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Leo Laporte and Jeff Jarvis watch OpenAI's Spring 2024 Update as the company unveils the latest update to its ChatGPT system, GPT-4o, and demos its AI system's new capabilities as it interacts with text, voice, and photos.

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Jeff Jarvis

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Apple unveiled a series of updates to its iPad lineup, introducing new models, features, and accessories.

Redesigned iPad Air: The new iPad Air, available in 11-inch and 13-inch models, features the M2 chip, an updated camera layout, improved connectivity, and increased storage options.
Next-Generation iPad Pro: The all-new iPad Pro boasts an ultra-thin design, advanced Ultra Retina XDR display, and the powerful M4 chip. It comes in 11-inch and 13-inch models.
Introduction of the M4 Chip: Apple's latest silicon, the M4 chip, enables the iPad Pro's sleek design and impressive display capabilities while delivering significant performance improvements.
Updates to Pro-Level Apps: Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro receive substantial updates, with new features like Live Multicam, Final Cut Camera, Session Players, ChromaGlow, and Stem Splitter.
Debut of Apple Pencil Pro: The new Apple Pencil Pro offers an enhanced user experience with pressure sensitivity, haptic feedback, gyroscope-based control, and Find My integration.
Redesigned Magic Keyboard: The updated Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro is thinner, lighter, and includes a function row, aluminum palm rest, larger trackpad, and haptic feedback.
Hosts: Leo Laporte and Mikah Sargent

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Mikah Sargent and Jeff Jarvis watch Jensen Huang's highly technical keynote for NVIDIA's GTC 2024, which showed off the powerful Blackwell platform, NVIDIA Inference Microservices, the NVLink Switch Chip, Project GROOT, and several business partnerships revolving around AI.

Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Jeff Jarvis

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Samsung holds their Unpacked 2024 event by talking about the use of AI in their devices, unveiling the S24, S24+, and S24 Ultra phones, and announces the Galaxy Ring.

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Mikah Sargent

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At its inaugural developer conference DevDay, OpenAI unveiled major upgrades like GPT-4 Turbo, a more advanced AI model that's 3x cheaper than GPT-4 and a 128k token context window that can handle much longer prompts. They also launched new multimodal capabilities so developers can integrate vision, speech, and image generation into apps. Key highlights include the Assistants API for building AI agents, the ability to create custom versions of ChatGPT called GPTs and share them publicly on the GPT Store, and Copyright Shield to protect customers. Overall, OpenAI aims to make AI more affordable, capable, and safe for developers to build next-gen apps.

Hosts: Jeff Jarvis and Jason Howell

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At its October 'Scary Fast' event, Apple unveiled new MacBook Pro laptops featuring the powerful new M3 family of chips, as well as a refreshed 24-inch iMac desktop with the M3 chip. The M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max chips offer dramatic leaps in performance and efficiency thanks to a new 3-nanometer manufacturing process. Apple also highlighted new GPU architecture in the M3 chips, enabling advanced graphics capabilities like hardware-accelerated ray tracing. The MacBook Pro and iMac retain the same form factor, but the MacBook Pro now comes in a new Space Black color option.

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Mikah Sargent, and Alex Lindsay

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