Hello! This is The Vergecast, the flagship podcast of The Verge... and your life. Every Friday, Nilay Patel and Dieter Bohn make sense of the week's tech news with help from our wide-ranging staff. Join us every week for a fun, deeply nerdy, often off-the-rails conversation about what's happening now (and next) in technology and gadgets.
The next next thing in AI and AR
The Verge's Nilay Patel, Alex Cranz, and Alex Heath discuss Apple's Vision Pro team reportedly refocusing on a cheaper headset, Meta launching a new "Wearables" organization, a new AI company startup from former OpenAI chief scientist, and a whole lot more tech news.
Further reading:
- Apple’s new hands-free unlocking feature won’t work with existing smart locks
- Apple’s fancy new CarPlay will only work wirelessly
- Android’s AirTag competitors are off to a poor start.
- This universal remote wants to control your smart home sans hub
- The Framework Laptop 13 is about to become one of the world’s first RISC-V laptops
- The Beats Solo Buds have a great look and an even better price
- Xreal’s new Beam Pro is an Android tablet designed to work with your AR glasses
- Apple’s Vision Pro team is reportedly focused on building a cheaper headset
- Meta forms new Wearables group and lays off some employees
- OpenAI’s former chief scientist is starting a new AI company
- Perplexity continues to piss off publishers.
- An AI video tool just launched, and it’s already copying Disney’s IP
- Anthropic has a fast new AI model — and a clever new way to interact with chatbots
- AIs are coming for social networks
- TikTok ads may soon contain AI avatars of your favorite creators
- McDonald’s will stop testing AI to take drive-thru orders, for now
- Nvidia overtakes Microsoft as the world’s most valuable company
- US sues Adobe for ‘deceiving’ subscriptions that are too hard to cancel
- Tech CEOs are hot now, so workers are hiring $500-an-hour fashion consultants
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