David Pierce is 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.
Meta is intelligibly each successful connected AI, and for bully reason. With models for illustration Llama, products for illustration the Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses, and a monetization scheme for illustration Facebook ads, it’s 1 of the companies champion positioned to make AI really work. But it wasn’t that long agone that Meta was making a different, conscionable arsenic immense stake connected the metaverse. It’s right location successful the institution name! So what does Meta really want to beryllium erstwhile it grows up?
On this section of The Vergecast, we commencement by digging into precisely that question. The Verge’s Alex Heath joins to talk everything from smart glasses income numbers to CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s scheme to bring backmost “OG Facebook.” We besides talk astir a caller memo from CTO Andrew Bosworth that suggested 2025 will beryllium the twelvemonth the metaverse either takes disconnected aliases falls apart. As each this is happening, of course, Zuckerberg is quickly changing his company’s governmental stances and much forcefully declaring his ain values. Meta ne'er seems to extremity changing, but this alteration feels bigger than most.
After that, we pivot to different institution successful the midst of moreover bigger change. The Verge’s Chris Welch takes america done the past twelvemonth astatine Sonos, successful which the institution launched a beautiful bully brace of headphones — and a caller app truthful disastrously bad it overshadowed everything else Sonos shipped. Now there’s a caller guidance team, another caller merchandise line coming, and tons of questions near arsenic to whether Sonos tin triumph backmost the fans it built complete years and mislaid successful a matter of weeks.
Finally, connected the Vergecast Hotline (call 866-VERGE11 aliases email [email protected]!), we reply a mobility astir business cards. Because it whitethorn beryllium 2025, but business cards garbage to die. And truthful we request thing to do pinch them.
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