Now we have lengthy had our doubts in regards to the Trump Cellphone. Since its very first debut, the system — technically known as the Trump Cellular T1 Cellphone 8002 — has appeared utterly impossible to execute as marketed. The Trump Cellular crew has additionally spent the final eight months quickly shifting the goalposts, altering specs and making increasingly vague promises in regards to the telephone being American-made. We’ve questioned many occasions if there may be even a Trump Cellphone in any respect.
On this episode of The Vergecast, we discuss to one of many only people who has seen one. That individual is The Verge’s Dominic Preston, who has been overlaying the Trump Cellphone for months and who received a digital have a look at the system final week. Dom joins the present to inform us in regards to the shocking reveal, what we all know now in regards to the telephone itself, and whether or not this factor is definitely going to ship.
After that, The Verge’s Hayden Field explains how OpenClaw and Moltbook managed to concurrently seize so many Silicon Valley AI imaginations. OpenClaw feels like an immediately big deal, a robust and harmful method to put AI brokers to work with all of the entry and data they have to be actually helpful. (And, once more, actually harmful.) Moltbook, an ostensibly AI agent-only take on Reddit, appears just a little extra like a novelty. Nonetheless, although, there is one thing fascinating about watching the bots work together with each other.
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