Why AI image editing isn’t “just like Photoshop”
We’ve been covering the rise of AI image editing very closely here on Decoder and at The Verge for several years now — the ability to create photorealistic images with nothing more than a chatbot prom...
12 Sep 202441min
Anthropic’s Mike Krieger wants to build AI products that are worth the hype
Today, I’m talking with Mike Krieger, the new chief product officer at Anthropic, one of the hottest AI companies in the industry. Anthropic’s main product right now is Claude, the name of both its in...
9 Sep 20241h 19min
How the Wayback Machine is fighting linkrot
The web has a problem: huge chunks of it keep going offline. The web isn’t static, parts of it sometimes just… vanish. But it’s not all grim. The Internet Archive has a massive mission to identify an...
5 Sep 202440min
The AI election deepfakes have arrived
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. In the meantime we thought we’d re-share an explaine...
29 Aug 202441min
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
