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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.

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Said on The Vergecast

“What happens when all of these GPUs and data centers are no longer the latest and greatest for the latest and greatest AI models? Are they going to decommission those, throw them out, write them off? Or do they maybe repurpose those for cloud gaming?… Maybe that suddenly becomes a big thing when these AI servers age out.” — Sean Hollister, The Vergecast
Sean Hollister · 2 Nov 2026 Listen →
“There is a sense of the models are going to be commoditized. And at the top end, that hasn't really happened, but there is a real sense that almost nobody actually needs these frontier models to do the things that they're trying to do. The sixth best model at this point is good enough for most of the things people want to do with AI.” — David Pierce, The Vergecast
David Pierce · 30 Oct 2026 Listen →
“The web is about to go through the weirdest period of all time because it is the fallback user interface for every agent, whether or not those agents work or are good. It's not MCP or APIs. It's like, we're going to click around the website for you. Half of the companies are just blocking agents. … You, with your dumb human eyes, are going to have to look at something on your phone while we still have phones. And it's one of four apps. And every company wants to be one of those four apps.” — Nilay Patel, The Vergecast
Nilay Patel · 30 Oct 2026 Listen →
“Apple's money is Candy Crush on the iPhone. It just has been for years. Every button you push on your iPhone, if it connects to some transaction on the internet that isn't physical goods, Apple takes 30%. … That is under some pressure. It's under the pressure of people being bored with phones, … of AI agents that might just use Linux in the cloud on your behalf. … And then there's the literal pressure of governments around the world trying to break open the app store.” — Nilay Patel, The Vergecast
Nilay Patel · 30 Oct 2026 Listen →
“…you will use it three times a day for a grand total of two seconds, right? … The person who needs this, and there are people who need it, 100% guaranteed already owns an iPad. This is not a use case that exists for somebody who doesn't already own an iPad.” — David Pierce, The Vergecast
David Pierce · 29 Oct 2026 Listen →
“It's like most of the time you're not using it. And what it does when no one is using it is so incredibly important. And what Amazon decided, for a decade, was that the thing to do when you're not using it is show you ads. And like, no, wrong, incorrect answer.” — David Pierce, The Vergecast
David Pierce · 28 Oct 2026 Listen →
“I think if you took any of today's models back in a time machine to 2017 and let the researchers from that period play around with them and then ask them, like, is this AGI? They would have said, oh, yes, obviously.” — Kevin Roose, The Vergecast
Kevin Roose · 27 Oct 2026 Listen →
“They had a version of ChatGPT two years before ChatGPT. In 2020, Google has this chatbot called Meena that is a transformer-based language model that is tuned for dialogue, exactly, basically ChatGPT. … There's actually a memo that goes out internally called Meena Eats Google, where they talk about how this could be the thing that disrupts search. … All the stuff that we now take as sort of gospel today was laid out in 2020 and they did nothing with it.” — Kevin Roose, The Vergecast
Kevin Roose · 27 Oct 2026 Listen →
“It gets rid of the concept of ownership. You can't own one of these documents the minute that URL gets into somebody else's hands. So, one of the examples I like to use is you could print it as a QR code. The QR code now has the entire document inside of it. Somebody else takes a picture. You can't own it anymore. It's their document.” — Paul Ford, The Vergecast
Paul Ford · 26 Oct 2026 Listen →
“The idea that your agent is just you going off and doing things on the internet was very tempting for five minutes at the beginning of all this. And it is absolutely not going to be true. There are going to be opaque backroom deals that control how the web works because all that money is too lucrative for this just to be wide open.” — Nilay Patel, The Vergecast
Nilay Patel · 23 Oct 2026 Listen →
“This assumes that just knowing the answer to the test is enough. And if you give us the answer to the test, you have given us everything that is required. And they keep just being like, no, that's actually not what this is.” — David Pierce, The Vergecast
David Pierce · 20 Oct 2026 Listen →
“What do you do if you then obliterate an entire generation of postdocs and PhD students because you solve their problems?” — Robert Hart, The Vergecast
Robert Hart · 20 Oct 2026 Listen →

Hosts

The Vergecast is hosted by Nilay Patel , David Pierce , Dieter Bohn , Alex Cranz , Paul Miller , Dan Seifert , Allison Johnson , Victoria Song , Adi Robertson , Casey Newton , Jake Kastrenakes and Tom Warren .

Recent Episodes

  1. 2 Nov 2026

    Cloud gaming works — but it's not winning

  2. 30 Oct 2026

    The delightfully messy state of Apple gadgets

  3. 29 Oct 2026

    The touchscreen MacBook Apple said it wouldn't make

  4. 28 Oct 2026

    Amazon built the Trojan Horse for your smart home

  5. 27 Oct 2026

    Inside the early days of the AI revolution

    With Kevin Roose

  6. 26 Oct 2026

    Files are over. All you need are URLs

    With Paul Ford

  7. 23 Oct 2026

    The iPhone Duo should have been an iPad

  8. 22 Oct 2026

    Why Tesla needs its cars to fly

  9. 21 Oct 2026

    How we really feel about the iPhone Duo | Livestream

  10. 20 Oct 2026

    AI is dividing the math world in two

  11. 19 Oct 2026

    Why your favorite creator is building an app

    With Stephen Robles

  12. 16 Oct 2026

    Apple's HomeView has an app problem

Guests

Joanna Stern (19 episodes), Megan Farokhmanesh (9 episodes), Walt Mossberg (8 episodes), Kaitlyn Tiffany (7 episodes), Dominic Preston (7 episodes), Kylie Robison (7 episodes), Charlie Harding (6 episodes), Jay Peters (5 episodes), John Gruber (4 episodes), Marques Brownlee (4 episodes), Charles Pulliam-Moore (4 episodes), Patrick Spence (4 episodes), and 347 more.