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The Vergecast

The post-search Google era begins

The Vergecast

Vox Media Podcast Network

Tech News, Technology, News

4.34.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2026

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

Before we get into this week's tech news, we have some corporate news to discuss, and some very exciting Vergecast news to share. (If you have questions about either one, hit us up: vergecast@theverge.com or 866-VERGE11!) Then, Nilay and David get back into the weeds on all things Google I/O, and in particular the ways AI is changing the Google Search experience. When Gemini can find things for you, make things for you, even buy things for you, are you even searching anymore? Finally, in the lightning round, it's time for the Hype Desk, Brendan Carr is a Dummy, SpaceX, the Trump Phone, and some very confusing social networks. Further reading: The future of Google is a search box that does everything  Google is building a ‘universal’ AI shopping cart that tracks prices, offers suggestions, and finds discounts  Demis Hassabis said this might be the ‘foothills of the singularity.’ What?  Google is trying to make deepfake detection more accessible  Google Search’s AI evolution includes more ads  Google’s AI future demands trust — and your personal data  Why does the Googlebook exist? The FCC voted to ‘streamline’ tracking US broadband quality. In SpaceX’s IPO, Elon Musk is the risk factor Spotify is verifying podcasts made by real people too. NBC just got the Trump phone. 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. (Timestamps are approximate.) 00:00:00 Intro 00:02:00 Vox Media Sale 00:08:00 What Changes for The Verge 00:12:00 Vergecast Goes Daily 00:18:00 Feedback and Launch Details 00:23:00 Google I O Vibe Check 00:24:00 Agents Everywhere at Google 00:25:00 Search Becomes the Platform 00:26:00 Singularity Talk Whiplash 00:31:00 Monetizing AI and Google Zero 00:37:00 Shopping Web Takes Over 00:39:00 Agents Replace Browsing 00:43:00 Canvas Makes Apps 00:49:00 Google Book Devices Pitch 00:51:00 Agents Break App Economics 00:53:00 Traffic Deal Is Over 01:01:00 Hype Desk Forza Horizon 6 01:07:00 Subnautica 2 Surprise Hit 01:11:00 Brendan Carr is a Dummy 01:14:00 Broadband Map Complaints 01:21:00 Spotify AI Whiplash 01:25:00 Deepfake Detection Reality 01:30:00 SpaceX IPO Breakdown 01:34:00 Trump Phone In Wild 01:37:00 Wrap Up And Plugs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Welcome to the Vergecast, the flagship podcast of Vox Media. At least for a little while longer. I'm your friend David Pierce. Neil Iberta is here. Hey, buddy. What's that? We haven't seen each other in like forever. Like people think it's a bit when we say we only talk to each other sometimes on the podcast, but sometimes we only talk to each other on the podcast. It's true. It's nice to see your face.

2:06.9

This week in particular, I was at I.O. And you were sick. So you were out. Are you feeling better?

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I am feeling better. I feel like a person for the first time in like five days, which is very exciting. I got a just horrific stomach thing that made me just delirious through all of Google I.O. It's been a strange week. Yeah. But you were out there. You talked to Sundarps Chai. That's going to be on Decoder. I did. And then I took the red eye home this morning and I have, I'm on Benadryl sleep. So I'm super loopy, too. This is going to be a wild episode of this show. quite the episode. We have a bunch of stuff to talk about. Jake and Hayden did a great job talking through all of the stuff going on at I.O. All the agent stuff, all the AI stuff. Go watch or listen to that if you haven't for a lot of the news. You and I are going to mostly talk about search because I think we like to talk about search and the web and what all of this means.

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And I want to dig in on some of that with you.

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