Apple named John Ternus as its next CEO, with Tim Cook stepping up to executive chairman on September 1. Amazon agrees to invest up to $25B more in Anthropic, Bezos' Project Prometheus nears a $10B raise, and SpaceX's IPO prospectus reveals Musk's power moves.
John Ternus, senior VP of Hardware Engineering, will become Apple's next CEO on September 1; T ... Show More
Feb 2025
The high stakes for AI Alexa
AI will fix everything, right? In this episode, friend of The Verge (and Waveform co-host) David Imel joins Nilay and David to talk all about Alexa Plus, and the AI-powered voice assistant Amazon thinks can do everything from turn on your lights to order your friend an Uber. The ... Show More
1h 56m
Aug 2022
How to lose money, SoftBank edition
Alex and Grace are back to cover the biggest and most interesting technology, startup and markets news. This morning was a fun mix of stuff that we don't always get to, so strap in for the following:
Stocks and cryptos are mostly higher today, meaning that most listeners of the ... Show More
8m 59s
Jan 2025
The AI Model That Tanked the Stock Market
On Monday, the stock market tanked, seemingly in reaction to the emergence of DeepSeek, an open source AI model developed in China. Nvidia, the semiconductor giant that has been the largest winner of the AI boom, erased $589 billion in market cap, for the biggest one-day wipeout ... Show More
21m 3s
Feb 2025
Elon Musk: agent of chaos
On today's episode, once again, it's OpenAI and DOGE. And some other things! Nilay and David start the show by talking about Elon Musk's surprise bid to buy the nonprofit arm of OpenAI, along with the company's plans for new models and new rules for those models. After that, The ... Show More
1h 47m
<p>We make our big Linux predictions for 2025, but first, we score how we did for 2024.</p><p>Sponsored By:</p><ul><li><a href="http://tailscale.com/linuxunplugged" rel="nofollow">Tailscale</a>: <a href="http://tailscale.com/linuxunplugged" rel="nofollow">Tailscale is a programma ... Show More
