The Vergecast
The Vergecast is the flagship podcast from The Verge about small gadgets, Big Tech, and everything in between. Every Friday, hosts Nilay Patel and David Pierce hang out and make sense of the week’s most important technology news. And every Tuesday, David leads a selection of The Verge’s expert staffers in an exploration of how gadgets and software affect our lives – and which ones you should bring into yours.
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Millions of books died so Claude could live
84 min
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Tim Cook is destroying his own legacy
90 min
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Truth and AI in Minneapolis
71 min
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The end of the Sony era in TVs
97 min
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How BYD beat Tesla
74 min
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Siri is a Gemini
95 min
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How Lego’s Smart Brick works
67 min
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Live from CES: What is the point of a robot tha...
61 min
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The robots, phones and Lego of CES 2026
88 min
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Version History: iPhone 4
69 min
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The Vergecast RAM Holiday Spec-Tacular
82 min
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Version History: Google Glass
81 min
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Brendan Carr is a dummy
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr did The Vergecast an enormous favor
121 min
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Everything is gambling now
73 min
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The end of OpenAI, and other 2026 predictions
Let's look ahead to 2026
56 min
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How to vibe-write a country hit
Charlie Harding, co-host of Switched on Pop, explains how AI is taking over country music
98 min
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2025 year in review
Nilay and David are joined by Wall Street Journal senior tech columnist Joanna Stern to debate the best products of the year
75 min
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A very human vision for going all-in on AI
50 min
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It's code red for ChatGPT
David and Nilay talk through why Sam Altman declared a code red inside of OpenAI
92 min
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Apple gadgets, ranked
The Verge's Victoria Song and Allison Johnson join David to rank Apple's nine product categories
70 min
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I just want AI to rename my photos
61 min
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The geek's guide to running faster
Nick Thompson, the CEO of The Atlantic, joins the show to talk about his lifelong journey as a runner
66 min
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Version History: Vine
77 min
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AI agents are invading your PC
David and Nilay discuss the ways Microsoft is pushing agents to practically every corner of Windows
89 min
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It's not your job to fix the internet
Cory Doctorow joins The Vergecast this week to help us figure out what to do about Enshitification
60 min