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The Vergecast · December 19, 2025 · 75m
The Year in Tech 2025: What Mattered
Year-end review of the biggest tech stories of 2025: AI's rapid integration into everything, the platform regulation battles, and the hardware innovations that mattered.
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The defining characteristic of tech in 2025 was AI's transition from visible product to invisible environment. AI stopped being something you use and became something you live in.
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Looking back at 2025's tech innovations, they feel incremental and obvious — even though they would have seemed revolutionary from the perspective of 2023.
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