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In this episode, we do a Studio Ghibli-like rendition of The Vergecast. First, Nilay and David discuss some big news in the gadget world, from the mysteriously viral midrange Canon camera to the upgrades we're expecting out of Apple in the next few months. Plus, is it over for Amazon's Echo brand? After all that, The Verge's Kylie Robison joins the show to discuss everything happening at OpenAI: the company launched a new image generator inside of ChatGPT, and it immediately became both a huge hit and a big mess. (Par for the course with OpenAI, really.) Kylie also explains why Perplexity is probably not buying TikTok, no matter how much it might want to. Finally, in the lightning round, it's time for everyone's favorite segment, Brendan Carr Is a Dummy, followed by the latest on the Signal attack-planning chaos in the government, some news about Elon Musk pressuring Reddit CEO Steve Huffmann, and what's next for the car industry with huge tariffs looming. Oh, and a little bit of exciting e-bike news
Further reading:
- From Meta: Bringing the Magic of Friends Back to Facebook
- Apple’s AirPods Max with USB-C will soon support lossless audio
- The Apple Watch may get cameras and Apple Intelligence
- Apple’s WWDC 2025 event starts June 9th
- Don’t expect an overhauled Messages app in iOS 19.
- Amazon tests renaming Echo smart speakers and smart displays to just ‘Alexa’
- OpenAI reshuffles leadership as Sam Altman pivots to technical focus
- OpenAI upgrades image generation and rolls it out in ChatGPT and Sora
- ChatGPT’s new image generator is delayed for free users
- ChatGPT is turning everything into Studio Ghibli art
- OpenAI says ‘our GPUs are melting’ as it limits ChatGPT image generation requests
- OpenAI expects to earn $12.7 billion in revenue this year.
- Nvidia Infinite Creative
- Microsoft adds ‘deep reasoning’ Copilot AI for research and data analysis
- Google says its new ‘reasoning’ Gemini AI models are the best ones yet
- Google is rolling out Gemini’s real-time AI video features
- Perplexity’s bid for TikTok continues