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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NBCU's streaming chief isn't worried about you ...
Matt Strauss, head of Peacock and global streaming, has plans to keep you watching
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Why Mark Zuckerberg wants to end the smartphone...
The Meta CEO wants to get into AR and out of politics.
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Arc creator Josh Miller on why you need a bette...
The Browser Company cofounder thinks it's time to modernize the browser and reinvent the web
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Why Google is back in court for another monopol...
It's round two in DOJ vs. Google; will Google take another L?
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How Philips CEO Roy Jakobs is turning the compa...
Lightbulbs and electronics defined a century of Royal Philips. Can AI and healthcare define its next era?
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Why AI image editing isn’t “just like Photoshop”
Analyzing the arguments used to downplay what AI is doing to photography — and to our relationship with visual truth.
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Anthropic’s Mike Krieger wants to build AI prod...
Anthropic’s new chief product officer discusses the promise and limits of chatbots like Claude, and what’s next for generative AI.
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How the Wayback Machine is fighting linkrot
As more sites collapse and shutter, the internet has become full of roads to nowhere.
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The AI election deepfakes have arrived
Six months ago, we talked with The Verge’s Adi Robertson about AI-generated election misinformation. Now, it is here in full force — and it’s getting worse.
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Disney Is a Tech Company?
This episode of Vulture’s Land of the Giants explores Disney’s foray into streaming, what led it there, and what it means for the future of the company.
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How The Onion is saving itself from the digital...
Its new owners plan to give The Onion another dumb century
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GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke says the AI industry n...
Dohmke says avigating Microsoft-OpenAI isn't as complicated as it seems — and open source is still king
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What's next for the controversial 'child safety...
The Senate just passed KOSPA, but it's running headlong into the First Amendment.
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Replika CEO Eugenia Kuyda says it’s okay if we ...
The founder of chatbot company Replika on the bold, weird future of human-AI relationships.
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DOJ antitrust chief is ‘overjoyed’ after Google...
The antitrust chief of the Justice Department says he’s “overjoyed” a federal judge declared Google a monopolist.
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Booking CEO Glenn Fogel wants you to take out y...
The head of online hotel and flight giant Booking on how competition, regulation, and AI are changing travel.
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AI has a climate problem — but so does all of tech
How do you decide if AI is "worth" the energy?
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Logitech CEO Hanneke Faber wants your next mous...
The new head of Logitech discusses the company’s return to growth and plans to reduce its carbon footprint by half.
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The Supreme Court ruling that could kill net ne...
Why the on-again, off-again rule may stay dead this time
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Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe says too many carmakers ...
Rivian’s founder discusses the R2 and R3 roadmap, the company’s $5 billion VW deal, and his thoughts on the Tesla Model Y.
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What happened to the metaverse?
Author Matthew Ball discusses his updated book “The Metaverse,” and how AI and the Apple Vision Pro fit into the evolution of the spatial internet.
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Biden’s top tech advisor on why AI safety is a ...
Prabhakar, a former DARPA chief, says the time to regulate AI is now.
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Why The Atlantic signed a deal with OpenAI
With journalism facing an existential threat, Atlantic CEO Nicholas Thompson says, “AI is coming. It is coming quickly. We want to be part of whatever transition happens."
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Canva CEO Melanie Perkins is happy to provide d...
To her, AI is just the newest in a long string of tools to make design accessible.
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How Big Green Egg CEO Dan Gertsacov is getting ...
Fire is literally the oldest technology humanity has, but grilling is a very modern business.
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