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The Verge's Nilay Patel, Alex Cranz, and David Pierce discuss announcements from Microsoft Build, the OpenAI's trouble with Scarlett Johansson, new Sonos headphones, and more.
Further reading:

Microsoft’s big bet on building a new type of AI computer 

Recall is Microsoft’s key to unlocking the future of PCs 

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Here’s the eight-inch Snapdragon PC for your Windows on Arm experiments 


How does the Microsoft Surface Laptop stack up to the MacBook Air? 

Microsoft Build 2024: everything announced

Windows now has AI-powered copy and paste

Microsoft is making File Explorer more powerful with version control and 7z compression

Here’s the eight-inch Snapdragon PC for your Windows on Arm experiments

Microsoft Edge will translate and dub YouTube videos as you’re watching them

Microsoft brings out a small language model that can look at pictures 

Microsoft’s new Copilot AI agents act like virtual employees to automate tasks 

Microsoft outage took down Copilot, DuckDuckGo, and ChatGPT search features

OpenAI is ‘in conversations’ with Scarlett Johansson over the ChatGPT voice that sounds just like her

OpenAI pulls its Scarlett Johansson-like voice for ChatGPT

Lawyers say OpenAI could be in real trouble with Scarlett Johansson

Scarlett Johansson told OpenAI not to use her voice — and she’s not happy they might have anyway

OpenAI didn’t copy Scarlett Johansson’s voice for ChatGPT, records show

OpenAI Just Gave Away the Entire Game

OpenAI’s News Corp deal licenses content from WSJ, New York Post, and more

OpenAI strikes Reddit deal to train its AI on your posts

The US government is trying to break up Live Nation-Ticketmaster

The Sonos Ace headphones are here, and they’re damn impressive

Sonos CEO Patrick Spence addresses the company’s divisive app redesign

here’s an electric salt spoon that adds umami flavor 

Apple needs to explain that bug that resurfaced deleted photos 

Humane is looking for a buyer after the AI Pin’s underwhelming debut 


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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 Kylie 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.
Apple iPad Pro (2024) review: the best tablet money can buy

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Today on the flagship podcast of refillable scent cartridges: 
Producer Andru Marino tries out a gadget called the Gamescent, an AI-powered scent machine that syncs with your gaming and movie watching experience. He walks David Pierce through the experience and whether integrating olfaction could be the future of gaming. 
We also hear from Nimesha Ranasinghe, an assistant professor at the University of Maine working on taste sensations and taste simulation in virtual reality experiences, which can lead to adding another sense into the world of gaming. 
Further reading:

A Brief History of Smell-O-Vision

“Scent of Mystery”, the First and Only Use of Smell-O-Vision

The sights, smells, and sprays of ‘Iron Man 3’ in 4DX

The iSmell story

Smell-O-Vision is REAL: Linus Tech Tips

VR pioneer Jaron Lanier on dystopia, empathy, and the future of the internet

The sense of taste in virtual reality

Virtual lemonade sends colour and taste to a glass of water


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The Verge's Nilay Patel, Alex Cranz, and David Pierce discuss announcements from Google I/O and OpenAI's GPT4o event.
Further reading:

Google and OpenAI race to build the feature of search

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

ChatGPT is getting a Mac app

OpenAI’s custom GPT Store is now open to all for free

OpenAI’s “ChatGPT and GPT-4” Spring Update stream starts in 20 minutes

OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever is officially leavingl

Project Astra: the future of AI at Google is fast, multi-modal assistants like Gemini Live

Google’s Gemini AI is getting a chatty new voice mode 

Google will let you create personalized AI chatbots

Google’s Gemini can build an entire vacation itinerary ‘in a matter of seconds’ 

Google’s Circle to Search will help you with your math homework

Google’s Gemini video search makes factual error in demo

We have to stop ignoring AI’s hallucination problem

Google I/O 2024: everything announced


Google is redesigning its search engine — and it's AI all the way down 

Google now offers ‘web’ search — and an AI opt-out button


Gemini is about to get better at understanding what's on your phone screen 

Google is building Gemini Nano AI right into Chrome

Google makes its AI way faster with Gemini Flash 

Google’s new LearnLM AI model focuses on education

Android apps will soon let you use your face to control your cursor

Android is getting an AI-powered scam call detection feature

Google targets filmmakers with Veo, its new generative AI video model

Google’s invisible AI watermark will help identify generative text and video

Google Photos is getting its own ‘Ask Photos’ assistant this summer

Blink and you missed it: Google has a new pair of prototype AR glasses

We have to stop ignoring AI’s hallucination problem

Google launches new Home APIs and turns Google TVs into smart home hubs


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Today on the flagship podcast of tandem OLEDs: 

The Verge’s David Pierce and Chris Welch discuss the new iPad Pros with an OLED screen, Sonos’ controversial new app, and Sonos’ leaked headphones. 

Apple iPad Pro (2024) review: the best kind of overkill

The new Apple iPad Air is great — but it's not the one to get

The new Sonos app is missing a lot of features, and people aren’t happy

Sonos Ace headphones will have magnetic ear cushions and 30-hour battery life


The Verge’s Will Poor buys a bunch of broken iPhones on eBay, and pits the Apple Store against independent repair techs.

Jet City Device Repair

iFixit’s iPhone 8 charge port repair guide

Hugh Jeffreys’ iPhone 12 investigation

Apple’s plan to allow used parts in iPhone repairs


David answers a question from the Vergecast Hotline about why some people think the iPad should be a Macbook replacement. 

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In episode two of our Five Senses of Gaming miniseries, David Pierce dives into the world of hearing with audio-only video games with Paul Bennun, who has been in this space longer than most. Years ago, Bennun and his team at Somethin’ Else made a series of games called Papa Sangre that were among the most innovative and most popular games of their kind. He explains what makes an audio game work, why the iPhone 4 was such a crucial technological achievement for these games, and more.

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