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The Vergecast

Microsoft's plan to catch up in AI

The Vergecast

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4.34.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2026

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Microsoft's commitment to AI is not news. Copilot has been everywhere for... a while now. But at this week's Build developer conference, the company made clear that it wants — and needs — to be a bigger player in the space. The Verge's Tom Warren joins David to talk about the new Scout AI assistant, the Solara operating system concept, and whether Microsoft can hang with OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. Also: How's the new era of Xbox going? We’re also on video! Check us out on YouTube. Subscribe to The Verge for unlimited access to theverge.com, subscriber-exclusive newsletters and our ad-free podcast feed. We love hearing from you! Email your questions and thoughts to vergecast@theverge.com or call us at 866-VERGE11. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:00.7

Hello and welcome to the Vergecast, the flagship podcast of the Windows subsystem for Linux.

1:04.9

I'm your friend David Pierce, and on today's show, we're going to talk about Microsoft Build.

1:09.9

Build is Microsoft's big annual developer conference where it launches a bunch of new stuff,

1:12.5

but also tries to just explain itself to the world and what it cares most about and what it hopes that all of its customers

1:17.4

care about for the year to come. Big surprise, the answer this year was AI in every single

1:23.2

imaginable way. We're going to get into all of that in just a minute, but first, here's everything else happening on the verge today. This is 90 seconds on the verge for Thursday,

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June 4th, 2026. Instagram's new Instagram plus subscription is rolling out, and the idea is

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