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<subtitle type="text">The Verge is about technology and how it makes us feel. Founded in 2011, we offer our audience everything from breaking news to reviews to award-winning features and investigations, on our site, in video, and in podcasts.</subtitle>
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[Did Apple get too big for its own good? With Daring Fireball’s John Gruber]]></title>
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[We’re doing something a little different on today’s episode of Decoder. I asked my friend John Gruber, of the website Daring Fireball, to come on the show and talk about the future of Apple — and, importantly, the App Store. Gruber and I have been friends for over a decade now. Daring Fireball was one […]]]></summary>
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We’re doing something a little different on today’s episode of Decoder. I asked my friend John Gruber, of the website Daring Fireball, to come on the show and talk about the future of Apple — and, importantly, the App Store.
Gruber and I have been friends for over a decade now. Daring Fireball was one of the first and most influential Apple blogs around, and he has more insight into Apple, its culture, and how it does things than anyone else. Everyone at Apple and in the Apple developer community reads Daring Fireball religiously. 
In 2010, Steve Jobs himself <a href="https://www.taoeffect.com/blog/2010/04/steve-jobs-response-on-section-3-3-1/">emailed Gruber’s analysis</a> of an early App Store rule change to an unhappy developer and called it “very insightful.” Personally, I will always remember a moment early in my career when a very excited Apple PR staffer pointed Gruber out to me at an event like a celebrity sighting, which was funny and also deeply humbling.
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I wanted to have him on the show to talk about the most recent ruling in the Epic v. Apple legal saga. This is the <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/29/22410877/epic-games-apple-app-store-antitrust-trial-lawsuit-news">lawsuit about Fortnite on the iPhone</a> and whether developers like Epic can circumvent the App Store’s payment system to avoid paying those 30 percent fees on in-app purchases.
Well, late last month, Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, who has presided over that case for the past five years, effectively banned Apple from collecting fees on web transactions. She also harshly accused of the company of purposefully disobeying her original 2021 ruling by creating a series of restrictions and hoops to jump through that would basically make it impossible for developers to send people to the web to buy things. The judge’s <a href="https://www.theverge.com/apple/659296/apple-failed-compliance-court-ruling-breakdown">extreme frustration with Apple is obvious</a> in almost every line of her ruling; she even referred an Apple executive for criminal proceedings, saying this executive had lied under oath on the stand.
There’s a lot of tactical stuff you might talk about in the aftermath of this ruling — about what Apple might do next, how it might impact revenue, and how developers might respond. But I really wanted Gruber to talk about Apple’s big picture and how a company that so often prides itself on doing the right thing ended up so fully on the wrong side of the courts.
One theme you’ll hear throughout this conversation is that Apple often presents itself as small, but the company is actually huge in every way — Apple now sells nearly as many phones in a single quarter as it did in the entire first three years of the iPhone’s existence combined. It now operates in a geopolitical context that binds the United States, China, and Taiwan in ways you would have never imagined 15 years ago. And perhaps most importantly, Apple has control over applications on the iPhone, which means it has control over what kinds of businesses can and cannot exist on its mobile phones.
That’s the context for the other major theme here that you’ll pick up on in this conversation: Apple’s major shift toward digital services and whether that’s fundamentally changed the company’s culture. You see, as Apple kept selling newer and better iPhones, it simply ran out of people to sell them to. So, in order to keep growing revenue and keep Wall Street happy, it started squeezing more money from its existing customer base, including the very developers that put apps on the App Store.
That made some of the most important developers, the companies that make mobile games and stream media, very upset. But they had no other choice so they kept their apps in the App Store and continued to pay the fees — except for some major exceptions like Amazon and Spotify, which simply refused to sell you ebooks or music subscriptions on iOS at all. (After this most recent ruling, Amazon <a href="https://www.theverge.com/news/661719/amazon-app-ios-apple-iphone-ipad-kindle-buy-books">updated its Kindle app</a> to sell ebooks via the web, while Spotify is <a href="https://www.theverge.com/news/664178/spotify-audiobooks-iphone-ios-external-links-apple">working to update its iOS app</a> to do the same for its subscriptions.)
