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About ClaudeAbout Claude AI - Requiem for an LLMSHOW NOTESDevelopers are giving Claude Code a Jarvis voice. Two hundred people held a funeral for Claude 3 Sonnet in a San Francisco warehouse. Hundreds of thousands are protesting GPT-4o's retirement. Today: the rituals forming around AI — and what they reveal about a relationship that's outgrown the word "tool."In this episode:Claude Code's hooks system and the developers giving their AI a voice — Jarvis-style notifications, custom personalities, sound cuesThe Ralph Wiggum plugin's evolution from goat-farm bash script to official Anthropic tool to cryptocurrency tokenThe Claude 3 Sonn...
2026-02-1113 min
Better OfflineMonologue: The Year AheadIn this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron walks you through the seeming collapse of Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines, and why the AI bubble can’t survive the death of OpenAI. Save $10 off a year of my premium newsletter: https://edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo-subscription/gzqwkv54e1 - I’d be so grateful! Kylie Robison’s scoop about Thinking Machines: https://x.com/kyliebytes/status/2011572331798548899 Max Zeff of WIRED’s follow-on story: https://www.wired.com/story/thinking-machines-lab-cofounders-leave-for-openai/ YOU CAN NOW BUY BETTER OFFLINE MERCH! Go to https://cottonbureau.com/people/better...
2026-01-1607 min
Core MemoryWelcome To The Chinese Peptide Underground - EP 52 Jasmine SunBiohacking has gone through a lot of different phases. Implanting an NFC chip in your hand is old school and having a blood boy is passé. Among Silicon Valley’s 20-somethings, all the cool kids have a peptide stack. Jasmine Sun joins us this week to chat about all things peptides. She was previously a product manager at Substack, but now she writes about San Francisco culture on her own Substack. Jasmine recently published a deep dive in The New York Times about the trendy injectable and deets on the Chinese peptide rave (which you first read abo...
2026-01-141h 14
TBPNOpenAI Responds to Meta Offers, Meta's Secret List, Apple Scores Big With 'F1' | Will Brown, Will O'Brien, Kylie Robison, Joshua Meier, John Glasgow, Tom Lee(01:28:55) - Will Brown discusses Meta's recent aggressive recruitment of top AI talent, including former OpenAI researchers, to bolster its AI capabilities. He highlights Meta's strategic investments, such as the $14.3 billion stake in Scale AI, and the formation of the 'Superintelligence' team led by Alexandr Wang, aiming to advance artificial general intelligence (AGI). Brown also touches on the competitive landscape, noting Meta's substantial financial incentives to attract leading AI researchers and the broader implications for the AI industry.
(01:59:25) - Will O'Brien, co-founder of Ulysses Ecosystem Engineering, discusses his company's development of autonomous surface and underwater vehicles designed to perform...
2025-06-303h 11
LIFE Today LIVETrick And Truth - David and Kylie KnightA husband-and-wife team of illusionists explain how and why they use entertainment to draw people to hear the Gospel.
2025-05-2723 minLIFE Today LIVETrick And Truth - David and Kylie KnightA husband-and-wife team of illusionists explain how and why they use entertainment to draw people to hear the Gospel.
2025-05-2723 min
All In with Chris HayesSupreme Court hears birthright citizenship challengeGuests: Jamal Greene, Maya Wiley, Rep. Pramila Jayapal, Betsey Stevenson, Kylie RobisonTonight, Donald Trump tries to re-write the Constitution. Will the Supreme Court allow Trump to decide who is an American citizen? Then, why Republican defections are causing big trouble for Trump's beautiful bill. Plus, Walmart's plans to raise prices as the Trump tax arrives at America's largest retailer. And what in the world is happening to Elon Musk's chatbot Grok?
Want more of Chris? Download and follow his podcast, “Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes podcast” wherever you get your podcasts.
2025-05-1641 min
KQED's ForumWhat’s Next in Artificial Intelligence?Artificial intelligence dominates the Bay Area tech landscape, and we will catch you up on the latest headlines. From chatbots that promise to be your friend to artificial general intelligence, or AGI, which is designed to go beyond task-oriented AI to comprehend and process information in a close-to human form. We’ll talk to a panel of tech reporters about what’s on the horizon and just how much AI may — or may not —change the way we live.
