Adi Robertson

They’re warning the company “may have run afoul of the law.”

Porn is increasingly age-gated. Social media is next.

And what does it look like?

Age verification was already risky — now it’s downright dangerous.

Brendan Carr’s contempt for the First Amendment is going strong.

Where’s all that free speech absolutism now?

More than I expected, actually!

The Verge and other outlets have periodically called Elon Musk’s DOGE “fake” or “not real,” because its status in the government is bizarrely ambiguous. As discovered by Bluesky user iucouno and verified by us, Google’s AI search apparently ingested this and concluded... well, something pretty weird. [Image: https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/Screenshot-2025-09-10-at-1.28.48%E2%80%AFPM.png?quality=90&strip=all]

The Supreme Court declined to block the law earlier this month.

LLMs make things up — including about themselves.

Grok’s nonconsensual deepfakes show how hollow the online safety push can be.

It’s “unconstitutional shakedown” time.

War is peace, bias is objectivity, speech is censorship.

He’s threatening them with deceptive business practice complaints.

A contentious AI law moratorium was dropped.

This is why the law banning TikTok doesn’t matter.

Whither Pornhub now?

Meta and Anthropic’s copyright victories come with a big asterisk.

A Texas law doesn’t violate the First Amendment.

It was either yesterday or today, and I’m feeling almost nostalgic enough to boot up the original game and sneak around the Statue of Liberty while enjoying one of PC gaming’s all-time great soundtracks. [Media: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rm9PJNF3sE0&list=RDRm9PJNF3sE0&start_radio=1]