TNW 311: Humane Launches Its $699 AI Pin - Video Game Unions, Pixel Watch 2, OpenAI Conference
Tech News Weekly (Audio)
Leo Laporte
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🗓️ 9 November 2023
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
The game industry has had a year with the consolidation of organizations and the formation of gaming unions. Jason Howell shares his review of the Pixel Watch 2. And OpenAI had its first developer conference. What was announced at the event?
- Nathan Grayson of the newly launched Aftermath news site to talk about how the game industry has been impacted by the consolidation of gaming companies and the formation of unions.
- Jason Howell has been using Google's Pixel Watch 2 for some time and shares his review of Google's latest update to its wearable device.
- Mikah shares details about Humane's AI Pin, a $699 wearable device powered by OpenAI.
- Finally, Stephen Shankland of CNET joins the show to share what was announced at OpenAI's developer conference in San Francisco.
Hosts: Jason Howell and Mikah Sargent
Guests: Nathan Grayson and Stephen Shankland
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Tech News Weekly, I am Micah Sergeant and we start the show by talking to Nathan Grayson of the newly launched aftermath site. |
| 0:09.0 | Nathan joins us to talk about the game industry and how consolidation and unionization is having an impact on everything. |
| 0:17.0 | And I'm Jason Howell, I've got on my wrist. |
| 0:20.0 | The Google Pixel Watch 2. I do a full review in today's episode. |
| 0:24.0 | Oh yeah. |
| 0:25.0 | We also talk about Humane's AI PIN. |
| 0:29.0 | Yes, the company has finally launched its AI PIN. |
| 0:32.0 | It's only $700 and doesn't have a screen. |
| 0:36.0 | No big deal, but you can cast it onto your hand. |
| 0:39.0 | That's true. So at least there's that. |
| 0:40.0 | And then Stephen Shanklin was at, from CNET actually, was at Open AIs Dev Day conference |
| 0:46.4 | earlier this week, has all the latest on their big announcement of GPTs and so much more coming up next on Tech News Weekly. |
| 0:55.0 | Podcasts you love from people you trust. |
| 1:00.0 | This is Twit. |
| 1:05.0 | This is Tech News Weekly episode 311 recorded Thursday, November 9th, |
| 1:11.0 | 2023. |
| 1:12.0 | Humane launches at $699 AI PIN. This episode of Tech News Weekly is brought |
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