David Pearce

speaker
14,416 appearances 53 recordings 4 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 18 Sep

David Pearce’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 53 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 20.

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It's wild out there. voice-verified
SpaceX also just reported earnings for the first time ever, and it's doing, I don't know, fine. voice-verified
SpaceX wants you to think that it's a space and AI company, but right now it's mostly making money renting compute to other AI companies. voice-verified
But the big news was Gwynne Shotwell, the company's president and actual leader, saying SpaceX is planning to build a terrestrial mobile network in addition to its satellite systems. voice-verified
In part, the plan seems to be to connect all of its existing Starlink antennas and build a network that way. voice-verified
Starlink evidently has its sights set on taking, quote, quite a few customers from T-Mobile, AT&T, and Verizon. voice-verified
We'll see. voice-verified
And finally, a preemptive RIP to Google Assistant, which is officially being removed from Android devices starting on September 4th. voice-verified
This isn't at all surprising. voice-verified
Google has been all in on Gemini for a while now. voice-verified
But I think Assistant is actually still the best way to do some simple phone tasks. voice-verified
And now it is all LLMs, all the time, apparently forever. voice-verified
You can read more about all this at TheVerge.com. voice-verified
That is 90 Seconds on The Verge for Wednesday, August 5th. voice-verified
All right, let's get to some of your questions. voice-verified
As a reminder, the best way to ask us questions about anything and everything, we love all of your weirdest possible questions. voice-verified
You can email vergecasts at theverge.com. voice-verified
You can call the hotline 866-VERGE-11. voice-verified
We're going to do more and more of these all the time. voice-verified
Travis Larchuk, our producer who is here, just wants to do the hotline all the time. voice-verified
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