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Season three has kicked off with an all-timer: a deep dive into the cursed history of the Furby, a toy just <em>waiting</em> for its inevitable AI revival.</p></div></td></tr></table><table class="divider_block block-2" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="mso-table-lspace:0;mso-table-rspace:0"><tr><td class="pad" style="padding-bottom:20px;padding-left:10px;padding-right:10px;padding-top:20px"><div class="alignment" align="center"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" width="100%" style="mso-table-lspace:0;mso-table-rspace:0"><tr><td class="divider_inner" style="font-size:1px;line-height:1px;border-top:1px solid #e9e9e9"> <span style="word-break: break-word;"> </span></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="row row-4" align="center" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="mso-table-lspace:0;mso-table-rspace:0"><tbody><tr><td><table class="row-content stack" align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="mso-table-lspace:0;mso-table-rspace:0;color:#000;border-radius:0;width:500px;margin:0 auto" width="500"><tbody><tr><td class="column column-1" width="100%" style="mso-table-lspace:0;mso-table-rspace:0;font-weight:400;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><table class="heading_block block-1" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="mso-table-lspace:0;mso-table-rspace:0"><tr><td class="pad" style="padding-left:10px;padding-right:10px;padding-top:10px;text-align:center;width:100%"><h1 style="margin:0;color:#000;direction:ltr;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:26px;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:1.2;text-align:left;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:31px"><span class="tinyMce-placeholder" style="word-break: break-word; 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color: #000000;" rel="noopener">The cute and cursed story of Furby</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 style="color:#000;direction:ltr;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:0;line-height:1.2;text-align:left;mso-line-height-alt:17px"><p style="margin:0"> By <a href="https://link.theverge.com/click/44571749.23704/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhldmVyZ2UuY29tL3BvZGNhc3QvODkxMTI0L3RoZS1jdXRlLWFuZC1jdXJzZWQtc3Rvcnktb2YtZnVyYnk_dWVpZD1iYzYyMDcyYzc5YWM3YmU5OTA0MjBlMzMzNWQwYzk1MiZieGlkPTY5Mjc4MzBkNTJmOTcxMzcyMzA2YzE4ZQ/6927830d52f971372306c18eDd018fa79" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: #000000;" rel="noopener">David Pierce</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 style="color:#000;direction:ltr;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:17px;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:0;line-height:1.5;text-align:left;mso-line-height-alt:26px"><p style="margin:0"> The hottest toy of 1998 was sort of adorable, and sort of annoying. It couldn’t do much — couldn’t do <em>anything</em>, really — but it could look at you, it could say some nonsense phrases, and it seemed uncannily aware of the world around it. That’s all Furby needed to pretty much take over the world.<br><br> On this episode of <em>Version History</em>, we tell the story of Furby, from its roots in an off-grid house in California all the way to the top of the toy heap. David Pierce, Victoria Song, and Sean Hollister look back at the earliest ideas behind the toy, try and figure out how it became the next big thing before most people had ever touched one, and the unusual approach to programming and personality that made it work. It might be hard to remember now, but people <em>loved</em> their Furby friends. 