The Vergecast

The AIs are officially out of control

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The Verge's Nilay Patel, Alex Cranz, and David Pierce discuss ChatGPT and Gemini updates, Walmart acquiring Vizio, Apple's Sports app, and more.


Further reading:

  • Google cut a deal with Reddit for AI training data
  • Google apologizes for ‘missing the mark’ after Gemini generated racially diverse Nazis 
  • Google’s open-source Gemma AI models draw from the research behind Gemini
  • ChatGPT spat out gibberish for many users overnight before OpenAI fixed it
  • One month with Microsoft’s AI vision of the future: Copilot Pro
  • Gemini, Gemma, Goose. 
  • OpenAI can’t register ‘GPT’ as a trademark — yet
  • Artificial investment
  • Walmart to acquire Vizio in $2.3 billion deal
  • Echo Hub review: a simple, customizable smart home control panel
  • Samsung details a host of audio upgrades coming to its phones, tablets, and TVs
  • Apple says the iPhone 15’s battery got better — but won’t say how
  • Rice is not included in Apple’s official guidance for a wet phone
  • One of the last small-ish Android phones looks like it's going the way of the iPhone Mini 
  • OnePlus is getting back into the smartwatch game
  • The Garmin Forerunner 165 could be a great budget running watch 
  • Sony’s PlayStation Portal hacked to run emulated PSP games
  • Framework is selling a cheap modular laptop 
  • Wyze says camera breach let 13,000 customers briefly see into other people’s homes
  • Apple launches Apple Sports app with scores and betting odds 
  • Apple is already defending iMessage against tomorrow’s quantum computing attacks 
  • IBM quantum computing updates: System Two and Heron
  • Microsoft and Intel strike a custom chip manufacturing deal
  • Rivian says it is laying off 10 percent of its workforce as EV woes deepen
  • Ford slashes Mustang Mach-E prices again as EV price war enters its second year


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