This is your laptop… on AI

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 S …

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