We should talk about this rumor/report that's now floating around that suggests that OpenAI is building a phone for chat GPT. >> First of all, uh, no no side quests. I was told code red, we have to focus and now we're making a phone.The one product that will not succeed, there's no way it will succeed. >> Can I make an argument for why you have to do this even though it won't work. If what you need for the AI future is a device that is able to capture everything about you all of the time, you need something ...

Google actually launched a sort of AI e-gadget this week. It's called the Fitbit Air, and it is a screenless Fitbit. It connects to a bunch of Google's AI stuff.They've rebranded the Fitbit app as Google Health, which I think is just a horrifically bad idea. And the idea is it's it's this Gemini-powered health and fitness thing that can collect all of this data and give it back to you in a sort of AI coach kind of way. Uh the thing is $99.I will say personally, I am very enthusiastic about the idea of a pre ...

Okay, so it's the second week of the Elon Musk v Open AAI trial and this week we've had a ton of crazy stuff come out. Some of it we already knew, but it's still interesting to see conversations laid out in evidence exhibits. Now, one of the exhibits I thought was most interesting was a string of 78 text messages between Marotti, who was then CTO of OpenAI, and Altman. This is soon after his ouster when he's trying to figure out what's going on. The board is scrambling trying to figure out who is going to b ...

Apple settled a class action lawsuit for $250 million that is based all around essentially the promises Apple made about Apple intelligence and Siri doesn't work. Fake feature. That was an ad with a celebrity that Apple ran for a feature that didn't and doesn't exist.>> Siri, what's the name of the guy I had a meeting with a couple of months ago at Cafe Grenell. >> You met Zach Winggate at Cafe Grenell. >> Like we we just shouldn't forget how wild that fact is.If you bought a phone, I think it's basically b ...

Welcome to the Vergecast, the flagship podcast of rando Twitch guys who sometimes become CEOs for five minutes. I'm your friend David Pierce. Neil is here.Hey buddy, >> what's up. >> We're doing AI chaos again. This is just this is this is what we do here on the first cast.We talk about how people don't like AI and then we talk about AI. This is this is what we're here for. If you look at our like audience stats, like the website stats, which we don't talk about a lot, everybody just wants to read about AI ...

The guy who put 50 million Roombas into people's homes has a new robot, but this one isn't designed to clean your floors. This week, Colin Angel announced the first robot from his new company, Familiar Machines and Magic. >> Hey, it's okay.Come on. It's okay. You can Don't be shy. Don't be shy.>> Part bear, part Barnowl, part golden retriever. It's definitely not designed to vacuum. Instead, its angles first move into physical AI using an ondevice generative AI model.The robot can develop a personality to t ...

Is AGI dead. RIP AGI. >> It's dying like a slow, gradual death in that no one knows what it fully means.>> But no one ever knew what it meant. We all just pretended >> exactly. A lot of AI CEOs have said, "I don't like that term anymore. Don't ask me about it." Because they just feel like, you know, I think they're they're starting to realize like we're getting up to the point where they may have to actually say whether or not they've achieved it.And it's like they don't feel comfortable doing that. I am ac ...

A lot of people are kind of like trying to like productivity max right now with AI and it's like >> man I feel that you like get a bunch of agents running and you're like I am God I am achieving >> and it's like none of this is actually anything but look at all this cool stuff I did. >> Yeah. Exactly.It's like very cool but it's like if you're doing your job you really have to look at the output because sometimes we get lost in the weeds of like oh this is so cool I'm making all this stuff but like what are ...

DJI's Osmo Pocket 4 is the follow-up to one of the most popular cameras with journalists, YouTubers, and vloggers, and it's good enough that I'm actually using it to record this video right now. This is a very iterative update to the Pocket 3, but it is a seriously comprehensive iteration. DJI has improved the camera sensor, screen, physical controls, storage, and battery on the Pocket 4.About the only bit of hardware it hasn't changed is the gimbal controls, which are still very much as they used to be and ...

give me the quick sort of kindergarten level how a car gets made kind of story. >> Yeah, I mean usually it starts with a sketch or a series of sketches. There's usually a couple of different concepts, but they move from paper sketches to digital sketches to 3D models.Uh, you know, at some point someone will carve the thing out of clay to make sure it actually looks good in the real world. If that looks good, they'll move it into a full scale clay. I don't think I understood until I read your piece that ther ...