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.
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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.
The era of the AI browser is here, and OpenAI is finally in the game. Nilay, Jake, and Hayden sit down to chat about what it means to have ChatGPT in your browser and able to control your cursor and surf the web for you. Also this week: Nilay's warning about using old surge protectors, the devastating and inevitable outcome of the Warner Bros. Discovery acquisition, and Samsung's Galaxy XR headset, which looks a lot like a Vision Pro. Finally, Brendan Carr Is A Dummy makes its triumphant return. And we wrap it all up with the Lightning Round, talking about the the Friend protest, GM's decision to ditch CarPlay, the AWS outage, the future of the Xbox, and more.
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Further reading:
OpenAI’s AI-powered browser, ChatGPT Atlas, is here
The ChatGPT Atlas browser still feels like Googling with extra steps
OpenAI teases a string of updates for its AI-powered browser, ChatGPT Atlas
Opera’s Neon shows just how confusing AI browsers still are
Perplexity’s Comet browser is now available to everyone for free
Google is expanding Gemini in Chrome and letting it do stuff for you
Reddit sues Perplexity for allegedly ripping its content to feed AI
The Dia browser is a big bet on the web — and an even bigger bet on AI
OpenAI’s latest legal request is raising eyebrows
Meta is axing 600 roles across its AI division | The Verge
Warner Bros. Discovery is ready for a sale
WBD already rejected three offers from Paramount Skydance,
Netflix, Amazon, and Apple are reportedly interested in buying Warner Bros.
HBO Max is raising prices for the third year in a row
Hulu with Live TV now costs $90 monthly but you can lock in $65 for three months
Apple TV will be the only place to watch F1 in the US, starting next year
Samsung Galaxy XR hands-on: It’s like a cheaper Apple Vision Pro and launches today
The future I saw through the Meta Ray-Ban Display amazes and terrifies me
These Oakley smart glasses are perfect for weekend warriors and T-ball coaches
The Friend AI pendant’s creator publicized a ‘Friend protest’ in NYC
These nonprofits lobbied to regulate OpenAI — then the subpoenas came
Why GM will give you Gemini — but not CarPlay
Did Microsoft just tease that the next Xbox is a PC and console?
Major AWS outage took down Fortnite, Alexa, Snapchat, and more
Pitchfork is beta testing user reviews and comments as it approaches 30
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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.
