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The Verge’s Installer Puts Techlash in Hollywood, Amazon Tablet and Microsoft Laptop in Spotlight

The Verge’s Installer No. 147, dated Oct. 10, 2026, says the techlash has reached Hollywood while highlighting Amazon’s Alexa Tablet 12 Pro, Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Ultra, Kevin Roose’s AI book, and other releases.

AI News Feed · 2026-10-10 22:16

The film, The Social Reckoning, is described by the newsletter as good but far from The Social Network, though it says Aaron Sorkin and Jeremy Strong will end up in the annals of Big Tech Movies. The newsletter says its author’s hopes for the movie were not super high, and that the reaction so far suggests it is good but a far cry from The Social Network.

Cupertino, from the makers of The Good Wife, is a show about technology. The newsletter says it is exactly what you think it is, and that the author kind of loves it. What has been seen so far is thoughtful about complicated real-life legal stuff in tech and AI, and the procedural setup is a nice break from miniseries and four-hour docs.

On hardware, Amazon’s Alexa Tablet 12 Pro is singled out. The newsletter says Amazon decided to build an awesome tablet for the first time, and it seems it may have. The author is curious about the high-end model with a fancy screen and hopes it is the ‘iPad but cheaper’ users have waited years for. Testing remains to be done.

Microsoft revealed details of the Surface Laptop Ultra, described as its most impressive laptop. It is expensive at $2,600, but looks and sounds fantastic. Microsoft is pushing the device’s AI capabilities, and the newsletter says it looks like uncompromising MacBook Pro competition that many Windows users might want.

The AGI Chronicles by Kevin Roose is highlighted. The newsletter says however bizarre you think the AI industry is, Roose’s book will convince you it is even more so. Roose spent the last few years deep inside AI labs, and the book’s central story is how a few executives and their relationships came to determine the future of everything.

In games, Star Wars: Galactic Racer is a high-fidelity Star Wars racing game in which players eventually pilot a podracer. Prime subscribers can play it for free on Amazon’s Luna service. Gears of War: E-Day is also recommended for raw, brutal combat, and the newsletter says it delivers on story and exploration, which are not always the series’ strong points. Many people have waited for the origin-story title, and the author is thrilled the game pulls it off.

The newsletter also mentions Blockers by Michael Lewis, about Elon Musk and DOGE, and government employees who tried to stop them from running roughshod over the federal government. The author says he enjoyed The Fifth Risk, Lewis’ last book about government, and expects to like this one too.

The newsletter returns from parental leave, with the author saying he is back part time. He also mentions reading about McMansions, data centers, sports cards and ICANN, testing a new and very purple Kindle, using a Dell XPS Googlebook, reinventing his note-taking system now that Google Docs can handle Markdown files, listening to No Such Thing as a Fish, and watching Shrinking between 1 and 5 a.m. while feeding a baby.