Massive Verizon outage & More Al Chaos! | Brief

About this episode

The episode covers a range of technology news including a major Verizon outage and various updates on tech products and companies.

Hello everyone and welcome to our new short-form news coverage! We will be doing these episodes in weeks where we just don't have enough news to make a podcast. Please give us your feedback on this! Anyway, today we went over the massive Verizon outage, the iPhone 18 Pro's 5G satellite connectivity rumor, OpenAl's wearable Al device, Nvidia's new Arm chip leaked, Sony sold 51% of their TV company to TLC, Windows 11 bugs, an update on the Spotify piracy case, Apple's creator experience, TSMC raising prices on Apple, and ads in ChatGPT!

People in this episode

Hosts: Sterling, Danny

Topics covered

• Verizon outage
• iPhone rumors
• OpenAI devices
• Nvidia chip
• Sony sale
• Windows bugs
• Spotify case

Keywords

• Verizon
• iPhone 18 Pro
• OpenAI
• Nvidia
• Sony
• Windows 11
• Spotify
• Apple
• TSMC
• ChatGPT

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Verizon, OpenAI, Nvidia, Sony, TLC, Windows 11, Spotify, Apple, TSMC

Products: iPhone 18 Pro, ChatGPT

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