Casual Banter and Tech Updates

The Verge's Nilay Patel, David Pierce, Alex Cranz, and Sarah Jeong discuss Bluesky gaining popularity and why it may be Twitter's most chaotic successor.

Also: is AI going too far too soon?

Further reading:

• shop.theverge.com
• Google announces the Pixel Fold
• Everything happening on Bluesky, Twitter’s most chaotic successor
• Bluesky is starting to feel like Twitter
• Mozilla’s new Mozilla.Social Mastodon instance is an attempt to reinvent content moderation
• ‘Godfather of AI’ quits Google with regrets and fears about his life’s work
• White House rolls out plan to promote ethical AI
• Snapchat is already testing sponsored links in its My AI chatbot
• New ChatGPT Zillow plug-in rolls out to select users today
• AI is being used to generate whole spam sites
• AI offers new tools for making games, but developers worry about their jobs
• Writers are striking and AI rights are on the table.
• Microsoft is forcing Outlook and Teams to open links in Edge, and IT admins are angry
• Microsoft’s Bing chatbot gets smarter with restaurant bookings, image results, and more
• Andreessen Horowitz saw the future — but did the future leave it behind?
• Now Gmail has blue verified checkmark icons too 
• Google accounts now support passkeys for password-free sign-in

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