Welcome to the Birdcast, the flagship podcast of the BYYD dolphin surf. If that is three words that you have never heard in that order before, don't worry, it's all going to make sense later in this episode. I'm your friend David Pierce, and I have huge news for you, which is that I finally, after I I don't know how many hours of trying, got this silly little IKEA button hooked up to my smart home. So now, if you're watching this on YouTube, this is going to it's not going to look very exciting either way, ...

If you're watching this right now on a screen, Saram is inside. [music] >> It's easy to focus on a finished device, but what about the tech inside that tech. You might not realize it, but 3M is making your gadgets better through foundational material science.[music] We stopped by 3M's booth at CES 2026 to learn more about how the company is helping other companies technologies work better, last longer, and perform more reliably in four key areas: automotive, consumer electronics, data centers, and advanced ...

Grock X AI's AI bot is just running around happily making deep faked inappropriate pictures of anyone who asks. >> Yeah. Young, old, male, female, doesn't matter.>> Anybody. And it it has become like a meme on X to reply to any picture and be like put put them in a bikini or uh you know worse in some cases. >> Much much much worse.>> Yeah. I mean it's some of the details are are truly horrifying. And this has just become both one of the biggest and also just kind of the ugliest story in our space right now. ...

Mark Zuckerberg hates Apple. He hates the fact that Tim Cook through app store policies can affect Meta's business. And Tim Cook hates Meta and I think he hates Mark Zuckerberg.And in fact, Apple has many times just directly screwed with Meta's businesses. >> Yes. >> At one point, Meta was running a VPN called Onavo to get data on what users were doing, which is super sketchy.Super sketchy to give people a VPN in the name of privacy and then track every single thing they do in every single app to figure out ...

Every good app that came out was swallowed up by Meta, including Supernatural, this like Beat Saber workout thing that I think you and I both had pretty long stints of using. >> It is just a tragedy that Meta bought it, didn't really invest a ton into it. The supernatural audience was all immediately upset about this, right.Like they no one wants this acquisition to happen. They were cheering on the FTC case. The FC lost, whatever.And then Meta has done nothing but drain reality labs of funds and with it ki ...

Every time Google talks about search or AI mode or any of this, the examples always end in a transaction, which just feels gross. Like it's like, can you just be cool for once in your life. So, of course, they want to shift to AI mode because then they are in total control of that results page.>> Every word on that results page is generated by Google directly and they can monetize it in all kinds of ways that are way more exciting than just you bought an Adword and here's the first result that's spawned. li ...

Welcome to the Vergecast, the flagship podcast of foundation model foundations, which are a thing that we understand. Uh, I'm your friend David Pierce. Neil Abel is here.Hey, buddy. >> There's so many concepts in this episode of the Vergecast. >> We literally got an email that was like, can you explain to me what a foundation for a foundation model is.And and yes, in fact, that is what we are going to attempt to do here on the Vergecast. Uh, Neil, have you recovered from CES. How you feeling.>> I've recover ...

Memory Market Dynamics - AI data centers are significantly increasing RAM demand, potentially leading to shortages for other users [1] - The RAM market is highly concentrated, with three companies controlling 93% of the global supply [2] - Micron, SK Hynix, and Samsung are the dominant RAM suppliers [3] Supply Chain and Production - RAM production relies on a limited supply of silicon wafers, creating competition among chip manufacturers [2] Strategic Shifts - One of the three major RAM suppliers (Micron, SK Hynix, and Samsung) is shifting focus from consumer business to enterprise and data centers [4] AI Infrastructure Investment - Samsung and SK Hynix may have allocated up to 40% of their total memory supply to a single OpenAI project for AI infrastructure development [4]

Ring's New Feature: AI-Powered Lost Pet Search - Ring utilizes AI and its network of Ring cameras to help find lost pets [2] - The company's mission is to make neighborhoods safer, and AI unlocks new features like finding lost dogs [2] - Anyone can report a lost pet for free, regardless of Ring product ownership [4] - Ring outdoor camera owners can participate in the search by allowing AI to analyze footage [4][5] Community Engagement - Neighbors tend to unite when a pet goes missing [3] - Users will receive notifications with a picture of the missing dog and an option to share the clip and contact the neighbor [5] - Participation in the lost pet search is open to everyone, even without a Ring camera [4][6]

I think we're going to stop using the word podcast, or at least it will start to feel outdated. At the end of last year, I wrote about how podcasts started to experiment with video, taking hosts you've only heard voices of and putting them into a well-lit studio, competing on a whole new playing field, aka YouTube and Tik Tok. I think next year will be really hard to define what is a podcast and what is just like a video show. Just like how no one really uses the phrase web series anymore, I think the word ...