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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DOJ’s Jonathan Kanter says the antitrust fight against Big Tech is just beginnin...
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Why EV adoption in the US has hit a roadblock
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Platformer’s Casey Newton on surviving the great media collapse and what comes n...
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Why Sen. Brian Schatz thinks child safety bills can trump the First Amendment
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Rep. Ro Khanna on what it will take for Congress to regulate AI, privacy, and so...
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How Adobe is managing the AI copyright dilemma, with general counsel Dana Rao
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How Donald Trump and Elon Musk killed Twitter, with Marty Baron and Zoe Schiffer
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Why Flexport CEO Ryan Petersen took his company back
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USDS head Mina Hsiang wants Big Tech’s best minds to help fix the government
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IBM's Jerry Chow explains the next phase of quantum computing
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Wix CEO Avishai Abrahami isn’t worried AI will kill the web
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Chaos at OpenAI: What happened to Sam Altman, and what's next
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Volvo CEO Jim Rowan thinks dropping CarPlay is a mistake
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Barack Obama on AI, free speech, and the future of the internet
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AI is on a collision course with the music industry. Reservoir's Golnar Khosrows...
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Harvard professor Lawrence Lessig on why AI and social media are causing a free...
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Clearview AI and the end of privacy, with author Kashmir Hill
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CEO David Baszucki's mission to make Roblox a billion-player platform
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Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe on ramping up R1T production and competing with the Cyber...
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Getty Images CEO Craig Peters has a plan to defend photography from AI
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Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott on how AI and art will coexist in the future
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'The Android of agriculture': Monarch Tractor CEO Praveen Penmetsa on the future...
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AMD CEO Lisa Su on the AI revolution
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X CEO Linda Yaccarino defends Elon Musk, and herself, at Code 2023
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Mark Zuckerberg on Threads, the future of AI, and Quest 3
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After 10 years covering startups, former TechCrunch EIC Matthew Panzarino tells...
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More than Sally Ride: Loren Grush explains how NASA’s first women astronauts cha...
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Biometrics? Bring it on: Why Okta’s Jameeka Green Aaron wants passwords to go aw...
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Fandom runs some of the biggest communities on the web. Can CEO Perkins Miller k...
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Land of the Giants: Tesla vs. The Competition
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There's no AI without the cloud, says AWS CEO Adam Selipsky
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Rewind: Can Mastodon seize the moment from Twitter?
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Why would anyone make a website in 2023? Squarespace CEO Anthony Casalena has so...
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Inside Google’s big AI shuffle — and how it plans to stay competitive, with Goog...
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Why CEO David Baszucki is ready for Roblox to grow up
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Gary Vaynerchuk is ‘petrified’ of Slack
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Private equity bought out your doctor and bankrupted Toys”R”Us. Here’s why that...
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SiriusXM’s 360 strategy with CEO Jennifer Witz
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Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott on AI copilots, disagreeing with OpenAI, and Sydney ma...
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Recode Media: Inside the AI Gold Rush
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Exclusive: Google’s Sundar Pichai talks Search, AI, and dancing with Microsoft
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I can't make products just for 41 year old tech founders," Airbnb CEO Brian Ches...
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The social media age for news is over. Former BuzzFeed News editor Ben Smith on...
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Bitcoin is still the future of payments, says Lightspark CEO David Marcus
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Brightdrop isn’t just selling electric vans — it's redesigning delivery
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Is Substack Notes a ‘Twitter clone’? We asked CEO Chris Best.
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Watching Silicon Valley Bank melt down from the front row with Brex CEO Henrique...
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The surprisingly complex business of toys, with Hasbro CEO Chris Cocks
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Can Mastodon seize the moment from Twitter?
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How to play the long game, with New York Times CEO Meredith Kopit Levien
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