Humane AI Pin evaluation and OpenAI’s YouTube undertaking

Seven. Hundred. {Dollars}. After a 12 months of asking questions on this much-hyped AI wearable, the Humane AI Pin is right here, and, nicely, we nonetheless have numerous questions. We’re additionally nonetheless attempting to determine the way it all works — and the place it goes from right here.

On this episode of The Vergecast, we dive deep into our evaluation of the AI Pin and take a look at to determine what went unsuitable with this system and whether or not there’s an actual future for it or every other AI-powered gadget. The difficulty, we uncover, is that these gadgets are stacking new expertise on high of recent expertise, and till all of it works completely, none of it’s going to work very nicely. Additionally, did we point out the AI Pin is seven hundred {dollars}?

After that, we speak concerning the rising rift between OpenAI and the remainder of the web after some excellent reporting confirmed what number of hundreds of thousands of YouTube movies the corporate transcribed and used to coach its fashions. We additionally discuss how Taylor Swift’s music got here again to TikTok and whether or not there may be extra to return.

Lastly, we get a remarkably on-brand set of reports within the lightning spherical, together with E Ink screens, content material regulation, and photograph sharing. Sony additionally made a brand new social gathering speaker, so after all, we spend an unreasonably very long time on the social gathering speaker. You need to take a look at these pictures.

If you wish to know extra about the whole lot we talk about on this episode, listed below are just a few hyperlinks to get you began, starting with Humane:

And within the lightning spherical: