The Verge's Nilay Patel, David Pierce, and Alex Cranz discuss Samsung faking photos of the moon on its phones, what happened with Silicon Valley Bank, and hottest topic of the season: ChatGPT and AI.
This episode was recorded live at SXSW 2023.
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Samsung caught faking zoom photos of the Moon
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