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nilay patel

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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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Google Zero in the NYT - thanks @kateconger.com ;) www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/t...

Google Is Building an A.I. Fence Around the Internet It Once Championed nytimes.com
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  • Human traffic to finance, publishing and retail sites fell nearly 40 percent between June 2025 and April 2026, per Cloudflare data cited by the Times.
  • Google's AI Mode keeps users inside Google in roughly 75 percent of sessions, with queries running about three times as long as before.
  • The Verge's Nilay Patel says 'Google Zero' has arrived for publishers; Google's Liz Reid counters that AI Search still sends billions of clicks weekly.
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View on Bluesky · ♥ 225 ↻ 26 ↩ 9 · 9 from the directory shared this · 72d ago

I don't know about Gemini but AI yes. In fact the papers are getting good enough to be a problem www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

AI-generated research papers are overwhelming peer review | The Verge theverge.com
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  • AI-generated academic papers now regularly pass journal peer review, evading both human reviewers and automated AI-detection tools.
  • Scientists identify mandatory data-sharing and reproducibility checks as the only remaining procedural safeguards capable of catching AI-fabricated research.
  • The crisis extends beyond arXiv's hallucinated-citation problem to affect broad peer-reviewed publishing across multiple scientific disciplines.
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View on Bluesky · ♥ 3 ↻ 0 ↩ 1 · 3 from the directory shared this · 127d ago

Asked Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince if he would still make the decision stop being in business with Daily Stormer and Kiwi Farms today. (Among many many other deep questions about the web.) www.theverge.com/podcast/1000...

Cloudflare’s mission to save the web from AI… with AI theverge.com
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  • Automated traffic surpassed human traffic on Cloudflare's network in May 2026, roughly 18 months ahead of the company's earlier forecast.
  • CEO Matthew Prince predicts bot traffic will reach 1,000 times human volume within five years, arguing the ad-supported web cannot survive it.
  • Cloudflare is working with Coinbase and Stripe to revive HTTP 402 payments so publishers can charge AI agents fractions of a penny per crawl.
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View on Bluesky · ♥ 88 ↻ 8 ↩ 14 · 2 from the directory shared this · 4d ago
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are consumer ai products like ai overviews not good enough yet to win hearts and minds or so impossibly bad that they can't help but win hearts and minds

View on Bluesky · ♥ 148 ↻ 8 ↩ 6 · 18d ago

just used gemini search in my nightmare gmail inbox to find an ancient email by describing a basic idea I sort of remembered, AI is good now

View on Bluesky · ♥ 112 ↻ 7 ↩ 9 · 25d ago

ai slop websites have taken to summarizing the vergecast and this is not right but also not wrong

View on Bluesky · ♥ 93 ↻ 2 ↩ 6 · 36d ago
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