GPT-5 is here, and it’s not going so well. This week on The Vergecast, Jake, Vee, and Hayden discuss the bumpy launch of OpenAI’s latest model and why GPT-5 isn’t as big of a leap as GPT-4.
Then, everyone shares their vibe coding projects and the bumpy journey to making anything usable. After that, our newest segment: Corporate Shenanigans, where we rate the week in strange corporate moves on a scale from “actually serious” to “total joke.”
Finally, the Thunder Round returns, new and improved, to discuss ditching your phone for a smartwatch, doctors relying too much on AI, AOL dial-up shutting down, the Pebble Time 2, and why you shouldn’t trust what AI chatbots say about themselves.
Further reading:
- ChatGPT won’t remove old models without warning after GPT-5 backlash
- OpenAI will update GPT-5’s “personality” after user backlash
- ChatGPT is bringing back 4o as an option because people missed it
- Sam Altman shared more about what went wrong with those GPT-5 graphs
- OpenAI gives some employees a ‘special’ multimillion-dollar bonus
- Anthropic just made its latest move in the AI coding wars
- Anthropic’s Claude chatbot can now remember your past conversations
- Perplexity offers to buy Google Chrome for $34.5 billion
- Apple is suing Apple Cinemas
- Apple Cinemas responds to Apple lawsuit
- Apple returns blood oxygen monitoring to the latest Apple Watches
- Elon Musk says he’s suing Apple for rigging App Store rankings
- Ditching my phone for an LTE smartwatch was a humbling experience
- Here’s a look at the final Pebble Time 2 design
- Some doctors got worse at detecting cancer after relying on AI
- Google’s healthcare AI made up a body part — what happens when doctors don’t notice?
- Chatbots aren’t telling you their secrets
- AOL is finally shutting down dial-up
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