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January 09 Live from CES: What is the point of a robot that falls over?
The theme of CES 2026 is gadgets. It's always gadgets. This year more than most, though, the world's biggest tech show is about how fast the hardware world is moving — and how much work the software, and the AI, have to do to catch up. On stage live at the Brooklyn Bowl in Las Vegas, David and Nilay talk through some of the biggest news of the week, from robots to laptops to AI cuddle buddies, to see what's really going to matter in tech this year.

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1 hr 5 min
January 06The robots, phones and Lego of CES 2026
2026 is just beginning, and it's already time for the biggest gadget event of the year. As the Verge team heads to Las Vegas for the Consumer Electronics Show, David and Nilay run through as many of the newly announced products as they can. There are robots, art TVs, phones, more robots, smart Legos, smart home gizmos, and still more robots. Some of this stuff will ship, and might even be a big hit. Some of it, well, won't. But it's all an interesting look into what's happening in tech right now.Also: if you're in Vegas for CES, come see us live! We'll be at the Brooklyn Bowl on Wednesday, January 7th, for live recordings of Decoder and The Vergecast, and we'd love to see you there.

Further reading:
⁠This robot companion is a cameraman for your pet ⁠
⁠LG says its CLOiD home robot will be folding laundry and making breakfast at CES ⁠
⁠SwitchBot brings a humanoid home robot to CES ⁠
⁠You can’t buy Zeroth’s WALL-E robot in the US, but you can get its cousin ⁠
⁠This startup brought WALL-E to life and will also sell you WALL-E’s weird cousin⁠
⁠Kicking Robots, by James Vincent⁠
⁠The Clicks Power Keyboard is also a backup battery for your phone ⁠
⁠The Clicks Communicator is a BlackBerry for your phone ⁠
⁠I just want to keep unfolding the Samsung Z TriFold ⁠
⁠The Aliro smart lock standard for NFC and UWB unlocking will launch this year ⁠
⁠Lutron adds smart wood blinds to its Caséta line. ⁠
⁠Bosch’s fancy coffee machine is getting Alexa Plus ⁠
⁠The new Ultraloq smart lock uses both your face and your palm to let you in ⁠
⁠Lockin’s new vein-scanning smart lock has a video doorbell and recharges wirelessly ⁠
⁠Hands-on with the Mui Board: a wooden smart home controller ⁠
⁠The Mui Board will support mmWave sleep tracking and gesture control ⁠
⁠You can unlock SwitchBot’s first deadbolt smart lock with your face ⁠
⁠Lifx launches a smart mirror and a $30 dimmer switch that can control smart bulbs ⁠
⁠Lockly’s new smart locks will support Matter and NFC ⁠
⁠GE Lighting’s new Matter-compatible smart shades start at just $300 ⁠
⁠The LG OLED evo W6 Wallpaper TV makes its return at CES ⁠
⁠RGB is the next big thing in OLED gaming monitors ⁠
⁠Belkin’s new HDMI adapter wirelessly connects to screens from 130 feet ⁠
⁠LG’s new Gallery TV, designed for displaying art, will be at CES 2026 ⁠
⁠Samsung brings back the Timeless Frame with its biggest Micro RGB TV at CES. ⁠
⁠TCL debuts a new quantum dot and color filter technology with the X11L ⁠
⁠Gemini on Google TV is getting Nano Banana and voice-controlled settings ⁠
⁠Amazon announces a Samsung Frame competitor with the Ember Artline TV ⁠
⁠Amazon Fire TV OS gets a revamp that’s more modern and pleasing ⁠
⁠LG’s new karaoke-ready party speaker uses AI to remove song vocals ⁠
⁠Would you let AI cut your hair? ⁠
⁠A developer for a ‘major food delivery app’ says the ‘algorithms are rigged against you⁠
⁠Lego announces Smart Brick, the ‘most significant evolution’ in 50 years | The Verge⁠
⁠Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is now blogging about AI slop ⁠
⁠“Feed is dead.” ⁠
⁠Adam Mosseri on how Instagram exists in the age of AI-generated images⁠
⁠The Trump phone just missed another release date ⁠

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1 hr 33 min
December 28, 2025 Version History: iPhone 4
The iPhone 4 was one of the best iPhones ever — and definitely the most dramatic iPhone ever. It was lost in a bar in California, sold to Gizmodo, and published for the world to see months before its launch. The phone itself had a bunch of important new features, and one that spawned Antennagate. In this episode, David Pierce, Nilay Patel, and longtime tech columnist Walt Mossberg tell the whole story of the phone, its legacy, and its place in tech blog history.
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1 hr 13 min
December 23, 2025 The Vergecast RAM Holiday Spec-Tacular
The world runs on RAM, and RAM is harder than ever to get your hands on. What’s happening here? Every year, the Vergecast team spends the holiday season going deep on a single spec or technology, and this year it’s all about Random Access Memory. (No, that’s not a Daft Punk album.) Nilay, David, and Sean Hollister explain what RAM is, why it matters, how it became a precious commodity, and what it means for the future of chips around the world. We also play some games. We do… okay at the games. Happy Holidays!

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1 hr 27 min
December 21, 2025 Version History: Google Glass
Google didn't invent the concept of smart glasses, but it was one of the first companies to actually put them on people's faces. It was a revolution, and also a problem: Google made face computers extremely uncool, and its early user base was so off-putting they became collectively known as “Glassholes.” The Verge’s Victoria Song and Waveform’s David Imel break down why Glass failed — despite being shockingly right about the future of technology.
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1 hr 25 min
December 19, 2025Brendan Carr is a dummy
Åhead of our last Friday episode of 2025, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr did The Vergecast an enormous favor: he went in front of Congress and said a bunch of wild things about regulation. So, of course, Nilay and David have to talk about them. For a really long time. After that, the hosts look at all the ways YouTube and Netflix are becoming more like one another, and then update the Go90 Scale of Doomed Streaming Services to round out the year. Finally, in the lightning round, there's talk of web apps, EVs, Bluesky, and the metaverse.

