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Vice was once promised to become the brash young voice of news. But wild expenses, shady deals, and greed turned it into ‘a fucking clown show.’
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Elizabeth Lopatto
“I’ve never seen a performance quite like that.” | Collage by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo by Victor J. Blue, Bloomberg, Getty Images
‘It’s his nature.’
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Sam Bankman-Fried is still gambling
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried once bragged that he had a 5 percent chance of becoming president of the United States | Collage by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo by Victor J. Blue, Bloomberg, Getty Images
FTX co-founde...
Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years for FTX fraud
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Pitchfork exploded as the music industry changed, then was cut down to size by another wave of technological change. Was that it?
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Indie, rocked
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How a bad Photoshop job turned into an existential crisis for the British monarchy.
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Why the Kate Middleton scandal just won’t die
“Short the shit out of it.” | The Verge
If you are a certain kind of cynical, Reddit’s S-1 filing sets off alarm bells. There’s the mention of r/WallStreetBets. (Five mentions in total, actually.) There’s the stockpile i...
A lot of Redditors hate the Reddit IPO
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Look, I’ve been following the adventures of xAI, Elon Musk’s AI company, and I’ve come to a conclusion: its only real idea is “What if AI, but with...
What’s the point of Elon Musk’s AI company?
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The frenzied hype around AI kept expectations high. The earnings calls disappointed. 2024 is going to be a year of reckoning.
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Artificial investment
Family reunion!
Usually my younger siblings wait until I’m done with work — they’re in earlier time zones than I am, so they’re being polite — then the group chat lights up: “Splat.” “Splat.” “Splat.”
This is our shorth...
You should play Splatoon with your family
[AC/DC voice] Back in Slack. | Cath Virginia / The Verge | Assets courtesy of iOS and Getty Images
A decade later, it’s clear that Slack changed work culture, even at companies that don’t use it.
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