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On The Vergecast: What OpenAI and the remainder are truly making, the TikTok and Google trials, and what Trump’s crypto task actually... is.

By David Pierce, editor-at-large and Vergecast co-host with implicit a decennary of acquisition covering user tech. Previously, astatine Protocol, The Wall Street Journal, and Wired.

Sep 24, 2024, 1:19 PM UTC

Image: Alex Parkin / The Verge

OpenAI’s caller model, called o1, appears to deliberation and ponder arsenic you usage it. But is it thinking? Or pondering? And what does it mean if it is? Would that marque it worthy the risks, which look to beryllium some greater and much plausible than ever? How bash you equilibrium the risks of destroying humanity with the anticipation of improving it? This is the happening astir talking astir artificial intelligence: it has this nasty penchant of getting each existential connected you.

On this occurrence of The Vergecast, we get each existential astir AI. The Verge’s Kylie Robison joins the amusement to sermon wherefore OpenAI built o1, wherefore it’s launching the mode it is, what to marque of the folks who are disquieted astir what they’re seeing from the model, and however we should deliberation astir this infinitesimal successful AI arsenic companies pivot toward trying to physique “agents” that tin bash much and much connected our behalf. (We recorded this conscionable earlier Sam Altman published his caller blog station connected The Intelligence Age, but it each feels beauteous timely.)

After that, The Verge’s Gaby Del Valle and Adi Robertson travel connected to drawback up connected immoderate ineligible and governmental stuff. We speech astir the latest connected the don’t-call-it-a-ban TikTok ban, which is present being tested successful tribunal — but possibly not successful precisely the mode you think. We speech astir President Trump’s crypto announcement... if you tin adjacent telephone it an announcement. And we cheque successful connected the Google adtech trial, which could beryllium different daze to the full tech ecosystem.

Finally, we reply a question connected the Vergecast Hotline (call 866-VERGE11, oregon email vergecast@theverge.com!) astir an contented everybody has: what bash you bash with each the stuff that accumulates connected your devices?

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

And connected TikTok / Google / Trump:

And a fewer tools for cleaning up your devices:

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