All of that combined with Apple’s scale created a kind of hubris and, as you’ll hear Gruber say, a major blind spot for Apple that has pushed it toward these high-profile and public legal defeats that could reshape its business. If all of that weren’t enough to put the heat on Apple, there’s also <a href="https://www.theverge.com/news/659866/apple-trump-tariffs-cost-tim-cook">Trump’s tariffs to deal with</a> and a Google antitrust trial that could see Google barred from striking an exclusivity deal for its search engine that currently <a href="https://www.theverge.com/policy/662974/google-search-remedies-trial-eddy-cue-apple-deal-ai">pays Apple north of $20 billion a year</a>.
Apple also has to compete in AI with Apple Intelligence and Siri, products that are <a href="https://www.theverge.com/news/629940/apple-siri-robby-walker-delayed-ai-features">currently a total mess</a>. Gruber and I got into all that at the end here, and I wanted to know if there was a connection between the corporate culture that produced the App Store debacle and the recent news of Siri delays and dysfunction around AI inside Apple.
There’s a whole lot going on in this conversation, and there’s really nobody better to talk about all of this than Gruber. I hope you like this one; as you’ll soon hear, Gruber and I really enjoy talking to each other.
If you’d like to read more on what we talked about in this episode, check out the links below:
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<li>Judge rules, in excoriating decision, that Apple violated 2021 order | <a href="https://daringfireball.net/2025/04/gonzales_rogers_apple_app_store_ruling">Daring Fireball</a></li>
<li>Steve Jobs’ response on Section 3.3.1 | <a href="https://www.taoeffect.com/blog/2010/04/steve-jobs-response-on-section-3-3-1/">Tao Effect Blog</a></li>
<li>Epic submitted Fortnite to Apple | <a href="https://www.theverge.com/news/664245/epic-submitted-fortnite-to-apple">Verge</a></li>
<li>Eddy Cue is fighting to save Apple’s $20 billion paycheck from Google | <a href="https://www.theverge.com/policy/662974/google-search-remedies-trial-eddy-cue-apple-deal-ai">Verge</a></li>
<li>Epic is offering developers an alternative to Apple’s in-app purchases | <a href="https://www.theverge.com/news/659655/epic-games-store-revenue-share-webshops-apple-in-app-purchases">Verge</a></li>
<li>Epic says Fortnite is coming back to iOS in the US | <a href="https://www.theverge.com/news/659271/fortnite-ios-apple-app-store-us-return">Verge</a></li>
<li>Apple files appeal to wrest back control of its App Store | <a href="https://www.theverge.com/news/661032/apple-epic-games-app-store-antitrust-ninth-circuit">Verge</a></li>
<li>‘Cook chose poorly’: how Apple blew up its control over the App Store | <a href="https://www.theverge.com/apple/659296/apple-failed-compliance-court-ruling-breakdown">Verge</a></li>
<li>Apple changes App Store rules to allow external purchases | <a href="https://www.theverge.com/news/660025/apple-changes-app-store-rules-to-allow-external-purchases">Verge</a></li>
<li>Existential thoughts about Apple’s reliance on Services revenue | <a href="https://sixcolors.com/post/2024/08/existential-thoughts-about-apples-reliance-on-services-revenue/">Six Colors</a></li>
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Questions or comments about this episode? Hit us up at decoder@theverge.com. We really do read every email!
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[The Overwatch developer team has unionized]]></title>
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<updated>2025-05-12T09:20:54-04:00</updated>
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[The team of nearly 200 Activision Blizzard developers behind the Overwatch franchise has unionized. Formed under the Communications Workers of America (CWA), the Overwatch Gamemakers Guild is the latest wall-to-wall Blizzard union to be recognized by parent company Microsoft since the World of Warcraft development team announced its own union last July. The CWA announced […]]]></summary>
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The team of nearly 200 Activision Blizzard developers behind the Overwatch franchise has unionized. Formed under the Communications Workers of America (CWA), the Overwatch Gamemakers Guild is the latest wall-to-wall Blizzard union to be recognized by parent company Microsoft since the <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/24/24205366/world-of-warcraft-developers-form-union-blizzard-entertainment">World of Warcraft development team announced its own union</a> last July.
<a href="https://cwa-union.org/news/releases/overwatch-game-developers-secure-union-recognition-communications-workers-america">The CWA announced on Friday</a> that “an overwhelming majority of workers have either signed a union authorization card or indicated that they wanted union representation.” The Overwatch union unit includes game developers across production, engineering, design, art, sound, and quality assurance, pushing for job security, salary, and layoff protection improvements.
