nilay patel

@reckless.bsky.social

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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·Sep 12

Just to be blunt, if you want Wired and 404 and The Verge to employ reporters who understand the memes on bullet casings and can connect them to gaming culture while having the legal and support resources to deal with waves of harassment when we do it… you have to subscribe and pay for the work

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nilay patel·Aug 19

The fucking protein powder has a shrink wrap arbitration agreement now? This is like a nightmare law school hypo

READ THIS: By opening and using this product you agret
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Ayall do not agree to be bound, please return this product immediately,
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nilay patel·Aug 11

What if instead of weird one-off extortion schemes the government just collected meaningful and stable amounts of corporate tax revenue hmmm www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/t...

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nilay patel·11h

you can just ask Anthropic how hard they want to dance on the head of this pin! www.theverge.com/report/88376...

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nilay patel·1d

Every time I tell anyone that my Whoop band suggested I literally 10x my testosterone levels they say something “please don’t” www.theverge.com/column/90973...

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I guess what I’m saying is great consumer products don’t make young people feel anger and despair the more they use them www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/s...

More than half of Gen Z-ers living in the United States use generative artificial intelligence regularly, but their feelings about the technology are souring, according to a new survey released on Thursday by Gallup, the Walton Family Foundation and GSV Ventures, a venture capital firm that works in education technology.
The percentage of respondents ages 14 to 29 who said they felt hopeful about A.I. declined sharply since last year, down to 18 percent from 27. Young adults' excitement about artificial intelligence dropped, too, and nearly a third of respondents indicated that the technology made them feel angry.
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nilay patel·2d

lol at openai buying the google results for claude

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nilay patel·3d

Me: there are no great consumer AI apps Also me: I have wasted every free minute of the day writing python scripts with Claude Code to change the art on the podcast studio Frame TV with a Stream Deck

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Remember that viral report about Google traffic to tech sites plummeting? It was massaged data from a firm selling “AI SEO” which just wanted attention - and search referrals! @miasato.bsky.social reports on the shady new ways SEO hustlers are trying to game search www.theverge.com/tech/900302/...

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Compared to his firm's website, Asaf Fybish, cofounder of Growtika, is reserved when asked about the state of Al search. For one, he says, measuring traffic or other SEO signals is even harder in the era of Al than it was previously.
"I always start by saying that I cannot promise anything in terms of Al visibility because it's still tricky and there's still not a right way to measure," Fybish told The Verge. Traditional SEO is still important, Fybish says, but now
"search" encompasses many different plattorms beyond Google, wherever people are looking for information.
The Growtika team was shocked at the attention its tech media report generated. (The traffic data, which came from the marketing company Ahrefs, purports to show estimated monthly organic traffic from the USonly.)
Fybish says it was a win on all fronts. It generated links to the Growtika website and was cited by news outlets, which he says will help the firm's credibility and site authority. It also was a lead generator. Some of the responses were negative, he says, but his
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nilay patel·6d

eek

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nilay patel·6d

For some reason this is cracking me up

An old Intel MacBook Air installing Windows next to a new MacBook Neo
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nilay patel·6d

Suno will happily generate AI covers of Beyoncé and the Dead Kennedys (and anything else) with just a little effort. Music industry just isn’t ready for this. Big dive from @terrenceobrien.bsky.social Gift link! www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

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nilay patel·Apr 4

OpenAI says ChatGPT has 900m users and it has 6.4m App Store ratings. Let’s look at what this tiny self-selected sample has to say

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