David Pearce

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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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The Vergecast · What's behind the Google AI shakeup · 7 Aug 2026 podcast

We actually we have a lot to talk about. voice-verified

Uh we have a bunch of earnings stuff with some streaming news. voice-verified

The Everybody Wants to Be YouTube phenomenon rages on. voice-verified

We have a lot of Paramount news. voice-verified

We have some car news. voice-verified

Neil I'm gonna have a lot of feelings about BMW at some point in the show, I think, which I'm very much looking forward to. voice-verified

But we should start with the news from Wednesday about Google's AI leadership shakeup, right? voice-verified

This feels to me like kind of the biggest voice-verified

Newsy story of the week. voice-verified

Okay, I want you to explain why, but let me just quickly explain. voice-verified

So, two things happened that my understanding is are happening simultaneously, but not because of one another, if that makes sense. voice-verified

So, on the one hand, you have uh Jeff Dean, who was, I think, employee number 30 at Google, along with a bunch of other respected AI researchers at Google, going off and starting their own company. voice-verified

Uh, they they are doing what a lot of people in AI seem to be voice-verified

Doing right now, which is realizing, oh my God, there's so much money in this space. voice-verified

Why am I doing this at a large tech company? voice-verified

We're gonna go start a startup. voice-verified

Presumably, they will raise tons of money, and that will be that. voice-verified

Right next to it, you have a big shakeup inside of Google DeepMind, which is the team that runs all of the AI stuff inside of Google. voice-verified

If you remember, one of the reasons Google Deepmind is the way that it is, is because Jeff Dean lost a fight. voice-verified

to be in charge of AI at Google. voice-verified

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