Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott on AI copilots, disagreeing with OpenAI, and Sydney making a comeback
Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott oversees the company's AI efforts, including its big partnership with OpenAI and ChatGPT. Kevin and I spoke ahead of his keynote talk at Microsoft Build, the company’s annual...
23 Maj 20231h 7min
Recode Media: Inside the AI Gold Rush
Today – we’ve got a treat for you. We’re going to run a special episode from our friends over at Vox. Peter Kafka and his team just wrapped up a special 3-part series on AI. AI has captured the imag...
16 Maj 202350min
Exclusive: Google’s Sundar Pichai talks Search, AI, and dancing with Microsoft
Hello and welcome to Decoder. I’m Nilay Patel, editor in chief of The Verge, and Decoder is my show about big ideas, and other problems. We have a special episode today – I’m talking to Sundar Pichai...
12 Maj 202342min
I can't make products just for 41 year old tech founders," Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky on taking it back to the basics
Brian Chesky, the co-founder and CEO of Airbnb, was previously on the show in 2021. Back then, Airbnb was betting big on long-term stays for remote work amid the pandemic, and Chesky had just restruct...
9 Maj 20231h 4min
The social media age for news is over. Former BuzzFeed News editor Ben Smith on what’s next
Ben Smith is the former and founding editor-in-chief of Buzzfeed News, the founder and editor-in-chief of Semafor, and the author of a new book called Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Bil...
2 Maj 20231h 11min
Bitcoin is still the future of payments, says Lightspark CEO David Marcus
We’ve got a special episode with Alex Heath, deputy editor at The Verge and a familiar host for Decoder listeners, and David Marcus, the CEO of Lightspark. That’s a company that just launched a servic...
25 Apr 202350min
Brightdrop isn’t just selling electric vans — it's redesigning delivery
Travis Katz is the CEO of BrightDrop, a subsidiary of GM that makes electrified delivery vans with an eye toward rebooting all of how delivery works. BrightDrop has pretty big partnerships already, wi...
18 Apr 20231h 11min
Is Substack Notes a ‘Twitter clone’? We asked CEO Chris Best.
It is fair to say that Substack has had a dramatic week and a half or so, and I talked to their CEO Chris Best about it. The company announced a new feature called Substack Notes, which looks quite a ...
13 Apr 20231h 8min
