/ On The Vergecast: nan soul workings of Apple Intelligence, Xbox handhelds, and nan early of movie theaters.
By David Pierce, editor-at-large and Vergecast co-host pinch complete a decade of acquisition covering user tech. Previously, astatine Protocol, The Wall Street Journal, and Wired.
Jun 14, 2024, 1:06 PM UTC
So, Apple reportedly isn’t paying OpenAI to grip its users’ ChatGPT queries, and OpenAI isn’t paying Apple for its monolithic distribution. (A cardinal pockets, y’all!) If that’s nan case, what do these 2 companies get retired of their blockbuster business for each things iOS and AI? And tin OpenAI and Apple really spend to do this, economically and reputationally? It’s a unusual pairing, but it’s coming to a instrumentality adjacent you this fall.
On this section of The Vergecast, we talk astir Bloomberg’s reporting connected nan business woody down Apple Intelligence earlier rolling done some of Apple’s caller features that didn’t get overmuch (or any) shape clip astatine WWDC. It’s beautiful clear Apple is hoping AI will convince you to bargain a caller iPhone, but it’s still difficult to show really overmuch amended things are astir to get.
After we wrap up nan WWDC talk, we get to a bunch of gadget news. There’s a caller Xbox and a now very evidently forthcoming handheld Xbox. Jabra made cool headphones and past instantly announced it plans to stop making headphones. The Light Phone 3 looks cool, MediaTek is apparently back successful nan spot race, and a ChromeOS overhaul might beryllium successful nan works.
Finally, we get into nan lightning round, wherever we talk astir a week afloat of strange Elon Musk news, a caller study astir really group find news connected societal media, and nan early of one of our favourite movie theaters. Which leads to a agelong digression connected Crackle, because this is The Vergecast and that’s conscionable what happens sometimes.
If you want to cognize much astir everything we talk successful this episode, present are immoderate links to get you started, first connected WWDC:
And connected each nan week’s caller gadgets:
And successful nan lightning round: