Richard Lawler is a senior editor following news across tech, culture, policy, and entertainment. He joined The Verge in 2021 after several years covering news at Engadget.

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As budget cuts threaten to harm the rest of us, distorted spending priorities are making arms producers stronger.

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Charles Pulliam-Moore is a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years. Despite all ...

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OpenAI is appealing a court order that requires it to store deleted ChatGPT conversations “indefinitely” as part of The New York Times’ lawsuit against it.

WhatsApp announced yesterday that it will now show ads from businesses through its Stories-like feature, months after adding an unnecessary floating AI button to the main chat interface. In ...

Elon Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion and rebranded it to X, auctioning off old memorabilia like the iconic blue bird logo ...