Decoder with Nilay Patel

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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…

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OpenAI's executive exodus has one big winner 2026-08-27 · 41m
How GoFundMe became America's backup plan 2026-08-24 · 78m Read →
Welcome to the AI crisis in math 2026-08-20 · 41m
It's about ethics in journalism, with Ben Smith 2026-08-17 · 71m
Does Google even want to win in AI? 2026-08-13 · 39m
Bose CEO Lila Snyder on the fight for high-quality audio 2026-08-10 · 67m
The left and right agree on one thing: no data centers 2026-08-06 · 38m
Bluesky’s new CEO wants a big tent, not a bubble 2026-08-03 · 75m
The end of the human internet 2026-07-30 · 43m
Tariffs didn’t bring manufacturing jobs back to the US 2026-07-27 · 72m
What Apple’s OpenAI lawsuit is really about 2026-07-23 · 44m
Dr. Jill Lepore on why the AI backlash is vital for the future 2026-07-20 · 60m
Proton’s CTO: No company is going to jail for you 2026-07-16 · 84m
Yes, even Nvidia's head of automotive is fighting for compute 2026-07-13 · 72m
Why did Comcast ever buy NBC? 2026-07-09 · 63m
Inside the big business of the creator economy, with Ali Berman and Raina Penchansky 2026-07-06 · 68m
The CMO is a dying role, says Digitas' Amy Lanzi 2026-07-02 · 56m
He changed outdoor cooking forever — then took over Weber 2026-06-29 · 72m
Rewind: CEO Jim Farley on Ford's EV gamble 2026-06-25 · 64m
Can Patreon fight fire with social media fire? 2026-06-22 · 73m
Who decides when AI is too dangerous? 2026-06-18 · 41m
Skydio CEO argues more drones will make us safer 2026-06-15 · 73m
Condé Nast CEO Roger Lynch on AI, the Met Gala & his secret succession plan 2026-06-11 · 55m
Microsoft AI chief thinks superintelligence is near, but won't take your job 2026-06-08 · 76m
Elon Musk is steamrolling Wall Street to become a trillionaire 2026-06-04 · 49m
AI is blowing up music. How should the Grammys handle it? 2026-06-01 · 66m
Rivian's software chief thinks you don't need CarPlay or buttons 2026-05-28 · 70m
How Sundar Pichai is rethinking Google for the AI era 2026-05-26 · 51m
Musk v Altman: Much ado about nothing 2026-05-21 · 34m
Exclusive: Jonah Peretti explains why he sold BuzzFeed 2026-05-18 · 70m
How companies weaponize the terms of service against you 2026-05-14 · 55m
Joanna Stern is not a robot, but she lived with them 2026-05-11 · 60m
Rewind: How AI is fueling an existential crisis in education 2026-05-07 · 42m
Dara Khosrowshahi on replacing Uber drivers — and himself — with AI 2026-05-04 · 74m
How to win — or lose — Decoder 2026-04-30 · 45m
That UL safety logo is a lot more complicated than it looks 2026-04-27 · 63m
THE PEOPLE DO NOT YEARN FOR AUTOMATION 2026-04-23 · 19m
Canva's CEO on its big pivot to AI enterprise software 2026-04-20 · 67m
Ronan Farrow on Sam Altman's "unconstrained" relationship with the truth 2026-04-16 · 62m
Can Puck’s CEO reinvent the news business for the influencer age? 2026-04-13 · 75m
The AI industry's existential race for profits 2026-04-09 · 38m
Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins wants data centers in space 2026-04-06 · 58m
A jury says Meta and Google hurt a kid. What now? 2026-04-02 · 51m
Okta's CEO is betting big on AI agent identity 2026-03-30 · 67m
Everyone hates Ticketmaster. Why'd Trump go easy on them? 2026-03-26 · 38m
Confronting the CEO of the AI company that impersonated me 2026-03-23 · 76m
Paramount's $110 billion Warner Bros. gamble 2026-03-19 · 48m
Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone on reviving the web's homepage 2026-03-16 · 78m
Anthropic doesn't trust the Pentagon, and neither should you 2026-03-12 · 49m
