Seriously, it’s like, why doesn’t everyone just make really great, beautiful, complicated, glorious games like Tears of the Kingdom? That and other super sophisticated questions, today on the show. (Plus a fun chat with Senator Ed Markey.)
Using AI to write emails for you. Dystopian? Useful? Who knows! Gmail and Outlook are both all-in, though. So is Spark: it just released +AI, an in-app assistant that can generate or edit emails for you.
Here’s my question: if I pick “Friendly tone,” does it just add an exclamation point to the end of all my sentences? Because I already do that too much!
I’m serious: I can’t wait to get a Telly. More screens, please! Also, we talked to Hank Green about the Montana TikTok ban (get well soon, Hank!) and talked through all the latest from the Supreme Court. Lots going on this week!
We’ve been covering Google’s ultra-high-end video conferencing rig for a while, and it’s really remarkable. MKBHD got to film the latest version of Starline, and gives you a good sense of why it works. (I got this same demo at Google I/O, and it’s genuinely even cooler than it looks here. Is it practical or realistic, will most people ever use it? Who knows! Maybe not! But holy crap is it cool.)
If you do, make sure you listen to our interview with Matt Johnson, who directed the movie and also plays Doug, the headband-wearing sidekick. We talked about his favorite and least-favorite tech movies, why BlackBerry lost to the iPhone, and why the world might still want and need something like it.
If you’re not planning to see the movie? You should. It’s great.
Fresh off the Google I/O keynote, we tried to make sense of what it all means — and whether the company’s relentless push toward AI is going to completely change the internet as we know it. Or at least make all your emails long and unreadable.
