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.
1
It's code red for ChatGPT
David and Nilay talk through why Sam Altman declared a code red inside of OpenAI
92 min
2
Apple gadgets, ranked
The Verge's Victoria Song and Allison Johnson join David to rank Apple's nine product categories
70 min
3
I just want AI to rename my photos
61 min
4
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
5
Version History: Vine
77 min
6
AI agents are invading your PC
David and Nilay discuss the ways Microsoft is pushing agents to practically every corner of Windows
89 min
7
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
8
Version History: LimeWire
70 min
9
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
10
Extreme smart home makeover
David has a new house, and no idea what to do with it.
80 min
11
Version History: Fire Phone
80 min
12
Bring back the iBook, you cowards
David and Nilay talk about the reports of an impending cheaper Mac with an iPhone chip, and whether that might mark Apple's true return to consumer laptops
104 min
13
Your smart home questions, answered
The Verge's Jennifer Pattison Tuohy helps us answer a whole bunch of your smart home questions
62 min
14
Version History: Zune
74 min
15
God will be declared by a panel of experts
David and Nilay run through the news, which will change how people use Photoshop but also maybe change our social feeds
99 min
16
An Apple Shortcuts masterclass
The Verge's Victoria Song joins the show to tell us about her experience with the Meta Display glasses
80 min
17
Version History: Guitar Hero
73 min
18
ChatGPT enters the browser wars
Nilay, Jake, and Hayden sit down to chat about what it means to have ChatGPT in your browser
95 min
19
The new Xbox is not an Xbox
75 min
20
Version History: Sony Watchman
61 min
21
AI can't even turn on the lights
Nilay’s back!
98 min
22
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0 min
23
Google's gadgets, ranked
With the help of The Verge’s Victoria Song and Allison Johnson, we do the impossible: we rank all six of Google’s Pixel gadgets
59 min
24
Version History: BlackBerry Messenger
59 min
25
Maybe it's real, maybe it's Sora
David and Jake are joined by The Verge's Hayden Field to talk about OpenAI's demo day
85 min