It\u2019s always felt to me like there\u2019s a threshold foldables need to hit before they can truly become mainstream: they need to be no bigger than a regular old phone. And now Samsung has finally gotten its flagship there with the Z Fold 7, which is just barely thicker than an iPhone 16 Pro. I got to see one in the office this week, and I couldn\u2019t take my eyes off of it. It really does feel different.<\/p>\n
This week on The Vergecast, Vee Song<\/a> and Allison Johnson<\/a> join me to talk all about Samsung\u2019s new foldables and smartwatches<\/a>. Then, we dive into corporate shake-ups across the tech world. One of Tim Cook\u2019s possible successors is on his way out, Mark Zuckerberg is buying Meta a new AI team, X\u2019s CEO has departed (and, remind me, did anything notable happen with Grok this week?).<\/p>\n And finally, some big news about the Lightning Round: I\u2019ve had enough of it. Instead, we\u2019ve got something bold, something new, something altogether original and unheard of: the Thunder Round. And yes, we have sound effects. Lots to discuss: AI web browsers, Lorde\u2019s see-through CD, and HBO Max finally does the thing we\u2019ve all been waiting for.<\/p>\n If you want to know more about the stories we discuss in the episode, you can check out a whole bunch of our coverage below:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s always felt to me like there\u2019s a threshold foldables need to hit before they can truly become…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[165,2294,74,2295],"class_list":["post-1777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-mobile","tag-podcasts","tag-technology","tag-vergecast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}