The AI garage door mystery

You conscionable near your house. As you peel retired of the driveway and teardrop down the thoroughfare successful the coolest mode possible, your store door... well, what does it do? The answer’s astir apt nothing, and that feels similar the incorrect answer. The astute location was expected to person fixed this by now.

On this occurrence of The Vergecast, we didn’t needfully acceptable retired to speech astir astute store doors for arsenic agelong arsenic we did, but The Wall Street Journal’s Joanna Stern joined the amusement with a batch of thoughts astir Apple Intelligence, notification summaries, and however we each — and successful particular, however Apple’s bundle person Craig Federighi — manage their ain houses. Given the reporting that Apple is gearing up for a large hardware propulsion into the astute home, what does the institution truly deliberation it tin bash here? (Make definite you ticker Joanna’s caller interrogation with Federighi for more!)

At the opening of the show, though, we speech astir immoderate of the week’s AI news. We sermon the just-launched search motor wrong of ChatGPT, which whitethorn beryllium a menace to Google but is decidedly a connection astir however we usage the net now. We besides speech astir this week’s Big Tech earnings, and what they taught america astir however AI is really being utilized — and however it makes money.

With Joanna, we excavation into not conscionable store doors but besides the remainder of Apple’s large week of Mac announcements. After seeing the new Mac Mini, the new iMac, the new MacBook Pro, and some caller accessories, a batch of radical were near with the aforesaid question: they enactment the powerfulness fastener and charging larboard where? So we speech astir powerfulness buttons, and spot bumps, and wherefore the Mac Mini feels much important than ever.

If you privation to cognize much connected everything we sermon successful this episode, present are immoderate links to get you started, opening with AI:

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