David Pierce
@davidpierce.xyz
Editor-at-large at The Verge. I could eat.
Is generative AI actually a social media problem? Our friend Ryan Broderick over at Garbage Day thinks so. I hadn’t thought about it this way before, but it’s interesting! In a good... https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/975531/is-generative-ai-actually-a-social-media-problem
Hank Green’s anti-AI AI psychosis
Garbage Day
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Today’s Vergecast: What’s really open about open-weight AI? Everyone in AI is talking about open-weight models right now. Some see them as the ticket to faster, more efficient development; others see them as an economic... https://www.theverge.com/podcast/975307/open-weight-ai-models-vergecast
Today’s Vergecast: What’s really open about open-weight AI?
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Today’s Vergecast: Rise of the Whoop dupes. For the last few years, the trend in wearables has been all about screens. As many of them as possible. But now, companies like Whoop, Fitbit, and Garmin are creating new... https://www.theverge.com/podcast/974727/garmin-fitbit-whoop-dupe-vergecast
Today’s Vergecast: Rise of the Whoop dupes.
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Gym tasks vs. work tasks. This not a brand-new way of thinking about what we should and shouldn’t offload to AI, but I hadn’t seen it before. From Bruce Schneier: The writing assignments I give my students are gym tasks, not work... https://www.theverge.com/tech/973682/gym-tasks-vs-work-tasks
Should You Use AI for a Task? Here’s a Simple Way to Decide – Schneier on Security
Schneier on Security
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Hi friends! It's Thursday, kid's on summer break, I'm putting together this week's Installer and want to know everything you're into. What are you reading / watching / listening to / playing / pouring into pitchers this week? Tell me so I can tell everyone! (And subscribe to Installer!)
Today’s Vergecast: The Z Fold 8 is the new foldable to beat. The wide foldable is here, and it’s glorious. The Verge‘s Dominic Preston has been reviewing Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold 8, and joins the show to explain what this... https://www.theverge.com/podcast/972810/galaxy-z-fold-8-review-vergecast
Today’s Vergecast: The Z Fold 8 is the new foldable to beat.
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Today’s Vergecast: Flip phones are so back. The team at Light has been working on minimalist phones for more than a decade. Its last device had a lot in common with a smartphone, but the newest model, the Light Flip, is... https://www.theverge.com/podcast/972109/light-flip-phone-vergecast
Today’s Vergecast: Flip phones are so back.
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Today’s Vergecast: Here’s what an AI-first phone might look like. Some of the biggest players in AI — in particular OpenAI, SpaceX, and Amazon — are heavily invested in creating a world after smartphones. They’re also all... https://www.theverge.com/podcast/971627/ai-smartphones-openai-vergecast
Today’s Vergecast: Here’s what an AI-first phone might look like.
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Hi friends! It's Thursday, I made cold brew, I'm putting together this week's Installer and want to know everything you're into. What are you watching / reading / listening to / playing / throwing to your pets this week? Tell me so I can tell everyone! (And subscribe to Installer!)
Just about to go live with @reckless.bsky.social and talk Samsung folds and flips and stuff, come hang! www.youtube.com/live/rI_qWxi...
Samsung's next generation foldables are here | The Vergecast Livestream
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Stick around after the Samsung event for a Vergecast livestream! We’ll be live shortly after the event ends, talking phones and watches and foldables and flippables and AI and everything else Samsung has to... https://www.theverge.com/podcast/969231/samsung-unpacked-2026-vergecast-livestream
Stick around after the Samsung event for a Vergecast livestream!
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Today’s Vergecast: The car of the future is an EV golf cart. So far, most electric vehicles have looked more or less like cars. But recently, a few companies have looked to another, smaller mode of transport for... https://www.theverge.com/podcast/968863/ev-golf-carts-future-vergecast
Today’s Vergecast: The car of the future is an EV golf cart.
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Today’s Vergecast: The US is losing its lead in AI. Since the beginning of the AI revolution, a few companies have claimed to be building the best and most powerful AI models. All of them were American. More recently, a few... https://www.theverge.com/podcast/968286/us-china-ai-race-vergecast
Today’s Vergecast: The US is losing its lead in AI.
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The Version History season finale is here: it's The Clapper! It was terrible, it was brilliant, it barely worked, I kind of still want one www.theverge.com/podcast/9676...
The Clapper was a bad smart home gadget — and a viral sensation
Clap on. Clap off.
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Ending the week on The Vergecast, @reckless.bsky.social and I get into Apple v. OpenAI, the ups and downs of Siri AI, OnePlus bailing on the US, and Nilay's truly deranged emoji strategy www.theverge.com/podcast/9672...
Apple’s plot to crush OpenAI
On The Vergecast: Lawsuits, chatbots, and the cracking face emoji.
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Hi friends! It’s FRIDAY, I forgot to post this yesterday, I’m putting together this week’s Installer and want to know everything you’re into. What are you watching / reading / playing / having as a treat this week? Tell me so I can tell everyone! (And subscribe to Installer!)
Went on the Vergecast to talk Suno, the nature of art, and The Goofy Movie (of course).
David Pierce@davidpierce.xyz · 3w agoToday’s Vergecast: The problem with Suno and AI music. AI-generated music is suddenly everywhere. On social media, music streaming services, and elsewhere, stuff made on Suno is becoming unavoidable. The Verge‘s Terrence O’Brien... https://www.theverge.com/podcast/965581/suno-ai-music-vergecast
Did I give the Steam Machine too high a score? Hear me defend myself to @davidpierce.xyz on The Vergecast (and answer some other Qs too!) www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYxs...
Were we too nice to the Steam Machine?
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Today’s Vergecast: Were we too nice to the Steam Machine? Valve’s Steam Machine might be exactly the living room console you’ve been waiting for. Or it might be too expensive, totally pointless, a waste of... https://www.theverge.com/podcast/966185/steam-machine-review-feedback-vergecast
Today’s Vergecast: Were we too nice to the Steam Machine?
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My happy place is talking productivity apps with @davidpierce.xyz www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzrW...
He tried 200 to-do apps so you don't have to
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Today’s Vergecast: The problem with Suno and AI music. AI-generated music is suddenly everywhere. On social media, music streaming services, and elsewhere, stuff made on Suno is becoming unavoidable. The Verge‘s Terrence O’Brien... https://www.theverge.com/podcast/965581/suno-ai-music-vergecast
Today’s Vergecast: The problem with Suno and AI music.
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Today’s Vergecast: Watch, headphones, phone: Which AI gadget is best? So far, there have been exactly zero great AI-first gadgets. But that hasn’t stopped the tech industry from trying to figure out what shape and size these... https://www.theverge.com/podcast/965027/ai-gadgets-ranked-vergecast
Today’s Vergecast: Watch, headphones, phone: Which AI gadget is best?
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Hi friends! It's Thursday, my car is in the shop, I'm putting together this week's Installer and want to know everything you're into right now. What are you watching / reading / playing / listening to / taking out of the attic this week? Tell me so I can tell everyone! (And subscribe to Installer!)
Today’s Vergecast: The life-changing magic of touching stuff., We have all become desensitized. Every place is like every other place, every experience is happening at a remove and on a screen. And Ian Bogost, a... https://www.theverge.com/podcast/962455/small-stuff-ian-bogost-vergecast
Today’s Vergecast: The life-changing magic of touching stuff.,
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‘I like having a phone nobody else has.’ Pete Holmes has a lot of good tech takes in this Wired interview. He also, against all odds, made me want the iPhone Air: Everybody has the same fucking ugly spider eyeball... https://www.theverge.com/tech/962232/i-like-having-a-phone-nobody-else-has
Pete Holmes Is Not Reading Your Email
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The many answers to Netflix’s season-two problem. Did you see that Bloomberg report yesterday about the Netflix shows that fall way off in their second season? Our friend Ryan Broderick over at Garbage... https://www.theverge.com/streaming/962085/the-many-answers-to-netflixs-season-two-problem
Netflix and the value of streaming shovelware
Garbage Day
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Live Vergecast. Trump Phone. 11AM ET. We promised ourselves a while back that, if and when the Trump Phone ever arrived, we would immediately go live and talk about it. I’m still not entirely sure why. But we are people of our... https://www.theverge.com/podcast/961631/trump-phone-vergecast-live
Live Vergecast. Trump Phone. 11AM ET.
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New Version History! The story of Keurig, which is either the best or worst thing to ever happen to coffee. I drank... way too much coffee while recording this episode. www.theverge.com/podcast/9614...
How Keurig saved — and ruined — your coffee
On Version History: How one company covered the world with K-Cups.
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Today’s Vergecast: Our favorite tips for logging off. For many of us in the US, it’s the beginning of a holiday weekend. So we figured we’d try and help you out. We grabbed a bunch of Verge staffers, and asked them all a simple... https://www.theverge.com/podcast/961407/logging-off-tips-vergecast
Today’s Vergecast: Our favorite tips for logging off.
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Today’s Vergecast: Rivian’s last chance to take on Tesla. For years, Rivian has looked like one of the most compelling electric vehicle companies in America — and maybe the car maker most equipped to take on Tesla. All that... https://www.theverge.com/podcast/960437/rivian-r2-preview-vergecast
Today’s Vergecast: Rivian’s last chance to take on Tesla.
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