Podcast Episode Details

Amazon and Microsoft's AI parades

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The Verge's Nilay Patel, Alex Cranz, and David Pierce discuss all the announcements from Amazon's fall product launch event and Microsoft's Surface and AI event.

Further reading:

• Amazon’s fall 2023 product launch event: live news, announcements, and more
• Amazon is set to supercharge Alexa with generative AI 
• The Fire TV should be at the heart of Amazon's smart home 
• The new $269.99 Echo Frames look a whole lot more like glasses. 
• Alexa Eye Gaze offers a new way to control Alexa on a Fire tablet 
• In the new Echo Show 8, Alexa will be 40 percent faster. 
• Finally some hardware...for kids.
• YouTube is going all in on AI with background and video topic suggestions
• YouTube made a video editing app — just like TikTok 
• Microsoft Surface event: the 6 biggest announcements 
• Microsoft’s new Xbox controller borrows great ideas from Stadia, Steam, and Sony
• This is Microsoft’s new disc-less Xbox Series X design with a lift-to-wake controller
• Microsoft’s next Xbox, coming 2028, envisions hybrid computing
• Microsoft addresses the huge Xbox leaks: here’s Phil Spencer’s full memo
• Microsoft’s Phil Spencer says acquiring Nintendo would be ‘a career moment’ 
• Microsoft announces the Surface Laptop Studio 2 with upgraded chips and ports
• A first look at Microsoft’s upgraded Surface Laptop Studio 2 
• Microsoft announces the new Surface Laptop Go 3
• Hands-on with the Surface Laptop Go 3 
• The Surface Go 4 comes with a much-needed performance boost 
• Microsoft 365 Copilot launches in November
• Published on 2 years, 3 months ago