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color: #000000;" rel="noopener">The Corvette ZR1X hybrid can outpace million-dollar sports cars for a fraction of the cost</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 style="color:#000;direction:ltr;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:0;line-height:1.2;text-align:left;mso-line-height-alt:17px"><p style="margin:0">By <a href="https://link.theverge.com/click/44571749.23704/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhldmVyZ2UuY29tL3RyYW5zcG9ydGF0aW9uLzg4ODU3My9jaGV2eS1jb3J2ZXR0ZS16cjF4LWh5YnJpZC1yYWNpbmctcGVyZm9ybWFuY2U_dWVpZD1iYzYyMDcyYzc5YWM3YmU5OTA0MjBlMzMzNWQwYzk1MiZieGlkPTY5Mjc4MzBkNTJmOTcxMzcyMzA2YzE4ZQ/6927830d52f971372306c18eD83e0e194" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: #000000;" rel="noopener">Lawrence Ulrich</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 style="color:#000;direction:ltr;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:17px;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:0;line-height:1.5;text-align:left;mso-line-height-alt:26px"><p style="margin:0">When Elon Musk burst onto the scene in his little Tesla Roadster, it seemed a matter of time before electricity rendered gas-powered sports cars obsolete. <br><br>It hasn’t worked out that way. Automakers have struggled to bring purely electric two-seaters to market. The ones that managed to emerge have been flatly rejected by consumers. Porsche has walked back plans for an all-electric lineup of Boxster and Cayman models, while Lamborghini last week scrapped plans for its first all-electric model.<br><br> And yet, the Corvette ZR1X hybrid — surreal, spectacular, and a screaming bargain versus rivals — demonstrates how electrification is revolutionizing the highest ranks of performance, just not in the way people expected.</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 class="pad"><div class="alignment" align="center"> <a href="https://link.theverge.com/click/44571749.23704/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhldmVyZ2UuY29tL3RyYW5zcG9ydGF0aW9uLzg4ODU3My9jaGV2eS1jb3J2ZXR0ZS16cjF4LWh5YnJpZC1yYWNpbmctcGVyZm9ybWFuY2U_dWVpZD1iYzYyMDcyYzc5YWM3YmU5OTA0MjBlMzMzNWQwYzk1MiZieGlkPTY5Mjc4MzBkNTJmOTcxMzcyMzA2YzE4ZQ/6927830d52f971372306c18eE83e0e194" target="_blank" style="color:#ffffff;text-decoration:none;"> <span class="button" style="background-color: #5200ff; 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color: #000000;" rel="noopener">The AI Doc is an overwrought hype piece for doomers and accelerationists alike</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 style="color:#000;direction:ltr;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:0;line-height:1.2;text-align:left;mso-line-height-alt:17px"><p style="margin:0">By <a href="https://link.theverge.com/click/44571749.23704/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhldmVyZ2UuY29tL2VudGVydGFpbm1lbnQvODkwODA2L3RoZS1haS1kb2Mtb3ItaG93LWktYmVjYW1lLWFuLWFwb2NhbG9wdGltaXN0LXJldmlldz91ZWlkPWJjNjIwNzJjNzlhYzdiZTk5MDQyMGUzMzM1ZDBjOTUyJmJ4aWQ9NjkyNzgzMGQ1MmY5NzEzNzIzMDZjMThl/6927830d52f971372306c18eDf1360650" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: #000000;" rel="noopener">Charles Pulliam-Moore</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 style="color:#000;direction:ltr;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:17px;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:0;line-height:1.5;text-align:left;mso-line-height-alt:26px"><p style="margin:0"> We are in the thick of a massive push to incorporate generative AI into almost every aspect of our lives, but it is still easy to be confused about what it is and how it works.<br><br> In <em>The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist</em>, codirectors Daniel Roher and Charlie Tyrell attempt to make sense of this moment in gen AI’s rise to prominence. The film features researchers, developers, and gen AI company CEOs — the exact people you would want to see a documentarian speak with about the genesis and possible future of this technology. But as much excellent access as <em>The AI Doc</em>’s production team was able to secure, the documentary barely makes an effort to use it effectively. At a time when people could really use a thoughtful primer about how gen AI is already impacting their lives, this documentary fails to meet the moment. </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 class="pad"><div class="alignment" align="center"><a href="https://link.theverge.com/click/44571749.23704/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhldmVyZ2UuY29tL2VudGVydGFpbm1lbnQvODkwODA2L3RoZS1haS1kb2Mtb3ItaG93LWktYmVjYW1lLWFuLWFwb2NhbG9wdGltaXN0LXJldmlldz91ZWlkPWJjNjIwNzJjNzlhYzdiZTk5MDQyMGUzMzM1ZDBjOTUyJmJ4aWQ9NjkyNzgzMGQ1MmY5NzEzNzIzMDZjMThl/6927830d52f971372306c18eEf1360650" target="_blank" style="color:#ffffff;text-decoration:none;"> <span class="button" style="background-color: #5200ff; mso-shading: transparent; border-bottom: 0px solid transparent; border-left: 0px solid transparent; border-radius: 4px; border-right: 0px solid transparent; border-top: 0px solid transparent; color: #ffffff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: 400; mso-border-alt: none; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-top: 5px; padding-left: 20px; padding-right: 20px; text-align: center; width: auto; word-break: keep-all; letter-spacing: normal;"><span style="word-break: break-word; line-height: 30px;"><strong>Read more</strong></span></span> </a></div></td></tr></table><table class="divider_block block-6" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="mso-table-lspace:0;mso-table-rspace:0"><tr><td class="pad" style="padding-bottom:20px;padding-left:10px;padding-right:10px;padding-top:20px"><div class="alignment" align="center"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" width="100%" style="mso-table-lspace:0;mso-table-rspace:0"><tr><td class="divider_inner" style="font-size:1px;line-height:1px;border-top:1px solid #e9e9e9"><span style="word-break: break-word;"> </span></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table class="row row-9" align="center" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="mso-table-lspace:0;mso-table-rspace:0"><tbody><tr><td><table class="row-content stack" align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="mso-table-lspace:0;mso-table-rspace:0;color:#000;border-radius:0;width:500px;margin:0 auto" width="500"><tbody><tr><td class="column column-1" width="100%" style="mso-table-lspace:0;mso-table-rspace:0;font-weight:400;text-align:left;vertical-align:top"><table class="divider_block block-1" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="mso-table-lspace:0;mso-table-rspace:0"> <tr><td class="pad" style="padding-bottom:10px;padding-left:10px;padding-top:10px"><div class="alignment" align="left"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" width="15%" style="mso-table-lspace:0;mso-table-rspace:0"><tr><td class="divider_inner" style="font-size:1px;line-height:1px;border-top:5px solid #5200ff"><span style="word-break: break-word;"> </span></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><table class="heading_block block-2" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="mso-table-lspace:0;mso-table-rspace:0"><tr><td class="pad" style="padding-left:10px;padding-right:10px;text-align:center;width:100%"><h1 style="margin:0;color:#000;direction:ltr;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:26px;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:1.2;text-align:left;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:31px"> <strong><a href="https://link.theverge.com/click/44571749.23704/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhldmVyZ2UuY29tL2FpLWFydGlmaWNpYWwtaW50ZWxsaWdlbmNlLzg5MDUxNy9vcGVuY2xhdy1jbGF3Y29uLW1lZXR1cC1ueWMtb3Blbi1zb3VyY2UtYWk_dWVpZD1iYzYyMDcyYzc5YWM3YmU5OTA0MjBlMzMzNWQwYzk1MiZieGlkPTY5Mjc4MzBkNTJmOTcxMzcyMzA2YzE4ZQ/6927830d52f971372306c18eC67b7096d" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: #000000;" rel="noopener">The OpenClaw superfan meetup serves optimism and lobster</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 style="color:#000;direction:ltr;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:0;line-height:1.2;text-align:left;mso-line-height-alt:17px"><p style="margin:0">By <a href="https://link.theverge.com/click/44571749.23704/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhldmVyZ2UuY29tL2FpLWFydGlmaWNpYWwtaW50ZWxsaWdlbmNlLzg5MDUxNy9vcGVuY2xhdy1jbGF3Y29uLW1lZXR1cC1ueWMtb3Blbi1zb3VyY2UtYWk_dWVpZD1iYzYyMDcyYzc5YWM3YmU5OTA0MjBlMzMzNWQwYzk1MiZieGlkPTY5Mjc4MzBkNTJmOTcxMzcyMzA2YzE4ZQ/6927830d52f971372306c18eD67b7096d" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: #000000;" rel="noopener">Hayden Field</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 style="color:#000;direction:ltr;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:17px;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:0;line-height:1.5;text-align:left;mso-line-height-alt:26px"><p style="margin:0">The woman at the door wore a plush lobster headdress.