Politics | The Verge 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. 2026-05-13T23:53:00+00:00 https://centraltech.webbfinanceiro.com/rss/politics/index.xml https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/verge-rss-large_80b47e.png?w=150&h=150&crop=1 Lauren Feiner <![CDATA[Trump administration defends right to ban content moderation experts from US]]> https://centraltech.webbfinanceiro.com/?p=930178 2026-05-13T19:53:00-04:00 2026-05-13T17:58:44-04:00

The Trump administration is fighting for the right to keep some social media moderation advocates out of the US.

On Wednesday, US District Court Judge James Boasberg heard arguments in a lawsuit between the nonprofit Coalition for Independent Technology Research (CITR) and Secretary of State Marco Rubio and other Trump administration officials. The suit concerns a policy that allows restricting visas to foreign officials who "demand that American tech platforms adopt global content moderation policies." The CITR is arguing for a preliminary injunction blocking the policy, which the State Department already referenced when it sanctioned fiv …

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]]> Tina Nguyen <![CDATA[The crypto Clarity Act returns to the Senate this week. The banks are already trying to kill it.]]> https://centraltech.webbfinanceiro.com/?p=929752 2026-05-13T15:11:58-04:00 2026-05-13T15:19:00-04:00 Photo collage of Congress.

Hello and welcome to Regulator, the newsletter for Verge subscribers that goes into tech shenanigans that take place in the backrooms of Washington. Really, it sometimes does feel like the online series The Backrooms: a parallel universe with no internal logic, evil corporations lurking in the background, and mind-rending eldritch horrors around every corner. (Not a subscriber yet? Sign up here today. Have any tips about mind-rending eldritch horrors lurking in DC? Send that intel to me at tina.nguyen+tips@centraltech.webbfinanceiro.com.)

Speaking of liminal spaces and endless hallways that drive their inhabitants insane: Today, we're going to Capitol Hill …

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]]> Gaby Del Valle <![CDATA[The border is everywhere]]> https://centraltech.webbfinanceiro.com/?p=928726 2026-05-13T09:54:13-04:00 2026-05-13T09:45:00-04:00
Verge reporter Gaby Del Valle demonstrates the size of Sherp’s ATV at the Border Security Expo in Phoenix, Arizona, on Tuesday, May 5, 2026.

No one paid attention to the gunshots that echoed through the convention center. They were real enough, and so were the screams that accompanied them, in the sense that they were recordings of real people who, like guest stars on Law and Order, reenacted scenarios that had clearly been plucked from the headlines: a kidnapping, a mass shooting in a church, a riot on a city street. The auditory terror punctured the otherwise banal din of an industry conference. This terror was, in fact, one of the products on display: the V-300 S-Screen Simulator, developed by VirTra, one of the 193 vendors at the annual Border Security Expo in Phoenix, Arizon …

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]]> Dominic Preston <![CDATA[The Trump phone starts shipping this week, company claims]]> https://centraltech.webbfinanceiro.com/?p=929471 2026-05-13T12:36:54-04:00 2026-05-13T07:52:35-04:00 Promotional image of the redesigned Trump Mobile T1 Phone on a beige background

The Trump phone may finally be here: Trump Mobile claims that the phone will begin shipping to buyers this week. The announcement comes as reports have gone viral this week alleging that preorders for the phone have been canceled.

Trump Mobile CEO Pat O'Brien first confirmed the release plans to USA Today, telling the outlet that all preorders will be fulfilled within the next few weeks. The company later confirmed the news on its social media accounts, using a very normal number of exclamation marks in the process.

The T1 Phone has arrived!! Those who pre-ordered the T1 Phone will be receiving an update email. Phones start shipping this …

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]]> Emma Roth <![CDATA[DOGE used ChatGPT in a way that was both dumb and illegal, judge rules]]> https://centraltech.webbfinanceiro.com/?p=927071 2026-05-08T20:53:30-04:00 2026-05-08T14:02:44-04:00 Illustration of Cheems meme in front of the words “Department of Governmental Efficiency”.

The Department of Government Efficiency's cancellation of over $100 million in grants was unconstitutional, according to a ruling on Thursday. In the 143-page decision, US District Judge Colleen McMahon cites DOGE's process for eliminating grants, which involved using ChatGPT to determine if something is related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).

