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The Vergecast

The AI wearables are always listening

The Vergecast

Vox Media Podcast Network

News, Tech News, Technology

4.44.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2025

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

The Verge’s Victoria Song joins the show to talk about a new genre of gadget, which both she and David have been testing a lot: the AI-powered, always-on voice recorder. Vee shares what she’s learned from devices like Bee, and why it’s going to be so hard for AI to figure out what really matters in our lives. After that, The Verge’s Nathan Edwards and keyboard maker Ryan Norbauer tell the story of the Seneca, a $3,600 keyboard that Norbauer built to his own incredibly exacting specifications. They tell David about what it really takes to make a great keyboard, and why making one is worth the effort. Finally, in the lightning round (call 866-VERGE11 or email [email protected]!), we answer a couple of questions about the future of Chrome. Further reading: Bee review: I outsourced my memory to AI and all I got was fanfiction The Plaude NotePin is a great AI voice recorder, and it’s totally doomed Friend: a new digital companion for the AI age The Norbauer Seneca The $3,600 keyboard that’s optimized for joy. Why are companies lining up to buy Chrome? Sundar Pichai says the DOJ’s antitrust plan could kill Google Search Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Vergecast, the flagship podcast of outrageously expensive keyboards. I'm your friend

0:08.7

David Pierce, and I am on my couch, in my basement, and I think I live here for the next several

0:14.9

weeks, hopefully. So I'm not a particularly superstitious person in general. I don't have a lot of, like, rituals.

0:22.6

I don't have a pair of lucky socks.

0:24.4

But here's the thing I know for sure is that I sat in this spot on this couch for every

0:30.8

single Warriors playoff game in 2022 and the Golden State Warriors won the NBA title.

0:36.8

Did they do it because I sat on this couch?

0:39.6

Who's to say?

0:40.8

But these are the rules.

0:42.2

I have to do this now.

0:43.5

So ironically, it's possible that by the time you're watching or listening to this,

0:47.6

you'll know who won the game that I'm sitting here about to watch,

0:51.2

but I don't.

0:52.6

And these are the rules.

0:53.7

And maybe I can leave the couch, and maybe

0:55.8

I live on the couch. Maybe this is where we've broadcast from from now on. I don't know. Go

1:00.2

Warriors. We'll see what happens. Anyway, today on the show, we have a bunch of fun stuff to talk

1:05.5

about. V-Song is going to come on, and she and I are going to compare notes on a device category that we've both been testing. We have these recorders that you're designed to wear and kind of have on

1:15.6

and with you all the time that say they can keep track of all the important stuff in your life

1:20.8

without you having to do any extra work. I find it fascinating and weird, we're going to talk about it.

1:25.7

Then Ryan Norbauer, who made maybe the most

1:29.0

expensive keyboard I've ever seen, is going to come on the show with Nathan Edwards from our team,

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