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The Vergecast The Verge
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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 Cybertruck lives, and so does OpenAI
The Verge's Nilay Patel, Alex Cranz, and David Pierce discuss the Tesla Cybertruck event, the latest with OpenAI leadership, and what Elon Musk and Bob Iger said at Dealbook Summit 2023.
Getting close — but not too close — to the Tesla Cybertruck
Tesla Cybertruck delivery event: Elon Musk hands over the first trucks to customers
Elon Musk tells advertisers: ‘Go fuck yourself’
Sam Altman is back, so what’s next for OpenAI and ChatGPT?
Interview: Sam Altman on being fired and rehired by OpenAI
ChatGPT is winning the future — but what future is that?
Ikea debuts a trio of affordable smart home sensors
DealBook Summit 2023: Elon Musk, Bob Iger, and more
How to find your 2023 Spotify Wrapped
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How Planet Earth — and the Netflix homepage — get made
Today on the flagship podcast of multi-drone camera setups:
03:19 - 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.
30:13 - 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.
1:20:29 -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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Emergency podcast: chaos at OpenAI
The Verge's Nilay Patel and Alex Heath join David Pierce after a long, winding weekend reporting on the dramatic shakeup at OpenAI, still in progress.
Further reading:
Turmoil at OpenAI: after firing Sam Altman, what's next for the creators of ChatGPT?
Sam Altman fired as CEO of OpenAI
OpenAI’s new CEO is Twitch co-founder Emmett Shear
OpenAI board in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEO
Emmett Shear named new CEO of OpenAI by board
Hundreds of OpenAI employees threaten to resign and join Microsoft
Microsoft hires former OpenAI CEO Sam Altman
How ChatGPT Fractured OpenAI - The Atlantic
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Fortnite, GTA VI, and the fate of AAA games
In episode three of our video game miniseries, The Verge's David Pierce and Polygon's Russ Frushtick and Chris Plante discuss the state of the industry's blockbuster games like Grand Theft Auto, Call of Duty, Overwatch, Fortnite, and others — and what they signal for the future of gaming.
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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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Spotify and Disney have everything-app dreams
Today on the flagship podcast of machine learning-based recommendation systems:
03:31 - The Verge’s David Pierce chats with Spotify’s co-president and chief product officer Gustav Söderström about recommendations, audiobooks, app design, what Spotify wants to be, and whether it’s possible to do it all well.
Spotify - The Verge
44:08 - Alex Cranz joins the show to discuss a bunch of recent streaming news, including the plan to combine Disney Plus and Hulu.
Streaming - The Verge
1:10:28 - Chris Welch joins the show to help answer this week’s Vergecast Hotline question about mp3 players.
The Mighty — an iPod shuffle for Spotify — finally arrives for $85
bemighty.com
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Customer Reviews
Alex Cranz is my favourite podcaster!
I’ve listened to Vergecast for many years and I’ve appreciated all the people that are there and the ones that have left. But hands down, Alex is my favourite so far! She is the funniest person who’s been there and brings the best kind of energy absolutely needed in every podcast!
Used to be Great
I used to really enjoy this show back when had balanced, thoughtful hosts. Now it’s just Nilay bragging about how he’s such a great boss and some other childish hosts who are too afraid to challenge him.
New people ruined it
This used to be my number 1 podcast, but the new people here have ruined it. It’s painful to listen to now and feels childish. Unfortunately, I’m going to have to unfollow.