OpenAI and Jony Ive's AI super-gadget

Bad news if you don't care about AI: this week was absolutely chock-full of AI news. First, Nilay, David, and The Verge's Alex Heath talk about the news that OpenAI and Jony Ive are teaming up to build... something. A gadget, for sure, maybe lots of gadgets. We don't know much, but we have a lot of thoughts, and a lot of questions. After that, the hosts talk through all the news at Google I/O, including what's new with Gemini, Google Search, Project Astra, Project Mariner, and the countless other ways Google is putting AI absolutely everywhere. Finally, in the lightning round, we buckle up for another round of Brendan Carr is a Dummy, talk through some late-breaking Apple gadget news, and marvel over the future of conference calls.

Further reading:

OpenAI is buying Jony Ive’s AI hardware company

From The Wall Street Journal: What Sam Altman Told OpenAI About the Secret Device He’s Making With Jony Ive

Details leak about Jony Ive’s new ‘screen-free’ OpenAI device

Jony Ive says Rabbit and Humane made bad products

The 15 biggest announcements at Google I/O 2025

Google launches AI Mode to everyone in the US, adds more features to AI Overviews

Google’s 3D video calling tech is finally going to ship this year

Project Astra 2025: Google’s universal AI assistant is now smarter and more proactive

Google has a new tool just for making AI videos

Google reveals $250 per month ‘AI Ultra’ plan

Google Meet can translate what you say into other languages

Google’s Gemini AI is coming to Chrome

Google says its new image AI can actually spell

Google will let you ‘try on’ clothes with AI

Google is bringing an ‘Agent Mode’ to the Gemini app

We tried on Google’s prototype AI smart glasses

Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott on the birth of the agentic web

Microsoft’s plan to fix the web: letting every website run AI search for cheap

Google rejected giving publishers more choice to opt out of AI Search

Google is stuffing even more ads into its AI results

Google’s Gemini AI is coming to Chrome

Google reveals $250 per month ‘AI Ultra’ plan

FCC Chairman Carr seeks to designate NBC equal time issue for hearing

FCC approves Verizon’s $20 billion merger after it commits to ‘ending’ DEI

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