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For the final episode of our Solo Acts mini series, Ashley Esqueda talks with Marco Arment about being a solo app developer, going from Tumblr to Instapaper to his own podcast app Overcast.
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The Verge's Nilay Patel, Alex Cranz, David Pierce, and James Vincent discuss OpenAI announcing GPT-4, the next generation of its AI language model.
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The night sky is always getting faked

Samsung responds to fake Moon controversy

Samsung’s fake Moon photos aren’t a giant leap for mobile photography

OpenAI announces GPT-4 — the next generation of its AI language model


The Bing AI bot has been secretly running GPT-4 


OpenAI co-founder on company’s past approach to openly sharing research: ‘We were wrong’ 

What’s new with GPT-4 — from processing pictures to acing tests


Microsoft Business Chat is like the Bing AI bot but as a personal assistant 


Microsoft spent hundreds of millions of dollars on a ChatGPT supercomputer 


Google announces AI features in Gmail, Docs, and more to rival Microsoft  


Google opens up its AI language model PaLM to challenge OpenAI and GPT-3 


Google-backed Anthropic launches Claude, an AI chatbot that’s easier to talk to  

How Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant Lost the A.I. Race

The BlackBerry trailer shows the rise and fall of the keyboard phone

Biden administration reportedly demanding that TikTok sell or face a ban

T-Mobile is buying Ryan Reynolds’ Mint Mobile for up to $1.35 billion

Belkin’s smart home brand Wemo is backing away from Matter


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The Verge's Nilay Patel, David Pierce, and Alex Cranz discuss Samsung faking photos of the moon on its phones, what happened with Silicon Valley Bank, and hottest topic of the season: ChatGPT and AI.
This episode was recorded live at SXSW 2023.
Further reading:

Samsung caught faking zoom photos of the Moon

Silicon Valley Bank has failed

The tech industry moved fast and broke its most prestigious bank

Bing, Bard, and ChatGPT: AI chatbots are rewriting the internet


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On today's episode of our Solo Acts mini series, Ashley Esqueda talks with Tiny of tinymakesthings, who makes artisan keycaps for mechanical keyboards. Tiny explains how she got started making her projects on Twitch, the process for designing the keycaps, and the community she built with her art.
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The Verge's Nilay Patel, David Pierce, Alex Cranz, and Richard Lawler discuss Spotify's changes within its app, what happening this week at Twitter, Gigi Sohn withdrawing her nomination for FCC commissioner, and a whole lot more.
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The Cybertruck wiper does not appear to extend


Spotify’s new design is part TikTok, part Instagram, and part YouTube 

Spotify is going big on video podcasts


After layoffs, SiriusXM looks to star-studded podcasts 


Apple will launch its standalone classical music app on March 28th 

All the streaming boxes suck now

How a single engineer brought down Twitter

Twitter just let its privacy- and security-protecting Tor service expire

The FTC’s Twitter privacy investigations have ramped up since Elon Musk’s takeover

Hey, where’s the Twitter Blue revenue sharing Elon Musk promised a month ago?

Tesla under investigation after Model Y steering wheels fall off

Congress rolls out new bill allowing nationwide TikTok ban

Gigi Sohn withdraws her nomination for President Joe Biden’s FCC

Now the Florida GOP wants political bloggers to register with the government

Dish CEO says data was stolen in cyberattack that’s kept systems down for days


Dish Network’s internal systems are so broken some employees haven’t worked in over a day 


Microsoft Bing hits 100 million active users in bid to grab share from Googlet


Is buzzy startup Humane’s big idea a wearable camera?


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Today, Sonos announced a new line of speakers — the Era 100 and the Era 300 — with the latter finally taking on this format that has been a hit-or-miss experience for music lovers, supporting Amazon Music and Apple Music’s spatial audio. Though spatial format Dolby Atmos has been supported on the Sonos Arc soundbar, the Era 300 signals a music-first approach to its speakers supporting 3D soundscapes. Sonos CEO Patrick Spence believes this is the right time to do it. “We didn’t know that, in 2022, 85 of the top Billboard 100 artists would actually release Atmos tracks, but they did,” Spence says. “We feel like we’re at an inflection point.”
On board with Sonos for this shift in music listening is record producer Giles Martin, who mixed the first-ever spatial audio album (a remix of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Beatles album that his father, George Martin, originally produced) and several albums and live experiences in Dolby Atmos since. Martin is also the senior vice president of sound experience at Sonos and was involved in the development of the speaker. “When you’re building a product which has multi sort of use and orientations, you do prioritize ... in a way of, what’s the wow factor?” Martin explains. “The wow factor, which I think is truly extraordinary out of the 300, is the fact that it does spatial out of a single box. And it’s really compelling.”
Both Patrick and Giles joined Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel for The Vergecast to talk about the new speakers, supporting spatial audio, and why this is the time to do it.
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