Further reading:
The Vergecast live at CES
Brendan Carr doesn’t regret his threats to broadcasters
Former FCC Chairman Michael Powell: ‘Cable companies are at the mercy of content companies’
The Oscars will stream on YouTube in 2029
Netflix’s next big TV game is FIFA soccer
My Favorite Murder and The Breakfast Club podcasts are ditching YouTube for Netflix
Warner Bros. wants its shareholders to reject Paramount’s latest offer
Netflix is “100% committed” to releasing WB films in theaters.
Even Jared Kushner thinks the Paramount WB bid sucks.
Peacock will bombard you with ads as soon as you open the app
HBO Max’s new channels keep Friends and Game of Thrones playing 24/7
Instagram is putting Reels on your TV
LG forced a Copilot web app onto its TVs but will let you delete it
Mercedes-Benz discontinues feature that syncs music to driving
Ford’s big bet on EVs didn’t pan out — now it’s pivoting to hybrids and energy storage
Bluesky claims its new contact import feature is ‘privacy-first’
Gemini 3 Flash is here, bringing a ‘huge’ upgrade to the Gemini app
The ChatGPT app store is here
Alexa Plus’ website is live for some users
Meta pauses third-party Horizon VR headsets program

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2 hr 6 min
December 16, 2025Everything is gambling now
Who's going to win the Super Bowl? What about the latest season of Survivor? Or the race to be the next chair of the Federal Reserve? Who will be Portugal's next president? How many times will Elon Musk tweet in the next week? On Polymarket, and other prediction markets, you can bet on all these things and more. Are we entering a world in which everything is gambling and gambling is everything? Bloomberg's Joe Weisenthal joins the show to explain the rise of prediction markets, what's betting and what's investing, and more. Then, The Verge's Hayden Field teaches us about Model Context Protocol, a wonky bit of AI infrastructure that might be key to making AI agents work. MCP is barely a year old, and practically all of tech is ready to embrace it. Finally, Hayden helps David answer a question on the Vergecast Hotline (call 866-VERGE11 or email [email protected]!) about why every AI company seems to want you to go shopping.
Further reading:
Are prediction markets gambling? Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev is betting not
Election night at Kalshi HQ
Joe Weisenthal at Bloomberg
From Bloomberg: My Biggest Question About Prediction Markets
Anthropic launches tool to connect AI systems directly to datasets
AI companies want a new internet — and they think they’ve found the key
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1 hr 19 min
December 14, 2025 The end of OpenAI, and other 2026 predictions
A year ago, David and Nilay sat down with Wall Street Journal senior tech columnist Joanna Stern to make a bunch of confident predictions about 2025. We got them... you know what, never mind. Let's look ahead to 2026! This year, we gather again to make increasingly bold bets about the year to come, including the future of a few of the world's biggest companies and whether we're finally going to get a foldable iPhone. Last year's predictions may not have been our best, but we're feeling good about these.

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59 min
December 12, 2025How to vibe-write a country hit
Technically, the Netflix / Warner Bros. news is almost a week old, but what a week it has been! And so, after some follow-up on smart shades and CES, Nilay and David talk through all that’s at stake in the fight between Paramount and Netflix — and whether it’s even possible for someone to win this deal. After that, Charlie Harding, co-host of Switched on Pop and honorary Vergecast intern, explains how AI is taking over the country music scene in Nashville. He also makes us a song, and it’s a jam. Lastly, the hosts talk about font news (with a special guest), Brendan Carr, smart rings, garage wars, and more.

Further reading:
The Verge subscription turns one
Netflix is buying Warner Bros. for $83 billion
Paramount launches a hostile $108 billion bid to snatch Warner from Netflix
David Ellison pitches Paramount’s $108 billion hostile bid for WBD as “pro consumer.”
Behind Paramount’s Relentless Campaign to Woo Warner Discovery and President Trump
New Paramount Speaks: Theatrical Films, Streaming Investment and Tech Upgrades Are Top Priorities
Netflix CEO made a visit to the White House before buying Warner Bros.
Trump isn’t sold on the Netflix-Warner Bros. deal
Netflix’s leadership thinks the Warner Bros. deal won’t be like other big media mergers.
Welcome to the big leagues, Netflix
There are no good outcomes for the Warner Bros. sale
OpenAI’s billion-dollar Disney deal puts Mickey Mouse and Marvel in Sora
Get ready for an AI country music explosion
Brendan Carr is a Dummy
Chamberlain’s new technology blocks aftermarket controllers from working with its garage door openers
The Pebble Index 01 is a smart ring with a built-in microphone
Calibri is too woke for the State Department | The Verge
Gruber got a copy of the thing

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1 hr 43 min
December 09, 2025 2025 year in review
Well, friends, it's been a year. And before we turn the page to 2026 and all the stories of 2025 begin to blur together, we decided to take stock of things. Nilay and David are joined by Wall Street Journal senior tech columnist Joanna Stern to debate the best products of the year, the biggest policy moves, the people who broke bad, the good AI things, the bad AI things, and much more. It's been a vibe-everything kind of year, and there's a lot to discuss.

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1 hr 19 min

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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…