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Verne Kopytoff
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Verne Kopytoff is a former senior editor at Fortune. He was previously a technology reporter at the San Francisco Chronicle and a contract reporter covering technology at the New York Times. He has also written for TIME and MIT Technology Review. He has a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Southern California and bachelor’s degrees in art and art history from the University of California at Riverside. He is based in San Francisco.

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
TechAs Trump pushes Apple to make iPhones in the U.S., Google’s brief effort building smartphones in Texas 12 years ago offers critical lessons
By Verne KopytoffJuly 5, 2025
The first big winners in the race to create AI superintelligence: the humans getting multi-million dollar pay packages
AIThe first big winners in the race to create AI superintelligence: the humans getting multi-million dollar pay packages
By Verne KopytoffJuly 4, 2025
Unless the Trump family secretly built a U.S. factory, industry experts say the $500 made-in-America smartphone is a fantasy
TechUnless the Trump family secretly built a U.S. factory, industry experts say the $500 made-in-America smartphone is a fantasy
By Verne KopytoffJune 18, 2025
The only ‘Made in America’ smartphone maker has a message for Apple about manufacturing in the Trump tariff era
TechThe only ‘Made in America’ smartphone maker has a message for Apple about manufacturing in the Trump tariff era
By Verne KopytoffJune 5, 2025
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
TechOpenAI’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
By Verne Kopytoff, Jeremy Kahn and Alexei OreskovicMay 21, 2025
Apple’s love affair with India is being tested by Trump’s ‘little problem’ with CEO Tim Cook
TechApple’s love affair with India is being tested by Trump’s ‘little problem’ with CEO Tim Cook
By Verne KopytoffMay 17, 2025
Apple probes next frontier with new brain implant standard. But what it really needs is to sell more iPhones
TechApple probes next frontier with new brain implant standard. But what it really needs is to sell more iPhones
By Verne KopytoffMay 13, 2025
Elon Musk
NewslettersElon Musk’s Memphis data center has a pollution problem that’s not going away anytime soon
By Verne KopytoffMay 7, 2025
Sam Altman
NewslettersOpenAI generates more drama with its latest reversal
By Verne KopytoffMay 6, 2025
Apple CEO Tim Cook reveals how much Trump’s tariffs will cost the tech giant this quarter
TechApple CEO Tim Cook reveals how much Trump’s tariffs will cost the tech giant this quarter
By Verne KopytoffMay 1, 2025
Lip-Bu Tan
Tech‘There are no quick fixes’: Intel’s CEO gives Wall Street a reality check about the chipmaker’s would-be turnaround
By Verne KopytoffApril 24, 2025
Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce
NewslettersNetflix scores a record-setting touchdown with its NFL streaming on Christmas Day
By Verne KopytoffDecember 27, 2024
Liz Reid
TechGoogle’s search chief makes a case for optimism as AI challengers take aim
By Verne KopytoffDecember 12, 2024
Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI, speaks into a microphone.
TechWhy investors want startup founders to own equity—including OpenAI’s Sam Altman
By Sharon Goldman, Kali Hays and Verne KopytoffSeptember 30, 2024
A woman in a black outfit stands in front of a white background with YouTube logos
NewslettersFortune Archives: The great feat Susan Wojcicki pulled off at YouTube
By Verne KopytoffAugust 18, 2024
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