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 ever-changing landscape, what keeps them up at night, and what it all means for our shared future.

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Jensen Huang is out. What did China want from him?

2026-11-12 · 42 min

Today, we’re talking about the Jensen Huang scandal at Nvidia, which is developing so quickly that we had to do an emergency update of this intro minutes before publishing this episode — Huang just resigned from his…
The man who fought Napster is now fighting AI

2026-11-09 · 1 hr 14 min

I was in college when Napster hit, and the RIAA instantly became the big villain because it was suing kids for downloading music. That was when I decided to go be a copyright lawyer, which set the rest of my career in…
AI broke the cybersecurity world. Now what?

2026-11-07 · 1 hr 3 min

I’ve always enjoyed talking to security expert Alex Stamos because he’s so direct — and he doesn't mince words about how the multibillion dollar cybersecurity industry as we’ve known it is all but doomed thanks to the…
The hidden supply chain costs of the AI boom

2026-11-05 · 49 min

My guest today is Willy Shih, an economist, a professor of management practice at Harvard Business School, and the author of the upcoming book, Where Does My Stuff Come From? The Powerful Economics Behind Global Supply…
Why Peacock is making a huge bet on YouTube

2026-11-02 · 1 hr 10 min

There’s been a whole lot of organizational and structural change at NBCUniversal since the last time Matt Strauss joined Decoder. First, Comcast spun most of the cable channels off into something called Versant, and…
Inside Anthropic’s trillion-dollar AI gamble

2026-10-29 · 45 min

Today, I’m joined by Joey Brookhart, an analyst at the chip and AI research firm SemiAnalysis, to help me dig into the story inside the massive Anthropic IPO filing. This isn’t just about a single company’s financials,…
Kevin Roose is AGI-pilled. Why aren't you?

2026-10-26 · 1 hr 8 min

My guest today is Kevin Roose, a journalist and author of the new book The AGI Chronicles. Kevin was a longtime New York Times reporter and host of the popular podcast Hard Fork, but he and friend of the show Casey…
Bill Gates says to prepare for 20 years of ‘tumultuous’ AI disruption

2026-10-22 · 1 hr 17 min

My guest today is Bill Gates, co-founder and former CEO of Microsoft and chairman of the Gates Foundation. You may have noticed Bill in the news more lately — he’s been on something of a tour for the past few months…
JB Pritzker thinks AI could help us live to 100 — or threaten us like nukes

2026-10-19 · 59 min

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, has a lot of thoughts about AI, tech, and privacy. Those issues are driving a big and maybe kind of unexpected political realignment — and with the midterms coming up next month, and early…
Why Elon Musk wants to sell you cell service

2026-10-17 · 54 min

My guest today is Walter Piecyk, a telecom analyst at LightShed Partners, and we’re discussing SpaceX’s plan to become a major wireless carrier. Last week, the company agreed to buy a big chunk of low-band spectrum in…

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Oldest episode in feed: 07/2015 · over 11 years
Typical length: 57 min
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