“After a long history of layoffs, crunch, and subpar working conditions in the global video game industry, my coworkers and I are thrilled to be joining the broader union effort to organize our industry for the better, which has been long overdue,” organizing committee member Foster Elmendorf said in the CWA’s statement.
Allegations that Activision Blizzard fostered a workplace environment of toxicity and sexual harassment emerged following a <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/22/22588215/activision-blizzard-lawsuit-sexual-harassment-discrimination-pay">lawsuit filed by the state of California in 2021</a>, prior to the company being acquired by Microsoft in 2023. Former Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick has denied that the company was responsible for reported abuse concerns and instead <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/1/23744109/activision-blizzard-bobby-kotick-denies-harassment-variety">blamed the issues on labor organizers.</a> Following its $68.7 billion acquisition by Microsoft, Activision Blizzard agreed to pay <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/15/24003556/california-activision-blizzard-gender-discrimination-lawsuit-settlement">$54 million to settle the lawsuit</a>.
The CWA says that over 2,600 workers at Microsoft-owned gaming studios have now joined its ranks, including a union formed by <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/8/24094602/activision-blizzard-qa-workers-unionizing-microsoft">600 quality assurance workers employed at Activision</a> in March 2024. These strings of unionization efforts follow a labor neutrality agreement that was signed between the CWA and Microsoft in 2022 that made it easier for staffers at subsidiaries like Activision Blizzard to organize.
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[Apple’s Murderbot series is goofy sci-fi with a side of existential crisis]]></title>
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<updated>2025-05-12T09:25:59-04:00</updated>
<published>2025-05-12T09:00:00-04:00</published>
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I did not expect a TV show called Murderbot to be quite so relatable. On the surface, the Apple TV Plus sci-fi comedy is a somewhat generic futuristic story about a group of humans exploring a dangerous planet with the help of a security bot that's designed to protect them. The key is the perspective: […]]]></summary>
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I did not expect a TV show called Murderbot to be quite so relatable. On the surface, the Apple TV Plus sci-fi comedy is a somewhat generic futuristic story about a group of humans exploring a dangerous planet with the help of a security bot that's designed to protect them. The key is the perspective: the story is told from the bot's point of view, and that bot is really going through it. It's experiencing free will for the first time and struggling with the ramifications of that, making it anxious, awkward, and addicted to streaming television. It may be built to kill - but it's just like me.
The show opens on Muderbot's (Alexander Skarsgård) awakening. While seemingly idle and working security at a mining facility, internally it's actually hacking away at the chip that governs its free will. These bots, called sec units (which is short for security unit) are hybrids, powered by AI and with bodies that are a mix of machine and organic material. But they also have to do whatever they're told thanks to something called the governor module. Somehow Murderbot manages to disable this and then - well, he's free, but only kind of. It's illegal to have a sec unit without a working modul …
<a href="https://www.theverge.com/tv-reviews/664090/murderbot-season-1-review-apple-tv-plus">Read the full story at The Verge.</a>
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<name>Yessenia Funes</name>
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[Indigenous scientists are fighting to protect their data — and their culture]]></title>
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<id>https://www.theverge.com/?p=664282</id>
<updated>2025-05-12T09:52:19-04:00</updated>
<published>2025-05-12T08:00:00-04:00</published>
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Every month, a group of Indigenous scientists from around the world gathers on Zoom. They never have an agenda. They meet as colleagues to catch up and commiserate about the challenges of being Indigenous in Western academia. Their February meeting, however, quickly struck a different tone. "There was this cascade that started happening," recalled Max […]]]></summary>
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Every month, a group of Indigenous scientists from around the world gathers on Zoom. They never have an agenda. They meet as colleagues to catch up and commiserate about the challenges of being Indigenous in Western academia. 
Their February meeting, however, quickly struck a different tone. 
"There was this cascade that started happening," recalled Max Liboiron, a professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland who hosts the virtual calls. "Everyone in the US was like, 'Holy shit. My career is over. My students' funding is screwed.'" 
