The best tech news podcasts in 2026 are Built This Week, Tech Brew Ride Home, The Vergecast, Hard Fork, TBPN, Equity, Pivot, Sharp Tech, Waveform and The AI Daily Brief. Four of them publish daily, so you can pick a short morning briefing, a live weekday show or a weekly panel depending on how closely you follow the news.
Built This Week is our show, so we put it first; here's how we picked the rest.
Prefer interviews and analysis over the news cycle? See our list of the best tech podcasts; for AI-only news, the best AI news podcasts.
Built This Week is hosted by Jordan Metzner and Sam Nadler, co-founders of Ryz Labs, and has come out weekly since June 2025, with 56 episodes so far. Each episode we cover the AI news, build something with AI on air, test new AI tools and interview a founder or operator. It is for listeners who want the week's news plus a look at what the new tools can actually do.
Start with: Episode 17: Sora API, AI Automations, and Apple’s M5 Chip, or Episode 30: Claude Opus 4.6, Codex 5.3, and the Rise of Multi-Agent AI. See all episodes.
From Tech Brew, Morning Brew's tech hub, Tech Brew Ride Home calls itself "Silicon Valley's water cooler podcast": a tech news summary every day. It is daily, with about 65 episodes in the last 90 days as of October 2026, and episodes usually run about 22 minutes. Recent titles like "OpenAI Takes a $150B Haircut" and "The iPhone Duo Reviews Are In" show the mix of AI, Apple and Big Tech stories. It is the pick for a short daily catch-up.
Start with: Could AI Datacenter Spending Blow Up The Economy? With Paul Kedrosky (2.9K views on YouTube as of October 2026). Full profile of Tech Brew Ride Home.
The Vergecast is The Verge's flagship daily podcast about gadgets, Big Tech and everything in between. On Fridays Nilay Patel and David Pierce go through the week's most important tech news; Monday through Thursday, David leads Verge staffers through how gadgets and software affect our lives. It is daily, with about 63 episodes in the last 90 days as of October 2026, episodes usually run about 42 minutes, and it is rated 4.3 out of 5 from 3.8K ratings on Apple Podcasts, as of October 2026.
Start with: Apple's plot to crush OpenAI (July 2026). Full profile of The Vergecast.
Hard Fork is The New York Times' weekly show about "the future that's already here," launched in September 2022. Kevin Roose and Casey Newton hosted it from 2022 until both left the show in 2026; per the show's October 2026 feed, guest host Max Read and Times reporters are hosting for the next few months. Recent episodes in its feed run about an hour. It is rated 4.3 out of 5 from 5.5K ratings on Apple Podcasts, as of October 2026.
Start with: NotebookLM Blew Our Mind | Interview (199K views on YouTube as of October 2026). Full profile of Hard Fork.
TBPN is a live tech talk show hosted by John Coogan and Jordi Hays, streaming weekdays from 11 to 2 PT on X and YouTube, with full episodes posted afterward; "Diet TBPN" delivers the best moments in under 30 minutes. Counting both, it published about 106 episodes in the last 90 days as of October 2026, and episodes usually run about 43 minutes. It suits people who want to follow Silicon Valley news and interviews as they happen.
Start with: Martin Shkreli Breaks Down the Collapse of Situational Awareness (167K views on YouTube as of October 2026). Full profile of TBPN.
Equity is TechCrunch's flagship podcast on the business of startups. Every Wednesday and Friday, TechCrunch reporters, including Rebecca Bellan, Kirsten Korosec, Anthony Ha, Sean O'Kane and Theresa Loconsolo per its feed, cover business, technology and venture capital. It publishes two to three times a week as of October 2026, and episodes usually run about 33 minutes. It fits founders and investors who want startup news specifically.
Start with: Physical AI is more than robots, says the Nvidia veteran now investing in it (October 2026). Full profile of Equity.
Every Tuesday and Friday, journalist Kara Swisher and NYU professor Scott Galloway take on the biggest stories in tech, business and politics, with predictions and occasional guests, from New York Magazine and the Vox Media Podcast Network. The show started in September 2018. It publishes two to three times a week as of October 2026, episodes usually run about 62 minutes, and it is rated 4.2 out of 5 from 9K ratings on Apple Podcasts, as of October 2026.
Start with: Zuck's Meta Manifesto, Data Center Wars, and AI Slop Pushback (August 2026). Full profile of Pivot.
Hosted by Andrew Sharp with Ben Thompson, Sharp Tech is about understanding how tech works and the way it is changing the world, with listener Q&A segments. Some episodes in its public feed are previews of member episodes. It publishes weekly as of October 2026, and episodes usually run about 26 minutes. It is for listeners who want the strategy behind the week's Apple, Meta, Netflix and AI headlines.
Start with: Netflix Angst, the End of the Internet, and Meta’s VR Glasses (7.5K views on YouTube as of October 2026). Full profile of Sharp Tech.
Marques Brownlee (MKBHD) and co-hosts Andrew Manganelli and David Imel cover the latest in consumer tech and what deserves your money, on the Vox Media Podcast Network. It publishes weekly as of October 2026, and episodes usually run about 99 minutes. Recent episodes include "The 2026 Smartphone Awards Discussion Episode." It is the gadget pick on this list.
Start with: Apple iPhone 15 Event: USB-C Everything! (1.8M views on YouTube as of October 2026). Full profile of Waveform.
Nathaniel Whittemore (NLW) hosts this daily news analysis show on artificial intelligence, launched in April 2023, covering new tools, disruption to work and industries, and the bigger questions about advanced AI. It is daily, with about 78 episodes in the last 90 days as of October 2026, episodes usually run about 28 minutes, and it is rated 4.7 out of 5 from 864 ratings on Apple Podcasts, as of October 2026.
Start with: Moltbook, the Agent Social Nework, is the Craziest AI Phenomena Yet (265K views on YouTube as of October 2026). Full profile of The AI Daily Brief.
Schedules and lengths come from each show's own feed as of October 2026. Related lists: the best AI podcasts and the best venture capital podcasts, or browse all our podcast lists.
Our list: Built This Week, Tech Brew Ride Home, The Vergecast, Hard Fork, TBPN, Equity, Pivot, Sharp Tech, Waveform and The AI Daily Brief.
Tech Brew Ride Home, The Vergecast, TBPN and The AI Daily Brief all publish daily as of October 2026. Tech Brew Ride Home is the shortest, at about 22 minutes per episode.
Tech Brew Ride Home describes itself as a daily tech news summary that gets you up to date in about 15 minutes; its episodes usually run about 22 minutes as of October 2026.
Equity, TechCrunch's flagship podcast, covers the business of startups, technology and venture capital every Wednesday and Friday.
Kevin Roose and Casey Newton hosted Hard Fork from 2022 until both left in 2026; per the show's October 2026 feed, guest host Max Read and New York Times reporters are hosting for the next few months.