Hasbro's CEO lets AI Peppa Pig help design toys 2026-03-09 · 72m
Prediction markets want to be the news 2026-03-05 · 45m
Zillow's CEO on growth during a housing crisis 2026-03-02 · 66m
Inside Xbox's executive shakeup 2026-02-26 · 43m
Hank Green lets loose on YouTube, billionaires, and algorithms 2026-02-23 · 71m
Money no longer matters to AI's top talent 2026-02-19 · 41m
Let's talk about Ring, lost dogs, and the surveillance state 2026-02-16 · 27m
The surprising case for AI judges 2026-02-12 · 73m
Siemens CEO's mission to automate everything 2026-02-09 · 63m
Reality is losing the deepfake war 2026-02-05 · 49m
Docusign's CEO on the dangers of trusting AI to read, and write, your contracts 2026-02-02 · 66m
Netflix is eating Hollywood — because it has to 2026-01-29 · 56m
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir' 2026-01-26 · 70m
Why nobody's stopping Grok 2026-01-22 · 66m
Razer CEO on AI in game dev, Grok, and anime waifus 2026-01-19 · 65m
Rewind: How private equity kills companies and communities 2026-01-15 · 52m
Dropout CEO Sam Reich on the business of subscription comedy 2026-01-12 · 64m
What’s next for Netflix and Paramount in the Warner Bros. battle 2025-12-22 · 44m
"All chaos and panic": Nilay answers your burning Decoder questions 2025-12-18 · 57m
Stack Overflow users don't trust AI. They're using it anyway 2025-12-15 · 65m
Sen. Ed Markey wants media companies to fight for the First Amendment 2025-12-11 · 58m
Square's product chief on the death of the penny and the future of money 2025-12-08 · 74m
The tiny team trying to keep AI from destroying everything 2025-12-04 · 38m
IBM CEO Arvind Krishna says there is no AI bubble after all 2025-12-01 · 70m
What the climate story gets wrong 2025-11-24 · 51m
The DoorDash Problem: How AI browsers are a huge threat to Amazon 2025-11-20 · 31m
Ring's Jamie Siminoff thinks AI can reduce crime 2025-11-17 · 70m
The company at the heart of the AI bubble 2025-11-13 · 38m
Sir Tim Berners-Lee doesn’t think AI will destroy the web 2025-11-10 · 55m
How AI is fueling an existential crisis in education 2025-11-06 · 40m
Lyft CEO David Risher on paying drivers more and the shift to robotaxis 2025-11-03 · 78m
How Silicon Valley enshittified the internet 2025-10-30 · 70m
LexisNexis CEO says the AI law era is already here 2025-10-27 · 65m
Why GM will give you Gemini — but not CarPlay 2025-10-22 · 78m
Zocdoc CEO: "Dr. Google is going to be replaced by Dr. AI" 2025-10-20 · 66m
The EV tax credit is dead. What now? 2025-10-16 · 40m
Announcing an ad-free Decoder feed for Verge subscribers 2025-10-15
The AI industry is at a major crossroads 2025-10-09 · 44m
Rivian CEO on CarPlay, Lidar, and affordable EVs 2025-10-06 · 51m
The good, the bad, and the future of AI agents 2025-10-02 · 47m
Ford CEO Jim Farley on China, tariffs, and the quest for a $30,000 EV 2025-09-29 · 63m
How AI safety took a backseat to military money 2025-09-25 · 43m
Dropout CEO Sam Reich on business, comedy, and keeping culture weird 2025-09-22 · 66m
How chatbots — and their makers — are enabling AI psychosis 2025-09-18 · 50m
How brands and creators are fighting for your attention — and your money 2025-09-15 · 61m
Sierra CEO Bret Taylor on why the AI bubble feels like the dotcom boom 2025-09-11 · 51m
Sal Khan is hopeful that AI won't destroy education 2025-09-08 · 64m
The quest to keep OpenAI honest 2025-09-04 · 40m
Rewind: Bookshop CEO's crusade to save books from Amazon 2025-08-28 · 67m
Is ChatGPT killing higher education? 2025-08-25 · 57m
Amazon is betting on agents to win the AI race 2025-08-21 · 54m
How the head of Obsidian went from superfan to CEO 2025-08-18 · 54m
ChatGPT chief Nick Turley doesn't want you too attached to AI 2025-08-14 · 55m
