Alex Heath

Deputy Editor

Alex Heath is a Deputy Editor for The Verge and the author of Command Line, the site’s weekly newsletter about the tech industry’s inside conversation. Since joining The Verge in 2021, he has broken agenda-setting scoops like Facebook’s rebrand to Meta and been at the forefront of tech’s biggest storylines, from Elon Musk’s chaotic takeover of Twitter to the failed boardroom coup at OpenAI. Before joining The Verge, Heath was a reporter for The Information. His work has been cited in congressional hearings and been recognized by the Livingston Awards and the Society of American Business Editors and Writers. He regularly appears as an expert voice on programs like CNBC, BBC, and CNN.

Snap will start selling AR glasses next year

Details about the hardware are scarce, but CEO Evan Spiegel says the first consumer pair of Specs glasses will definitely cost less than the Vision Pro.

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WWDC 2025 live blog: a fresh new look at iOS, macOS, and more

Software redesigns, some new names, and probably more AI. Probably.

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Alex HeathJun 9

We’re at Apple Park!

We were just driven around the spaceship in a golf cart that may or may not have had party speakers. The keynote is scheduled to start in less than an hour. More to come soon.

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Popular AI apps get caught in the crosshairs of Anthropic and OpenAI

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“More than 50 people” are making over $1 million a year on Substack.

CEO Chris Best drops that fact onstage at The Information’s “Future of Influence” event in Los Angeles. He also says Substack was “accidentally cash flow positive” in the first quarter of this year, but isn’t planning to be profitable soon. “We’re focused on growth,” he says. “It turns out that when you do that, it makes the business grow really well, too.”