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We react to Google I/O 2026

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What better way to unwind from a two-hour-long keynote presentation than to pour over the weirdest and wildest details, from a Gmail bot you can converse with to DeepMind’s leader saying the singularity is near. The Vergecast went live right after the show, with Senior AI Reporter Hayden Field joining me to discuss the highlights. […]

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What an AI-designed car looks like

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The cars rolling off production lines right now are filled with old ideas. From beginning to end, the creation of a new vehicle can take five years or longer – which is plenty of time for a lot of tastes, politics, and gas prices to change. That’s one reason car manufacturers are so enthusiastic about […]

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Musk and Altman go to court

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The trial between Elon Musk and OpenAI is officially upon us. And it is going to be a mess. As the two sides fight over the early days of AI, who deserves credit and cash for what, and more, we’re likely to spend the next few weeks hearing a lot of important people’s secrets made […]

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The Vergecast Vergecast, 2026 edition

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We get a lot of questions about how The Verge works. And how The Vergecast works. And how we make money. And whether some of that money helps Nilay buy more jackets, several yachts, or something else entirely. So, every once in a while, we spend an episode of the podcast answering as many questions […]

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The ‘AI is inevitable’ trap

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In the latest sign of AI silly season, Allbirds, the shoe company, told the world it was now an AI company and briefly managed to septuple its stock price. The Newbird AI story is really just one of a bunch of things this week that made us wonder: have we reached the peak of AI, […]

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Fear and loathing at OpenAI

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Sam Altman’s tenure at OpenAI has been… messy. Messy to the point where Altman was briefly fired from his role as CEO, only to be reinstated days later, at which point he began reshaping the organization permanently. This week, The New Yorker published a deep look at Altman, his time at OpenAI, and the questions […]

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The case for banning cookie banners

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You almost certainly encounter cookie banners all the time. They’re the kind of low-level annoyance that just seems to come with being a person on the internet: a pop-up asking you to agree to share some kind of information, with someone, for some purpose. You could find out more, but you don’t. No one does. […]

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Verge subscribers: Join us for a movie night in New York City, hosted by The Vergecast

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The Vergecast is hosting a special in-person screening of Sneakers in partnership with IFC in New York City, and we’re opening presale tickets exclusively to Verge subscribers. Sneakers is a movie about what happens when technology becomes more powerful than our ability to control it. It’s about privacy and hacking and who the “good guys” […]

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Apple at 50: the good and the bad

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We’re spending the week documenting and analyzing the first half-century of Apple’s existence, from the oft-overlooked creation of QuickTime to the iconic MacBook Air to Apple’s veering into antitrust territory. We’re also ranking the best Apple products of all time, and it’s causing us all to feel many feelings. On this episode of The Vergecast, […]

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Meta’s court losses could be just the beginning

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Social media companies have long seemed impervious to legal threats. Meta, YouTube, Snap, and the rest have long waved off criticism of their platforms on free speech and Section 230 grounds. But twice this week, juries rendered verdicts against the platforms, not because of some bad videos but because of the design and structure of […]

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