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There's a popular narrative around autonomous driving right now that goes a little like this: Waymo good, Tesla bad. It's an easy story to believe, but my favorite piece today is a good reminder that the situation isn't quite so simple. Waymo vehicles have repeatedly failed to stop for school buses, illegal in all 50 US states. To make matters worse, it's resisted calls to simply stop operating cars in school zones or around buses until the problem is fixed — or the mounting investigations are concluded.
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By <a href="https://link.theverge.com/click/43974612.13222/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhldmVyZ2UuY29tL3RyYW5zcG9ydGF0aW9uLzg3NDM4NS93YXltby1zY2hvb2wtYnVzLWF1c3Rpbi1zYWZldHktcm9ib3RheGk_dWVpZD1iYzYyMDcyYzc5YWM3YmU5OTA0MjBlMzMzNWQwYzk1MiZieGlkPTY5Mjc4MzBkNTJmOTcxMzcyMzA2YzE4ZQ/6927830d52f971372306c18eD7974e0d3" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: #000000;" rel="noopener">Andrew J. Hawkins</a></p></div></td></tr></table><table class="paragraph_block block-4" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="mso-table-lspace:0;mso-table-rspace:0;word-break:break-word"><tr><td class="pad"><div
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For years, Alphabet-owned Waymo has tried to set itself apart from other self-driving startups by emphasizing a culture of caution and safety. Now, just ahead of major planned rollouts across the country, it is facing a recurring failure in one of the most sensitive places imaginable: school zones.<br><br>
In December, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) opened an investigation into Waymo after Austin’s largest school district reported at least 19 incidents where the company’s robotaxis failed to fully stop for school buses during loading and unloading — an illegal violation in all 50 states. Waymo quickly responded by issuing a voluntary software recall and rolling out updates intended to fix the problem.<br><br>But the patch didn’t work.</p></div></td></tr></table><table
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Boris Cherny gets recognized in public relatively often. At the bar, at the airport, and in generally any public space, people want to take selfies with the creator and head of Claude Code.<br><br>
For the last couple of months, Anthropic’s Claude and its coding platform have been having a moment — on social media, in engineers’ circles, and in C-suite offices. Claude Code reached newfound popularity over the holidays, when people spent days or weeks building anything from a tool for viewing MRI results to a Goodreads alternative to an AI-generated T-shirt design contest with a complex judicial system. X posts in January proclaimed that “we are witnessing an irreversible trend” of Anthropic “taking the lead” from OpenAI, asking what Anthropic had possibly “put into” the model to make it so capable, and wondering if this meant “the fall of” OpenAI.
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“I think you hit 'Publish to The Verge' instead of 'Publish to The Onion.' It's ok, it happens.”
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Each TV company has its own distinct personality and direction. These change over the years, with new technological breakthroughs or at least new business deals. New aspirations shake up the natural order. This year, for example, nearly every company has decided to make and heavily promote RGB LED TVs. Some of them, like Hisense, seem like they’re doing it because they want to. LG’s making one too, but it’s clear the company’s heart still lies with OLEDs. Are RGB LED TVs the next big thing? Who knows!
<br><br>2026 is only a few weeks old, but we’re already seeing those personalities and how the choices each manufacturer makes can affect the year ahead, both for themselves and for their competitors. Here’s where things stand at the beginning of 2026. Who knows where we’ll be at the end of it?</p></div></td></tr></table><table class="button_block block-5" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="mso-table-lspace:0;mso-table-rspace:0"><tr><td
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<strong><a href="https://link.theverge.com/click/43974612.13222/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhldmVyZ2UuY29tL3BvZGNhc3QvODc0MDM4L2FpLWRlZXBmYWtlcy13YXItb24tcmVhbGl0eS1jMnBhLWxhYmVscz91ZWlkPWJjNjIwNzJjNzlhYzdiZTk5MDQyMGUzMzM1ZDBjOTUyJmJ4aWQ9NjkyNzgzMGQ1MmY5NzEzNzIzMDZjMThl/6927830d52f971372306c18eC05e4c5bc" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: #000000;" rel="noopener">Reality is losing the deepfake war</a></strong></h1></td></tr></table><table class="paragraph_block block-3" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="mso-table-lspace:0;mso-table-rspace:0;word-break:break-word"><tr><td class="pad"><div
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Today, we’re going to talk about reality, and whether we can label photos and videos to protect our shared understanding of the world around us. No really, we’re gonna go there. It’s a deep one.<br><br>
To do this, I’m going to bring on <em>Verge</em> reporter Jess Weatherbed, who covers creative tools for us — a space that’s been totally upended by generative AI in a huge variety of ways with an equally huge number of responses from artists, creatives, and the huge number of people who consume that art and creative output out in the world.</p></div></td></tr></table><table class="button_block block-5" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" role="presentation"
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