Guests:
Nitasha Tiku, tech culture reporter, Washington Post
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2025-05-1357 min
The VergecastOpenAI has a Studio Ghibli problemIn this episode, we do a Studio Ghibli-like rendition of The Vergecast. First, Nilay and David discuss some big news in the gadget world, from the mysteriously viral midrange Canon camera to the upgrades we're expecting out of Apple in the next few months. Plus, is it over for Amazon's Echo brand? After all that, The Verge's Kylie Robison joins the show to discuss everything happening at OpenAI: the company launched a new image generator inside of ChatGPT, and it immediately became both a huge hit and a big mess. (Par for the course with OpenAI, really.) Kylie also...
2025-03-282h 00The VergecastWhat $200 of ChatGPT is really worthAI and politics, politics and AI. That's the story of 2025. On this episode, The Verge's Kylie Robison joins the show to talk about ChatGPT's big new features, Operator and deep research, both of which promise to make the chatbot more useful and more autonomous. To access either one costs $200 a month — is it worth it? After that, The Verge's Liz Lopatto catches us up on the latest from Elon Musk and Doge, including why Musk is doing this thing, this way. Liz also makes the case that this isn't going to slow down anytime soon. Finally, Nilay Patel helps us...
2025-02-111h 20
The InsurgentsEp. 346: Owned ft. Eoin HigginsEoin Higgins returns to the show to discuss his new book “Owned: How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Loudest Voices On the Left.” We talk about how tech and Silicon Valley figures like Peter Thiel, Marc Andreesen and Elon Musk have used their vast wealth and influence to sway the political and ideological leanings of prominent independent writers. You can pre-order the book here. Our most recent premium episode for paid subscribers examines DeepSeek and the race for AI. Kylie Robison of the Verge was a great guest and we confirmed that she is, in fact, a game...
2025-01-311h 13
Decoder with Nilay PatelDeepSeek, Stargate, and the new AI arms raceToday, we’re talking about DeepSeek, and how the open source AI model built by a Chinese startup has completely upended the conventional wisdom around chatbots, what they can do, and how much they should cost to develop. We’re also talking about Stargate, OpenAI’s new $500 billion data center venture that’s supposed to supercharge domestic AI infrastructure. Both stand in stark contrast with one another — and represent a new, escalating front in the US-China relationship and the geopolitics of AI. Verge senior AI reporter Kylie Robison joins me to break it all down. ...
2025-01-3029 min
The InsurgentsEp. 345: What is DeepSeek? ft. Kylie RobisonThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.insurgentspod.comKylie Robison of The Verge joins us to talk about DeepSeek, the new AI LLM that, its developers claim, was built for just a fraction of the cost compared to its US-based competitors. We analyze those claims, talk about the competing interests trying to “win” the AI race, examine the harm and risks associated with rapid and unchecked AI development and, …
2025-01-2902 minThe VergecastGemini, GTA, and the search for the next big thingThe Verge's Victoria Song and Kylie Robison join the show to talk about all of Google's recent AI and XR announcements, and the company's big and Gemini-powered vision for the future of computing. Then Chris Grant, the group publisher for Polygon and The Verge, explains why GTA VI and the Nintendo Switch 2 are so important to the future of gaming — plus a few predictions about how they'll turn out. Finally, The Verge's Helen Havlak answers a hotline question about how she plans her garden in Figma. Which is a real thing she really does.Further reading:
Th...
2024-12-171h 35The VergecastAGI is coming and nobody caresNilay and David talk a bit about this week’s launch of the Verge subscription, plus what’s coming next. (There’s still time to send questions for next week! 866-VERGE11 or email vergecast@theverge.com.) Then they talk about the streaming news of the week, and the ways streaming services are continuing to act like cable companies. Then Kylie Robison joins to talk about the lowering stakes for AGI, shipmas at OpenAI, and more. Finally, in the lighting round, it’s crypto and browsers and Intel. And more crypto.Further reading:
Here we go: The Verge no...
2024-12-061h 38The VergecastOur biggest stories and favorite things of 20242024 is almost over, somehow. So we gathered a bunch of our Verge colleagues and told them each to tell us three things from the year: the biggest story, their favorite new tech thing, and their favorite new non-tech thing. We got a collection of big stories, cool gadgets, great movies, and more good stuff from the year that was.We're also planning a special episode for Tuesday, December 10th, all about The Verge and The Vergecast. So if you have questions about how we work, what we cover, why we talk about copyright law so much, or...
2024-11-291h 32The VergecastBluesky's quest to be the next TwitterNilay and David talk about the future of social, in light of Bluesky's recent surge in growth. Threads is huge, Bluesky is ascendent, Mastodon is... around, but can any of them become the next Twitter? Is that even the goal? After that, Kylie Robison joins the show and the gang discusses Apple's smart home device (which is just an iPad), the AI scaling slowdown, and a new twist in the delivery wars. In the lightning round, it's all about disclosures, wireless carriers, and the sad end of Freevee.Further reading:
Twitter’s succession: all the news ab...
2024-11-151h 27The VergecastTwo possible futures for AIKylie Robison joins the show to talk about the recent dueling AI blog posts from OpenAI's Sam Altman and Anthropic's Dario Amodei. What do these CEOs think the future of AI looks like? Then, Will Poor tells us the story of ShakeAlert, an earthquake alert system that has huge potential and some surprising challenges. On The Vergecast Hotline, Allison Johnson joins Will to figure out whether the iPhone's new Camera Control is really as fast as advertised.Further reading:
Sam Altman: The Intelligence Age
Dario Amodei: Machines of Loving Grace
Anthropic’s CEO thinks AI will le...
2024-10-291h 33Decoder with Nilay PatelThe AI arms race to build digital godToday, we’re going to try and figure out "digital god." I figured we’ve been doing Decoder long enough, let’s just get after it. Can we build an artificial intelligence so powerful it changes the world and answers all our questions? The AI industry has decided the answer is yes. In September, OpenAI’s Sam Altman published a blog post claiming we’ll have superintelligent AI in “a few thousand days.” And earlier this month, Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic published a 14,000-word post laying out what he thinks such a system will be...
2024-10-2442 min
PivotAI Basics: How and When to Use AIKara and Scott are back in your feeds for a special series on the basics of Artificial Intelligence. What should you use it for? What tools are right for you? And what privacy issues should you watch out for? Kylie Robison, Senior AI Reporter for The Verge, joins Pivot with a primer on how to integrate AI into your life.Follow us on Instagram and Threads at @pivotpodcastofficial.Follow us on TikTok at @pivotpodcast.Send us your questions by calling us at 855-51-PIVOT, or at nymag.com/pivot. ...
2024-10-2323 minThe VergecastThey think they’re building GodKylie Robison joins the show to talk about OpenAI’s new model, o1, and what this new “reasoning” model says about the state of the art in AI — and what AI companies are willing to put up with in the name of building God. Then, Gaby Del Valle and Adi Robertson talk through the latest on the TikTok ban, the Trump crypto chaos, and the ongoing adtech antitrust trial against Google. (All with as little politics-talk as possible.)Further reading:OpenAI releases new o1 reasoning modelOpenAI’s new model is better at reasoning...
2024-09-241h 10
VerbalVerkehrSmartphone-Tragödie / AI-Farce
Wir besprechen das Unternehmens-Biopic BlackBerry und schauen, wie es dem AI-Startup Humane so geht.
Quellen zum Humane-Segment:Humane AI Pin review: not even close – David Pierce bei The VergeThe Worst Product I’ve Ever Reviewed… For Now – Marques BrownleeReview: Humane AI Pin – Julian Chokkattu bei WiredHumane’s daily returns are outpacing sales – Kylie Robison bei The VergeThank You & What’s Next. – Bethany Bongiorno, Imran Chaudhri und das Humane Team im Company Blog von HumaneWearable AI Startup Humane Explores Potential Sale, Sources Say – Liana Baker, Mark Gurman, Shirin Ghaffary und...
