Jonathan Kanter delivers a brilliant framework for our emerging technological world, rooted in understanding that technology that doesn’t reflect our values doesn’t advance our interests.

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John
@roqueig.bsky.social

Prescient Decoder episode with @reckless.bsky.social and @mustafasuleymanai.bsky.social ... nice follow up to their episode back in June (only 3 months ago and so much has changed). The discussion about Anthropic's approach to Claude, which was also a topic in the June episode, is very important

theverge.comMicrosoft AI CEO says AI threats are real, and Anthropic is making it worseMustafa Suleyman on the AI safety debate, why AI isn’t consciousness, and how the industry pushes toward alignment.

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James Ball
@jamesrball.com

I wrote a long feature about the global war against the supposed censorship industrial complex for @theverge.com last year:

theverge.comThe disinformation wars are hereHow Joe Biden’s administration caved to the right in the battle for truth.
Anne Applebaum@anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu

There was no "censorship industrial compex" under the Biden administration. But the MAGA officials who continue to believe in it have done a lot of damage. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

theatlantic.comMAGA’s Imaginary Censorship-Industrial ComplexThe conspiracy theory that persists even though no evidence supports it
nilay patel
@reckless.bsky.social

This has been a long time coming and all started with me saying we needed to explore federation!

John Ness@johnness.bsky.social

Tomorrow’s a big day for SB Nation users who talk to each other a million times each month: we’re launching an app. www.sportico.com/business/med...

sportico.comSB Nation Launches App Home for Its 200 Fan CommunitiesSB Nation is launching a new app for its nearly 200 communities, giving fans a new way to keep up with their favorite teams and chat on game day.

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Jeremy Snyder
@jsnyder.bsky.social

Interesting interview with @gofundme.com CEO Tim Cadogan and @reckless.bsky.social. Cadogan says an advantage of private donations over the public safety net is that donations come "with love". This ignores consistent findings that this 'love' is distributed very, very inequitably.

The Verge@theverge.com

CEO Tim Cadogan on how a for-profit company becomes a social safety net www.theverge.com/podcast/9829...

theverge.comThe load-bearing platform holding up the US social safety netWhat we owe to each other… and the middleman
nilay patel
@reckless.bsky.social

Spent the day working on the book which I hate and want to quit and am considering staying in the woods to live a lucrative life as a local handyman who actually answers the phone