About this episode
The episode discusses the impact of AI on car design and development, featuring insights from Verge contributors on current tech news and trends.
Car companies are beginning to use AI tools to radically speed up their development process, which could change the cars we drive forever — and have some big effects on the people who make them now. Verge contributor Tim Stevens explains. Then, The Verge’s Hayden Field catches us up on Codex vs. Claude Code, Anthropic vs. the US government, the vibes at OpenAI, and more, before helping answer a question on the Vergecast Hotline (call 866-VERGE11 or email vergecast@theverge.com!) about whether all the recent tech layoffs are really about AI. Further reading: The AI-designed car is taking shape | The Verge Pentagon strikes classified AI deals with OpenAI, Google, and Nvidia — but not Anthropic Google employees ask Sundar Pichai to say no to classified military AI use | The Verge Anthropic’s new cybersecurity model could get it back in the government’s good graces | The Verge Microsoft and OpenAI’s famed AGI agreement is dead | The Verge Here’s how the new Microsoft and OpenAI deal breaks down | The Verge ChatGPT downloads are slowing — and may cause problems for OpenAI’s IPO | The Verge Claude can now plug directly into Photoshop, Blender, and Ableton | The Verge…
People in this episode
Guests: Tim Stevens, Hayden Field
Topics covered
- AI in automotive
- technology development
- AI tools
- tech layoffs
- government and AI
- OpenAI updates
Keywords
- AI-designed car
- tech layoffs
- OpenAI
- Anthropic
- Codex
- Claude Code
- automotive technology
- government AI deals
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, Nvidia, The Verge, Codex, Claude Code, Block
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