Hello and welcome to the Vergecast, the flagship podcast of ultra-wideband doorlocks. I'm your friend David Pierce, and today on the show, we are answering your questions about the smart home. We get a lot of questions about the smart home. I would say that it is the single most popular thing on the Vergecast hotline, 866, Verge 1-1, or send us an email, Vergecast to theverge.com. So every once in a while,

Jen Toey comes on the show

and just answers as many of your questions as we can. We also have the new Google Home speaker in-house. We've been testing this new smart home device from Google, and we both have some thoughts about what this thing actually is. we're going to get to all of that in just a second, but first, here's everything else happening on the verge today. This is 90 seconds on the verge for Wednesday, June 24th, 2026. OpenAI just revealed its first AI chip, which is for some reason called Halapeno. I don't know. It's specifically an inference chip, which means it's not for training huge models, but for interacting with them.

Open AI has been working with Broadcom on these chips, and if they're good, they're actually

a huge deal.

Invidia became the world's most valuable company in large part by having the best AI

chips around, and everyone else would love to control their own destiny a little more and

stop needing Nvidia so badly. Plus, OpenAI desperately needs to figure out a way to make AI usage cheaper and more energy efficient, all of which it says jalapeno will do. We'll see about all that when it launches later this year. Meanwhile, big day for price reveals. We finally know what Grand Theft Auto 6 will cost when it finally, actually, apparently, for real, seriously launches this November. It's going to be 80 bucks for the standard version, which is unfortunately increasingly the price of high-end games, or 100 bucks for the ultimate version. Pre-orders start tonight, and you get some cool added gear, and you might even get the game early if you pre-order, but you know what you apparently can't get at all? Is a disc with the game on it. Imagine.

Even the quote-unquote physical version of GTA6 is just a box with a download code in it. Does that even count as a physical version? That's up to you. I say no, it absolutely does not. Meanwhile, the Slate Truck, the extremely minimalist pickup truck with no paint or speakers or power windows, finally has a price tag. it's going to start at $24,950.

That makes it the cheapest pickup and the cheapest EV you'll find pretty much anywhere on the market right now. People have been really interested in this thing, and I suspect the price tag is only going to be good news. And finally, it's Amazon Prime Day, and we're tracking all the best deals everywhere, but here's my main recommendation. A lot of Apple gear is on sale right now, and you should jump on those deals. Apple CEO Tim Cook said recently that prices are about to go up, so I would buy while the buying's good. You can read more about all of this at Theverge.com. That is 90 seconds on The Verge for Wednesday, June 24th. Support for today's show comes from Dell.

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