Decoder with Nilay Patel
Decoder is a show from The Verge about big ideas — and other problems. Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel talks to a diverse cast of innovators and policymakers at the frontiers of business and technology to reveal how they’re navigating an ever-changing landscape, what keeps them up at night, and what it all means for our shared future.
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Rewind: How private equity kills companies and ...
Author Megan Greenwell on her book Bad Company and the scourge of private equity.
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Dropout CEO Sam Reich on the business of subscr...
“I wish that I could plant a forest full of weird trees on the internet.”
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What’s next for Netflix and Paramount in the Wa...
Channels host Peter Kafka interviews Bloomberg’s Lucas Shaw about the biggest story in entertainment.
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"All chaos and panic": Nilay answers your burni...
Nilay joins Decoder producers Kate Cox and Nick Statt for our special end-of-year mailbag episode.
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Stack Overflow users don't trust AI. They're us...
CEO Prashanth Chandresekar on running the most popular developer forum in a post-ChatGPT world.
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Sen. Ed Markey wants media companies to fight f...
“Grow up, Mr. President. Grow up, Brendan Carr.”
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Square's product chief on the death of the penn...
Square’s Willem Avé on AI automation, investing in crypto, and what it’s like working for Jack Dorsey.
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The tiny team trying to keep AI from destroying...
The societal impacts team at Anthropic is a nine-person group studying the global effects of AI. Is it just for show, and how long can it survive?
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IBM CEO Arvind Krishna says there is no AI bubb...
IBM was early to AI and quantum, but Arvind still thinks the bets will pay off
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What the climate story gets wrong
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The DoorDash Problem: How AI browsers are a hug...
Amazon’s lawsuit against Perplexity has blown the doors open on the great AI browser fight.
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Ring's Jamie Siminoff thinks AI can reduce crime
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The company at the heart of the AI bubble
What the rise of data center company CoreWave tells us about the future of the AI industry.
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Sir Tim Berners-Lee doesn’t think AI will destr...
The inventor of the World Wide Web on why he’s still optimistic about the future of the internet.
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How AI is fueling an existential crisis in educ...
The system is broken. ChatGPT cheating is just a symptom.
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Lyft CEO David Risher on paying drivers more an...
Risher sees Lyft as a service company above all, but AI makes everything weird.
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How Silicon Valley enshittified the internet
Enshittification' author Cory Doctorow on why things get worse, and how to fight back.
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LexisNexis CEO says the AI law era is already here
LexisNexis' Sean Fitzpatrick promises his AI won't get you in trouble with a judge.
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Why GM will give you Gemini — but not CarPlay
CEO Mary Barry and new chief product officer Sterling Anderson on the company's plans for AI, autonomy, and EVs.
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Zocdoc CEO: "Dr. Google is going to be replaced...
The head of the booking platform for doctors on competition and where AI belongs in healthcare.
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The EV tax credit is dead. What now?
The expiration of the $7,500 federal EV tax credit has US automakers scrambling.
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Announcing an ad-free Decoder feed for Verge su...
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The AI industry is at a major crossroads
Imbue CEO Kanjun Qiu joins guest host Hayden Field to break down this week’s biggest AI news, and where the industry goes from here.
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Rivian CEO on CarPlay, Lidar, and affordable EVs
RJ Scaringe on not politicizing his company’s brand and dealing with tariffs, China, and the road to for R2.
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The good, the bad, and the future of AI agents
Anthropic's David Hershey comes on Decoder to discuss Claude Sonnet 4.5 and the current landscape for agentic AI.
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