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The Vergecast is the flagship podcast from The Verge about small gadgets, Big Tech, and everything in between. Every Friday, hosts Nilay Patel, David Pierce, and Alex Cranz hang out and make sense of the week’s most important technology news. And every Wednesday, David leads a selection of The Verge’s expert staffers in an exploration of how gadgets and software affect our lives – and which ones you should bring into yours.
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The Vergecast
9 hours ago
How Planet Earth — and the Netflix homepage — get made
Today on the flagship podcast of multi-drone camera setups:
The Verge's David Pierce chats with Planet Earth III producer Alex Walters and director Theo Webb about the gear used to make the latest nature documentary series.
Netflix's Pat Flemming joins the show to discuss how Netflix figures out what to show when you open the app, and how to keep you coming back.
The Verge's publisher Helen Havlak and editor-in-chief Nilay Patel join the show to answer this week's hotline question.
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The Vergecast
Nov 17, 2023
Apple’s in on RCS — and everybody’s out on Bing
The Verge's Nilay Patel, David Pierce, and Alex Cranz discuss Apple announcing it will support RCS next year, AI news that came out of Microsoft Ignite, YouTube's new policy on deepfakes, and much more.
Further reading:
Apple says iPhones will support RCS in 2024
Google turns to regulators to make Apple open up iMessage
Meta will fight the EU over regulating Messenger
Microsoft Ignite 2023: all the AI news from Microsoft’s IT pro event
Microsoft rebrands Bing Chat to Copilot, to better compete with ChatGPT
Windows is now an app for iPhones, iPads, Macs, and PCs
Microsoft Copilot Studio lets anyone build custom AI copilots
Microsoft is finally making custom chips — and they’re all about AI
YouTube is going to start cracking down on AI clones of musicians
Google is embedding inaudible watermarks right into its AI generated music
Nothing is bringing iMessage to its Android phone
On 'Chinese knockoffs' and why Leica works with Xiaomi
Taylor Swift fans used record amounts of data during the Eras Tour in North America
PlayStation Portal impressions: hands-on with Sony’s remote play handheld for PS5
Opal's second camera is the Tadpole, a tiny webcam for laptops
The first OLED Roku TV is here after a long, long wait
Sonos teases a major new product coming next year
Sonos fixes its Dolby Atmos loud pop issue after years of complaints
Taylor Swift fans used record amounts of data during the Eras Tour in North America
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The Vergecast
Nov 10, 2023
Humane Pins and your own ChatGPT
The Verge's Nilay Patel, David Pierce, Alex Cranz, and Alex Heath discuss the debut of Humane's AI Pin, OpenAI's DevDay, GPT-4 updates, and more.
Further reading:
Exclusive leak: all the details about Humane's AI Pin, which costs $699 and has OpenAI integration
Humane officially launches the AI Pin, its OpenAI-powered wearable
All the news from OpenAI’s DevDay conference
OpenAI is letting anyone create their own version of ChatGPT
OpenAI wants to be the App Store of AI
ChatGPT subscribers may get a ‘GPT builder’ option soon
OpenAI turbocharges GPT-4 and makes it cheaper
OpenAI’s GPT builder interface is dead simple to use.
Valve reveals the Steam Deck OLED: $549 buys better screen, battery, and more
Steam Deck OLED review: better, not faster
This smart garage door controller is no longer very smart
YouTube pages are getting a TikTok-like For You feed
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Decoder with Nilay Patel
Nov 7, 2023
Barack Obama on AI, free speech, and the future of the internet
We’ve got a good one today. I’m talking to former President Barack Obama about AI, social networks, and how to think about democracy as both of those things collide.
I sat down with Obama last week at his offices in Washington, DC, just hours after President Joe Biden signed a sweeping executive order about AI. You’ll hear Obama say he’s been talking to the Biden administration and leaders across the tech industry about AI and how best to regulate it. My idea here was to talk to Obama the constitutional law professor more than Obama the politician. So this one got wonky fast.
You’ll also hear him say that he joined our show because he wanted to reach you, the Decoder audience, and get you all thinking about these problems. One of Obama’s worries is that the government needs insight and expertise to properly regulate AI, and you’ll hear him make a pitch for why people with that expertise should take a tour of duty in the government to make sure we get these things right.
Links:
Biden releases AI executive order directing agencies to develop safety guidelines
Clarence Thomas really wants Congress to regulate Twitter moderation
Google CEO Sundar Pichai compares impact of AI to electricity and fire
Sam Altman sells superintelligent sunshine as protestors call for AGI pause
The Skokie case: How I came to represent the free speech rights of Nazis
Disinformation is a threat to our democracy
World leaders are gathering at the U.K.'s AI Summit. Doom is on the agenda.
George R.R. Martin and other authors sue OpenAI for copyright infringement
A conversation with Bing’s chatbot left me deeply unsettled
Introducing the AI Mirror Test, which very smart people keep failing
Transcript: https://www.theverge.com/e/23712912
Credits:
Decoder is a production of The Verge and is part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
Today’s episode was produced by Kate Cox and Nick Statt. It was edited by Callie Wright.
The Decoder music is by Breakmaster Cylinder. Our Executive Producer is Eleanor Donovan.
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Mar 4, 2012
The Vergecast 020 - 03.02.2012 | The Verge
Vergecast XX is the "November Rain" of Vergecasts. We see you, fanboy, and NO, we don't see Josh naked and shivering in the fetal position at the end (that's for Vergecast XXX), but we do get to...
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