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I'm your friend David Pierce, and I have huge news for you, which is that I finally, after,

I don't know how many hours of trying, got this silly little IKEA button hooked up to my smart home. So now, if you're watching this on YouTube, this is going to, it's not going to look very exciting either way, but let's be honest. Now I have a thing where I can just, I can turn two lights off all at once with one press of a button and then another press of a button turns them back on. This is all I want out of my smart home. And somehow this took a whole lot of work and I had to update my echo.comax and my Eero network. And then I had to do a bunch of weird insane stuff. I don't think it was worth it at all, but it felt good. And I'm glad I accomplished something. This is the smart home road I am somehow going down, and I think it will be the end of me. Anyway, no smart home stuff on today's show. Today we're going to do two things on the show. First, we're going to talk to Hayden Field about some of the AI stuff that's been going on the last couple of weeks. While we were out over the holidays and then while we were at CES, there's been this interesting drumbeat of AI products. I think this is the year we're going to talk about

how we actually use AI and what it means in our lives. Hayden's been covering a lot of it. A lot of it has been coming out. So we're going to just try to catch up on all of it, kind of all at once. then we're going to talk to Andy Hawkins about this company, B.Y.D, which has come from

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on the planet. I don't know a lot about BYD, and on this episode, we're going to change that. Plus, we have a really fun hotline question about all the different sized screens in your life, lots of fun stuff to get to. But first, I have a terrible news, which is that I have two more of these buttons, and now I have to figure out what to do with them. Wish me luck. This is the Vergecast. We'll be right back. Something unexpected has arrived in Happy Meal. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Hello Kitty and friends are teaming up for the ultimate collab. Joining your little ones on a fun-fueled adventure. Some fun, some food. It's all inside this Happy Meal. Until the 2nd of February from 11am includes one pre-selected book or toy, whilst that's last.

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