A Dive into 'Smashing the State' and Game Show Gaming Narratives

There's a lot of news this week, so today's episode turned into a whole bunch of lightning rounds. Nilay, David, and The Verge's Jake Kastrenakes talk through all the vibes and news at WWDC, and why F1 seemed to outshine everything else. We also talk about the Switch 2 launch, and the news this week that Microsoft and Asus are building Xbox handhelds in both clever and confusing ways. After that, we run through for a bunch of AI news, including the ongoing decline of Google traffic to the web, the new Dia browser, and Sam Altman's ideas about how much water ChatGPT uses. Finally, it's time for another edition of Brendan Carr is a Dummy, followed by the news of Warner Bros. Discovery breaking up, some very fast flash drives, and a new Meta messaging app.

Further reading:

• Craig Federighi confirms Apple’s first attempt at an AI Siri wasn’t good enough

• Ars: Apple’s Craig Federighi on the long road to the iPad’s Mac-like multitasking

• Nintendo’s Switch 2 is the fastest-selling game console of all time 

• Nintendo says your bad Switch 2 battery life might be a bug

• Microsoft and Asus announce two Xbox Ally handhelds with new Xbox full-screen experience

• This is how Microsoft is combining Windows and Xbox for handheld PCs 

• Xbox’s new handheld is a surprisingly comfortable way to play Gears of War 

• Microsoft just teased its next-gen Xbox console, and nobody noticed

• The Nothing Phone 3 is coming to the US, and not in beta.

• HP reveals $24,999 hardware created just for Google Beam 

  • Online publishers are facing a chatbot calamity. 

  • Disney and Universal sue Midjourney for making AI ripoffs of their biggest characters 

  • Taboola’s clickbaity chumbox is evolving into an AI chatbot 

  • Alexa Plus now has a million users and could be coming to you this summer 

  • Amazon is about to be flooded with AI-generated video ads

    Dia, the AI browser from the makers of Arc, is now available in beta 

    Sam Altman claims an average ChatGPT query uses ‘roughly one fifteenth of a teaspoon’ of water

  FCC’s last Democratic commissioner doesn’t know why Trump hasn’t fired her yet

  
  

  • Republicans are barreling toward remaking the internet 

  • Trump-fired FTC commissioner resigns. 

  
  Warner Bros. Discovery is splitting into two companies
  

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