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The Verge

The Vergecast is the flagship daily podcast from The Verge about small gadgets, Big Tech, and everything in between. Every Friday, Nilay Patel and David Pierce hang out and make sense of the week’s most important technology news. And Monday through Thursday, David leads a selection of The Verge’s expert staffers in an exploration of how gadgets and software affect our lives – and which ones you should bring into yours.

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OpenAI announced its next big model, GPT-6 Astra, and also, by the way, that AGI is here now.Today on The Vergecast, we've got an all-star panel to break down the news of the week.First, senior AI reporter Hayden Field joins us to talk about our supposed AGI era and Nvidia's acquisition of Hugging Face. Then, our friend Joanna Stern pops in to talk about new Apple CEO John Ternus, old Apple CEO Tim Cook, and to, most importantly, speculate on the format of next week's Apple keynote.We wrap things up with a super-special lightning round from the IFA electronics show in Berlin. Senior reviewer Jennifer Pattison Tuohy and editor Dominic Preston each pick out the five most interesting gadgets they saw at the show.And two more things: Vergecast producer Travis Larchuk pops in to tell his tale of identity theft woe and warn you that he isn't the one DMing you on Twitter to ask you to be on The Vergecast. Plus, Brendan Carr is a dummy.

Further reading:

 OpenAI’s next big AI model has ‘entered the AGI era’

 Researchers fear safety disaster ahead of OpenAI’s Astra release

 OpenAI delayed its new model’s development after the Hugging Face hack

 Nvidia is buying Hugging Face for almost $13 billion

 John Ternus sends first memo as Apple CEO teasing a ‘huge launch next week’

 Phil Schiller is leaving his biggest jobs at Apple

 Siri AI is already changing how I use my iPhone

 IFA 2026: the biggest tech and gadget announcements

 This might be the fanciest toothbrush launch ever.

 Anker’s new MindBase is an AI-powered brain for your smart home

 This NAS company wants to run your local smart home

 I want to wrap myself in Hue’s new Liane rope lights

 Homey just made the smart home controller I hoped Apple would

 The robot butler dream doesn’t have legs

 Here’s Xiaomi’s wide 18 Fold

 I held the first truly bezel-free phone

 Acer’s new concept hardware is a gaming handheld with a keyboard

 Lenovo’s new MacBook Neo competitor comes in two sizes and seven colors

 Packard Bell is back, and more colorful than ever.

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0:00 Welcome00:46 Fake Travis warning03:01 OpenAI's Astra model05:45 Safeguards and delays08:55 Opaque recurrence fears13:08 What Astra does well18:08 Access tiers and rollout19:53 Nvidia buys Hugging Face23:04 Is this really AGI26:28 AGI vibes and Microsoft clause32:17 Apple event preview33:41 Ternus keynote politics39:43 Keynote Vibes Shift40:23 Tim Cook Era Review44:56 Services And Fees Machine47:15 Phil Schiller Steps Back49:52 Event Predictions Fold And AI55:43 Siri AI Real Use Cases58:32 Smart Home Display Rumors59:47 Bets And Keynote Structure01:05:19 Brendan Carr Is A Dummy01:09:23 IFA Lightning Round01:10:49 Philips Hue Smart Lighting01:11:03 Hue Rope Light Rave01:11:44 Sticker Shock Pricing01:13:03 Xiaomi Wide Foldable01:15:43 Dyson Camera Toothbrush01:20:31 Tecno Bezelless Concept01:22:42 Local AI Smart Home Hub01:27:09 MacBook Neo Clones01:29:35 Homey Dial Controller01:33:39 Acer DualPlay Handheld01:36:19 Dreame Humanoid Robot01:39:44 Packard Bell Revival01:42:17 Wrap Up And Credits
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AGI is whatever you want it to be

Apple's big hardware event is coming next week. iPhones are the main draw, but senior reviewer Jennifer Pattison Tuohy has her eyes on the rumors around — what else? — smart home gadgets. Andrew O'Hara from the Smart Home Insider podcast joins Jen to fire up the Rank-o-Matic and speculate on which rumored gadgets are most likely to see the light of day.

