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/ On The Vergecast: the state and future of AI gadgets, the next iPads, and the billion-dollar AI race.
By David Pierce, editor-at-large and Vergecast co-host with over a decade of experience covering consumer tech. Previously, at Protocol, The Wall Street Journal, and Wired.
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The Rabbit R1 is not good. Neither is the Humane AI Pin. Does that signal the end of the AI gadget revolution before it ever really got started? Or is it just that two companies shipped too little, too soon? The whole AI industry is moving fast, and it sometimes makes you wonder where it’s actually headed — or if there’s anywhere at the end of the road.
On this episode of The Vergecast, we discuss our reviews of these new devices, their potential going forward, and whether there’s ever going to be an AI gadget that isn’t just your phone. Because the phone AI is coming.
We also discuss the latest news in Google’s antitrust trial as it finally starts to come to a close. After months of arguments and mountains of evidence, what happens next is up to Judge Amit Mehta. And what he decides could tell us a lot about what might come of the other antitrust lawsuits making their way through the court system right now.
After that, there’s a lot of news this week! We talk about Peloton’s mess, Tesla’s Supercharger pivot, LinkedIn’s Wordle, next week’s iPad event, Razer’s ill-fated face mask, the Android fart button, and much more. We are firmly back in tech season, y’all. Buckle up.
If you want to know more about everything we discuss in this episode, here are a few links to get you started, beginning with Rabbit and Humane:
In the “money round”:
And in the lightning round: