Rabbit’s adorable R1 gadget launched with a lot of hype, but early reviews of the device were universally bad. Now, a core feature, its long-promised LAM Playground has arrived. I had a lot of big questions for CEO Jesse Lyu about how it all works — not just technologically, but if his plans are sustainable from a business and legal perspective. 

Links: 

• Rabbit R1 review: an unfinished, unhelpful AI gadget | The Verge
• Loopholes aren’t a technology | Buzzfeed News (2012)
• I tested Rabbit R1's next generation LAM — and it tried to gaslight me | Tom’s Hardware
• I tried Rabbit's LAM Playground, and I'm still disappointed | Android Authority
• Rabbit's AI bot will try to help you do anything (keyword is 'try') | Fast Company
• Rabbit’s web-based ‘large action model’ agent arrives on R1 October 1 | TechCrunch
• Rabbit R1 founder defends “unfinished” AI gadget | City AM
• AI hardware is in its flip-phone phase | Fast Company
• The iPhone 16 will ship as a work in progress | The Verge
• Humane AI Pin review: Not even close | The Verge
• Marques Brownlee says ‘I hear you’ after fans criticize his new wallpaper app | The Verge

Transcript: https://www.theverge.com/e/24024222

Credits:

Decoder is a production of The Verge and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.

Our producers are Kate Cox and Nick Statt. Our editor is Callie Wright. Our supervising producer is Liam James.

The Decoder music is by Breakmaster Cylinder.

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