Los Angeles Golf Club owner Alexis Ohanian looks on during the match against the Jupiter Links Golf Club at SoFi Center on March 24, 2026 in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. | Image: TGL Golf via Getty Images Hello and welcome to Regulator, a newsletter for Verge readers about tech politics, political tech, and how they're muddying the waters of Washington, DC. My birthday is this week, and if you're not a Verge subscriber but would like to wish me a happy birthday, you should subscribe here, because that would be the best gift of all. (Tips sent to [email protected] would be a very good gift, too.)Last night, I watched Alexis Ohanian, venture capitalist and cofounder of Reddit, stun a room of Washington insiders by criticizing the Trump administration's immigration policies. This happened in front of at least one senior administrat …Read the full story at The Verge.

It seems every data protocol that involves a cable is bound to cause confusion. The confusion around USB cables is well documented, even with USB-C becoming the standard, and these days, HDMI isn't much better. Last summer, the HDMI Forum introduced version 2.2 of the HDMI specification, which came with some major upgrades.

With the RAM and storage crisis still going strong, all it takes is one look at how much hardware is, and suddenly, your years-old PC perhaps isn't as bad as you first thought. Unfortunately, while your hardware may be capable of rendering newer games just fine, your operating system may be dragging you down.

Ace is the first robot that can beat the best human players while following the official rules of table tennis. | Image: Sony AI Humans have been building ping-pong playing robots for decades, such as Omron's FORPHEUS that challenged amateur competitors at CES 2017. What sets Ace apart from the rest is that the robot, which was developed by Sony's AI division, is the first that can hold its own against top-ranked human players and occasionally even beat them in matches that follow the official rules of the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF).AI is already capable of besting humans at games like Chess and Go, but physical games pose a much greater challenge as robots have to be engineered to match the speed and responsiveness of the human mind and body. To b …Read the full story at The Verge.

Setting up Cloudflare Tunnels for the first time in my homelab felt like unlocking a kind of superpower. I didn’t want to open ports, deal with SSL renewal hassles, or wrestle with dynamic DNS. With Cloudflare Tunnels, I could access my self-hosted instances of Immich, NextCloud, Jellyfin, Vaultwarden, and other services from anywhere.

"I know a bubble when I see one."That's what Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), who led the push to create a new consumer financial regulator in the wake of the 2008 recession, told a crowd at a Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator event in Washington, DC on Wednesday. Warren warned of what she called "striking" parallels to that crisis in the AI industry. While she believes the technology has "enormous potential," she warned that AI companies' massive spending and borrowing practices are creating a tinderbox and Congress should step in.Though the AI industry has grown rapidly, Warren said the pace isn't keeping up with their spending, requiring the …Read the full story at The Verge.

Several US federal agencies are taking up Anthropic's new cybersecurity model to find vulnerabilities, but one is reportedly not getting in on the action: the nation's central cybersecurity coordinator. On Tuesday, Axios reported that the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) didn't have access to Mythos Preview, which Anthropic has touted as a powerful tool for finding and patching security vulnerabilities. Meanwhile, other agencies like Commerce Department and National Security Agency (NSA) are reportedly using the model, and President Donald Trump's administration has been negotiating broader access, Axios wrote last w …Read the full story at The Verge.

Affinity has been the obvious answer to Adobe pricing for long enough that it barely needs defending anymore, and it probably doesn’t need an introduction at this point. It got even harder to argue against when Canva made the whole suite free last year. And still, the majority of Affinity content reads the same way - lots of praise, followed by the gentle reminder that Adobe is still the real thing. The implication is that Affinity is good enough, not that it’s better. And to be completely fair, that is true a lot of the time.

Working with Ethernet can be challenging at first, especially when making your own terminations. It's fairly easy to use pre-terminated wiring, however, and it's all rather mundane once you get the knack for making your own ends. It usually just works, and if you don't quite get the connection right, Ethernet is fairly forgiving, and all that's required is to redo the termination. But fiber optic cabling is an entirely different beast. It's incredibly difficult to make your own, and working with store-bought cabling can prove troublesome, too.

OpenAI is giving users of its Business, Enterprise, Edu, and Teachers plans access to cloud-based "workspace" agents available in ChatGPT that can perform business tasks. In its blog post, OpenAI gives examples of agents like one that finds product feedback on the web and sends a report in Slack and a sales agent that can draft follow-up emails in Gmail.These new agents follow increasing interest in agents across the AI landscape, especially after OpenClaw - the AI agent formerly known as Clawdbot and Moltbot that touts itself as the "AI that actually does things" - went viral. OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger now works for OpenAI. OpenA …Read the full story at The Verge.

A former employee of Jimmy "MrBeast" Donaldson has filed a lawsuit alleging that she faced "intentional infliction of emotional distress" from harassment at the YouTuber's production company, was asked to work during maternity leave, and was wrongfully fired just a few weeks after returning from leave. According to the lawsuit, plaintiff Lorrayne Mavromatis and other female employees were demeaned by their male colleagues, who perpetuated a toxic, "male-centric workplace." Mavromatis was one of the few women in the executive suite at Beast Industries before she was fired. The lawsuit claims that she faced unwanted sexual advances and comme …Read the full story at The Verge.

The Mug 2 can keep coffee, tea, cocoa, and other drinks warm for as long as you’d like. | Image: Ember Coffee is what gets many of us through the workday, and a proper smart mug can keep it hot for hours so you can maintain your focus without constantly getting up to reheat your cup. Thankfully, if you don’t own one, the 14-ounce Ember Mug 2 is now available for $97.49 ($52 off) from Amazon, Target, and Ember as part of Ember’s ongoing Mother’s Day sale. You can also buy the smaller 10-ounce model for $84.47 ($46 off) from the same retailers (Amazon, Target, Ember).Ember Mug 2 (14-ounce)Where to Buy: $149.95 $97.49 at Amazon $149.95 $97.49 at Target $149.95 $97.47 at EmberEmber Mug 2 (10-ounce)Where to Buy: $129.95 $84.47 at Amazon $129.95 $84.49 at Target $129.95 $84.47 at EmberUsing the Ember app, the Mug 2 lets you set an exact drinking temperature between 120 and 145 degrees Fahrenheit, which it can maintain for up to 90 minutes or all day using the included charging coaster. You don’t have to worry about the battery draining unnecessarily, either, thanks to an automatic sleep function, which powers down the smart mug when it’s empty or hasn’t been used for several hours.The smart mug offers a fair amount of control beyond that, too. Within the Android / iOS app, you can also create and save preset temperatures for different beverages and set up notifications for when your drink reaches your preferred temperature. Meanwhile, a customizable LED indicator on the coaster lets you quickly check heating and battery status at a glance.As a bonus, the Ember Mug 2 is also relatively easy to care for. It features a scratch-resistant coating to help prevent wear over time and carries an IPX7 water-resistance rating, so it can be safely hand-washed (just don’t put it in the dishwasher).