Verne Kopytoff

The Haight giving Bob Weir a fabulous send off to the psycadelic cloud in the sky

In a Hardly Strictly Bluegrass state of mind

Ready. Play.

No major company has dared to try since

As Trump pushes Apple to make iPhones in the U.S., Google’s brief effort building smartphones in Texas 12 years ago offers critical lessons fortune.com/2025/07/05/wha…

Donald Trump wants to sell a USA-made phone. This company is already doing it: fortune.com/2025/06/05/mad…

Apple says making smartphones in the USA is impossible. But one company has been doing it for years: fortune.com/2025/06/05/mad…

OpenAI’s hiring of legendary former Apple design boss Jony Ive is a $6.5 billion move to dominate the AI age by creating the next iPhone fortune.com/2025/05/21/ope…

@iamsternlicht @lexnfx A big congrats for a fabulous story

Thank you to my amazing editors @vkopytoff and @lexnfx for supporting and pushing this reporting

Honored to be a National Headliner Award finalist for my year-long investigation into China's role in the lives of ex-TikTok employees. I owe the deepest gratitude to my sources who were so brave to speak to me about their experiences. headlinerawards.org/2025-print-pho…

Meanwhile, I have so little free time it takes me weeks to change a lightbulb

Among the many surprising takeaways from the group chatting techies story: Billionaires have have hella free time on their hands

Maintaining guidance is the new raising guidance

On Valentine’s Day, she was fired, along with a third of her colleagues, via an email from an anonymous DOGE account. fortune.com/2025/02/28/elo…

What OpenAI's new focus on product design tells us about the future of AI: fortune.com/2025/02/13/ope…

@mlevram @AaronDFordNV @AGAlanWilson @pbsbooks @AGAlliance1 Nice!

Loved getting to interview two attorneys general from both sides of the aisle, @AaronDFordNV & @AGAlanWilson, with the most symbolic backdrop ever: Mount Rushmore! Thanks to @pbsbooks @AGAlliance1 & the Bipartisan Leadership Project for making it happen.

World's richest man - Elon Musk - gets a $10 million tax break for an xAI/X data center in Atlanta fortune.com/2025/01/24/elo…

Fortune Brainstorm AI returns to London from May 6-7. Want to participate in our invite-only gathering about the next generation of AI? Drop me a line: fortune.com/conferences/fo…

Immigrant AI talent worry Trump could make an already broken visa system worse   fortune.com/2025/01/21/tru…

“It is a physics problem, not a political problem, about how much energy can be provided here” fortune.com/2025/01/07/mem…

@imkialikethecar @PitchBook Editing 101: ALL CAPS and lots of ???

*ahem... Some personal news: Wrapping up my 1st day as @PitchBook's Sr. Editor for Venture Capital. Excited to keep swimming in the VC journalism river with my new teammates! So hit me up with all your venture scoops, gossip, and event invites! 📧kia.kokalitcheva@pitchbook.com