Everybody wants to buy Chrome

Some weeks, it just feels like everything is up in the air all at the same time. Nilay and David are joined by The Verge’s Jake Kastrenakes to talk about all the unrest, starting with the ever-changing tariff rules that are making gadgets hard to price, hard to find, and hard to bet on going forward. (Maybe that’s why it seems everyone on Earth tried to pre-order a Switch 2 this week.) After that, the hosts catch up on the Meta and Google antitrust trials happening this week, and try to figure out who might be interested in the internet’s most popular browser. Finally, in the lightning round, we talk Brendan Carr (who is a dummy), the wood-backed Motorola Razr Ultra, and the 20th anniversary of YouTube.

Further reading:

Nintendo Switch 2 preorders were a total mess — at first

Nintendo Switch 2 preorders are sold out everywhere

GameStop’s Switch 2 preorders started poorly, too

Auto industry tariffs are doing what now? 24 hours of White House confusion

Did Tim Cook finagle a special tariff deal? Senator Warren wants to know

The US hikes tariffs on solar products from Asia

DHL halts international deliveries to US consumers worth over $800

Game Boy clone maker Anbernic suspends all shipments to US

Ayn, like Anbernic, is pausing retro handheld shipments to the US.

Perplexity wants to buy Chrome if Google has to sell it

OpenAI tells judge it would buy Chrome from Google

Former DOJ antitrust chief says a Google break up will benefit the internet

Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom says Zuckerberg “saw us as a threat”

Instagram launches its CapCut clone, Edits

Threads adds more ads

Former Google exec testifies about the company’s attempt to buy WhatsApp.

Google’s antitrust trial begins with a fight over Chrome, money, and AI

Google is paying Samsung an ‘enormous sum’ to preinstall Gemini

Google reveals Gemini AI has 350 million monthly active users.

Apple and Meta hit with the EU’s first DMA antitrust fines

The EU isn’t happy with Apple’s tax on alternative app stores



Brendan Carr is a dummy

From Puck: David Ellison’s Carr Trouble

The Trump FCC’s Coercion Cartel

Motorola’s new Razr Ultra brings the wood back panel back

YouTube’s TV changes include a redesign and more multiview

YouTube is everything and everything is YouTube

20 years ago, the first videos uploaded to YouTube were short and swee

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