Perfect

Dvid Sacks’ big Iran warning gets big time ignored Plus: Polymarket is opening a sports bar for “situation monitoring.”

And more details (plus, y’know, thr weekly Regulator) here: www.theverge.com/column/89694...

I have offered a bounty in the latest issue of Regulator: this Ziploc bag of spare change (no quarters) to anyone who can send me verified, authentic, non-AI generated footage of Sam Altman fighting Jeremy Harris at the VF Oscars party.

proof:

I went to the Pentagon to watch Pete Hegseth scold war reporters A second row seat to the reality TV White House’s propaganda push.

I did something pretty appropriate for Friday the 13th:

www.theverge.com/policy/89631...

Exhibit Amici Curiae Brief of Employees of OpenAI and Google in Their Personal C – #24, Att. #1 in Anthropic PBC v. U.S. Department of War (N.D. Cal., 3:26-cv-01996) – CourtListener.com MOTION to File Amicus Curiae Brief filed by Employees of OpenAI and Google in Their Personal Capacities. Responses due by 3/23/2026. Replies due by 3/30/2026. (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit Amici Curiae Br...

Full brief here:

www.courtlistener.com/docket/72379...

Employees across OpenAI and Google support Anthropic’s lawsuit against the Pentagon Nearly 40 employees of OpenAI and Google filed an amicus brief in support of Anthropic’s Monday lawsuit.

NEW w/ @haydenfield.bsky.social : Nearly 40 employees from OpenAI and Google — including Jeff Dean, Google’s chief scientist and Gemini lead — have filed an amicus brief in support of Anthropic’s lawsuit against the Pentagon.

www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Mhmmm

I would like to inform the Bluesky community that Undersecretary of Defense Emil Michael is crashing out on X right now

Epstein Files Are Missing Records About Woman Who Made Claim Against Trump

NEW: The New York Times confirms my reporting that the DOJ is withholding several FBI interviews with a woman who accused Trump of sexually assaulting her as a child

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/u...

Meet the Pentagon’s AI bro squad A former Uber executive and a private equity billionaire are working with Pete Hegseth to make Anthropic cave on its ethics policies.

Read more about yesterday's fight over whether Anthropic should allow AI autonomous lethal weaponry with no human oversight (and more!) in this week's Regulator! (Gift link below)

www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

And Steve Feinberg should be familiar to anyone who tracks Wall Street news cycles:

Emil Michael has a very fun history that @theverge.com readers should be familiar with:

NEW: Pete Hegseth brought some VERY interesting people with him to the Pentagon's negotiations with Anthropic over their acceptable use policy:

Political appointees Emil Michael, formerly of Uber, and Steve Feinberg, the private equity billionaire founder of Cerberus Capital Management.

Meet the Pentagon’s AI bro squad A former Uber executive and a private equity billionaire are working with Pete Hegseth to make Anthropic cave on its ethics policies.

Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon AI bro squad includes a former Uber executive and a private equity billionaire

Oh my god I didn’t even realize Emil fucking Michael is the CTO of the Defense Department until @tinanguyen.bsky.social pointed it out

Bezos could have saved WaPo’s sports and local journalists. He laid them off instead. “The equation isn’t adding up.”

(Media) SCOOP: Weeks ago, the owner of the Washington City Paper had offered to purchase The Washington Post's sports and local sections, keeping their desks alive.

The Post reporters were laid off and the desks were shut down instead.

www.theverge.com/policy/87683...

I grew up with Alex Pretti The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by federal agents was my childhood best friend.

If you're going to read anything today, go read this

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This interview was available first to Verge subscribers, and we're planning on doing some exciting political stuff this year, so sign up below to read about the future before anyone else :)

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In his view, Trump has handed China a massive advantage in the AI race against China: "[Their] main constraint at the moment is not power, not money, not talent. It’s chips. And we are now basically filling that hole for them."

Did America just lose the AI race to China? Biden’s national security adviser tells The Verge why the Trump-Nvidia chip deal could be catastrophic.

Regulator is opening 2026 with an interview with someone who'd know a thing or two about the Trump-Nvidia chip deal:

Jake Sullivan, the national security adviser under President Joe Biden, who had implemented the restrictions on selling high-end chips to China.

www.theverge.com/policy/85681...

Bitcoin does cultural diplomacy in a dive bar Pubkey wants to “soften” Bitcoin’s rough public image in DC.

I went to the opening for PubKey, a Bitcoin bar originally from NY with a new location in downtown DC. It was wacky and wild and had several Santas, Chinese lion dancers, a mariachi band, and more.

But the weirdest thing of all were the federal employees in suits.

www.theverge.com/policy/84913...

Today:
- @elizabethkim.bsky.social on Mamdani's transition;
- @elienyc.bsky.social on SCOTUS and executive power,
- @tinanguyen.bsky.social on Trump & AI regulation;
- @theatlantic.com's Valerie Trapp on self-checkout culture at the grocery story

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The far right is mobilizing against Trump AI czar David Sacks A controversial executive order dictating America’s AI policy has MAGA scrambling against the White House and its Special Advisor on AI and Crypto.

Big @tinanguyen.bsky.social scoop - the Trump MAGA / tech coalition continues to fracture as the hard right pushes back against David Sacks and his attempt to preempt state AI laws. Caught in the middle: Vance. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

We had to ensure several times that Nilay did, indeed, want this to be the official headline of this story

Trust me, we had to ask several times if this was really the one Nilay wanted to go with

He was ADAMANT

In Regulator's latest issue, I speak to Charlie Bullock at the Institute for Law & AI about the draft executive order that would have punished states for writing and enforcing their own AI laws, and its "chilling effect on state legislation."

www.theverge.com/column/82993...

David Sacks tried to kill state AI laws — and it blew up in his face A leaked executive order reveals that the tech billionaire would have become America’s AI policy gatekeeper.

I did a deep dive into the White House's draft executive order that would have counteracted states' abilities to write and enforce their own AI laws.

Boy, does it give David Sacks a lot of influence over setting federal AI regulatory policy!

www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

David Sacks tried to kill state AI laws — and it blew up in his face A leaked executive order reveals that the tech billionaire would have become America’s AI policy gatekeeper.

Seeking to kneecap states and hand even more power over to his big tech cronies, the ever power thirsty and David Sacks gets ratioed. For now at least — this group is like mold and always returns www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...