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Back to SearchThe rise of shadow lobbying and its influence on decades of US policy
Today, we’re talking about politics and lobbying in America. It’s hard to imagine a time when the influence of big corporations and billionaires didn…
1 year, 8 months ago
Netflix co-CEO Greg Peters on the streamer's shifting culture and where ads, AI, and games fit in
Today, I’m talking with Greg Peters, the co-CEO of Netflix. I caught up with Greg while he was at the Cannes Lions festival in France, which is basic…
1 year, 8 months ago
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 Rob…
1 year, 9 months ago
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…
1 year, 9 months ago
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 wha…
1 year, 9 months ago
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 pr…
1 year, 9 months ago
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…
1 year, 9 months ago
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 …
1 year, 9 months ago
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 thin…
1 year, 9 months ago
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…
1 year, 9 months ago