2025 in tech: what’s coming for devices, regulation, and AI

Hi there! I’m right here from the long run. And I’ve some information. 12 months from now, all of the Large Tech CEOs are nonetheless of their jobs, all people’s utilizing folding telephones, Apple made a TV, and Nvidia is essentially the most precious firm within the historical past of the universe. Wild yr, huh? Or perhaps not? It’s laborious to recollect. Time journey messes together with your reminiscence slightly.

On this episode of The Vergecast, the second installment of our two-part 2025 preview, we debate some critically iffy storylines from the tip of 2025. David, our resident time traveler, brings us some large tales that both did or didn’t occur within the yr to come back, and Nilay Patel and Wall Road Journal columnist Joanna Stern have to assist work out what’s actual and what isn’t.

Will somebody actually purchase Snap? Is GTA VI going to be the largest recreation ever? Will Bluesky proceed to ascend and go away Threads in its wake? No one is aware of but, not even the time traveler, however we’ve got some ideas and concepts.

As was the case with final week’s episode, we’re retaining rating. Right here’s the way it works: every host has to resolve, for every 2025 information story, whether or not it’ll be actual or not by the tip of the yr. Each appropriate guess earns you some extent; each incorrect guess prices you one. On the finish of the yr, we’ll complete the scores, mix them with final week’s guesses, and purchase the winner the good gadget of 2025, no matter that seems to be. (We’re going to want your assist deciding, too, however we’ll come again to that.)

Don’t learn the beneath till you’ve listened to or watched the episode, however for the tape, listed below are our predictions: