Thu. 03/11 – The Roblox Debut

Dario Amodei called for pacing frontier AI development, endorsed by Sam Altman and Elon Musk, Netflix, Amazon, and YouTube launched a streaming lobbying alliance, Anthropic told investors it's profitable again, and experts flagged legal risk in Apple Watch's always-listening feat ...  Show more

Anthropic detailed how it disrupted AI misuse for cyberattacks, surveillance, and bioweapons research, OpenAI paused new ChatGPT Pro signups amid Astra demand, AI assistant Instinct sought $1B in new funding, and IDScan confirmed its driver's-license breach. Anthropic publishes a ...  Show more

The Verge's Nilay Patel, Dieter Bohn, Alex Cranz, and Sean O'Kane discuss electric vehicle startup Rivian becoming a publicly traded company after executing one of the biggest initial public offerings in history. The crew also cover multiple stories about Apple from this week, Mi ...  Show more

Timestamps: 0:00 godspeed, tech news fan 0:10 Nvidia's $2 trillion, new Nvidia App 2:00 Gemini image gen, Stable Diffusion 3 4:10 Reddit's IPO, AI deal with Google 6:04 QUICK BITS INTRO 6:14 Vision Pro glass cracks 7:04 iPhone 15 battery twice as good 8:02 Vending machines with f ...  Show more

Today we talk about a company that might make it a little easier to get your kids interested in investing -- Roblox! The company is behind an immersive world and game development platform that's wildly popular with kids under 13. We talk about the company that has built itself ar ...  Show more

Nilay Patel and Dieter Bohn talk to Verge deputy editor Elizabeth Lopatto about the NFT craze from the past few weeks and explains how the transactions work. Verge deputy editor Dan Seifert joins the show for a gadget roundup — from the Asus ROG phone 5 review to the new Sonos Ro ...  Show more