<br><br> She sat in the front hallway of a multistory event venue in Manhattan, beside a bundle of wristbands. If she granted you one, the world of ClawCon beckoned behind her — full of vibey pink and purple lighting, lobster claw headbands, multicolored name tags, sponsor information stations, and a demo stage underneath a skylight. Hundreds of people were gathered to celebrate OpenClaw, the AI assistant platform created by Peter Steinberger in November 2025.</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 class="pad"><div class="alignment" align="center"><a href="https://link.theverge.com/click/44571749.23704/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhldmVyZ2UuY29tL2FpLWFydGlmaWNpYWwtaW50ZWxsaWdlbmNlLzg5MDUxNy9vcGVuY2xhdy1jbGF3Y29uLW1lZXR1cC1ueWMtb3Blbi1zb3VyY2UtYWk_dWVpZD1iYzYyMDcyYzc5YWM3YmU5OTA0MjBlMzMzNWQwYzk1MiZieGlkPTY5Mjc4MzBkNTJmOTcxMzcyMzA2YzE4ZQ/6927830d52f971372306c18eE67b7096d" target="_blank" style="color:#ffffff;text-decoration:none;"> <span class="button" style="background-color: #5200ff; mso-shading: transparent; border-bottom: 0px solid transparent; border-left: 0px solid transparent; border-radius: 4px; border-right: 0px solid transparent; border-top: 0px solid transparent; 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class="pad"><div style="margin-left:-20px"><ul start="1" style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:revert"><li style="Margin:0 0 2px 0"> <a href="https://link.theverge.com/click/44571749.23704/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhldmVyZ2UuY29tL3RlY2gvODkxMTUxL2FwcGxlLWlzLWdvaW5nLWhpZ2gtZW5kLXdpdGgtbmV3LXVsdHJhLXByb2R1Y3RzLW5leHQ_dWVpZD1iYzYyMDcyYzc5YWM3YmU5OTA0MjBlMzMzNWQwYzk1MiZieGlkPTY5Mjc4MzBkNTJmOTcxMzcyMzA2YzE4ZQ/6927830d52f971372306c18eC1da8eac0" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: underline; color: #5200ff;" rel="noopener">Apple is going high-end with new ‘Ultra’ products next</a></li><li style="Margin:0 0 2px 0"><a href="https://link.theverge.com/click/44571749.23704/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhldmVyZ2UuY29tL3RlY2gvODg4NDgyL2Vhc3lzbXgtczEwLWxpdGUtc3dpdGNoLTItbmF0aXZlLXdpcmVsZXNzLWNvbnRyb2xsZXItaGFuZHMtb24_dWVpZD1iYzYyMDcyYzc5YWM3YmU5OTA0MjBlMzMzNWQwYzk1MiZieGlkPTY5Mjc4MzBkNTJmOTcxMzcyMzA2YzE4ZQ/6927830d52f971372306c18eB051f6a4a" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: underline; color: #5200ff;" rel="noopener">The best Switch 2 controller just got better (and a little worse)</a></li><li style="Margin:0 0 2px 0"> <a href="https://link.theverge.com/click/44571749.23704/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhldmVyZ2UuY29tL25ld3MvODkwOTgyL2RqaS1wYXktc2FtbXktYXpkb3VmYWwtcm9ib3QtdmFjdXVtLWhhY2stcm9tby1zZWN1cml0eT91ZWlkPWJjNjIwNzJjNzlhYzdiZTk5MDQyMGUzMzM1ZDBjOTUyJmJ4aWQ9NjkyNzgzMGQ1MmY5NzEzNzIzMDZjMThl/6927830d52f971372306c18eBe8c83f37" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: underline; color: #5200ff;" rel="noopener">DJI will pay $30K to the man who accidentally hacked 7,000 Romo robovacs</a></li><li style="Margin:0 0 2px 0"><a href="https://link.theverge.com/click/44571749.23704/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhldmVyZ2UuY29tL2dhbWVzLzg5MDk4Ni92YWx2ZS1zdGVhbS1tYWNoaW5lLWZyYW1lLWNvbnRyb2xsZXItZGVsYXktcmFtLW1lbW9yeT91ZWlkPWJjNjIwNzJjNzlhYzdiZTk5MDQyMGUzMzM1ZDBjOTUyJmJ4aWQ9NjkyNzgzMGQ1MmY5NzEzNzIzMDZjMThl/6927830d52f971372306c18eBb4e8311d" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: underline; color: #5200ff;" rel="noopener">Valve says it still plans to ship the Steam Machine in 2026</a></li><li style="Margin:0 0 2px 0"> <em>Listen</em>: <a href="https://link.theverge.com/click/44571749.23704/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhldmVyZ2UuY29tL3BvZGNhc3QvODkwMzI0L213Yy0yMDI2LXBob25lcy1lcGljLWdvb2dsZS12ZXJnZWNhc3Q_dWVpZD1iYzYyMDcyYzc5YWM3YmU5OTA0MjBlMzMzNWQwYzk1MiZieGlkPTY5Mjc4MzBkNTJmOTcxMzcyMzA2YzE4ZQ/6927830d52f971372306c18eB7631cfdc" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: underline; color: #5200ff;" rel="noopener">This phone starts fires on purpose</a></li></ul></div></td></tr></table><table class="divider_block block-3" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="mso-table-lspace:0;mso-table-rspace:0"><tr><td class="pad" style="padding-bottom:20px;padding-left:10px;padding-right:10px;padding-top:20px"><div class="alignment" align="center"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" width="100%" 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