Podcast Episodes

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 photorea…

1 year, 6 months ago

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 p…

1 year, 6 months ago

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 Inte…

1 year, 6 months ago

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. I…

1 year, 6 months ago

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, a…

1 year, 6 months ago

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 epis…

1 year, 6 months ago

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…

1 year, 7 months ago

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 KO…

1 year, 7 months ago

Replika CEO Eugenia Kuyda says it’s okay if we end up marrying AI chatbots

Today, I’m talking with Replika founder and CEO Eugenia Kuyda, and I will just tell you right away, we get all the way to people marrying their AI co…

1 year, 7 months ago

DOJ antitrust chief is ‘overjoyed’ after Google monopoly verdict

Today, I’m talking to Jonathan Kanter, the assistant attorney general for antitrust at the United States Department of Justice. This is Jonathan’s se…

1 year, 7 months ago