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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The high stakes for AI Alexa
Friend of The Verge (and Waveform co-host) David Imel joins Nilay and David to talk all about Alexa Plus, and the AI-powered voice assistant Amazon thinks can do everything
113 min
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We can’t quit electric cars — or robotaxis
The Verge's Andy Hawkins joins the show to talk about the goings-on in the transportation industry, including the reasons car makers are slowing down on EV production
68 min
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The ups and downs of the iPhone 16E
David, Jake Kastrenakes, and Allison Johnson start by talking about the iPhone 16E, which is both the cheapest compelling iPhone in a long time and a deeply odd addition to Apple's phone lineup.
104 min
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Can Meta still make the metaverse?
We chat with The Verge's Alex Heath about all things Meta
67 min
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Elon Musk: agent of chaos
The Verge's Lauren Feiner joins to catch us up on what's happening with DOGE, how Musk and co. are making boring government information into something deeply fascinating and deeply confusing
103 min
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What $200 of ChatGPT is really worth
The Verge's Kylie Robison joins the show to talk about ChatGPT's big new features, Operator and deep research, both of which promise to make the chatbot more useful and more autonomous
76 min
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Elon Musk's computer coup
Nilay, David, and Richard Lawler take on a big week in confusing news stories
94 min
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Samsung’s S25 Ultra and the end of the flagship...
Today on the show, it’s all about the future of phones… and your data
79 min
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How DeepSeek crashed the AI party
Nilay and David dig into the week's biggest story: the new Intel-powered Surface Pro. Kidding! They talk about DeepSeek
98 min
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A lazy person’s guide to getting in shape
The Verge’s Victoria Song joins the show to talk about the most popular and most-bailed-on New Year’s Resolution of all: getting in shape.
83 min
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Samsung's thin, big, boring AI phones
Nilay, David, and The Verge's Allison Johnson run down all the biggest news from the latest Samsung Unpacked.
92 min
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How the future of sports streaming died
Sportico's Jacob Feldman joins the show to talk about Venu, the much-hyped streaming service that planned to bring all sports into a single platform
85 min
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Nintendo's Switch 2 is here — sort of
David Pierce and Richard Lawler are joined by The Verge's Ash Parrish and Andrew Webster to talk about the Nintendo Switch 2 launch
88 min
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The TikTok ban, and what comes next
Lauren Feiner joins the show to discuss last week's Supreme Court arguments over the ban, why things don't look good for TikTok
84 min
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CES 2025: the biggest stories and best gadgets ...
In this special live episode of The Vergecast, from the Brooklyn Bowl in Las Vegas, it's time to talk CES.
73 min
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A Vergecast holiday re-run marathon
We compiled a bunch of our favorite Vergecast segments and moments from this year — a full six hours of them!
383 min
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The Vergecast Matter Holiday Spec-tacular
The Verge's Jennifer Pattison Tuohy joins to discuss the state of the smart home, before we play a game to see how well we understand things.
109 min
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Gemini, GTA, and the search for the next big thing
The Verge's Victoria Song and Kylie Robison join the show to talk about all of Google's recent AI and XR announcements
91 min
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Tech in 2025: who's in and who's out
For the second episode in our two-part 2025 preview, Nilay and David are once again joined by Wall Street Journal columnist (and friend of The Verge) Joanna Stern to talk about what will, and won't, happen in tech next year.
51 min
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Searching for the first great AI app
Nilay, David, and The Verge's Richard Lawler talk about a big week in AI news.
84 min
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The Vergecast Vergecast, part two
A week ago, The Verge launched a subscription. And you had questions! So we have answers.
83 min
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Our hottest and coldest 2025 takes
Nilay, David, and Wall Street Journal columnist Joanna Stern bring all the predictions for 2025 — their mildest, medium-est, and spiciest ideas about the year to come.
63 min
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AGI is coming and nobody cares
Kylie Robison joins to talk about the lowering stakes for AGI, shipmas at OpenAI, and more
94 min
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A gadget lover's guide to the great outdoors
The Verge's Thomas Ricker joins the show with an update on his question to live the #vanlife.
72 min
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Our biggest stories and favorite things of 2024
We gathered a bunch of our Verge colleagues and told them each to tell us three things from the year: the biggest story, their favorite new tech thing, and their favorite new non-tech thing.
88 min