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Meta's Muse AI agent is cute (sometimes caked-up) and it performs well as a productivity tool. And, if you give it access to your social media and e-mail, it can know basically everything about you. This week on The Vergecast, Nilay Patel, Jake Kastrenakes and David Imel give their reactions to Mark Zuckerberg's demos at Wednesday's Meta Connect keynote. They also talk about the new glasses hardware, including the new VR glasses and audio-only, camera-free Ray-Bans.

Then, we take a look at the newly-announced, chimeric Chrome/Android hybrid Googlebooks, find out why Brendan Carr is a dummy this week, analyze the Paramount merger, discuss what YouTube's A/B video testing means for the increasingly tenuous concept of a shared reality, and end on a surprisingly heartwarming story about RODECaster 4K support.

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00:00 Intro
00:39 Vergecast Welcome Back
01:24 Meta Connect Muse Takes Over
02:14 Trying Muse vs Privacy Fears
06:20 Pervert Glasses Debate
08:35 Phones Dont Have Light
13:31 Passive Surveillance Reality
16:19 Is Muse Actually A Hit
19:21 Muse Charm And Post Phone
22:15 What Would You Use It For
27:42 Meta Connect Hardware Roundup
27:59 Audio Only Ray Ban Glasses
30:17 Are The Demos Still Bad
32:12 Muse Makes Glasses Matter
32:42 Trust and Camera Concerns
33:44 Hearing Aid Angle
35:56 VR Glasses Return
37:43 Better Than Vision Pro
40:21 Holograms and Scanning Questions
42:53 Gaussian Splatting Craze
44:00 Google Books Arrive
46:14 Android Laptop Lock In
48:48 Windows Fatigue and Alternatives
51:56 App Ecosystem Reality Check
56:11 Hype Desk Blade Drama
01:02:01 Blade Reboot Brainstorm
01:05:43 Brendan Carr is a Dummy
01:07:27 FCC Broadband Permit Fight
01:10:25 Lightning Round Kickoff
01:10:39 Muse Mascot Butt Tweets
01:12:03 Paramount Warner Merger Fallout
01:15:13 YouTube AI Channel Agent
01:16:41 A B Testing Whole Videos
01:24:04 Xbox Layoffs And Halo Shift
01:27:21 RODECaster Free 4K Update
01:29:17 Muse Marketplace Haggling
01:30:11 Wrap Up

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20 Comments

@stephworldwide 9 days ago

The fact that David along with half of the staff didn’t even want to try it makes me feel better about also not even wanting to try using Muse lol

@samiamiam11 9 days ago

0:58 yes keep David! Love him there.

@An_Professional 9 days ago

Success for meta is a product launch that doesn’t immediately have Zuck testifying before congress.

@m1cr0k3rn3l 8 days ago

It's simple, I see David Imel in a Verge video, I click. Please don't him leave.

@mikebennewitz 9 days ago (edited)

The video of David saying the glass’s light isn’t that noticeable is perfect because his frames have a silver bit in that same spot that keeps flashing reflections from the studio light, which if I wasn’t thinking about the recording light, would have been subliminal. The slowly blinking white recording light could easily be read as one of those reflective bits with a bit of distance.

@DennisLofgren 9 days ago

Thanks for the 35 Sonos ads lol.

@JonathanPalfrey 9 days ago

I agree with David. As clever as what muse can do how often do you actually need those features that can’t already be done on a phone.

@jakelamc1 9 days ago

Thank you, David for saying what I’ve been thinking. Yes, some of this agent stuff is cool. I don’t really need any of these things. I have not had any of these issues needing to be solved by agents. Very much a problem that did not need to be solved.

@pradeepkumar-sf4fx 9 days ago

Again! David is everywhere, Hi David.

@renanholand 8 days ago

David please stay but PLEASE don’t leave mkbhd!! We want you in both forever thank you

@lazyboyghrol 9 days ago

I'm just saying, the best brand for an autonomous AI agent has to be Ask Jeeves. It's time to bring it back.

@TheOfficialLeza 9 days ago

The Muse puck/charm screams teens and kids which is just wild with all the recent legal losses specifically related to kids

@nickthane 9 days ago

Differentiating the Blade movies is easy - in the second the villain was one half of 80s teen pop sensation Bros and the third has the Cat from Red Dwarf in it

@huntercaron 9 days ago

i’m not sure why but maybe i’m coming back around to SONOS™

@secksworker 9 days ago

i need my emotional support david

@AndreVandal 8 days ago

So David is being hired permanently? Interesting, wonder what this does with his MKBHD gig

@ParaSocial_Media_Me 9 days ago

What’s it going to take for us to get Sonos to make a party speaker exclusively for Vergecast use?!?

@4playsure 9 days ago

48:06 "Useless" is not an overstatement here, because the Macbook is still a standalone designed notebook, but the Googlebook is the extension of your 1 grand Android flagship. It's like opening the inside screen ofyour folding phone. Instead of paying 2 grand for a Z fold, you choose to buy an android flagship AND a Googlebook.