Notion's CEO wants you to demand better from your tools 2025-08-11 · 56m
GitHub's CEO says AI coding is ‘here to stay’ 2025-08-07 · 61m
Why tech is racing to adopt AI coding 2025-08-04 · 56m
Why AI researchers are getting paid like NBA All-Stars 2025-07-31 · 40m
Can we ever trust an AI lawyer? 2025-07-28 · 55m
We are not ready for better deepfakes 2025-07-24 · 57m
Why tech billionaires want a ‘corporate dictatorship’ 2025-07-21 · 62m
Perplexity CEO on why the browser is AI's killer app 2025-07-17 · 50m
How decision making will change when AI answers are cheap and (too) easy 2025-07-14 · 63m
Inside the AI startup frenzy: ‘Everyone’s pivoting, then pivoting again’ 2025-07-10 · 49m
How SharkNinja took over the home 2025-07-07 · 84m
Why Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg went to war over WordPress 2025-06-30 · 69m
Hinge CEO Justin McLeod says dating AI chatbots is 'playing with fire' 2025-06-23 · 63m
Monopoly isn’t a game (with Lina Khan) 2025-06-12 · 61m
Taskrabbit CEO Ania Smith isn’t afraid of AI robots replacing human labor 2025-06-09 · 68m
Why Runway CEO Cris Valenzuela thinks AI filmmaking is the future 2025-06-05 · 53m
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky wants to build the everything app 2025-06-02 · 74m
How private equity kills companies and communities 2025-05-29 · 49m
Google CEO Sundar Pichai on the next phase of AI 2025-05-27 · 46m
Why Uber's CEO is okay with reinventing the bus 2025-05-22 · 63m
Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott on how AI can save the web, not destroy it 2025-05-19 · 71m
Workday's new product head hopes he can make you like Workday 2025-05-15 · 74m
Did Apple get too big for its own good? 2025-05-12 · 79m
Reuters is ready to stand up for the press — and embrace AI 2025-05-08 · 66m
NYT publisher AG Sulzberger on Trump, OpenAI, and the economy 2025-05-05 · 67m
What Trump has broken in 100 days 2025-05-01 · 48m
Decoder Live: Fired FTC commissioners fight back 2025-04-28 · 55m
The case for breaking up Google has never been stronger 2025-04-24 · 68m
Verizon’s consumer chief: Net neutrality ‘went literally nowhere’ 2025-04-21 · 69m
How Trump’s tariffs actually work on the ground 2025-04-17 · 63m
Are prediction markets gambling? Robinhood's Vlad Tenev is betting not 2025-04-14 · 75m
Why DOGE is killing the agency that stops banks from ripping you off 2025-04-10 · 48m
UiPath CEO Daniel Dines on AI agents replacing our jobs 2025-04-07 · 67m
What AI anime memes tell us about the future of art and humanity 2025-04-03 · 56m
How Unity CEO Matt Bromberg stopped the ‘war’ against its customers 2025-03-31 · 70m
Capitalism vs. the bird flu 2025-03-27 · 46m
Splice CEO Kakul Srivastava on why push-button AI is “insulting” to musicians 2025-03-24 · 67m
The movement to take down Tesla 2025-03-20 · 47m
How Trump's tariff chaos is already changing global trade 2025-03-17 · 67m
Why the Take It Down Act is a not a law, but a weapon 2025-03-13 · 48m
Dow Jones CEO Almar Latour on AI, press freedom, and the future of news 2025-03-10 · 65m
Flying is still safe, for now — but the FAA isn’t 2025-03-06 · 41m
Amazon’s Panos Panay on the long road to Alexa’s AI overhaul 2025-03-03 · 70m
Elon Musk's polarizing ascent in the MAGA movement 2025-02-27 · 36m
Vimeo CEO Philip Moyer is betting on the human touch — and AI 2025-02-24 · 73m
Why gaming never had its Netflix moment 2025-02-20 · 55m
The FCC is a now a weapon in Trump’s war on free speech 2025-02-13 · 47m
Sen. Ron Wyden is here to stop Elon Musk 2025-02-10 · 59m
Elon Musk's presidency is just getting started 2025-02-06 · 41m
Bookshop CEO Andy Hunter's crusade to save books from Amazon 2025-02-03 · 66m