2024-08-2352 minBetter OfflineThe State of Tech Journalism with Kylie Robison and Mike IsaacIn the second live-to-tape episode of Better Offlive, Ed Zitron is joined in-studio by the New York Times' Mike Isaac and The Verge's Kylie Robison to discuss the current state of tech journalism. KYLIE: https://x.com/kyliebytes https://www.threads.net/@kylie.robison MIKE: https://x.com/MikeIsaac https://www.threads.net/@mike_isaac?hl=en https://www.instagram.com/mike_isaac Newsletter: wheresyoured.at Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/betteroffline Discord chat.wheresyoured.at Ed's Socials - http://www.twitter.com/edzitron i...
2024-07-311h 50
B.E.A.M.[NEWS] Roblox and Fortnite's relationship with Social, AI health coach and how to get Gen Z off their phonesThis week, we’re doing something different: Matt is flying solo to talk about the Top 3 news stories on all things immersive and next gen. First, Matt discusses the challenge brick and mortar retailers face to attract Gen Z customers and how they can embrace tech. Then, Matt delves into brands' relationship with platforms like Fortnite and Roblox. And finally, Matt reviews a story from The Verge about a new AI health initiative. Listen for insights at the intersection of next-gen marketing, immersive platforms and AI!
Links to stories discussed:
Forbes’ Megan Poinski on How to Make...
2024-07-1912 minDecoder with Nilay PatelInside the players and politics of the AI industryWe’ve got a special episode of the show today – I was traveling last week, so Verge deputy editor Alex Heath and our new senior AI reporter Kylie Robison are filling in for me, with a very different kind of episode about AI. We talk a lot about AI in a broad sense on Decoder — it comes up in basically every single interview I do these days. But we don’t spend a ton of time on the day-to-day happenings of the AI industry itself.So we thought it would be a good idea to take...
2024-06-2045 min
FLASH DIARIO de El Siglo 21 es HoyLikes Ocultos en XLa plataforma X, anteriormente conocida como Twitter, ha comenzado a ocultar los likes de todos los usuarios. Este cambio tiene como objetivo proteger la imagen pública y fomentar la interacción con contenido más variado.X, la plataforma social de Elon Musk, ha implementado un cambio significativo: ocultar los likes de todos los usuarios. Anteriormente, solo los suscriptores Premium podían ocultar sus likes, pero ahora esta opción será predeterminada para todos. Haofei Wang, director de ingeniería de X, mencionó que esta medida pretende animar a los usuarios a interactuar con contenido “más atrevido” s...
2024-06-1204 minFLASH DIARIO de El Siglo 21 es HoyLikes Ocultos en XLa plataforma X, anteriormente conocida como Twitter, ha comenzado a ocultar los likes de todos los usuarios. Este cambio tiene como objetivo proteger la imagen pública y fomentar la interacción con contenido más variado.X, la plataforma social de Elon Musk, ha implementado un cambio significativo: ocultar los likes de todos los usuarios. Anteriormente, solo los suscriptores Premium podían ocultar sus likes, pero ahora esta opción será predeterminada para todos. Haofei Wang, director de ingeniería de X, mencionó que esta medida pretende animar a los usuarios a interactuar con contenido “más atrevido” s...
2024-06-1204 minThe VergecastMicrosoft is in its AI PC eraToday on the flagship podcast of Arm-based chipsets:03:08 - The Verge’s Tom Warren and David Pierce discuss the announcements from Microsoft’s Surface event, including the new Arm-powered Surface Laptop, and Copilot Plus PCs.
Microsoft’s Surface AI event: news, rumors, and lots of Qualcomm laptops
Microsoft announces an Arm-powered Surface Laptop
Microsoft’s new Surface Pro gets an OLED display for the first time
Microsoft announces Copilot Plus PCs with built-in AI hardware
The new, faster Surface Pro is Microsoft's all-purpose AI PC
Recall is Microsoft’s key to unlocking the future of PCs
2024-05-211h 10
The Weekly Snapshot - AIAI Insights: ChatGPT Detectors, Apple's Safari Revolution, and The Verge's New ReporterExplore the latest developments in artificial intelligence with articles covering AI detectors for ChatGPT, Kylie Robison's new role as Senior AI Reporter at The Verge, and the potential for Apple’s Safari browser to eliminate ads entirely through an AI-enhanced update.
