Today on the flagship podcast of peer-to-peer wireless networking: David Pierce talks with smart home reviewer Jennifer Pattison Tuohy about Amazon’s network of smart home devices called Sidewalk and the state of Matter, the promised smart home standard. Monica Chin brings six laptops to Times Square in New York City to test out the microphones. Tom Warren joins the show to explain how AI is being integrated into Microsoft’s products, which may be more promising than Bing’s chatbot. Further reading: Amazon just opened up its Sidewalk network for anyone to build connected gadgets on: http://bit.ly/3mfiv7E Microsoft’s new Copilot will change Office documents forever: http://bit.ly/3mfiK2y Microsoft Security Copilot is a new GPT-4 AI assistant for cybersecurity: http://bit.ly/438Kzu4 Vote for us in the People’s Choice Webby Awards for Best Technology Podcast!: https://vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting#/2023/podcasts/general-series/technology The Vergecast Podcast: https://pod.link/430333725 Decoder with Nilay Patel: http://apple.co/3v29nDc More about our podcasts: https://www.theverge.com/podcasts Shop The Verge's merch here: https://shop.theverge.com/ Like The Verge on Facebook: https://goo.gl/2P1aGc Follow on Twitter: https://goo.gl/XTWX61 Follow on Instagram: https://goo.gl/7ZeLvX Read More: http://www.theverge.com Community guidelines: http://bit.ly/2D0hlAv Wallpapers from The Verge: https://bit.ly/2xQXYJr Follow on Twitter: http://goo.gl/XTWX61 Follow on Instagram: http://goo.gl/7ZeLvX Listen to our podcasts: https://www.theverge.com/podcasts Read More: http://www.theverge.com