DeepSeek, Stargate, and the new AI arms race 2025-01-30 · 29m
How Ciena keeps the internet online, with CEO Gary Smith 2025-01-27 · 73m
How Meta's MAGA heel turn is a play for global power 2025-01-23 · 50m
Why CEO Matt Garman is willing to bet AWS on AI 2025-01-13 · 66m
Studying online bad behavior was hard. It's going to get harder in Trump 2.0 2025-01-06 · 57m
Answering your biggest Decoder questions 2024-12-20 · 53m
Tech antitrust is about to get really weird 2024-12-18 · 36m
Arm CEO Rene Haas on the AI chip race, Intel, and what Trump means for tech 2024-12-16 · 42m
Platforms need the news, but they're killing it 2024-12-13 · 54m
Why every company wants a podcast now 2024-12-11 · 38m
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman says conversational AI is the next web browser 2024-12-09 · 73m
AI is a money pit — here’s why investors don’t mind 2024-12-05 · 34m
Rewind: Bluesky CEO Jay Graber on the future of federated social media 2024-12-02 · 71m
GoDaddy CEO Aman Bhutani on the enduring power of the website 2024-11-25 · 53m
Remix: Google Zero is here — now what? 2024-11-21 · 30m
Will the world end before I can retire? 2024-11-18 · 41m
How Trump’s second term could be bad for EVs, but great for Tesla 2024-11-14 · 36m
Why the Grammys need to change, with CEO Harvey Mason Jr. 2024-11-11 · 71m
Return-to-office mandates are more than "backdoor layoffs" 2024-11-07 · 39m
Why GM ditched CarPlay, with software boss Baris Cetinok 2024-11-04 · 71m
“It’s the First Amendment, stupid” 2024-10-31 · 39m
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky on what founder mode really means 2024-10-28 · 72m
The AI arms race to build digital god 2024-10-24 · 43m
Intuit asked us to delete part of this Decoder episode 2024-10-21 · 57m
How influencers are changing advertising with Digitas CEO Amy Lanzi 2024-10-17 · 61m
Duolingo CEO Luis Von Ahn wants you addicted to learning 2024-10-14 · 80m
The impossible dream of good workplace software 2024-10-10 · 50m
Rabbit CEO Jesse Lyu isn't thinking too far ahead 2024-10-07 · 79m
The toxic transformation of Warcraft maker Blizzard 2024-10-03 · 50m
NBCU's streaming chief isn't worried about you canceling cable 2024-09-30 · 72m
Why Mark Zuckerberg wants to end the smartphone era 2024-09-25 · 67m
Arc creator Josh Miller on why you need a better browser than Chrome 2024-09-23 · 68m
Why Google is back in court for another monopoly showdown 2024-09-19 · 31m
How Philips CEO Roy Jakobs is turning the company around after major recall 2024-09-16 · 67m
Why AI image editing isn’t “just like Photoshop” 2024-09-12 · 42m
Anthropic’s Mike Krieger wants to build AI products that are worth the hype 2024-09-09 · 79m
How the Wayback Machine is fighting linkrot 2024-09-05 · 40m
The AI election deepfakes have arrived 2024-08-29 · 41m
Disney Is a Tech Company? 2024-08-26 · 38m
How The Onion is saving itself from the digital media death spiral 2024-08-22 · 58m
GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke says the AI industry needs competition to thrive 2024-08-19 · 77m
What's next for the controversial 'child safety' internet bill 2024-08-15 · 38m
Replika CEO Eugenia Kuyda says it’s okay if we end up marrying AI chatbots 2024-08-12 · 68m
DOJ antitrust chief is ‘overjoyed’ after Google monopoly verdict 2024-08-08 · 44m
Booking CEO Glenn Fogel wants you to take out your travel frustrations on AI chatbots 2024-08-05 · 73m
AI has a climate problem — but so does all of tech 2024-08-01 · 33m
Logitech CEO Hanneke Faber wants your next mouse to last forever 2024-07-29 · 61m
The Supreme Court ruling that could kill net neutrality 2024-07-25 · 38m
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