ChatGPT explained, the FTC suing Microsoft, and Apple adding encryption to iCloud backups

The Vergecast

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🗓️ 9 December 2022

⏱️ 94 minutes

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The Verge's Nilay Patel, Alex Cranz, Richard Lawler, and James Vincent discuss the popularity of ChatGPT. Also: the FTC sues Microsoft to block its Activision Blizzard purchase, Apple is adding end-to-end encryption to iCloud backups, and some gadget news. Further reading: ChatGPT proves AI is finally mainstream — and things are only going to get weirder The FTC is suing Microsoft to block its Activision Blizzard purchase Microsoft reaches 10-year deal with Nintendo for Call of Duty EU sets December 28th, 2024, deadline for all new phones to use USB-C for wired charging The race to build a better Twitter Twitter Blue will reportedly cost more from iPhones to offset ‘hidden 30 percent tax’ Apple is adding end-to-end encryption to iCloud backups Apple claims a new iMessage can alert you if state-sponsored spies are eavesdropping Tim Cook and Joe Biden came to Arizona to announce plans for American-made chips Huawei’s latest smartwatch has hidden earbuds inside The $949 price for Dyson’s air-purifying headphones is more absurd than the device itself Coros Apex 2 and Apex 2 Pro review: slightly short of great Amazon Echo Auto (2nd gen) review: smaller but not smarter How CoinDesk’s FTX scoop left a hole in its corporate overlord Sonos and Ikea made a floor lamp speaker that could be perfect for surround sound Email us at [email protected] or call us at 866-VERGE11, we'd love to hear from you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today on the Vertcast James Vincent and Richard Lawler join us. We get into the GPT-3 chatbot
0:05.6	saga, Apple's new security features and the FTC is coming after Microsoft for buying
0:11.4	Activision. All coming up right after this.
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1:27.9	Hello, welcome to the verge cast, the flagship podcast of the verge where we talk about absolutely
1:39.6	nothing and waste your time. Now the robot put an exclamation point at the end of that
1:46.2	sentence because you see I asked chat GPT3 to write the intro of the show.
1:52.8	Usually you're exuberant. And I said, I said, write the intro of the show and it's
1:57.7	said in chat GPT3 said to me, hello and welcome to the verge cast, the flagship podcast
2:01.6	of the verge. That's wrong. It's, I mean, it's lazy. Yeah. And so I told the robot to
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