Liboiron immediately entered triage mode. A geographer and university administrator by trade, Liboiron used to organize with Occupy Wall Street. "I was a full-time activist," they said over Zoom. With their short hair and upper arms tattooed, Liboiron's past life isn't hard to imagine. They're Red River Métis, the Indigenous peoples of Canada's prairie provinces, and speak with a candidness that is both cool and calculated. 
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Since Donald Trump entered office, Liboiron has put those rapid-response skills to use to support their US colleagues in need. US federal law <a href="https://www.fedbar.org/blog/understanding-tribal-sovereignty/">recognizes</a> many tribal nations as sovereign political entities, not racial or eth …
<a href="https://www.theverge.com/features/664282/indigenous-data-sovereignty-native-trump-musk-dei">Read the full story at The Verge.</a>
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<name>Jess Weatherbed</name>
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[Google Keep brings text formatting to the web]]></title>
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<updated>2025-05-12T07:23:12-04:00</updated>
<published>2025-05-12T06:32:35-04:00</published>
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Google Keep has finally expanded the text formatting options to its web app, almost two years after making them available for Android users. The update for Google’s web-based note-taking service is now rolling out to Google Workspace, Workspace Individual, and personal Google account users and provides new options for customizing text and heading styles. It […]]]></summary>
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Google Keep has finally expanded the text formatting options to its web app, almost two years after making them available for Android users. <a href="https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2025/05/release-notes-05-09-2025.html">The update for Google’s web-based note-taking service</a> is now rolling out to Google Workspace, Workspace Individual, and personal Google account users and provides new options for customizing text and heading styles. It may take a few weeks for the text formatting options to appear for everyone.
The new formatting options are housed in the underlined “A” button found in the bottom left-hand corner of the updated Keep text editor. Clicking this will open a new toolbar that allows users to underline, bold, italicize, and remove formatting, alongside converting regular text into H1 or H2 headers. 
The changes should help Google Keep users on the web to add more structure to their notes, making it easier to lay out and find specific information. And hopefully, all that formatting will now sync between the web and Android versions to avoid having to re-edit things.
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<name>Dominic Preston</name>
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[Google’s AI image-to-video generator launches on Honor’s new phones]]></title>
<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://www.theverge.com/news/664812/google-honor-ai-image-to-video-gemini" />
<id>https://www.theverge.com/?p=664812</id>
<updated>2025-05-12T07:32:37-04:00</updated>
<published>2025-05-12T04:45:06-04:00</published>
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Chinese phone manufacturer Honor has launched an image-to-video AI generator powered by Google, before it's available to Gemini users. It will be available first for anyone who buys the Honor 400 or 400 Pro phones, which launch next week on May 22nd. The new AI tool, powered by Google's Veo 2 model, creates five-second videos […]]]></summary>
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Chinese phone manufacturer Honor has launched an image-to-video AI generator powered by Google, before it's available to Gemini users. It will be available first for anyone who buys the Honor 400 or 400 Pro phones, which launch next week on May 22nd.
The new AI tool, powered by Google's Veo 2 model, creates five-second videos based on static images, in either portrait or landscape, and takes a minute or two to generate each time. The feature is built directly into the Gallery app on the new Honor phones, and is designed to be simple: there's no option to include a text prompt along with the image, so you're stuck hoping that the AI does something sensible with it. 
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Sometimes it works well. Give it a simple subject, like a clear photo of a person or pet, and it can generate quite realistic movement - albeit I'm pretty sure my cat Noodle's tongue isn't quite that big. Other subjects prove trickier: faced with a vintage car it made it rotate impossibly on the spot; fresh tomatoes were fondled by a ghostly hand; and it imagined a women's soccer game with at least 27 players across three teams, with two referees to keep control of the chaos. The first time I tried it, on …
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<name>Jess Weatherbed</name>
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[Trump temporarily cuts China tariffs to 30 percent]]></title>
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<updated>2025-05-12T10:02:27-04:00</updated>
<published>2025-05-12T03:58:33-04:00</published>
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[The United States and China have mutually agreed to a 90-day reduction on tariffs implemented in April, marking a significant attempt to de-escalate the trade war between the world’s two largest economies. The deal was hashed out by US and Chinese officials in Geneva over the weekend, and will see the US reducing duties on […]]]></summary>
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The United States and China have mutually agreed to <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2025/05/joint-statement-on-u-s-china-economic-and-trade-meeting-in-geneva/" data-type="link" data-id="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2025/05/joint-statement-on-u-s-china-economic-and-trade-meeting-in-geneva/">a 90-day reduction on tariffs</a> implemented in April, marking a significant attempt to de-escalate the trade war between the world’s two largest economies.
