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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.

Bill Gates says to prepare for 20 years of ‘tumultuous’ AI disruption
Oct 2026
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JB Pritzker thinks AI could help us live to 100 — or threaten us like nukes
Oct 2026
0:00 / 59:00
Why Elon Musk wants to sell you cell service
Oct 2026
0:00 / 53:53
Benn Jordan thinks the surveillance problem is much bigger than Flock
Oct 2026
0:00 / 62:20
Rewind: Ronan Farrow on Sam Altman’s ‘unconstrained’ relationship with the truth
Oct 2026
0:00 / 55:55
Another billionaire thinks he can fix Warner Bros.
Oct 2026
0:00 / 45:41
OpenAI has a Muse problem
Oct 2026 · 1 book
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Cover of Death of a Salesman
Death of a Salesman
Arthur Miller
we talk about his critically acclaimed run in death of a salesman ▶ tap to play from here
Adam Schiff on AI regulation, free speech, and impeaching Trump one more time
Oct 2026
0:00 / 58:28
The AI warnings are getting louder
Oct 2026
0:00 / 36:07
How Utah locals fought Kevin O'Leary's AI data center
Oct 2026
0:00 / 44:44
The SaaSpocalypse that wasn't, with Atlassian's CEO
Sep 2026
0:00 / 76:26
Can Cloudflare save the web from AI?
Sep 2026
0:00 / 78:12
I have some questions for Mark Zuckerberg
Sep 2026
0:00 / 23:11
Can CEO John Ternus find Apple's next big thing?
Sep 2026
0:00 / 58:26
Does AI need an antitrust exemption so it doesn't kill everyone????
Sep 2026
0:00 / 46:18
Microsoft AI CEO says AI threats are real, and Anthropic is making it worse
Sep 2026 · 1 book
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Cover of The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
Mustafa Suleyman
like i wrote about the idea of containment three or four years ago in my book ▶ tap to play from here
Adam Conover explains how YouTube ruined everything
Sep 2026 · 1 book
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Cover of It's Not TV: The History of HBO
It's Not TV: The History of HBO
Marc Graser
we had the authors of a great book called it's not tv which was a history of hbo on the show that's a fantastic book i love that the book rules ▶ tap to play from here
Why the current tech backlash feels different
Sep 2026
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How Sonos rebooted itself
Sep 2026
0:00 / 73:44
New York governor Kathy Hochul thinks AI should be “less evil"
Aug 2026
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