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Artificial intelligence is more a part of our lives than ever before. While some might call it hype and compare it to NFTs or 3D TVs, generative AI is causing a sea change in nearly every part of the technology industry. OpenAI’s ChatGPT is still the best-known AI chatbot around, but with Google pushing Gemini, Microsoft building Copilot, and Apple adding its Intelligence to Siri, AI is probably going to be in the spotlight for a very long time. At The Verge, we’re exploring what might be possible with AI — and a lot of the bad stuff AI does, too.
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Duet is a decent helper, if a little jumpy at times.
After gaining the ability to handle forwarded emails, the AI agent can now take care of those calls you don’t want to make, such as making dinner reservations or dealing with insurance and cable companies. This feature is currently limited to paying US subscribers in the US, however.
If you’re keeping track, that brings the number of alleged extramarital affairs by Nvidia’s now-former CEO to three, including suspected spy / Megaspeed executive Alive Huang, Nvidia’s vice president of health care Kimberly Powell, and an as-yet unnamed woman who two Reuters sources report also works for Nvidia.
Nvidia’s stock closed the day down 4.3 percent.
A second affair has hit the news cycle, but that’s not what matters here.
Last year, several companies backed RSL, a new licensing standard that would require AI companies to pay for scraping content through a collective license rather than one-off deals with specific outlets. Now Yahoo, one of the backers of what is now called the Internet Licensing Collective (ILC), is its first official licensee.
A Chinese spy scandal brought down the CEO of Nvidia, and it also could backfire for Beijing in a big way when it comes to AI export controls.
Following an incredibly vague teaser image earlier this month showing just a silhouette, Carl Pei shared a short video on X revealing Nothing’s mysterious screen-free AI device will have a record button and a pair of LED status lights, alongside a message saying “Context doesn’t live in a chat box.”
Akai is launching the MPC 3.10.1 and MPC Sample 1.4 firmware updates, both of which include support for the new SDKs the company is offering as part of its efforts to embrace the modding community, now that vibecoding has made hacking them trivial. Of course,
The AI chatbot’s dedicated app was already available in cars with Google built-in, as well as Android Auto. Now CarPlay users who prefer Google’s chatbot to Siri can use Gemini to manage their calendar or ask questions about the trip ahead. Gemini was already available through Google Maps, and now Apple has made space for it in the main CarPlay display too.
It’s expecting to set its final IPO share price the day before that. Earlier this week, Anthropic said that price would likely be between $70 to $78 per share, putting its valuation as high as $1.4 trillion.
Aside from his extramarital affairs, the Nvidia CEO also went viral this week over online images that show him wearing a vintage Saint Laurent jacket by Hedi Slimane — a studded switch up from his usual leather outerwear. Vanity Fair confirmed these are AI fakes that carry SynthID markers however, manipulated from photographs taken in June.
Before a New York Times report claimed there’s evidence of a second affair by Jensen Huang and reports surfaced that Nvidia’s board could meet today to determine his fate, US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez spoke to TMZ last night, focusing on asking why our economy depends on “five guys in tuxedos” being able to keep it in their pants.
With reports that the company’s board is meeting to oust Huang from the company he co-founded, Bloomberg reports the board has been working with an unnamed outside firm to identify candidates and is considering naming a temporary chief executive while continuing to look for a permanent replacement.
According to Semafor, the list includes Apple hardware chief Johny Srouji, who was reportedly “seriously considering” leaving the company last year before deciding to stay, with some board members favoring Nvidia CFO Colette Kress instead.
“When reached by phone Wednesday and asked about his relationship with Ms. Powell, Mr. Huang said, ‘I don’t think you should be talking to me directly.‘ He then hung up.” Great stuff, sir. This is the funniest way for the bubble to pop. Do stick around for the NDA anecdote in the kicker — sure seems like his security guards just have a stack of paperwork at the ready for his bullshit!
Update: The WSJ reports Nvidia’s board is “preparing to oust” its CEO.
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Groups that advocated for data center restrictions are getting ready to hold newly elected (or reelected) officials accountable — and push them to go even further, CNN reports. Data center opposition became a theme across many campaigns, and voters favored limits on them in all but one ballot measure.
Security firm Claroc said it found 35,000 apps made with the vibe-coding agent that could be opened by anyone with the link. Among them were 24 apps built by SpaceXSI staff, including ad proposals and a “confidential onboarding plan.” In a post, Grok said the Ars Technica article was “incorrect,” referring to the “app builder feature on grok.com, not Grok Build.” It added that users review sharing settings and a warning before publishing apps.
Update: Added Grok response.
Google researcher Pietro Miotti says 48 AI agents combing NASA Lidar data spotted signs of a previously unrecorded ancient site in Mexico. He’s not an archeologist, and the find still needs fieldwork to verify, but it’s a cool glimpse into why scientists are so excited by these