The Vergecast is the flagship podcast from The Verge about small gadgets, Big Tech, and everything in between. Every Friday, hosts Nilay Patel, David Pierce, and Alex Cranz hang out and make sense of the week’s most important technology news. And every Tuesday, 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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Bluesky's rise and AI's fall
The Verge's Nilay Patel, David Pierce, Alex Cranz, and Sarah Jeong discuss Bluesky gaining popularity and why it may be Twitter's most chaotic successor.
Also: is AI going too far too soon?
Further reading:
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- Google announces the Pixel Fold
- Everything happening on Bluesky, Twitter’s most chaotic successor
- Bluesky is starting to feel like Twitter
- Mozilla’s new Mozilla.Social Mastodon instance is an attempt to reinvent content moderation
- ‘Godfather of AI’ quits Google with regrets and fears about his life’s work
- White House rolls out plan to promote ethical AI
- Snapchat is already testing sponsored links in its My AI chatbot
- New ChatGPT Zillow plug-in rolls out to select users today
- AI is being used to generate whole spam sites
- AI offers new tools for making games, but developers worry about their jobs
- Writers are striking and AI rights are on the table.
- Microsoft is forcing Outlook and Teams to open links in Edge, and IT admins are angry
- Microsoft’s Bing chatbot gets smarter with restaurant bookings, image results, and more
- Andreessen Horowitz saw the future — but did the future leave it behind?
- Now Gmail has blue verified checkmark icons too
- Google accounts now support passkeys for password-free sign-in
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