What AI anime memes tell us about the future of art and humanity
Today, we’re diving head first into the AI art debate, which to be honest, is an absolute mess. If you’ve been on the internet this past week, you’ve seen the Studio Ghibli memes. These images are eve...
3 Apr 202555min
How Unity CEO Matt Bromberg stopped the ‘war’ against its customers
Unity is one of those hidden in plain sight companies we love here on Decoder, and CEO Matt Bromberg is in many ways the perfect Decoder guest. He's been on the job less than a year and took over in a...
31 Mar 20251h 10min
Capitalism vs. the bird flu
Today we’re talking about bird flu, but in a pretty Decoder way. Science journalist Lauren Leffer, who recently wrote a piece for The Verge about bird flu and how it’s becoming a forever war, is joini...
27 Mar 202545min
Splice CEO Kakul Srivastava on why push-button AI is “insulting” to musicians
Today, I’m talking with Kakul Srivastava, CEO of music creation platform Splice, which is one of the biggest marketplaces around for loops and samples. You can just go sign up, pay the money, and down...
24 Mar 20251h 6min
The movement to take down Tesla
Today we're talking about the Tesla Takedown protest movement, which has emerged as a way for people to express how deeply unhappy they are with Elon Musk installing himself as a not-so-shadow preside...
20 Mar 202547min
How Trump's tariff chaos is already changing global trade
I'm talking to Evan Smith, who started Altana in 2019 because he predicted the first wave of globalized manufacturing and trade would end, and that companies would want new powerful tools to adapt the...
17 Mar 20251h 7min
Why the Take It Down Act is a not a law, but a weapon
Today, I’m talking to Verge policy editor Adi Robertson about a bill called the Take It Down Act, which is one in a long line of bills that would make it illegal to distribute non-consensual intimate ...
13 Mar 202548min
Dow Jones CEO Almar Latour on AI, press freedom, and the future of news
Almar Latour is the publisher of the Wall Street Journal and also CEO of its parent company, Dow Jones — itself a part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. Almar's been with the paper since the 90s, and now...
10 Mar 20251h 4min
