While Marques is away representing Team USA in China, Andrew and David hold down the fort and discuss all the tech news of the week! Topics range from a Microsoft x Croc collab to new Instagram rules around who is allowed to go live on. They close it out with show-and-tell, discussing new gadgets that they've really been enjoying lately. It's a fun one! Chapters 00:00 Intro 01:30 Microsoft x Crocs collab 05:14 YouTube collabs 13:20 New OpenAI open-weight models 24:01 Wix (Sponsored) 25:05 Nintendo Switch price hikes 34:56 Ghost 6.0 released 40:21 Instagram Live updates 46:09 Ad 46:34 Show and tell 01:11:39 Trivia answers Click this link for a free trial with Wix: https://bit.ly/463FEOW Links: Verge - Microsoft XP Crocs: https://www.theverge.com/microsoft/717965/microsoft-crocs-windows-xp-bliss-wallpaper-theme OpenAI - GPT-OSS: https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-oss/ Google - Pixel 10 AI Ad: https://youtu.be/ZR_6Z1IDD8s?si=JPzBjZIehjADeH0N TechCrunch - Instagram requires 1000 followers to go live: https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/01/instagram-now-requires-users-to-have-at-least-1000-followers-to-go-live/ A New Social: https://anew.social/ Gadgets we're loving: Peak Design Pro Tripod (Kickstarter): https://geni.us/X2rA3 seenda Mouse: https://geni.us/dmgVN MOVAS Tripod Stand: https://geni.us/li7M4 ⁠(Not Boring) Camera app: https://notbor.ing/product/camera Music provided by Epidemic Sound Shop the merch: https://shop.mkbhd.com Social: Waveform Threads: https://www.threads.net/@waveformpodcast Waveform Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/waveformpodcast/?hl=en Hosts: Marques: https://www.threads.net/@mkbhd Andrew: https://www.threads.net/@andrew_manganelli David: https://www.threads.net/@davidimel Adam: https://www.threads.net/@parmesanpapi17 Ellis: https://twitter.com/EllisRovin TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@waveformpodcast Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/mkbhd Music by 20syl: https://bit.ly/2S53xlC Waveform is part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.