Nilay and David talk a bit about this week’s launch of the Verge subscription, plus what’s coming next. (There’s still time to send questions for next week! 866-VERGE11 or email vergecast@theverge.com.) 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:

Here we go: The Verge now has a subscription

ESPN is coming to the Disney Plus app starting today

Max is testing always-on HBO channels

Max is finally about to start cracking down on password sharing.

Walmart bought Vizio 

OpenAI’s 12 days of ‘shipmas’ include Sora and new reasoning model

Sam Altman says AGI will “matter much less” than people expect

Sam Altman on Elon Musk and OpenAI’s relationship with Microsoft.

ChatGPT’s search results for news are ‘unpredictable’ and frequently inaccurate

Stop using generative AI as a search engine

Misinformation expert admits ChatGPT added fake details to his anti-deepfake court filing

Bitcoin just hit $100,000 

Dia is the The Browser Company’s AI-powered follow-up to Arc

Threads takes an important baby step toward true fediverse integration

Threads’ next update is a search feature that finds the post you’re looking for

Meta says it’s mistakenly removing too many posts 

Intel’s CEO is out after only three years

What happened to Intel?

Trump picks two nominees who could decide the fate of Big Tech and crypto 

Spotify Wrapped 2024 adds an AI podcast to recap your listening habits

Apple Music’s yearly recap is finally available in the app


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