Welcome to the Vergecast, the flagship podcast of bike buses, which are, it turns out exactly

what you think they are. I'm a friend David Pierce, and I am sitting here doing a thing I never

thought I would be doing, which is updating and using the Rabbit R1. This is the truly terrible

AI gadget that somehow is still an ongoing concern. It's been like a year and a half now,

and they just put out a sort of fascinating new software update for the thing that completely

changes the interface. It's all touched now. It has some new ideas about how to do like

little apps that you can make with prompts. The thing is still bad and you shouldn't buy one, to be clear.

I have one that is like unopened in a drawer over here because I think someday it'll be like a

museum piece of weird AI.

But I, we're still in this phase where I don't think anybody knows anything about how

AI gadgets are supposed to work or even if they're going to be a thing.

And I confess as bad as this thing is, I genuinely admire the hustle.

But anyway, we are not here to talk about this delightful little orange thing.

We're going to do two things on today's vergecast.

First, we're going to talk to Andy Hawkins about his experience with electric cargo bikes

and basically what it means to take your car drives and turn them into

bike rides. He is, you will learn very passionate about this. We're going to have some fun.

After that, I'm going to talk to Lauren Finer about what's going on in the Google AdTech Remedies

Trial. Google was declared a monopoly in AdTech and now has to fight to see what's going to happen next.

She's been in court all week. We're going to talk about it. I'm very excited. We also have a fun question from the Vergecast hotline.

Lots of good stuff to get to. But first, I'm going to make some apps on this thing and tell you if it's any good.

This is the Vergecast. We'll be right back.

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