Microsoft is in its AI PC era | The Vergecast

The Verge’s Tom Warren and David Pierce discuss the announcements from Microsoft’s Surface event, including the new Arm-powered Surface Laptop, and Copilot Plus PCs.

Verge senior AI reporter Kylie Robison joins the show to chat about OpenAI’s GPT-4o demo and where we’re headed in the next few years of AI.

Nilay Patel answers a question about iPads for this week’s Vergecast Hotline.

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00:00 - Intro
02:00 - Microsoft’s AI Surface event w/Tom Warren
03:41 - Copilot Plus PCs
11:48 - Surface Pro and Surface Laptop details
23:41 - OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4o event w/Kylie Robison
33:33 - OpenAI vs Google I/O demos
38:18 - The Future of AI hardware
40:31 - What’s the tea on OpenAI and Apple?
51:15- What if Apple made a touchscreen Macbook (Vergecast Hotline)

[aishx]

There seems to be a video issue. Green screen flickering - 7:46

[diegofpsouza]

We need to talk about federated learning on Recall. Nowadays, whenever a big tech talks about "encrypted data", "running locally", "we can't see your data", "nothing is sent", and "for your privacy", they likely mean they will still use your most sensitive data to train their models through federated learning.

[shard]

Please bring video version of these podcasts also...

[thomasraven]

Kylie is a great addition to the team. Welcome, Kylie!

[MorbidGod]

16:26 the MacBook Air has been the golden standard of a good laptop every since it came out.

[brandonreed]

I wish there was some consistency between when Vergecast is just audio and when it video. Perhaps changing up the name.

[connorhughes]

Phew... I thought the vergecast was going to be streamed from the hot tub for a sec...

[doomolit]

Whats with the green screen flickering thing?

[gregorygeorge]

This podcast is making me unironically watch the Verge. Wild times.

[brandonreed]

The real time translation was also quite impressive at the OpenAI demo.

[ThreeBeingOne]

Sunny days in Seattle are a big deal genuinely ❤

[tonymars.official]

Every Windows laptop I’ve tried in recent years (and I’ve tried many high-end devices as a technology advisor) can’t seem to keep audio and video streams in sync when using Bluetooth headphones. I’d love to know if this longstanding problem with Windows is resolved with these new Surface ARM devices. Could you touch on this in the full review?

[human_shaped]

I suspect with all the huge numbers of people re-watching Her right now, the studios and ScarJo have made plenty of money to cover the short term use of something a little bit similar.

[aaronrdomanais]

isn't the 5th generation also without number? the surface pro

[mukeshangrish]

We need to talk about how Apple doesn’t add any other input methods (like touch or stylus) to the Mac because that will harm the iPad sales. And now since Surface Pro is getting a comparable hardware to both the Macbook and iPad, it is going to make it more compelling for MacOS to have touch support.
Keep the iPad as it is, but let the Mac evolve if it can

[cadkoger]

Wait, you're not podding from the hot tub? You could even do the whole, "too hot in the hot tub!"

[SimonMason]

Am I the only one who doesn't think the voices sound the identical? Really easy to tell them apart.

[jsonlee]

My birthday is a couple of days after Christmas so this year I moved my birthday to be the same day as Father’s Day so my family doesn’t have to buy me double presents at the end of the year and they can cover birthday and father’s day in one shot.

[DixonLu]

Co-pilot (watching your every move) is the great great great descendant of Clippy.

[Aristotel]

All I hear is these words: it feels like it is like i mean it feels like...