We have had doubts about the Trump phone for a long time. Since its debut, the device – technically called the Trump Mobile T1 Phone 8002 – has seemed completely impossible to execute as advertised. The Trump Mobile team has also spent the last eight months rapidly moving the goalposts, changing specifications and making vague promises about whether the phone will be American-made. We have often wondered whether Trump even has a phone.
But This episode of The VergecastWe speak to one of the only people who has seen it. that person is The VergeDominic Preston, who has been covering Trump phones for months and who took a virtual look at the device last week. Dom joins the show to tell us about the surprise reveal, what we know now about the phone, and whether this thing is actually going to ship.
after this, The VergeHayden Field explains how OpenClaw and Moltbook together managed to capture so many Silicon Valley AI imaginations. OpenCL immediately seems like a big deal, a powerful and dangerous way to arm AI agents with all the access and knowledge they need to be truly useful. (And, again, really dangerous.) Moltbook, an apparently AI agent-only based on Reddit, seems like somewhat of a novelty. However, still, there Is It’s interesting to watch the bots interact with each other.
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