Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchGet ready to meet your AI best friend
Nilay, Alex, and David discuss Microsoft's new Copilot announcements, and the friendlier face the company is trying to put on its chatbot. They also wonder: what, exactly, is an AI companion supposed…
Published on 1 year, 2 months ago
Your front door is the key to the smart home
The Verge's Jennifer Pattison Tuohy joins the show to discuss a bunch of updates in the smart home world, including what's new from Google Home and in iOS 18, plus some big news in the world of smart…
Published on 1 year, 2 months ago
The future of AI might look a lot like Twitter
Michael Sayman, the creator of a viral new app called SocialAI, joins the show to discuss why he built a social network where you're the only human around. He tells us how he thinks about AI interfac…
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago
Meta's new smart glasses look like the future
The Verge's Alex Heath joins Nilay, Alex, and David to talk about all the announcements coming out of Meta Connect: the impressive (and expensive) Orion glasses, the new features for the Ray-Ban Smar…
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago
They think they’re building God
Kylie Robison joins the show to talk about OpenAI’s new model, o1, and what this new “reasoning” model says about the state of the art in AI — and what AI companies are willing to put up with in the …
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago
The chatbot becomes the teacher
For the first episode in our new miniseries about the impact of AI in our everyday lives, we chat with Steven Johnson, a longtime author who has spent the last couple of years at Google working on an…
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago
You’re cute no matter what phone you have
Nilay, Alex, and David are joined by Wall Street Journal columnist Joanna Stern to talk about this year’s iPhone – and Joannabot, the AI chatbot Joanna made to help you make buying decisions. They al…
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago
Reviewing the iPhone 16
We've finally finished testing, scoring, and reviewing Apple's new gear for the fall. On this episode we talk through our reviews of the iPhone 16 and 16 Pro, the Apple Watch 10, and the AirPods 4, t…
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago
The great Evernote reboot
Peak Evernote was roughly a decade ago. Since then, the product has often felt stagnant (or worse), the company churned through executives and business plans, and it seemed like Evernote was slowly t…
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago
The real cost of the PS5 Pro
Nilay, David, and Alex talk about the new PlayStation 5 Pro — why it's so expensive, why it doesn't have a disc drive, and why it made so many people feel feelings. They also talk about the fallout f…
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago