Category: Gear / Gadget Lab Podcast

This week, we talk about the new iPhone 16 and its many AI tricks. Some of them are impressive, some of them are meh, all of them are very Apple.

This week: Google’s new photo manipulation tools produce some convincing results, but how much of this unreality are we supposed to stomach?

This week, we talk about the current trend of Big Tech acqui-hiring key talent from smaller AI companies.

This week, we examine the trend among generative AI chatbots to flirt, stammer, and try to make us believe they’re human—a development that some researchers say crosses an ethical line.

This week, we talk about how content on the open web is being used to train AI-powered search tools, and how content publishers are fighting to reverse this trend.

This week, we discuss how Apple’s approach to artificial intelligence differs from those of its rivals. Hint: It goes deeper than Genmoji.

This week, we discuss the bumpy first few weeks of Google’s AI-powered summaries, and why the new feature is making us sweat.

This week, we talk about the rocky rollout of Google’s Gemini image generator, and some internal tensions recently reported by company employees.

This week we chart the rise of Nvidia, the company whose chips, servers, and data centers have fueled the growth of artificial intelligence.