Nostalgia Meets Code

GPT-5 is here, and it’s not going so well. This week on The Vergecast, Jake, Vee, and Hayden discuss the bumpy launch of OpenAI’s latest model and why GPT-5 isn’t as big of a leap as GPT-4.

Then, everyone shares their vibe coding projects and the bumpy journey to making anything usable. After that, our newest segment: Corporate Shenanigans, where we rate the week in strange corporate moves on a scale from “actually serious” to “total joke.”

Finally, the Thunder Round returns, new and improved, to discuss ditching your phone for a smartwatch, doctors relying too much on AI, AOL dial-up shutting down, the Pebble Time 2, and why you shouldn’t trust what AI chatbots say about themselves.

Further reading:

• ChatGPT won’t remove old models without warning after GPT-5 backlash
• OpenAI will update GPT-5’s “personality” after user backlash
• ChatGPT is bringing back 4o as an option because people missed it
• Sam Altman shared more about what went wrong with those GPT-5 graphs
• OpenAI gives some employees a ‘special’ multimillion-dollar bonus
• Anthropic just made its latest move in the AI coding wars
• Anthropic’s Claude chatbot can now remember your past conversations
• Perplexity offers to buy Google Chrome for $34.5 billion
• Apple is suing Apple Cinemas
• Apple Cinemas responds to Apple lawsuit
• Apple returns blood oxygen monitoring to the latest Apple Watches
• Elon Musk says he’s suing Apple for rigging App Store rankings
• Ditching my phone for an LTE smartwatch was a humbling experience
• Here’s a look at the final Pebble Time 2 design 
• Some doctors got worse at detecting cancer after relying on AI
• Google’s healthcare AI made up a body part — what happens when doctors don’t notice?
• Chatbots aren’t telling you their secrets
• AOL is finally shutting down dial-up

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