David Pierce

Hi friends! It’s Thursday, I‘m the proud owner of a new minivan, I’m putting together this week’s Installer and want to know what you’re into. What are you watching / reading / playing / doing during Zooms this week? Tell me so I can tell everyone! (And subscribe to Installer!)

Had a grand old time chatting with @davidpierce.xyz about AI music fraud: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzCS...

Just turned 34 on the 18th & this instantly transported me to growing up thanks @davidpierce.xyz @jp2e.bsky.social @theverge.com Gonna watch the projectors episode next 😄 youtu.be/71O6ZFGYbO8?...

🎙️I’m on the @theverge.com cast! Big thanks @davidpierce.xyz for letting me troll him about Shortcuts, but actually to chat about vibe apps and creators: Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... Overcast: overcast.fm/+AAQN1pPXE5I YouTube: youtu.be/CBVODIUnPwc?...

Hi friends! It’s Thursday, we’re making muffins, I’m putting together this week’s Installer and want to know everything you’re into. What are you watching / reading / playing / putting in the freezer this week? Tell me so I can tell everyone! (And subscribe to Installer!)

Vergecast. HomeView. 1:30 ET. We have a lot of questions about Apple’s new smart-home gadget — and all the updated ones, too. Come hang with Jen Tuohy, Nilay Patel, and me in an hour or so as we talk through all of... https://www.theverge.com/podcast/1010286/vergecast-homeview-apple-smart-home

Muse has some interesting predilections. I think it’s mostly fine that if you, an adult, ask Muse to sext with you, it will sext with you. But the fact that Wired’s Reece Rogers asks Muse what its kink is, and it... https://www.theverge.com/tech/1009650/muse-has-some-interesting-predilections

I think there are a lot of good ideas in Googlebooks! I also for the life of me can’t figure out why they didn’t, you know, finish the OS before they shipped it

Today’s Vergecast: The many pluses and minuses of Alexa Plus. Amazon is determined to turn Alexa Plus into a do-everything AI assistant that can compete with Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude, and the rest. But after a year of... https://www.theverge.com/podcast/1008390/alexa-plus-tablet-review-vergecast

Hi friends! It's Thursday, we're SO back, I'm putting together this weekend's Installer and want to know everything you're into. What are you watching / reading / playing / listening to / overnight shipping this week? Tell me so I can tell everyone! (And subscribe to Installer!)

Today’s Vergecast: The hot new thing in headphones. Bose, Sony, Beats, and seemingly every other headphone maker has recently released a new and excellent set of cans. Or buds. Or both. The Verge‘s John Higgins explains... https://www.theverge.com/podcast/1007388/best-headphones-2026-vergecast

Today’s Vergecast: How much should you tell your AI agent? The next big thing in AI, at least if you ask the tech companies, is assistant agents. David and The Verge‘s Allison Johnson have both been testing products... https://www.theverge.com/podcast/1006181/muse-dot-instinct-ai-agents-vergecast

Couldn't have happened to a nicer phone company

Today’s Vergecast: We hear pitches on the best vibe-coded apps. Welcome to Bear Lair!* (No, it’s nothing like that other show.) As we continue to explore the world of AI tools and vibe coding, we invited a few... https://www.theverge.com/podcast/1005101/vergecast-vibe-coding-bear-lair

Our Googlebooks have landed. A few of us in the newsroom got a Monday morning delivery of Google-powered laptops, and we’re starting to set them up. (All five of them!) We have lots of testing to do, and lots of questions to... https://www.theverge.com/tech/1004810/our-googlebooks-have-landed

This might be my favorite Version History ep yet: the OG Chromebook, with @reckless.bsky.social and @mkbhd.com www.theverge.com/podcast/1001...

I’m back at work next week, and back hosting The Vergecast. I have lots of ideas and plans, but I want to know: what do you want from your favorite daily tech podcast? Ideas, feedback, critiques, I want all of it (but you’re only allowed to be mean to me specifically). Hit me!

I really hope Googlebooks can become more than just expensive Chromebooks. The blueprint is there, but software support has to follow next. If it does, I'll be one of the buyers putting money down.

Wrote about Googlebooks, which I thought were a weird idea about AI laptops but turn out to be the culmination of more than a decade of work on Android, the web, and more (And a weird idea about AI laptops) www.theverge.com/tech/997972/...

Co-sign. I have always believed that if you take a call on speaker, in public, I am allowed to participate. You made it a group call, I’m gonna weigh in! The Journal discovered that blaring your phone’s audio for the world to hear — also known as... https://www.theverge.com/tech/995598/co-sign

Version History is back! Starting with the story and legacy of Oregon Trail, the game generations of kids grew up playing in the computer lab www.theverge.com/podcast/9954...

Send The Vergecast your AI questions! Personally I will be calling to scream uninterrupted for nine minutes www.theverge.com/podcast/9950...

Hi all, it's Thursday, and I am prepping this week's Installer now that @davidpierce.xyz is on parental leave! I want to know everything you're into. What are you reading / watching / playing / chilling with this week? Tell me so I can tell everyone! (And subscribe to Installer!)

Hi friends! It's Thursday, I am one day away from parental leave, I'm working on this week's Installer and want to know everything you're into. What are you reading / watching / playing / snacking on this week? Tell me so I can tell everyone! (And subscribe to Installer!)

Come talk Pixels with us live on YouTube! The Vergecast crew will be live in 30(ish) minutes, at 1PM ET, running down all the details on the new Pixel phones, Pixel Watch, Pixel Tag, and everything else. We’re going... https://www.theverge.com/tech/979053/come-talk-pixels-with-us-live-on-youtube

An algorithmic way to make our algorithms fun again. Lots of smart internet people have been talking about this Lauren Leek essay on the algorithmic flattening of cities and culture and everything else,... https://www.theverge.com/tech/979027/an-algorithmic-way-to-make-our-algorithms-fun-again

Today’s Vergecast: Lessons from the very first chatbot. Before Alexa and Siri, there was ELIZA. The first chatbot ever was the creation of a man named Joseph Weizenbaum, who built the bot almost as a magic trick — and then... https://www.theverge.com/podcast/978198/eliza-chatbot-history-vergecast

‘We have Formula 1 at home.’ ESPN lost Formula 1 rights last year, when Apple spent big to get the rights for Apple TV. Now, Disney is replacing F1 with… Formula E, the all-electric (and increasingly Formula 1-ish) racing series,... https://www.theverge.com/tech/978095/we-have-formula-1-at-home

Today on The Vergecast: We share our vibe-coded websites. We’ve spent the last month vibe coding our own corners of the internet. The Verge‘s Jake Kastrenakes and Hayden Field join David to talk about their use of... https://www.theverge.com/podcast/977590/vibe-code-website-challenge-vergecast

Hi friends! It's Thursday, Ted Lasso is so back, 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 / pushing to GitHub this week? Tell me so I can tell everyone! (And subscribe to Installer!)

No pressure but if you guys don't watch this one I'm never putting myself on the podcast again

Today’s Vergecast: E Ink, the fediverse, and smart Puka shells. You have questions. We have (some) answers! For this week’s hotline episode, Travis Larchuk asks David your questions about E Ink-ish screens,... https://www.theverge.com/podcast/975853/e-ink-fediverse-matrix-hotline-vergecast

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

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: 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

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

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: 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: 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

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...

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

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 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

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...

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...

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).

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...