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, David Pierce, and Alex Cranz 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.
1
Meta's new smart glasses look like the future
The Verge's Alex Heath joins Nilay, Alex, and David to talk about all the announcements coming out of Meta Connect
101 min
2
They think they’re building God
Kylie Robison joins the show to talk about OpenAI’s new model, o1, and what this new “reasoning” model says about the state of the art in AI.
67 min
3
The chatbot becomes the teacher
For the first episode in our new miniseries about the impact of AI in our everyday lives, we chat with Steven Johnson, a longtime author who has spent the last couple of years at Google working on an AI research and note-taking tool called NotebookLM
57 min
4
You’re cute no matter what phone you have
Nilay, Alex, and David are joined by Wall Street Journal columnist Joanna Stern to talk about this year’s iPhone – and Joannabot, the AI chatbot Joanna made to help you make buying decisions.
91 min
5
Reviewing the iPhone 16
On this episode we talk through our reviews of the iPhone 16 and 16 Pro, the Apple Watch 10, and the AirPods 4
94 min
6
The great Evernote reboot
What happened to a once mega-popular productivity app, and where it’s headed now
57 min
7
The real cost of the PS5 Pro
ay, David, and Alex talk about the new PlayStation 5 Pro — why it's so expensive, why it doesn't have a disc drive, and why it made so many people feel feelings
95 min
8
The iPhone 16 is here — but it's not finished
Today on the show, we discuss everything that's new, everything that's missing, and all the reasons you might or might not want to upgrade your Apple gear this year.
96 min
9
What’s in store for the iPhone 16
The Verge's Nilay Patel, David Pierce, and Alex Cranz discuss previews for the Apple event, gadgets at IFA, the latest with Snap, and a whole lot more.
88 min
10
The problem with Telegram
The Verge's Nilay Patel, Alex Cranz, and David Pierce discuss Telegram CEO being charged in a French criminal investigation over content moderation, Yelp suing Google for antitrust violations, a week in AI-generated nonsense, and more.
81 min
11
Can a YouTube video really fix your wet phone?
Also: Meta and Snap are about to show off their new AR glasses
63 min
12
What’s in a productivity system?
9 different ways to get things done, with a little help from The Verge’s staff.
77 min
13
The Pixel 9 is great – and a problem
The Verge's David Pierce, Alex Cranz, Allison Johnson, and Richard Lawler discuss the Google Pixel 9 review and its reimagine AI feature, a Chick-fil-A streaming service, Sonos app updates, and more.
79 min
14
A road trip on the hydrogen highway
The Verge’s William Poor, Andrew Marino, and Alex Parkin head to California to figure out why hydrogen fuel cell technology, once a super-promising successor to gasoline, lost out to battery electric cars.
50 min
15
A Googler’s guide to getting things done
Laura Mae Martin, Google’s executive productivity advisor, tells us how productivity culture is changing — and how she helps people get more done.
54 min
16
Gemini is taking over Google
The Verge's Nilay Patel, David Pierce, and Alex Cranz discuss AI tools announced at this weeks Pixel 9 event, Nilay's TV competition, tech regulatory news, and more.
94 min
17
Google’s next big Pixel
All the gadget announcements from Google's Pixel event
52 min
18
Google lost its first antitrust case, so what h...
The Verge's Nilay Patel, Alex Cranz, Alex Heath, and Lauren Feiner discuss a federal judge ruling that Google violated US antitrust law, X suing a group of major advertisers over an “illegal boycott”, and the rest of this week's wild tech news.
81 min
19
Quibi's epic fall and the future of books
We’re once again trying out a couple of our favorite new show formats.
71 min
20
Apple's Intelligence beta and more AI chaos
The Verge's Nilay Patel, Allison Johnson, and Victoria Song discuss Apple iOS 18.1 beta. upcoming Pixel 9 rumors, Olympics coverage, AI deepfake regulation, and more.
91 min
21
The history of Roku and the fight over CarPlay
Today we try out a couple of show formats we’ve been planning for a while.
62 min
22
In search of the perfect movie recommendation
If AI can learn everything about everything, can it tell me what to watch on Netflix tonight?
35 min
23
Search as we know it is officially over
OpenAI's new SearchGPT product, Amazon's plan to launch a paid version of Alexa, the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold review, and whole lot more.
88 min
24
Inside the global computer crash
After a small configuration change brought down millions of computers around the world, The Verge's Tom Warren joins the show to tell us what happened,
76 min
25
The all-seeing AI webcam
On this episode of The Vergecast, senior producer Will Poor explores the AI-tinged worlds of Dries Depoorter
38 min