David Pearce

It's called the Cash App Wand, and it's an NFC-enabled, star-topped wand that you can use to make on-the-go payments just by tapping.

There's a big DIY trend here of people making things that are more fun to tap and pay with than a credit card or like your watch or your phone.

I think it's incredibly charming.

I love the Cash App is doing this.

It's $25 and apparently there are more of these app tags to come.

I'm excited about it.

You can read more about all of this at theverge.com.

That is 90 Seconds on the Verge for June 4th.

All right, let's get into Build and Microsoft's big plans for Windows, AI, and the future of pretty much absolutely everything.

Joining me, Tom Warren, who was at Build all week from San Francisco.

You're at Build.

You've been doing the Build thing all week.

Tell me about the vibes.

I remember last year's Build, weird vibes.

Everybody was very angry, protests interrupting things.

This one seems like it's been a little more sane in a certain way, a little more straightforward from Microsoft's perspective.

I get the definite sense Microsoft is trying to use this year's build to sort of stake its claim in the AI universe.

There's a lot of stuff going on and I want to get into some of it, but I'm curious what your sort of big picture takeaway is in terms of like, what does Microsoft want to be in a world filled with AI?

Let's start with the AI stuff because I think this question of can Microsoft be the fourth big player in this space, right?

Obviously, it's Google DeepMind, Anthropic, and OpenAI.