Further reading:

 OpenAI’s next big AI model has ‘entered the AGI era’

 Nvidia is buying Hugging Face for almost $13 billion

 Microsoft slashes Xbox Cloud Gaming to just 15 hours a month for Ultimate subscribers

 Microsoft opens up Xbox Cloud Gaming with new pay-as-you-go option

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Apple Home rumors, ranked

Data centers have been a staple of Loudoun County since the early dot-com boom, but recent expansions have left some residents wondering how much more the county can take. In this episode, guest host David Imel talks to Lauren Feiner about her recent article detailing the buildout of “Data Center Alley,” what it means for residents, and what other counties reeling with similar buildouts can learn from it.

Further reading:

 Is this the future of America?

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What’s happening with US data centers?

Elizabeth Lopatto recently wrote about Mark Zuckerberg's 6,500-word AI manifesto in her piece, "Mark Zuckerberg doesn't understand how to live." Today, she joins guest host David Imel and senior wearables reviewer Victoria Song for a freewheeling discussion about what happens when we let AI make decisions for us.

Further reading:

 Mark Zuckerberg doesn't understand how to live

 Dyson made a camera-equipped toothbrush that flosses for you

 Markiplier is now GoPro’s biggest shareholder

 GoPro has been acquired and is getting into ‘defense, government, robotics and aerospace’

 John Ternus is now the CEO of Apple

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What the AI overlords get wrong about being alive

Skyrocketing RAM prices put a spotlight on product longevity and repairability, which makes this a particularly apt time for Fairphone to launch its first smartphone sold directly in the United States. Today, David Imel talks to CEO Raymond van Eck about the Fairphone 6+, the company's goals of user-repairability and ethically-sourced materials, and what place AI has in the future of Fairphone.

Further reading:

 ⁠Read Tim Cook’s final message to Apple staff as CEO⁠

 ⁠Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell are suing Anthropic⁠

 ⁠Google capitulates in Trump’s attempt to rename Lake Ontario.⁠

 ⁠MapQuest downloads surge after refusing to rename Lake Ontario.⁠

 ⁠MapQuest knows this whole thing is ridiculous.⁠

 ⁠Fairphone’s latest repairable phone is going on sale in the US⁠

 ⁠The new Fairphone 6 Plus gets a perfect repairability score.⁠

 ⁠The Fairphone 6 no longer feels like a compromise (except in the US)⁠

 ⁠This environmentally conscious smartphone is finally coming to the US⁠

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Can Fairphone survive the US market

This week Apple announced a Mac Mini made for AI and a Mac Studio made for AI, both with faster M6 and M5 Pro chips made for AI. But that's all an amuse-bouche to Sept. 9's (expected) main course: the long-awaited folding iPhone. Nilay Patel, Jake Kastrenakes, and David Imel run through all of this week's Apple news, including the most important story: a surprise discount on the legendary polishing cloth.Then, they react to Meta's settlement in its latest kids safety trial, geek out about Grand Theft Auto VI with the Hype Desk's Ashley Esqueda, check out the Pokémon Fitbit, and decide if Nvidia just saved the global economy.

Further reading:

 ⁠File a comment with the FCC⁠

 ⁠Apple announces September iPhone launch event⁠

 ⁠Apple’s new M6 chip gets more cores and more AI compute⁠

 ⁠Apple launches new Mac Studios with its ‘most powerful chip ever’ — the M5 Ultra⁠

 ⁠Apple’s new Mac Mini has fresh M6 and M5 Pro chip offerings — and higher prices⁠

 ⁠Apple’s ‘new’ polishing cloth is the same except $10 cheaper⁠

 ⁠Meta agrees to heavy restrictions on teen users in major lawsuit settlement⁠

 ⁠Meta is planning an ad blitz urging TikTok and YouTube to follow its lead.⁠

 ⁠All the ways Instagram and Facebook are changing for teens⁠

 ⁠Rockstar finally responds to ‘heartbreaking’ GTA 6 leaks⁠

 ⁠Fierce Network: FCC opens comments on E-Rate as the program gets attacked in court⁠

