Welcome to the Burgecast, the flagship podcast of the difference between tool use and computer use.

I'm your friend David Pierce, and I am almost done setting up my new studio.

I mean, studio is strong. I'm at my desk. I have some lights. I put up all this cool, like, they're acoustic tiles, but they also just have nice texture and

look sort of like I'm doing this on purpose. Uh, I have this awesome light from MoMA. I have

my knockoff TikTok shop headphones. I have everything I need, except for a couple of things. I need to

fix the sound. I'm going to get another one of these shelves because I just don't have enough

space to store all of the boxes for gadgets that I have, but we're getting there. I'm starting to feel slightly settled in this house. I got a space heater right there because it's like 40 degrees down here. We're getting there. We're making progress. But today we are not here to talk about what's going on in my home office, although I could do that, and I will at great length. Today we're going to do two things. First, I'm going to talk to Joe Wisenthal from Bloomberg

about polymarket and Kalshi and this general rise in what's called prediction markets.

How they got here, how they're so controversial and yet so popular, and where they go from here.

Then Hayden Field is going to come on and talk about model context protocol, which is a new and pretty important idea about how AI is going to work. And I think if we're going to get agents in a real way, the way that all of these companies are promising, MCP is a big part of how we get there. We're also going to do a hotline question about some AI stuff. We've got a lot to do.

It's going to be very fun. But first, I'm going to take a break so that I can turn on this space heater for a minute and start to feel my toes again. This is the Vergecast. We'll be right back. Support for this show comes from Odu. Running a business is hard enough. So why make it harder with a dozen different apps that don't talk to each other?

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