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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.

Episodes

Google’s fragmented AI strategy reflects a lack of top-down product cohesion, as the company struggles to integrate Gemini across its diverse ecosystem while simultaneously losing key leadership figures like Demis Hassabis to frontier research. This organizational turmoil coincides with a precarious reliance on Reddit ...

The next big thing in movies is 60-year-old IMAX tech

06 Aug 2026

28m

Hotline: E Ink, the fediverse, and smart Puka shells

05 Aug 2026

32m

What's really open about open-weight AI?

04 Aug 2026

35m

Rise of the Whoop dupes

03 Aug 2026

30m

It's time to panic about AI safety

31 Jul 2026

1h 25m

Meta's Oversight Board is coming for ChatGPT and Claude

30 Jul 2026

37m

The Z Fold 8 is the new foldable to beat

29 Jul 2026

37m

Flip phones are so back

28 Jul 2026

32m

Here's what an AI-first phone might look like

27 Jul 2026

36m

AI processed

Tech companies are racing to develop AI-centric hardware intended to replace the smartphone, yet they consistently encounter structural limitations that force them to build, in essence, another smartphone. This transition from tool-based app navigation to intent-based, natural language interaction remains the primary g...