The ruling, which stems from a 2025 lawsuit filed by humanities groups, says "it could not be more obvious that DOGE used the mere presence of particular, protected characteristics to disqualify grants from continued funding" from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). Judge McMah …

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]]> Lauren Feiner <![CDATA[ABC and Disney accuse Trump admin of violating First Amendment rights]]> https://centraltech.webbfinanceiro.com/?p=927002 2026-05-08T21:02:55-04:00 2026-05-08T13:52:28-04:00 Digital photo illustration of FCC chair Brendan Carr.

ABC is accusing the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) of violating its First Amendment rights by making "major shifts in policy and practice" that the network claims will chill free speech.

The network is asking the FCC to "affirm its long-standing approach to the bona fide news interview exemption" for daytime talk show The View and the agency's support of "public interest services provided by broadcast stations." ABC says that a series of actions from the FCC "suggests that the Commission is implementing major shifts in policy and practice," and that "requires the action of the full Commission and the oversight of the courts." The a …

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]]> Tina Nguyen <![CDATA[How David Sacks crashed and burned in the White House]]> https://centraltech.webbfinanceiro.com/925487/grindr-yes-grindr-won-the-whcd-party-circuit 2026-05-07T10:09:41-04:00 2026-05-06T16:18:00-04:00
AI and Crypto Czar David O. Sacks speaks during a meeting of the White House Task Force on Artificial Intelligence Education at the White House. | Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Hello and welcome to Regulator, a newsletter exclusively for Verge subscribers about tech, politics, and Washington intrigue. (It's basically House of Cards, but for nerds.) Not a subscriber yet? You really should become one, and to save you a Google search, here is the direct link to do so! And do you think I should know something? Send it to tina.nguyen+tips@centraltech.webbfinanceiro.com.

On Monday, The New York Times reported that the White House was considering having the government review AI models before release. To the casual Verge reader, it appeared to be a total reversal in Donald Trump's policies. For the past year, he had been a vocal champion o …

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]]> Emma Roth <![CDATA[Google, Microsoft, and xAI will allow the US government to review their new AI models]]> https://centraltech.webbfinanceiro.com/?p=924017 2026-05-05T10:26:59-04:00 2026-05-05T10:26:59-04:00 Photo collage of Congress.

Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and Elon Musk's xAI have agreed to allow the US government to review new AI models before they're released to the public. In an announcement on Tuesday, the Commerce Department's Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) says it will work with the AI companies to perform "pre-deployment evaluations and targeted research to better assess frontier AI capabilities."

CAISI, which started evaluating models from OpenAI and Anthropic in 2024, says it has performed 40 reviews so far. Both companies "have renegotiated their existing partnerships with the center to better align with priorities in President Donald Trum …

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]]> Richard Lawler <![CDATA[Spirit Airlines shuts down after Trump’s war on Iran doubled jet fuel prices]]> https://centraltech.webbfinanceiro.com/?p=922788 2026-05-04T05:34:50-04:00 2026-05-02T13:51:04-04:00
Spirit Airlines planes are parked on the tarmac at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport on May 02, 2026 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. | Getty Images

The ultra-low-cost air carrier Spirit Airlines shut down operations after 34 years in business and canceled all flights at 3AM ET on Saturday morning. Its website now redirects to spiritrestructuring.com, instructing fliers not to go to airports, with air traffic control records capturing controllers and pilots signing off to each other as its last flights came in for landings after the shutdown was announced.

A statement on its website said that for people who purchased tickets directly, "Refunds for tickets purchased by credit card and debit card have been issued, and will be processed by …

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]]> Dominic Preston <![CDATA[We just got a new reason to believe the Trump phone is real(ish)]]> https://centraltech.webbfinanceiro.com/?p=922180 2026-05-01T12:28:39-04:00 2026-05-01T12:28:39-04:00 Speedometer-style dial to measure whether the Trump Phone exists or not, pointing to just past ‘no’.

Where's the Trump phone? We're going to keep talking about it every week. We've reached out, as usual, to ask about the Trump phone's whereabouts. This time we've discovered a little more evidence that the phone is on its way to a release.

Trump Mobile's T1 Phone has just passed another milestone on its slow road to release. The phone has received the little-known PTCRB certification, a first step toward being certified to work on major networks and be issued with IMEI numbers.

You probably haven't heard of PTCRB certification - I hadn't until recently. It doesn't come up very often. It's the North American certification process for smartp …

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