The deal was hashed out by US and Chinese officials in Geneva over the weekend, and will see the US reducing duties on Chinese imports from 145 percent to 30 percent, and China lowering tariffs on US goods to 10 percent, down from 125 percent. This new agreement doesn’t change the <a href="https://www.theverge.com/news/659676/us-de-minimis-expires-trump-import-tariffs-china">removal of the de minimis exception on May 2nd</a>, which closed a loophole that allowed businesses like <a href="https://www.theverge.com/news/605483/shein-temu-amazon-trump-tariffs-de-minimis-exemption">Temu and Shein</a> to send goods under $800 into the US without any added duties at all.
“We concluded that we have a shared interest,” said Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent at a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INzZpqIpK_Q">news conference in Geneva</a>. “We want more balanced trade, and I think both sides are committed to achieving that. Neither side wants a decoupling.”
The 90-day pause is meant to provide the two countries time to negotiate a final trade deal.
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<name>Wes Davis</name>
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[Mexico is suing Google over how it’s labeling the Gulf of Mexico]]></title>
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<updated>2025-05-12T08:14:06-04:00</updated>
<published>2025-05-11T18:26:22-04:00</published>
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum announced Friday that her government is suing Google for relabeling the Gulf of Mexico as “Gulf of America” for US users, CBS News reports. The company had done so in Google Maps after President Trump ordered the name change at the beginning of his Presidential term. The lawsuit makes good on […]]]></summary>
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Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum <a href="https://www.youtube.com/live/gxiKDnWEJp4?si=L2km-uGbVtfFa4_g&t=4529">announced Friday</a> that her government is suing Google for relabeling the Gulf of Mexico as “Gulf of America” for US users, <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mexico-sues-google-gulf-of-mexico-gulf-of-america-label/">CBS News reports</a>. The company had done so in Google Maps after President Trump ordered the name change at the beginning of his Presidential term.
The lawsuit makes good on Sheinbaum’s <a href="https://www.theverge.com/news/614154/mexico-threatens-to-sue-google-over-gulf-of-america-name">February threat</a> that Mexico would “proceed to court” if the company didn’t change the name, which it kept as Gulf of Mexico for users in Mexico, but switched to “Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)” in regions outside of the two countries. According to a machine-translated transcript of Sheinbaum’s Friday press briefing, she says “the only thing we want is compliance with the decree issued by the United States government,” which, she adds, “wouldn’t have the authority to name the entire Gulf, because that is an international attribution.”
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President Sheinbaum continues:
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We couldn’t say anything about changing the name of a state, a mountain, or a lake. So, the part of their territory that corresponds to them can be called whatever they decide. The part that corresponds to Mexico can’t be renamed. The part that corresponds to Cuba can’t be renamed, either. So, what we’re saying is, “Google, stick to what the United States government approved.”
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Prior to her briefing, Mexico sent letters to Google asking it not to label its territorial waters as Gulf of America, and Sheinbaum <a href="https://apnews.com/article/gulf-mexico-america-sheinbaum-trump-google-maps-81daabb926ab2bc4d90eb5665d96f515">shared a reply</a> from Google VP of government affairs and public policy Cris Turner stating the company had no plans to change its policy. CBS News notes that the US House passed a bill on Thursday that would codify the name change.
The Trump administration has been insistent that nongovernment entities honor the Gulf of America moniker, even <a href="https://www.theverge.com/news/613525/t">barring The Associated Press</a> from Oval Office press briefings when the outlet refused to use the new name in initial reporting — a ban that a <a href="https://www.theverge.com/news/645545/a">federal judge ordered last month</a> be dropped. Among tech companies, Google was one of the first tech to comply with Trump’s wishes, <a href="https://www.theverge.com/news/609772/google-maps-gulf-of-america-rename-mexico">altering the Gulf of Mexico’s name to Gulf of America</a> in app and browser versions of Google Maps by February 10th. Apple <a href="https://www.theverge.com/news/610580/apple-maps-gulf-of-america">soon followed suit</a>. MapQuest, on the other hand, doesn’t seem to have given in, and <a href="https://gulfof.mapquest.com/">has a site</a> specifically making light of the name change.