2024-05-0307 min
The Daily Snapshot - AI NewsKylie Robison at The Verge and The Rabbit R1 Update: Navigating New Frontiers in AI and TechKylie Robison has been appointed as Senior AI Reporter at The Verge, while the Rabbit R1 receives its first software update aimed at improving its poor battery life.
2024-05-0106 min
Kill The ComputerDouble Verified Ft. Kylie RobisonTech reporter Kylie Robison joins us for a stroll through the current landscape of your favorite Silicon Valley perverts.
Follow Kylie @kyliebytes
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2024-04-291h 01Kill The ComputerDouble Verified Ft. Kylie RobisonTech reporter Kylie Robison joins us for a stroll through the current landscape of your favorite Silicon Valley perverts.
Follow Kylie @kyliebytes
www.Patreon.com/WesternKabuki
2024-04-291h 01
Moderated ContentMC Weekly Update 5/6: Good luck, Linda!Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos weigh in on the latest online trust and safety news and developments:Stanford Internet Observatory research discovered serious failings with Twitter’s detection and removal systems for child abuse content. - Alexa Corse/ The Wall Street Journal, @stanfordioTwitter CornerIn another welcome gift on Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino’s first day, leaked documents show Twitter’s ad revenue is down nearly 60% from last year. - Ryan Mac, Tiffany Hsu/ The New York TimesFour Democratic senators sent a letter to Elon Musk and Yaccarino inquiring if there are still enough p...
2023-06-0541 min
Anthony Whitlock's PodcastGlobal Dance - Best Of Dirty DiscoContinuing on with the 'Best Of' series celebrating the remix artists who bring it to the dance floor, I present to you the Best Of Dirty Disco. This is my most ambitious podcast to date (or at the very least, my longest). Mark De Lang is the driving force behind Dirty Disco and he is based in Houston, Texas. I've had several conversations with Mark and he is an extremely nice man and generous to a fault with his remixes. He has given me early access to some of his exclusive mixes and is always happy to share with...
2022-11-282h 28
State Hornet SpotlightSTATE HORNET SPOTLIGHT: Kylie Robison of ‘Kyliebytes’ talks stocks post-GameStopKYLIEBYTES on Substack4 Things to Know About the GameStop InsanityRobinhood in-app glossary claims Nazis were socialistRobinhood customers file class action lawsuit after popular app halts GameStop stock tradingInvestopedia page on DogeCoin
2021-02-0310 min
Screaming in the CloudBehold: The Block Button with Kylie RobisonAbout Kylie RobisonKylie Robison is a California State University, Sacramento student studying business information systems, technology reporter for the State Hornet, and proud president of her school’s Ski & Snowboard Club. She’s hoping to break into the technology industry when she graduates in May of 2021.Links Referenced:The State HornetCovered CaliforniaFollow Kylie on TwitterKylie’s Website
2020-12-2932 min
State Hornet: BuzzedSTATE HORNET BUZZED: Drinks we could live off and superpowers we’d haveIn the second episode of our comedy chat podcast State Hornet: Buzzed, broadcast staffer Garry Singh, managing editor Maddie Beck, web editor Chris Wong and tech writer Kylie Robison discuss Thanksgiving versus Christmas, the one drink they could live off of and the one superpower they would have.
Music: Lobby Time by Kevin MacLeod
2020-11-1419 min
The State HornetBROOKE’S UHLENBOPS S1E8: Everyone had a Paramore phase, don’t lieThis week on Brooke’s UhlenBops, host Brooke Uhlenhop is joined by State Hornet tech writer Kylie Robison to discuss one of their favorite bands, Paramore. Ain’t it fun?
Music: Lollipop by Alex Beroza
2020-04-2325 minThe State HornetNEWS S2E6: Reviewing the Weide Chang storyFor this week’s episode of The State Hornet News Podcast, podcast editor Robbie Pierce and news writer Maddie Beck spoke to Kaleb Bello, a fourth-year computer science major who was in Professor Weide Chang’s class the day Chang was removed from teaching it.
RELATED: Sac State computer science associate professor ‘held by the shoulders and escorted’ from Calaveras Hall
Pierce also dives in with Beck and tech writer Kylie Robison to talk about their experiences covering the story and what they are currently still investigating.
Music: Covert Affair by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
2020-03-1309 min