From The Verge.

Nilay and David talk a bit about this week’s launch of the Verge subscription, plus what’s coming next. Then they talk about the streaming news of the week, and the ways streaming services are continuing to act like cable companies. Then Kylie Robison joins to talk about the lowering stakes for AGI, shipmas at OpenAI, and more. Finally, in the lighting round, it’s crypto and browsers and Intel. And more crypto.

Further reading:

00:00 Intro
00:30 Verge Subscription Launch
12:56 Cable TV’s Comeback and Streaming Wars
34:29 Artificial Intelligence: The AGI Debate
36:03 OpenAI’s 12 Days of Shipmas
40:19 The Reality of AI Hallucinations
01:02:25 The Cloud Provider Showdown
01:04:08 OpenAI and Defense Contracts
01:05:09 Lockheed Martin’s Game Boy
01:06:06 Lightning Round: Bitcoin, Browsers, and Threads

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