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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The toxic transformation of Warcraft maker Bliz...
Journalist Jason Schreier discusses his new book, Play Nice: The Rise, Fall, and Future of Blizzard Entertainment.
45 min
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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
68 min
3
Why Mark Zuckerberg wants to end the smartphone...
The Meta CEO wants to get into AR and out of politics.
63 min
4
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
64 min
5
Why Google is back in court for another monopol...
It's round two in DOJ vs. Google; will Google take another L?
27 min
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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?
63 min
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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.
38 min
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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.
75 min
9
How the Wayback Machine is fighting linkrot
As more sites collapse and shutter, the internet has become full of roads to nowhere.
36 min
10
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.
37 min
11
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.
34 min
12
How The Onion is saving itself from the digital...
Its new owners plan to give The Onion another dumb century
54 min
13
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
73 min
14
What's next for the controversial 'child safety...
The Senate just passed KOSPA, but it's running headlong into the First Amendment.
34 min
15
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.
64 min
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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.
40 min
17
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.
69 min
18
AI has a climate problem — but so does all of tech
How do you decide if AI is "worth" the energy?
29 min
19
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.
57 min
20
The Supreme Court ruling that could kill net ne...
Why the on-again, off-again rule may stay dead this time
34 min
21
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.
60 min
22
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.
40 min
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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.
57 min
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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."
47 min
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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.
62 min