Reimagining Smart Home Control with Amazon Echo Hub

The Verge's Nilay Patel, Alex Cranz, and David Pierce discuss ChatGPT and Gemini updates, Walmart acquiring Vizio, Apple's Sports app, and more.

Further reading:

• Google cut a deal with Reddit for AI training data
• Google apologizes for ‘missing the mark’ after Gemini generated racially diverse Nazis 
• Google’s open-source Gemma AI models draw from the research behind Gemini
• ChatGPT spat out gibberish for many users overnight before OpenAI fixed it
• One month with Microsoft’s AI vision of the future: Copilot Pro
• Gemini, Gemma, Goose. 
• OpenAI can’t register ‘GPT’ as a trademark — yet
• Artificial investment
• Walmart to acquire Vizio in $2.3 billion deal
• Echo Hub review: a simple, customizable smart home control panel
• Samsung details a host of audio upgrades coming to its phones, tablets, and TVs
• Apple says the iPhone 15’s battery got better — but won’t say how
• Rice is not included in Apple’s official guidance for a wet phone
• One of the last small-ish Android phones looks like it's going the way of the iPhone Mini 
• OnePlus is getting back into the smartwatch game
• The Garmin Forerunner 165 could be a great budget running watch 
• Sony’s PlayStation Portal hacked to run emulated PSP games
• Framework is selling a cheap modular laptop 
• Wyze says camera breach let 13,000 customers briefly see into other people’s homes
• Apple launches Apple Sports app with scores and betting odds 
• Apple is already defending iMessage against tomorrow’s quantum computing attacks 
• IBM quantum computing updates: System Two and Heron
• Microsoft and Intel strike a custom chip manufacturing deal
• Rivian says it is laying off 10 percent of its workforce as EV woes deepen
• Ford slashes Mustang Mach-E prices again as EV price war enters its second year

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