The Verge's Nilay Patel, Alex Cranz, and David Pierce discuss Google's algorithm leak, OpenAI content deals, and more tech news from this week.
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Google won’t comment on a potentially massive leak of its search algorithm documentation
Google confirms the leaked Search documents are real
An Anonymous Source Shared Thousands of Leaked Google ... Show More
Yesterday
A quest for the best headphone mics
On this episode of The Vergecast, we kick off Hot Girl Vergecast Summer with a classic Vergecast segment: the mic test. Guest host Victoria Song is joined by Vergecast producers Andru Marino and Erick Gomez to see how the Nothing Headphone 1, Sony WH-1000XM6, Apple AirPods Max, a ... Show More
1h 6m
Jun 27
What Meta and Anthropic really won in court
It's already the heat of summer, and the news keeps coming. Nilay, David, and Jake start the show with a bunch of tech news, including the latest on Tesla's robotaxi launch, some updates on the Trump Phone, new devices from Fairphone and Unihertz, and Meta's shifting strategy for ... Show More
1h 46m
Aug 2024
Made By Google Recap: Pixel 9, Pixel Watch 3, Pixel Buds Pro 2, and Android 15
Today's episodes is a rundown on all the key the announcements and moments from the 2024 Made by Google event, including a few on stage hiccups.
Google introduced its latest Pixel 9 series, with Pixel 9 Pro and Pixel 9 Pro Fold, all of which are powered by the new Tensor G4 ... Show More
5m 5s
Aug 2024
Google: Breaking Laws and Killing Chromecasts
A lot happened this week! First, Marques, Andrew, and David talk about NVIDIA scraping YouTube videos before jumping into a new iOS feature that lets you get rid of ads on websites. Then, it's all about Google. David goes over the new Google TV and Nest thermostat before talking ... Show More
1h 31m
Oct 2024
Meta AI has more than 500 million users, Google says 25% of the company’s new code is AI generated, and Boston Dynamics' Atlas robot can pick car parts on its own
Meta AI has more than 500 million users, Google’s CEO says a quarter of the company’s new code is already AI generated, and Boston Dynamics' Atlas robot can now pick car parts on its own. It's Thursday, October 31st and this is Engadget News. Learn more about your ad choices. Vis ... Show More
7m 21s
Apr 15
#144: ChatGPT’s New Memory, Shopify CEO’s Leaked “AI First” Memo, Google Cloud Next Releases, o3 and o4-mini Coming Soon & Llama 4’s Rocky Launch
Returning from Google Cloud Next, Paul and Mike are back with some major AI updates. They kick things off with ChatGPT’s new memory feature and unpack what that means for you. Then it’s onto Shopify’s leaked memo: no new hires until AI proves it can’t do the job. Databox takes th ... Show More
1h 31m
May 23
Google DeepMind C.E.O. Demis Hassabis on Living in an A.I. Future
This week, we take a field trip to Google and report back about everything the company announced at its biggest show of the year, Google I/O. Then, we sit down with Google DeepMind’s chief executive and co-founder, Demis Hassabis, to discuss what his A.I. lab is building, the fut ... Show More
1h 13m