We’re now deep into developer conference season, and one of the themes so far is the relentless conviction from Big Tech companies that AI is going to change everything about how we do everything. Nvidia’s Jensen Huang made that clearer than anyone this week, when he described a completely new way of using our laptops — and a completely new kind of laptop made to support it. It’s all very interesting, but it raises the same question we have around so many AI products: Does anyone actually want this?
On this episode of The Vergecast, Nilay and David run through a lot of the products coming out of Microsoft Build and Google I/O, from Gemini Spark to the Nvidia RTX Spark to Microsoft’s Scout and Solara projects. AI agents are everywhere, doing everything, and we’re not exactly sure how to feel about it. Are we due for a complete re-think of our laptops, just so they can run AI models? Or is “more powerful laptop” enough to get the job done?
After that, it’s time for the Hype Desk, Brendan Carr is a Dummy, our thoughts about WWDC, and a deeply silly Meta hack.
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