Tesla's Robo-Taxi Rethink

Nilay and David talk about the week in gadget news, after scoring their predictions on last week's Tesla event. (Spoiler alert: nobody did very well.) They talk about the new iPad Mini, the new Sonos Ace Ultra soundbar, and the new Analogue N64 emulator. Then Amazon's Panos Panay joins the show to discuss this week's big Kindle news, and where he thinks the future of e-readers is headed. Finally, Nilay and David do a lightning round, with a lot of Google org chart news and just a little bit of Trump news.

Further reading:

• The Optimus robots at Tesla’s Cybercab event were humans in disguise
• The Tesla Cybercab is a cool-looking prototype that needed to be much more than that
• Tesla’s Robovan is the surprise of the night
• Apple just announced a new, faster iPad Mini 
• AMD and Intel are teaming up to fend off ARM chips
• Sonos announces ‘breakthrough’ Arc Ultra soundbar and Sub 4 
• Analogue’s 4K Nintendo 64 launches next year for $249
• Amazon’s new Kindle family includes the first color Kindle
• Amazon’s Kindle Colorsoft Signature Edition hands-on: color E Ink looks pretty good
• Amazon Kindle Scribe 2024: a new design and AI tools for note takers
• Amazon’s new Kindle and Kindle Paperwhite are faster and brighter
• Amazon discontinues the last Kindle with physical buttons 
• Google is replacing the exec in charge of Search and ads
• Here’s a bunch of bananas shit Trump said today about breaking up Google
• Trump says Tim Cook called him to complain about the European Union
• Anthropic’s CEO thinks AI will lead to a utopia — he just needs a few billion dollars first 
• The New York Times warns AI search engine Perplexity to stop using its content

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