Microsoft is in its AI PC era

The Vergecast Podcast

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’
  • We tried out the Project Astra demo at Google I/O which worked well un... | tech | TikTok 

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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