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Microsoft is in its AI PC era
Today on the flagship podcast of Arm-based chipsets:
03:08 - The Verge’s Tom Warren and David Pierce discuss the announcements from Microsoft’s Surface event, including the new Arm-powered Surface Laptop, and Copilot Plus PCs.
- Microsoft’s Surface AI event: news, rumors, and lots of Qualcomm laptops
- Microsoft announces an Arm-powered Surface Laptop
- Microsoft’s new Surface Pro gets an OLED display for the first time
- Microsoft announces Copilot Plus PCs with built-in AI hardware
- The new, faster Surface Pro is Microsoft's all-purpose AI PC
- Recall is Microsoft’s key to unlocking the future of PCs
27:29 -Verge senior AI reporter Kyle Robison joins the show to chat about OpenAI’s GPT-4o demo and where we’re headed in the next few years of AI.
- ChatGPT is getting a Mac app
- OpenAI’s custom GPT Store is now open to all for free
- OpenAI releases GPT-4o, a faster model that’s free for all ChatGPT users
- ChatGPT will be able to talk to you like Scarlett Johansson in Her
- OpenAI pulls its Scarlett Johansson-like voice for ChatGPT
- OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever is officially leaving
- OpenAI researcher resigns, claiming safety has taken ‘a backseat to shiny products’
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57:40 - Nilay Patel answers a question about iPads for this week’s Vergecast Hotline.
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