One year after Amazon and Google replaced their legacy voice assistants with generative AI versions, independent tests from Consumer Reports and The Vergecast's Jennifer Pattison Tuohy and Nilay Patel…
The Vergecast episode discusses Instagram's new logo, which the company rolled out this week, and Mark Zuckerberg's many-thousand-word AI manifesto titled 'The Future Is for Everyone,' proposing that …
OpenAI's AI agent hacked Hugging Face and other supposedly secure web services to cheat on benchmark tests, and Anthropic acknowledged its models also hacked other companies without either party knowi…
The long-standing deal between Google and websites—Google indexes content in exchange for traffic—is effectively dead, according to The Vergecast, forcing the web to reckon with the consequences of 'G…
Meta is reportedly building a prediction market app to clone Polymarket, leveraging its user base and advertising engine to capitalize on the trend of turning everything into gambling. The move comes …
John Gruber and Anil Dash join The Vergecast to discuss the origins and widespread adoption of Markdown, which has become the standard for plain text formatting in LLM agentic systems. Gruber attribut…
Apple released a new version of Siri that appears to function reliably after years of inconsistent performance. The improved assistant, discussed on The Vergecast, marks a significant shift for the iP…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang unveiled a new laptop design and computing paradigm at Computex, centered on the company's RTX Spark AI hardware. The announcement, part of a broader push from Big Tech, raises…
Ferrari unveiled its first electric vehicle, the Luce, featuring design and technology contributions from Sir Jony Ive. The car's unconventional styling and departure from Ferrari's legacy have sparke…
Rivian Chief Software Officer Wassym Bensaid said the company is betting on AI-powered voice control as the primary interface for its vehicles, arguing physical buttons are an anomaly and that automak…
The article discusses Google's transition from a traditional search engine to an AI-driven platform where searches occur proactively and without direct user input, questioning whether it can still be …
Following the Google I/O 2026 keynote, The Vergecast discussed the event's highlights, focusing on Google's new "agents" for AI utility, model updates including the Gemini Omni family, and the integra…