Hello! This is The Vergecast, the flagship podcast of The Verge... and your life. Every Friday, Nilay Patel and Dieter Bohn make sense of the week's tech news with help from our wide-ranging staff. Join us every week for a fun, deeply nerdy, often off-the-rails conversation about what's happening now (and next) in technology and gadgets.
Of course Meta thinks gambling is the future
Meta's business is doing just fine. But Meta as a company, and Meta as a series of products? That is, uh, messier. David and Nilay discuss the company's ongoing desire to be relevant and cool, the unceasing importance of Instagram, and why it makes perfect sense that Facebook would clone Polymarket. After that, the hosts talk about Apple's huge price increases, and the ways in which RAMageddon might change the gadget market forever. Then it's time for Brendan Carr is a dummy, the latest on the movie Artificial, and the looming fight over AI data.
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(Timestamps are approximate.)
00:01:00 Cannes Cold Open
00:07:00 Coach x Spotify Absurdity
00:10:00 Vox Media PMX Shakeup
00:14:00 Meta Chaos vs Money
00:26:00 Gambling as Engagement
00:33:00 Ramageddon Hits Gadgets
00:44:00 Slate Truck Price
00:45:00 Range And Truck Feel
00:48:00 Tech Bloat Backlash
00:50:00 BYD Versus Tesla
00:56:00 FCC Targets The View
01:04:00 Amazon Drops Artificial
01:08:00 Kaleidescape Versus Blu Ray
01:13:00 Bob Iger Merger Rumors
01:17:00 Blocking AI Crawlers
01:22:00 Wrap Up And Next Week
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