The Verge's Nilay Patel, David Pierce, and Alex Cranz discuss YouTube adding a slew of new TikTok-like features to Shorts, Elon Musk's extravagant 'X' sign, and much more.

We also go through this week's emails. The Samsung fans have spoken.

Further reading:

• Elon Musk wants a second chance to fail at X
• Elon Musk capitulates: Twitter will default to dark mode but still offer a light option
• Twitter Blue subscribers can now hide their blue checks
• Elon Musk's extravagant 'X' sign atop the former Twitter HQ has been dismantled 
• Elon Musk’s X sues anti-hate researchers for allegedly scraping data from Twitter
• Do you want to buy stocks on X?
• YouTube is adding a slew of new TikTok-like features to Shorts
• BBC launches an ‘experimental’ Mastodon server
• LG 27GR95QE-B review: ushering in a new age for gaming monitors
• Some details on what Apple needs to ship the Apple Vision Pro developer kits. 
• Apple’s Vision Pro platform joins Pixar’s bid to standardize 3D content
• The Excel World Championship esport is coming back to ESPN this week
• Exclusive: the Sonos Move 2 is coming in September with stereo sound and 24-hour battery life
• MrBeast is suing his ghost kitchen partner over ‘inedible’ MrBeast Burgers

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