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. 

Technology
Tech News
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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
78
How BYD beat Tesla
74 min
79
Siri is a Gemini
95 min
80
How Lego’s Smart Brick works
67 min
81
Live from CES: What is the point of a robot tha...
61 min
82
The robots, phones and Lego of CES 2026
88 min
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Version History: iPhone 4
69 min
84
The Vergecast RAM Holiday Spec-Tacular
82 min
85
Version History: Google Glass
81 min
86
Brendan Carr is a dummy
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr did The Vergecast an enormous favor
121 min
87
Everything is gambling now
73 min
88
The end of OpenAI, and other 2026 predictions
Let's look ahead to 2026
56 min
89
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
90
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
91
A very human vision for going all-in on AI
50 min
92
It's code red for ChatGPT
David and Nilay talk through why Sam Altman declared a code red inside of OpenAI
92 min
93
Apple gadgets, ranked
The Verge's Victoria Song and Allison Johnson join David to rank Apple's nine product categories
70 min
94
I just want AI to rename my photos
61 min
95
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
96
Version History: Vine
77 min
97
AI agents are invading your PC
David and Nilay discuss the ways Microsoft is pushing agents to practically every corner of Windows
89 min
98
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
99
Version History: LimeWire
70 min
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Valve made Microsoft's dream console
Nilay Patel sits down with Jake Kastrenakes, Sean Hollister, and special guest Joanna Stern, senior columnist at The Wall Street Journal, to talk about Valve's return to the living room gaming race
96 min