OpenAI and Jony Ive's AI super-gadget

The Vergecast

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🗓️ 23 May 2025

⏱️ 113 minutes

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Bad news if you don't care about AI: this week was absolutely chock-full of AI news. First, Nilay, David, and The Verge's Alex Heath talk about the news that OpenAI and Jony Ive are teaming up to build... something. A gadget, for sure, maybe lots of gadgets. We don't know much, but we have a lot of thoughts, and a lot of questions. After that, the hosts talk through all the news at Google I/O, including what's new with Gemini, Google Search, Project Astra, Project Mariner, and the countless other ways Google is putting AI absolutely everywhere. Finally, in the lightning round, we buckle up for another round of Brendan Carr is a Dummy, talk through some late-breaking Apple gadget news, and marvel over the future of conference calls. Further reading: OpenAI is buying Jony Ive’s AI hardware company From The Wall Street Journal: What Sam Altman Told OpenAI About the Secret Device He’s Making With Jony Ive Details leak about Jony Ive’s new ‘screen-free’ OpenAI device Jony Ive says Rabbit and Humane made bad products The 15 biggest announcements at Google I/O 2025 Google launches AI Mode to everyone in the US, adds more features to AI Overviews Google’s 3D video calling tech is finally going to ship this year Project Astra 2025: Google’s universal AI assistant is now smarter and more proactive Google has a new tool just for making AI videos Google reveals $250 per month ‘AI Ultra’ plan Google Meet can translate what you say into other languages Google’s Gemini AI is coming to Chrome Google says its new image AI can actually spell Google will let you ‘try on’ clothes with AI Google is bringing an ‘Agent Mode’ to the Gemini app We tried on Google’s prototype AI smart glasses Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott on the birth of the agentic web Microsoft’s plan to fix the web: letting every website run AI search for cheap Google rejected giving publishers more choice to opt out of AI Search Google is stuffing even more ads into its AI results Google’s Gemini AI is coming to Chrome Google reveals $250 per month ‘AI Ultra’ plan FCC Chairman Carr seeks to designate NBC equal time issue for hearing FCC approves Verizon’s $20 billion merger after it commits to ‘ending’ DEI Email us at [email protected] or call us at 866-VERGE11, we love hearing from you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Tribeca Festival is back June 4th through 15th, and it's packed with can't miss experiences.
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0:30.6	Hello, welcome to the Rochast, the flagship podcast of Alex Heath and I trying to talk to Sergey Brin and being deflected at every opportunity.
0:43.0	It was rough.
0:44.1	It was bad.
0:47.2	Hi, my friend, you know, Alex Heath is here.
0:49.1	Hey, what's going on?
0:50.1	David Pierce is here.
0:51.1	Hello.
0:51.6	So Alex and I were at I.
0:53.1	At Google I.
0:53.8	It's a big news of the week.
0:54.8	Google and it's a bunch of stuff.
0:56.0	We're going to talk about it where there was this moment where Sergei was in the AI
1:00.5	sandbox, like the demo area.
1:01.9	He was there last year too.
1:02.8	And he like talked to reporters for a long time.
1:04.6	Just riffing about AI.
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