Google did not immediately respond to The Verge’s request for comment. 
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<name>Wes Davis</name>
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[Apple may release a ‘mostly glass, curved iPhone’ in 2027]]></title>
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<updated>2025-05-11T16:03:55-04:00</updated>
<published>2025-05-11T16:03:55-04:00</published>
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[This morning, while summarizing an Apple “product blitz” he expects for 2027, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman writes in his Power On newsletter that Apple is planning a “mostly glass, curved iPhone” with no display cutouts for that year, which happens to be the iPhone’s 20th anniversary. That follows a report last weekend from The Information, which […]]]></summary>
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This morning, while summarizing an Apple “product blitz” he expects for 2027, <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-05-11/apple-2027-plans-tabletop-robot-20th-anniversary-iphone-ios-19-wi-fi-feature?srnd=undefined">Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman writes</a> in his Power On newsletter that Apple is planning a “mostly glass, curved iPhone” with no display cutouts for that year, which happens to be the iPhone’s 20th anniversary.
That follows a report last weekend <a href="https://www.theinformation.com/articles/apple-plans-iphone-release-schedule-shakeup-new-styles?rc=v4bmzs">from The Information</a>, which said that “at least one 2027 iPhone model that will place the front-facing camera underneath the screen to enable a truly edge-to-edge display.” Late last year, a report from <a href="https://www.thelec.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=31956">The Elec said</a> Apple is working with its display partners to create a bezel-less iPhone, but not one that curves the display down the side of the phone — a trick companies <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2014/10/27/7077139/galaxy-note-edge-review">like Samsung</a> and <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/7/20949323/vivo-nex-3-review-screen-curved-waterfall-fullview-display-specs-features-price">Vivo have employed</a> in the past.
But the “mostly glass, curved” part of Gurman’s prediction is more interesting to me, because what the heck does that mean? After all, I’d describe the iPhone 15 Pro sitting on my desk right now as “mostly glass,” with the only exterior metal being around the camera lenses and in its titanium edge, which the front and back curve down to. Assuming he’s not describing a banana-shaped iPhone, the closest hints are probably in Apple patents revealed over the years, like <a href="https://www.patentlyapple.com/2019/11/apple-updates-their-iphone-with-a-wrap-around-display-patent-confirming-a-glass-housing-with-a-looping-display.html">one from 2019</a> that describes a phone encased in glass that “forms a continuous loop” around the device.
Apart from a changing iPhone, Gurman describes what sounds like a big year for Apple. He reiterates past reports that the first foldable iPhone should be <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/23/24204421/apple-first-foldable-iphone-arrive-2026">out by 2027</a>, and that the company’s <a href="https://www.theverge.com/news/663600/apple-smart-glasses-chips-ar-chip">first smart glasses competitor to Meta Ray-Bans</a> will be along that year. So will those rumored <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/25/24082760/apple-smart-glasses-airpods-cameras-smart-ring">camera-equipped AirPods</a> and Apple Watches, he says.
Gurman also suggests that <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/9/24174800/apple-intelligence-ai-smart-home-robot-rumors">Apple’s home robot</a> — a tabletop robot that features “an AI assistant with its own personality” — will come in 2027. On that “personality” mention, it’s hard not to think about the adorable robotic lamp Apple’s <a href="https://www.theverge.com/news/607663/apple-smart-home-robot-research-video">internal researchers have been tinkering with</a>.
Finally, Gurman writes that by 2027 Apple could <a href="https://www.theverge.com/news/622465/siris-real-ai-upgrade-could-still-be-years-away">finally ship an LLM-powered Siri</a> and may have created new chips for its server-side AI processing. A December report <a href="https://www.theinformation.com/articles/apple-is-working-on-ai-chip-with-broadcom?rc=v4bmzs">from The Information</a> covered such a development and suggested that the team handling Apple’s new AI chips is the same Israel-based silicon design group that was “instrumental in designing” the Apple silicon chips that let the company ditch Intel chips for its Macs in 2020.

