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.
Instagram’s wordmark is iconic. Well, was iconic. Apparently Instagram thought it looked old, truthful the institution rolled retired a caller 1 this week. It doesn’t look for illustration the aged Instagram wordmark. It doesn’t moreover look for illustration it spells Instagram anymore. And we cannot fig retired why Instagram decided to do this.
On this section of The Vergecast, David and Nilay commencement by discussing the caller logo, the executive impulse to redesign everything each the time, and whether caller is ever better. After that, they get into the different large Meta merchandise of the week: Mark Zuckerberg’s many-thousand-word missive connected the early of AI. There are a batch of ideas and proposals successful the post, each centered connected 1 really big, very Zuckerberg-y thesis: that if you springiness each the exertion to everyone, everything will beryllium fine. Quite a take from the feline who sees what happens connected Facebook each day. (By the way, here’s the Meta Design Blog post we reference, and the unthinkable Pepsi branding doc.)
After that, it’s clip for immoderate much AI news, including a caller measurement of “watermarking” AI-generated text, Apple’s stamp of reality, Spotify’s crackdown connected AI artists (but not AI music), and immoderate chaos successful the guitar industry. Then it’s disconnected to the lightning round, pinch news astir Brendan Carr, ChatGPT, Flock, cheap phones, and more.
In lawsuit you missed it this week: We besides talked astir our vibe-coding projects, the first chatbot ever, the caller Google Pixels, and the authorities of robot lawnmowers. And we want to perceive each your thoughts astir each of it! Call the Vergecast Hotline astatine 866-VERGE11, nonstop america an email astatine [email protected], and show america everything that’s connected your mind. And make judge you subscribe truthful you don’t miss an episode!
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