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Hello and welcome back to Equity.

TechRunch's flagship podcast about the business of startups.

Today is Friday, January 23rd.

I'm Kirsten Koresak, transportation editor here at TechRunch.

And I am joined by weekend editor Anthony Haugh and senior reporter

Sean O'Kane. And my question for Anthony, because every week I have one, is I'm just wondering

if on your Christmas list, I know, it's January, but if you're planning to ask for these

AI earbuds that are coming, apparently from Open AI.

Is that top of the list?

Absolutely not.

I feel like that's the kind of part.

But why?

I can imagine other people being interested in, but I does not appeal to me at all.

We don't even know for sure that it's going to be earbuds.

What Open AI has said kind of on stage is that there will be a hardware product this year, but they haven't offered any more details than that. There's other reporting saying it's going to be earbuds. And it seems likely that it's going to be earbuds. And maybe there's something in the announcement that would change my mind. My general feeling is that, and maybe this is also just a reflection

of my age, is that I'm like less and less interested in technology that's just sort of constantly

hanging out with you and like telling you stuff or poking you and rather stuff that you interact

with more purposefully. I mean, there's this whole idea of like ambient computing or, you know,

even what, you know, some of the initial pitch for the Apple Watch was that it was supposed to kind of change your relationship with, you know, you're not staring at your phone all the time, which is something that Sam Altman has talked about. It's like, hey, we want this to be less intrusive than the phone. And there's an appeal in that, but actually, I think as much as we might all hate

the amount that we stare at our phone, I think it's actually worse to have, you know,

some sort of device that's just speaking in your ear all the time. That seems even less desirable.

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