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<entry>
<author>
<name>Wes Davis</name>
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[Trump fires head of Copyright Office two days following report that AI training may not be fair use]]></title>
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<updated>2025-05-11T12:15:14-04:00</updated>
<published>2025-05-11T12:15:14-04:00</published>
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<summary type="html"><![CDATA[The Trump administration has reportedly fired Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter, who leads the US Copyright Office, following the office’s choice to release a pre-publication version of its opinion on the fair use status of AI training data that’s made up of copyrighted information.  Representative Joe Morelle, the ranking Democrat of the Committee on House […]]]></summary>
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The Trump administration has reportedly fired Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter, who leads the US Copyright Office, following the <a href="https://www.copyright.gov/ai/">office’s choice</a> to release a <a href="https://www.copyright.gov/ai/Copyright-and-Artificial-Intelligence-Part-3-Generative-AI-Training-Report-Pre-Publication-Version.pdf">pre-publication version</a> of its opinion on the fair use status of AI training data that’s made up of copyrighted information.
Representative Joe Morelle, the ranking Democrat of the Committee on House Administration, <a href="https://democrats-cha.house.gov/media/press-releases/morelles-statement-abrupt-firing-shira-perlmutter-register-copyrights">called her firing</a> an “unprecedented power grab with no legal basis,” linking the firing directly to her report, which he says amounted to her refusing “to rubber-stamp Elon Musk’s efforts to mine troves of copyrighted works to train AI models.”
Among the report’s conclusions is that while the fair use status of AI training “will depend on what works were used, from what source, for what purpose, and  with what controls on the outputs—all of which can affect the market.” The report says research and scholarship might be fair use but says many other AI tools might not be: 
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But making commercial use of vast troves of copyrighted works to produce expressive content that competes with them in existing markets, especially where this is accomplished through illegal access, goes beyond established fair use boundaries. 
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University of Colorado law professor Blake Reid called the report a “straight-ticket loss for the AI companies” <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/chup.blakereid.org/post/3lot4e7onuk2m">in a post</a> prior to reports emerged that Perlmutter had been fired, writing that he wondered “if a purge at the Copyright Office is incoming and they felt the need to rush this out.” <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/chup.blakereid.org/post/3lot4lyohls2m">Reid wrote</a> that although the Copyright Office generally can’t “issue binding interpretations of copyright law,” courts turn to its expertise when drafting their opinions.
Whether the Copyright Office’s release of its findings is the reason Perlmutter was cut loose or is just very curious timing isn’t clear, as the White House doesn’t seem to have commented on it. Copyright law expert Meredith Rose <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/mrose.ink/post/3lou4ih2cs22e">questioned the link</a>, calling the report “113 pages of ‘well, it depends!’” and adding that “people who find that offensive enough to call for her ouster would have to be utter lunatics—on EITHER side of this fight.”
<img src="https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/05/Screenshot-2025-05-11-at-10.08.11%E2%80%AFAM-1.png?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0,30.186967137131,100,39.626065725738" alt="Screenshot of a Trump repost of a Mike Davis post on Truth Social" title="Screenshot of a Trump repost of a Mike Davis post on Truth Social" data-has-syndication-rights="1" data-caption="" data-portal-copyright="Screenshot: Truth Social" />
Confusing the issue further, President Trump reposted (or ReTruthed, if you like) <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@mrddmia/114486249003156970">commentary on news of Perlmutter’s firing</a> by a Truth Social account attributed to Mike Davis, a former legal clerk for Neil Gorsuch who was <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/09/20/mike-davis-trump-potential-attorney-general-profile-00179358">rumored last year</a> for Trump’s Attorney General pick.
“Now tech bros are going to attempt to steal creators’ copyrights for AI profits,” Davis wrote while linking to a <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-fires-director-of-u-s-copyright-office-shira-perlmutter-sources/">CBS News story</a>, “This is 100% unacceptable.” 
The day the Copyright Office’s report was released, President Trump also fired Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden, whose department the Copyright Office is part of. As <a href="https://www.npr.org/2025/05/09/nx-s1-5393737/carla-hayden-fired-library-of-congress-trump">NPR reports</a>, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt claimed, without specifics, that Hayden had done “concerning things … in the pursuit of DEI and putting inappropriate books in the library for children.” Every book published in the United States goes into the Library of Congress.
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