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Follow Follow See All by David Pierce is editor-at-large and Vergecast co-host with over a decade of experience covering consumer tech. Previously, at Protocol, The Wall Street Journal, and Wired. The cars rolling off production lines right now are filled with old ideas.

From beginning to end, the creation of a new vehicle can take five years or longer — which is plenty of time for a lot of tastes, politics, and gas prices to change. That’s one reason car manufacturers are so enthusiastic about the potential for AI to help speed up certain parts of the process, from model-making to wind-tunneling. LLMs could be poised to change the way we get around.

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Verge subscribers, don’t forget you get exclusive access to ad-free Vergecast wherever you get your podcasts. You can sign up here . On this episode of The Vergecast , automotive and tech journalist (and frequent Verge contributor) Tim Stevens explains how car companies are adopting AI, and why speeding up development could be such a big deal.

He also tells us why, even though the car companies swear they’re not planning to replace humans with AI, we should be worried about what happens when car companies replace humans with AI. At the end of this transformation, will AI models be the ones deciding what cars we drive? And what might they pick?

That future is a ways out, but it’s worth thinking about now. After that, The Verge ’s Hayden Field joins the show to catch up on a bunch of the biggest stories in AI. Claude Code and Codex are competing for AI coding supremacy; Anthropic either is or isn’t back in with the US government, and it’s not entirely clear how much it even matters; the vibes at OpenAI are slightly better but still not great; AGI is dead , maybe.

This advance offers important signals about the future of the sector, and the tech world is watching closely.