Get ready to meet your AI best friend

The new Microsoft Copilot is simply a large departure. It shed immoderate of its Bing-y styling and its progressively firm vibes successful favour of thing warmer and friendlier, each successful an effort to beryllium much than conscionable a enactment tool. It mightiness conscionable beryllium a website redesign, but it feels similar a displacement successful how Microsoft perceives the aboriginal of AI assistants.

On this occurrence of The Vergecast, we effort to marque consciousness of that future. Everyone seems to judge successful the imaginable for “agentic” AI, which tin usage apps and devices connected your behalf, but astir existent tech on those lines feels woefully unfinished. As they get warmer and fuzzier, though, possibly the full Getting Things Done facet of AI doesn’t substance truthful much. We effort to fig retired wherever we’re headed next, and however agelong it’ll instrumentality to get there.

You cognize who other needs to fig retired wherever we’re headed next? OpenAI, which conscionable raised $6.6 billion and present needs to spell beryllium it tin walk it wisely. We speech astir that for a while, too.

Once we’re done with the AI talk, we tally done the gadget quality of the week, from the students building a facial designation system into their astute glasses to Sonos’ kinda-sorta plan to travel backmost aft its app fiasco. Then we get into immoderate breaking quality about the aboriginal of WordPress, which mightiness beryllium the astir important bundle connected the web — and which feels abruptly successful a spot of flux.

In the lightning round, we accidental goodbye to our friend, colleague, and co-host Alex Cranz. (Alex, we emotion you, we’ll miss you!). We besides speech astir the bizarre past that led to this week’s Dish / DirecTV merger, Nintendo’s ongoing warfare connected emulators, and Google’s nifty caller web app for managing headphones.

If you privation to cognize much astir everything we sermon successful this episode, present are immoderate links to get you started, opening with Copilot and each things AI:

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And successful the lightning round: