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Inside the early days of the AI revolution

aired Oct 27, 2026 · 51.0m
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Summary

I'm your friend David Pierce, and today on the show, we're going into the early days of the AI industry to figure out what those first true believers got right and what they got wrong.

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Key takeaways
  1. 01Hello and welcome to The Verge Cast, the flagship podcast of Digital Jesus
  2. 02And Anduril, Palmer Luckey's military tech company, announced plans to make a line of laptops called Blue Chip in partnership with Qualcomm
  3. 03Meanwhile, OpenAI last night announced its models have made three quote-unquote major new discoveries in math, computer science, and physics
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