Episode Details

Meta's Muse AI agent is cute (sometimes caked-up) and it performs well as a productivity tool. And, if you give it access to your social media and e-mail, it can know basically everything about you. This week on The Vergecast, Nilay Patel, Jake Kastrenakes and David Imel give their reactions to Mark Zuckerberg's demos at Wednesday's Meta Connect keynote. They also talk about the new glasses hardware, including the new VR glasses and audio-only, camera-free Ray-Bans.
Then, we take a look at the newly-announced, chimeric Chrome/Android hybrid Googlebooks, find out why Brendan Carr is a dummy this week, analyze the Paramount merger, discuss what YouTube's A/B video testing means for the increasingly tenuous concept of a shared reality, and end on a surprisingly heartwarming story about RODECaster 4K support.

Further reading:

• Meta Connect 2026: The 7 biggest announcements

• Meta Connect 2026 live blog: On the ground at Mark Zuckerberg’s next big product launch

• Meta’s Muse AI works and creeps me out

• Amazon blocks Meta’s Muse AI agent

• Meta ditches the camera on its newest smart glasses

• Meta’s next VR device isn’t a headset — it’s glasses

• These are the first five Googlebook laptops

• Googlebooks feel like the first laptops built for Android owners

• I got to see Google’s wild ideas about the future of laptops

• The long dream of the Googlebook

• Mahershala Ali On ‘Blade’ Being A Big Failure For Kevin Feige: “100%. He Should Feel That Way”

• Paramount will need to release way more movies to make this merger work

• Xbox is barely Xbox anymore

• YouTube is cooking up new Live features.

• Free Rodecaster Video firmware update adds 4K support.

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