 ⁠Nvidia is about to be a hundred-billion-dollar-a-quarter company⁠

 ⁠Panic is passing Playdate tariff refunds on to customers.⁠

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0:00 Welcome to the Vergecast01:26 Apple Mac AI Hype02:26 Mac Mini Agent Craze06:32 Mac Studio vs Nvidia11:43 Price Hikes and Cloth17:01 iPhone Event Invite17:38 iPhone Fold Debate21:30 Camera Crash Out26:57 Meta Settlement Breakdown28:59 First Amendment Fallout36:59 Age Verification Push39:30 Filter Rules and Loopholes44:11 Will Teens Just Switch Apps45:20 Reels Versus Shorts46:35 Government Next Steps47:39 Break And Reset47:50 GTA VI Showcase54:29 Leaks And Spoilers57:12 Can GTA Save Games01:00:51 GTA Online Money01:02:04 Brendan Carr is a Dummy01:03:45 E Rate Fight01:08:46 Nvidia Earnings Hype01:17:50 Pokemon Sleep Fitbit01:22:41 Waymo Versus Tesla01:28:34 Decoder And Goodbye
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The iPhone Fold could make concerts even worse

If, after months of increasingly dire RAMageddon warnings, you just now find yourself in the market for a new laptop... we're here to help. In the latest installment of our "RAMageddon Survival Guide," laptop reviewer Antonio G. Di Benedetto joins David Imel to offer his recommendations.

Further reading:

 Apple announces September iPhone launch event

 Xbox announces disc-to-digital feature that digitizes your physical games

 Xbox’s limited-edition green Series X is already sold out

 Panic is passing Playdate tariff refunds on to customers

 A RAMageddon guide to back-to-school laptop shopping

 An okay laptop with 16GB of RAM is better than a nice laptop with 8GB, and this $520 HP OmniBook proves it

 This is my new favorite laptop, but thanks to RAMageddon the price already went up by $800

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How to buy a laptop when everything’s expensive

Two-hour usage limits, age verification, and a $17.1 billion payout: We're breaking down today's big settlement in Meta's kids online safety trial. Senior policy reporter Lauren Feiner and senior tech and policy editor Adi Robertson discuss how we got here, why Meta settled, and what this means for the ongoing conversation around teen mental health and social media.

Further reading:

 Meta agrees to heavy restrictions on teen users in major lawsuit settlement

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Meta will cut teens off of Instagram after two hours

It can be hard enough to set up smart home tech in a house or an apartment, but what about a dorm room? Jennifer Pattison Tuohy recently tested out some smart home tech when she dropped off her son for his freshman year at Clemson. Jen reports back to David Imel on how the gadgets stood up to the challenges of college Wi-Fi and rules against hanging things on the wall.

Further reading:

 Apple’s new M6 chip gets more cores and more AI compute

 Apple’s new Mac Mini has fresh M6 and M5 Pro chip offerings — and higher prices

 Apple launches new Mac Studios with its ‘most powerful chip ever’ — the M5 Ultra

 Android is getting its own weird dots to cure car sickness

 WhatsApp is making it easier to ignore spam calls

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Does smart home tech work in a college dorm?

Do you remember your first BlackBerry? Do you remember when that first BlackBerry launched? On this episode taped before David Pierce went on leave, producer Travis Larchuk leads David, Nilay, and The Verge’s Sean Hollister through a game of memory and history and a surprising amount of feelings tied to gadget launches.

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We play a brutal quiz of our gadget memories

The Verge's Nilay Patel, David Pierce, and Alex Cranz discuss Microsoft winning the case against the FTC for its Activision Blizzard deal. Also: the Nothing Phone 2 and more gadgets.
Further reading:

Meta-provided Facebook chats led a woman to plead guilty to abortion-related charges

Microsoft wins FTC fight to buy Activision Blizzard

Read Xbox chief Phil Spencer’s memo to Microsoft employees about the FTC win

FTC appeals its loss to Microsoft in Activision Blizzard case

Nothing Phone 2 review: the vibes abide

Is the Nothing Phone (2)’s camera better than these? 

Apple iMac rumor suggests a 32-inch version is being considered

Sarah Silverman is suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement

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Microsoft beat the FTC, and the Nothing Phone 2 is here

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