The Vergecast

The Vergecast is the flagship daily podcast from The Verge about small gadgets, Big Tech, and everything in between. Every Friday, Nilay Patel and David Pierce hang out and make sense of the week’s most important technology news. And Monday through Thursday, 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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How Claude Code Claude Codes
76 min
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The speech police came for Colbert
88 min
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Your next laptop could be a foldable phone
73 min
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Ring's adorable surveillance hellscape
96 min
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Could the Trump Phone be a good phone?
70 min
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How Epstein became a tech influencer
89 min
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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
64
Live from CES: What is the point of a robot tha...
61 min
65
The robots, phones and Lego of CES 2026
88 min
66
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
69
Brendan Carr is a dummy
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr did The Vergecast an enormous favor
121 min
70
Everything is gambling now
73 min
71
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
73
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
75
It's code red for ChatGPT
David and Nilay talk through why Sam Altman declared a code red inside of OpenAI
92 min