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Bluesky's rise and AI's fall

Bluesky's rise and AI's fall

FromThe Vergecast


Bluesky's rise and AI's fall

FromThe Vergecast

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Length:
74 minutes
Released:
May 5, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

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?
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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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Released:
May 5, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

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Hello! This is The Vergecast, the flagship podcast of The Verge... and your life. Every Friday, Nilay Patel and Dieter Bohn make sense of the week's tech news with help from our wide-ranging staff. And on Tuesdays, Nilay hosts in-depth, one-on-one interviews with major technology leaders. Join us every week for a fun, deeply nerdy, often off-the-rails conversation about what's happening now (and next) in technology and gadgets.