Terrence O'Brien
Snazzy Labs got their Trump Phone preorder and it’s a disaster.
Quinn Nelson is one of the lucky (?) few to actually get their hands on the T1. The Trump Mobile emails kept going to spam, the site is broken, and a customer service agent asked for his password over the phone. Spoiler: Things didn’t get better once he turned it on.
Terrence O'Brien
Former Andreessen Horowitz partner John O’Farrell says his colleagues are trying to buy our democracy.
In a New York Times op-ed, the venture capitalist accused his Silicon Valley colleagues of using their vast wealth to shut down debate around regulating AI. He says there needs to be a conversation about how to use AI to benefit all of society, not just the wealthy few.
A.I. is not just another technology. It could drive productivity to new heights while automating away work for millions. It could find a cure for cancer, while accelerating biological risks we’re not prepared for. It could transform how our children learn, while leaving them unable to tell real from fake. It could concentrate economic power in ways that would make the Gilded Age look quaint.
On Version History: What the Harmony remote got right, why it never got everything right, and whether we still need one today.
David Pierce
Thomas Ricker
CEO Andy Jassy spoke with officials about security concerns shortly before the export control directive.
Terrence O'Brien
Charles Pulliam-Moore
The vintage gaming collectibles market keeps getting more ridiculous.
Terrence O'Brien
Terrence O'Brien
Gore Verbinski says we need an AI “rating system” for movies.
The director of Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die says he’s not totally against AI and wouldn’t fault a young indie filmmaker for turning to it if they couldn’t otherwise afford to create a key portion of a film. But he is concerned about its impact. According to Variety, saying:
You almost need a rating system. If you use AI to write a script, you get an F. What people are most afraid of is that there is no transparency. People are afraid of what is real and what isn’t.”
Nothing is imminent, but nothing is off the table.
Terrence O'Brien
The over-ears improve on an already excellent set of features with lossless audio over USB-C and longer battery life.
Sheena Vasani
Antonio G. Di Benedetto
Terrence O'Brien
Gene Shalit, the pun-loving film critic dies at 100.
An export control directive citing national security concerns required blocking access for all foreign nationals.
Terrence O'Brien
Plus, in this week’s Installer: Spielberg’s latest flick, Anthropic’s latest model, a new way to group chat, and much more.
David Pierce
You can finish the whole quest in a little over an hour.
Jay Peters
Charles Pulliam-Moore
Roughly 140 tons of Steam Machines should be in the US now, too.
Sean Hollister
Richard Lawler
SpaceX reportedly rented out Colossus 1 AI data center after it ran into latency issues.
While SpaceX plans satellite-based AI servers, Bloomberg reports it ran into trouble trying to develop and run Grok AI in Memphis, citing unnamed sources. They claim that deals renting capacity to Anthropic ($15 billion annually) and Google ($920 million per month) happened following hardware variation and lag issues:
Elon Musk’s company had planned to train its most cutting-edge AI models on a massive amount of computing power by using a cluster of three data center campuses. However, the firm encountered latency issues when connecting Colossus 1 with two other sites located more than 10 miles away, the people said, compounded by aging network infrastructure.
With RAM getting more expensive, Carl Pei says holiday discounts probably won’t be the same this year.
Stevie Bonifield
Victoria Song
My mayor’s Muslim, my bagel’s Jewish, my heart rate’s fried, KNICKS IN FIVE!
Oura says New Yorkers’ hearts were palpitating on Wednesday night during Game 4. Turns out, baseline heart rates increased by 3.7 beats on average at the final buzzer. Heart rates were also elevated for the entirety of the game, and nobody seemed to get a peaceful night of sleep. Guessing we’re in for more of the same on Saturday.
Elon Musk’s empire of wealth is built on suffering.
TC Sottek
Sean Hollister
DJI and Insta360 are suing each other over baby steadicams.
Stevie Bonifield
Spotify’s first editor videos for New Music Friday are here.
Spotify’s bringing its editor commentary from The Drop Weekly to its New Music Friday playlist, so you can hear from the playlist’s curators about why they picked some of their weekly new release highlights. This week they’re spotlighting Olivia Rodrigo, Ayra Starr, ANOTR, Adéla, and Emei.
Image: Spotify
On The Vergecast: Our first days with Siri AI, the next phase of social networks, and the Trump Phone’s a ripoff.
David Pierce
That kind of wealth is inconceivable, but we tried to make sense of it anyway.
Jess Weatherbed
110 years after John D. Rockefeller became the world’s first billionaire.
Stevie Bonifield
Emma Roth
Meta is donating its AI glasses to the more than 130,000 blind veterans in the US.
Richard Lawler
SPCX opens at $150 per share.
As reported by CNBC, the New York Times, and others, trading commenced at a price 11 percent above the $135 IPO price, but lower than the $175 shown in some earlier indications. It’s already spiked as high as $167, before falling back to $155. As long as the share price remains above $138, that is enough to make Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire.
It also gives SpaceX a market cap of over $2 trillion, making it currently the 6th most valuable public company in the US.
It’s a midrange Android phone, alright.
Allison Johnson
Stevie Bonifield
“I shouldn’t have half a billion subscribers.”
Who agrees with him?
Emma Roth
Nothing in Best Buy.
If you’re in the US, you can now find the Nothing Phone 4A Pro, Phone 3, Headphone A, and Ear 3 in person at over 500 Best Buy stores across the country, giving you a chance to toy around with the devices before you buy one.
Stevie Bonifield
Lewis Hamilton’s group chat is “50/50” on the Ferrari Luce.
While talking to the press ahead of a race in Barcelona this weekend, Hamilton said his friends’ reaction to the Luce was “mixed, like you see on social media.” “Mixed” is definitely one word for the online reaction to Ferrari’s new EV, which attracted a wave of memes and criticism over its design.
Plus, we found deals on JBL’s portable Charge 6 speaker and a great Android-friendly Bluetooth tracker.
Sheena Vasani
SPCX stock started trading on Friday, June 12th.
Stevie Bonifield
Andrew J. Hawkins
Ford’s $30K electric truck could be smaller than a Maverick.
The Autopian spotted the highly anticipated EV in Long Beach this week. Although it was heavily camouflaged, the outlet was able to estimate its measurements to be around 64-inches tall and about 195-inches long, which would make it a little smaller than a Ford Maverick. That’s extremely interesting to me as a person who thinks most trucks today are way too big for their britches. Sure, it’s no kei truck, but for Ford, it’s practically microscopic. Bring on the baby trucks!
Prometheus will develop AI-powered engineering tools for robotics, drug design, manufacturing, and more.
Emma Roth
The world’s richest man just took his rocket company public in the world’s biggest IPO.
Andrew J. Hawkins
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