AGI is whatever you want it to be

On The Vergecast: Astra, Apple speculation, and an all-IFA lightning round.

OpenAI announced its next big model, GPT-6 Astra, and also, by the way, that “the AGI era” is here now.

Today on The Vergecast , we’ve got an all-star panel to break down the news of the week.

First, senior AI reporter Hayden Field joins us to talk about our supposed AGI era and Nvidia’s acquisition of Hugging Face.

Then, our friend Joanna Stern pops in to talk about new Apple CEO John Ternus, old Apple CEO Tim Cook, and most importantly, to speculate on the format of next week’s Apple keynote.

We wrap things up with a super-special lightning round from the IFA electronics show in Berlin. Senior reviewer Jennifer Pattison Tuohy and editor Dominic Preston each pick out the five most interesting gadgets they saw at the show.

And two more things: Vergecast producer Travis Larchuk pops in to tell his tale of identity theft woes and warn you that he isn’t the one DMing you on Twitter to ask you to be on The Vergecast . Plus, Brendan Carr is a dummy.

In case you missed it this week: David Imel talked to the CEO of Fairphone and had a lovely conversation with Victoria Song and Elizabeth Lopatto about what it means to be human. Plus, Lauren Feiner joined us to talk through her reporting on the data center capital of the world , and Jennifer Pattison Tuohy fired up the Vergecast Rank-o-Matic to run through the top Apple Home rumors ahead of next week’s keynote.