By now licensing its Horizon OS to Lenovo, Asus, and others, Meta wants to be for headsets what Microsoft was for PCs. An interesting move with Apple now in the space. History repeats itself. theverge.com/2024/4/22/2413…

Big Technology Friday Pod: Meta's Llama 3 launch, Google's culture shift, and MKBHD vs. Humane w/ Alex Heath podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/big…

I asked Mark Zuckerberg about how Meta got Google search results into its AI assistant theverge.com/2024/4/18/2413…

another Twitter/X rival bites the dust post.news/@/noam/2fJw4PY…

'I think the really shocking thing was seeing 28 employees fired here. I've been covering tech for a long time, you see these selective firings, but you don't see something that's like 28... that was to send a message,' says Alex Heath on Google firing employees for protesting.

hell hath frozen?

The first rule of AI club is not disclosing how you trained the AI: “Meta gets hand-wavy when I ask for specifics on the data used for training Llama 3.” Alex Heath theverge.com/2024/4/18/2413…

we are so back?

I've been wanting to do this story for years and am thrilled it's finally out: inside the surprisingly small, highly specialized industry that repairs the internet cables on the bottom of the ocean theverge.com/c/24070570/int…

I missed the Hippocratic oath part of j-school

Adam Neumann just launched a new real estate company and I just got invited to a buzzy, audio-only social networking app. What year are we in?

Reviews of Humane's AI pin have been unsparing.

'at The Verge, our longstanding rule is that we review what’s in the box, never the promise of future updates, and right now, it’s inexcusable that this stuff doesn’t work on a device that costs as much as the AI Pin does.'

Spoke with The Verge Deputy Editor Alex Heath on the Generative Now pod this week. It was great to get the perspective of one of the world's top tech journalists on the state of AI (and how that compares to startup founders, VCs, etc).

We talked about:

• Alex's covering of the