Inside the players and politics of the AI industry
We’ve got a special episode of the show today – I was traveling last week, so Verge deputy editor Alex Heath and our new senior AI reporter Kylie Robison are filling in for me, with a very different k...
20 Juni 202445min
Why Tubi CEO Anjali Sud thinks free TV can win again
Tubi is a free and very rapidly growing streaming TV platform — according to Nielsen, it had an average of a million viewers watching every minute in May 2024, beating out Disney Plus, Max, Peacock, a...
17 Juni 20241h 7min
Remix: How private equity took over everything
Private equity is a simple concept — a PE firm uses some combination of money and debt to buy a company, then makes a profit — but the reality of what happens to the companies that get acquired is any...
13 Juni 202439min
AI will make money sooner than you think, says Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez
Cohere is one of the buzziest AI startups around right now. It's not making consumer products; it's focused on the enterprise market and making AI products for big companies. And there's a huge tensio...
10 Juni 20241h 10min
Why the video game industry is such a mess
The art of video game design is flourishing, but it feels like a really grim time to be in the business of making and distributing games. Huge global publishers and tiny indie studios alike are facing...
6 Juni 202437min
Zoom CEO Eric Yuan wants AI clones in meetings
Today, I’m talking with Zoom CEO Eric Yuan — and let me tell you, this conversation is nothing like what I expected. It turns out Eric wants Zoom to be much, much more than just a videoconferencing pl...
3 Juni 20241h 1min
Google Zero is here. Now what?
For nearly 20 years now, the web has been Google’s platform; we’ve all just lived on it. I think of Decoder as a show for people trying to build things, and a lot of people have built their things on ...
30 Maj 202427min
How the FBI built its own smartphone company to hack the criminal underworld
Today, I’m talking with Joseph Cox, one of the best cybersecurity reporters around and a co-founder of the new media site 404 Media. Joseph has a new book coming out in June called Dark Wire: The Incr...
23 Maj 202442min
