You are Larry Ellison. All of your wealth >> is Oracle stock. >> Oracle stock is AI stock.Does Larry Ellison think we're in a bubble based on the fact that he wants to sell his Oracle stock and buy Warner Brothers. A thing that has killed every other acquirer for over 20 years. Wait, no, no, no, no.I'm going to put this in even a simpler fashion. Do you would you rather bet on the AI industry continuing to go up the way that it is or would you ra do you want to bet on the success of the Harry Potter HBO sho ...

Jeffrey Epstein cared about SEO a lot, just a lot. And he employed people to manage his Google presence. He did offensive SEO.He he was all over it. His digital footprint was a thing he cared about. And he had people constantly emailing him telling him how they were cleaning up his digital footprint.>> Right. And to be clear, by cleaning up, you mean Jeffrey Epstein is a criminal and a pedophile was at the top of the rankings. Y >> and Jeffrey Epstein spent a lot of time and energy and money trying to move ...

Savannah Guthri's mother was kidnapped and everyone was like, "Where's the doorbell footage and she didn't have a Nest subscription on her Nest Cam and everyone thought it was lost?" And it turns out that the way the Nest cams work meant some data was sent to Google at some point and Google was able to recover it from quote residual data located in backend systems. I think Google should explain exactly what that means. Yeah, >> I think you have a right to know if you're a Nest customer exactly how residual ...

If your dog runs away, you can activate the whole neighborhood of cameras to help you find your dog. Replace dogs with anything else. And this is a horrifying dystopian hellscape that you've just described.>> I have this theory about just what is happening in our politics right now. We are convinced, like culturally convinced, that our actions do not affect other people. And Ring cameras are an incredible example of this.My cameras can invade your rights, but me turning that on has no impact on me. So here' ...

Welcome to the Vergecast, the flagship podcast of slightly dystopian pet finders. I'm your friend David Pierce. The optell's here.Hey buddy, >> what's up. How do you feel about using the full surveillance industry to find your pets. >> This is why I don't have pets.Get them out of my face. Too complicated. Too The moral quandry of pet ownership is We do a lot of moral quandry on the show.I I will say I you know, do you really own a dog. Let's talk about it. Yeah, you just you you don't you just let it poop ...

Anthropic and OpenAI are probably looking at OpenClaw very closely and trying to learn from it right now because their own products haven't got the type of viral adoption that OpenClaw got for, you know, non-technical types of tasks like this. And so they're probably looking very closely and being like, how can we copy this. >> Yeah.What do you make of the fact that the one that has really taken off in this space was a sort of pet project made by one guy as opposed to these massive otherwise very successful ...

if you are paying for the product, you're a lot safer. So, OpenClaw, there's a reason why uh we saw that there was malware in hundreds of the skill add-ons in the marketplace on OpenClaw. Like one of the one password execs said it was an attack surface. So, basically, it was a security nightmare. It was free. Other companies that offer like paid products, you're a little safer. But the problem is, even if they voluntarily comply with certain frameworks and guidelines and stuff, they can always change their ...

I aggressively root for the Trump phone to be a real thing that exists and have the whole time. It is more interesting as a journalist. It's more interesting as a person who thinks the phone industry is interesting. Like every piece of this story is more interesting if this phone is real because if it's not, it's just a grift and that sucks.Yeah, exactly. I can't wait to get my hands on one of these things if it's real and and actually get to go through that experience of like does it work well. What have t ...

Are they still claiming that they're making this phone in some substantial way in the United States. >> They are saying that this is getting or has had final assembly in Miami. I think the phrase that he used was it's more than just slapping a cover on the phone.So, it's not just boxing it. It's not just sticking the rear chassis on. They said 10 or so components are getting assembled in Miami.Now, I don't know if they're also counting, you know, the box and the USB cable among those, you know, 10 or so com ...

The first thing I do every morning and the last before bed is harvest sheets of emergency whistles from a 3D printer. Oh, this color is excellent. I print whistles nearly 24/7.Boxes full of whistles. Bags full of whistles. Boxes full of bags.Why. Because Renee Good and Alex Prey. Because whistles might help us protect our neighbors from ice.Because making whistles is easy. Because doing something, anything at all, feels so much better than nothing. It's almost too easy.I can still work, eat, sleep, hold my ...