Disney Is a Tech Company?
Decoder is off this week for a short end-of-summer break. We’ll be back with both our interview and explainer episodes after the Labor Day holiday, and I’m very excited for what we have coming up on t...
26 Aug 202438min
How The Onion is saving itself from the digital media death spiral
The Onion is a comedy institution — and like everything else in media, it went on a pure nightmare hell ride in the 2010s. We could do an entire episode on the G/O Media calamity, but the short versio...
22 Aug 202457min
GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke says the AI industry needs competition to thrive
Today I’m talking with Thomas Dohmke, the CEO of GitHub. GitHub is the platform for managing code – but since 2018, it’s also been owned by Microsoft. We talk a lot about how independent GitHub really...
19 Aug 20241h 16min
What's next for the controversial 'child safety' internet bill
There’s a major internet speech regulation currently making its way through Congress, and it has a really good chance of becoming law. It’s called KOSPA: the Kids Online Safety and Privacy Act, which ...
15 Aug 202438min
Replika CEO Eugenia Kuyda says it’s okay if we end up marrying AI chatbots
Today, I’m talking with Replika founder and CEO Eugenia Kuyda, and I will just tell you right away, we get all the way to people marrying their AI companions, so get ready. It’s a ride. Replika’s bas...
12 Aug 20241h 8min
DOJ antitrust chief is ‘overjoyed’ after Google monopoly verdict
Today, I’m talking to Jonathan Kanter, the assistant attorney general for antitrust at the United States Department of Justice. This is Jonathan’s second time on the show, and it’s a bit of an emergen...
8 Aug 202443min
Booking CEO Glenn Fogel wants you to take out your travel frustrations on AI chatbots
Today, I’m talking with Glenn Fogel, the CEO of Booking Holdings, which owns a large portfolio of familiar travel brands: OpenTable, Kayak, and Priceline, as well as its largest subsidiary, Booking.co...
5 Aug 20241h 12min
AI has a climate problem — but so does all of tech
Every time we talk about AI, we get one big piece of feedback that I really want to dive into: how the lightning-fast explosion of AI tools affects the climate. AI takes a lot of energy, and there’s a...
1 Aug 202432min
