USDS head Mina Hsiang wants Big Tech’s best minds to help fix the government
The US Digital Service has a fascinating structure: it comprises nearly 250 people, all of whom serve two-year stints developing apps, improving websites, and streamlining government services. You cou...
12 Dec 20231h 4min
IBM's Jerry Chow explains the next phase of quantum computing
IBM made some announcements this week about its plans for the next ten years of quantum computing: there are new chips, new computers, and new APIs. Quantum computers could in theory entirely revoluti...
5 Dec 202355min
Wix CEO Avishai Abrahami isn’t worried AI will kill the web
Today I’m talking with Avishai Abrahami, the CEO of Wix. You might know Wix as a website builder. It’s a competitor to WordPress and Squarespace. Tons of sites across the web run on Wix. But the web i...
28 Nov 20231h 11min
Chaos at OpenAI: What happened to Sam Altman, and what's next
What actually happened at OpenAI in the last three days? Decoder host and Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel talks with Verge editors Alex Heath and David Pierce to break it down and try to work out wh...
20 Nov 20231h 9min
Volvo CEO Jim Rowan thinks dropping CarPlay is a mistake
Today, I’m talking to Jim Rowan, the CEO of Volvo Cars. Now, Jim’s only been at Volvo for a short time. He took over in 2022 after a decades-long career in the consumer electronics industry. Before Vo...
14 Nov 20231h 7min
Barack Obama on AI, free speech, and the future of the internet
We’ve got a good one today. I’m talking to former President Barack Obama about AI, social networks, and how to think about democracy as both of those things collide. I sat down with Obama last week ...
7 Nov 202347min
AI is on a collision course with the music industry. Reservoir's Golnar Khosrowshahi thinks there’s a way through it
Today I'm talking with Golnar Khosrowshahi, the founder and CEO of Reservoir Media, a newer record label that I think looks a lot like the future of the music industry. As Golnar explains, Reservoir t...
31 Okt 202356min
Harvard professor Lawrence Lessig on why AI and social media are causing a free speech crisis for the internet
Today, I’m talking to internet policy legend Lawrence Lessig. He's been teaching law for more than 30 years, and is a defining expert on free speech and the internet — and something of a hero of mine,...
24 Okt 202354min
