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 FCC is a now a weapon in Trump’s war on free speech
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Sen. Ron Wyden is here to stop Elon Musk
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Elon Musk's presidency is just getting started
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Bookshop CEO Andy Hunter's crusade to save books from Amazon
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DeepSeek, Stargate, and the new AI arms race
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How Ciena keeps the internet online, with CEO Gary Smith
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How Meta's MAGA heel turn is a play for global power
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Why CEO Matt Garman is willing to bet AWS on AI
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Studying online bad behavior was hard. It's going to get harder in Trump 2.0
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Answering your biggest Decoder questions
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Tech antitrust is about to get really weird
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Arm CEO Rene Haas on the AI chip race, Intel, and what Trump means for tech
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Platforms need the news, but they're killing it
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Why every company wants a podcast now
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Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman says conversational AI is the next web browser
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AI is a money pit — here’s why investors don’t mind
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Rewind: Bluesky CEO Jay Graber on the future of federated social media
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GoDaddy CEO Aman Bhutani on the enduring power of the website
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Remix: Google Zero is here — now what?
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Will the world end before I can retire?
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How Trump’s second term could be bad for EVs, but great for Tesla
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Why the Grammys need to change, with CEO Harvey Mason Jr.
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Return-to-office mandates are more than "backdoor layoffs"
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Why GM ditched CarPlay, with software boss Baris Cetinok
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“It’s the First Amendment, stupid”
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Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky on what founder mode really means
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The AI arms race to build digital god
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Intuit asked us to delete part of this Decoder episode
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How influencers are changing advertising with Digitas CEO Amy Lanzi
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Duolingo CEO Luis Von Ahn wants you addicted to learning
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The impossible dream of good workplace software
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Rabbit CEO Jesse Lyu isn't thinking too far ahead
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The toxic transformation of Warcraft maker Blizzard
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NBCU's streaming chief isn't worried about you canceling cable
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Why Mark Zuckerberg wants to end the smartphone era
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Arc creator Josh Miller on why you need a better browser than Chrome
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Why Google is back in court for another monopoly showdown
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How Philips CEO Roy Jakobs is turning the company around after major recall
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Why AI image editing isn’t “just like Photoshop”
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Anthropic’s Mike Krieger wants to build AI products that are worth the hype
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How the Wayback Machine is fighting linkrot
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The AI election deepfakes have arrived
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Disney Is a Tech Company?
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How The Onion is saving itself from the digital media death spiral
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GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke says the AI industry needs competition to thrive
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What's next for the controversial 'child safety' internet bill
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Replika CEO Eugenia Kuyda says it’s okay if we end up marrying AI chatbots
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DOJ antitrust chief is ‘overjoyed’ after Google monopoly verdict
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Booking CEO Glenn Fogel wants you to take out your travel frustrations on AI cha...
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AI has a climate problem — but so does all of tech
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