The Verge's Nilay Patel, Alex Cranz, and David Pierce discuss ChatGPT and Gemini updates, Walmart acquiring Vizio, Apple's Sports app, and more.

Further reading:

Google cut a deal with Reddit for AI training data

Google apologizes for ‘missing the mark’ after Gemini generated racially diverse Nazis 

Google’s open-source Gemma AI models draw from the research behind Gemini

ChatGPT spat out gibberish for many users overnight before OpenAI fixed it

One month with Microsoft’s AI vision of the future: Copilot Pro

Gemini, Gemma, Goose. 

OpenAI can’t register ‘GPT’ as a trademark — yet

Artificial investment

Walmart to acquire Vizio in $2.3 billion deal

Echo Hub review: a simple, customizable smart home control panel

Samsung details a host of audio upgrades coming to its phones, tablets, and TVs

Apple says the iPhone 15’s battery got better — but won’t say how

Rice is not included in Apple’s official guidance for a wet phone


One of the last small-ish Android phones looks like it's going the way of the iPhone Mini 

OnePlus is getting back into the smartwatch game


The Garmin Forerunner 165 could be a great budget running watch 

Sony’s PlayStation Portal hacked to run emulated PSP games

Framework is selling a cheap modular laptop 

Wyze says camera breach let 13,000 customers briefly see into other people’s homes

Apple launches Apple Sports app with scores and betting odds 

Apple is already defending iMessage against tomorrow’s quantum computing attacks 

IBM quantum computing updates: System Two and Heron

Microsoft and Intel strike a custom chip manufacturing deal

Rivian says it is laying off 10 percent of its workforce as EV woes deepen

Ford slashes Mustang Mach-E prices again as EV price war enters its second year


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