Best Drew Perkins Podcasts (2024)

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Arc creator Josh Miller on why you need a better browser than Chrome 1:12:20

4m ago1:12:20

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Today, I’m talking with Josh Miller, co-founder and CEO of The Browser Company, a relatively new software maker that develops the Arc browser. The company also has a mobile app called Arc Search that does AI summaries of webpages, which puts it right in the middle of a contentious debate in the tech industry around paying web creators for their wor…

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Jennifer Webb - Trust Director for English and Literacy - Leeds 1:30:41

9h ago1:30:41

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In this episode I’m speaking to Jennifer Webb. Jenny is nothing short of a legend in English teaching after writing a number of hugely beneficial books ranging from how to teach reading and writing to metacognition as well as grammar instruction for secondary professionals. On top of this, she is a constant source of insight via her in person and v…

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Why Google is back in court for another monopoly showdown 35:28

14h ago35:28

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Google’s in the middle of its antitrust case in just as many months, after it lost a landmark trial in August over anticompetitive search practices. This time around, the DOJ is claiming Google has another illegal monopoly in the online advertising market. Verge senior policy reporter Lauren Feiner has been on the ground at the courthouse to hear t…

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Denver Coaches' Show - S2E6 - Alicia Hicken-Franklin and Barbara Perkins

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The University of Denver Division of Athletics weekly coaches' show returns with updates from Denver men’s and women’s swimming and diving head coach Alicia Hicken-Franklin and Denver triathlon head coach Barbara Perkins. DU's weekly coaches show is presented by the Johnson Financial Group from Your Front Range Toyota Stores Studios.…

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How Philips CEO Roy Jakobs is turning the company around after major recall 1:11:12

5h ago1:11:12

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Today, I’m talking with Roy Jakobs. He’s the CEO of Royal Philips, which makes medical devices ranging from MRI machines to ventilators. Philips has a long history —- the company began in the late 19th century as a lightbulb manufacturer, and over the past century it’s grown and shrunk in various ways. Basically, while every other company has been …

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Why AI image editing isn’t “just like Photoshop” 45:50

23h ago45:50

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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 prompt could completely reset our cultural relationship to photography. But one argument keeps cropping up in response. You’ve heard it a million times, a…

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Denver Coaches' Show - S2E5 - Martha Richards and Gary Bissell

13d ago

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The University of Denver Division of Athletics weekly coaches' show returns on Wednesday night with updates on both Denver golf programs, featuring women's golf head coach Martha Richards in the first segment, followed by men's golf head coach Gary Bissell in the second half of the show. DU's weekly coaches show is presented by the Johnson Financia…

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Anthropic’s Mike Krieger wants to build AI products that are worth the hype 1:23:19

4d ago1:23:19

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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 industry-leading AI model and a chatbot that competes with ChatGPT. Mike has a fascinating resume: he was the cofounder of Instagram, and then started A…

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How the Wayback Machine is fighting linkrot 44:01

8d ago44:01

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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 and back up our online world into a vast digital library. In 2001, it launched the Wayback Machine, an interface that lets anyone call up snapshots of si…

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Denver Coaches' Show - S2E4 Part 2 - Julianne Sitch

9d ago

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Denver Women's Soccer Head Coach Julianne Sitch looks back on the first six games of the 2024 campaign ahead of her program's trip to CU on Thursday night. DU's weekly coaches show is presented by the Johnson Financial Group from Your Front Range Toyota Stores Studios.

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Denver Coaches' Show - S2E4 Part 1 - Jamie Franks

9d ago

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Jack and Sheila Weinberg Head Men's Soccer Coach Jamie Franks looks back at his team's first four matches of the 2024 season before previewing the upcoming trip to Creighton. DU's weekly coaches show is presented by the Johnson Financial Group from Your Front Range Toyota Stores Studios.

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The AI election deepfakes have arrived 45:06

15d ago45:06

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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 explainer that’s taken on a whole new relevance in the last couple weeks, about deepfakes and misinformation. In February, I talked with Verge policy editor A…

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Denver Coaches' Show - S2E3 - Megan Pendergast

28d ago

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Denver volleyball head coach Megan Pendergast joins host Tyler Maun for this week's episode of the Denver Pioneers' Coaches' Show ahead of this weekend's season openers. DU's weekly coaches show is presented by the Johnson Financial Group from Your Front Range Toyota Stores Studios.

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Disney Is a Tech Company? 42:23

18d ago42:23

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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 the schedule. But while we’re out, we’d like to highlight a great episode from the Land of the Giants podcast, which is over at Vulture this season, fo…

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A Zoom with a View #2 1:40:44

18d ago1:40:44

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In this episode, I’m talking to Eoin MacCarthaigh. This is the second in what we hope will be a long line of episodes focused on issues in and around English teaching. For anyone who hasn’t listened before, we bring forth 3 unknown issues to be discussed each, relating to things that we’ve thought, learnt or considered lately. We discuss: Uncertain…

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How The Onion is saving itself from the digital media death spiral 1:01:48

22d ago1:01:48

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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 version is: A bunch of friends just managed to buy The Onion, and they're busy relaunching the website, going back to print, and, clearly, having a blast do…

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Shane Leaning - Organisational Coach - Shanghai 47:30

23d ago47:30

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In this episode I am speaking to Shane Leaning. Shane is an organisational Coach, international educator, author and podcaster. As a prolific creator in a number of different spaces, I was keen to get Shane on to discuss what it takes and what it’s like to make the switch from teaching students to advising schools around the world. We discuss: 1. W…

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Denver Coaches' Show - S2E2 - Jamie Franks

25d ago

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Jack and Sheila Weinberg Head Men's Soccer Coach Jamie Franks catches up with Voice of the Pioneers Tyler Maun to preview the 2024 season ahead of Denver's trip to Cal on Thursday. DU's weekly coaches show is presented by the Johnson Financial Group from Your Front Range Toyota Stores Studios.

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GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke says the AI industry needs competition to thrive 1:20:34

25d ago1:20:34

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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 is inside of Microsoft — especially now that Microsoft is all-in on AI, and Gitbhub Copilot is one of the biggest AI product success stories that exi…

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What's next for the controversial 'child safety' internet bill 42:22

29d ago42:22

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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 passed in the Senate with overwhelming bipartisan support late last month. At a high level, KOSPA could radically change how tech platforms handle spe…

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Denver Coaches' Show - S2E1 - Julianne Sitch

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Season two of the Denver Pioneers Coaches' Show presented by the Johnson Financial Group from Your Front Range Toyota Stores Studios kicks off with women's soccer head coach Julianne Sitch whose Pioneers host North Carolina in the first athletic event of the 2024-25 season on Thursday night at the University of Denver Soccer Stadium…

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Replika CEO Eugenia Kuyda says it’s okay if we end up marrying AI chatbots 1:12:06

1M ago1:12:06

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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 companions, so get ready. It’s a ride. Replika’s basic pitch is pretty simple: what if you had an AI friend? The company offers avatars you can curate to your liking that pretend to be human, so they can…

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DOJ antitrust chief is ‘overjoyed’ after Google monopoly verdict 47:47

1M ago47:47

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Today, I’m talking to Jonathan Kanter, the assistant attorney general for antitrust at the United States Department of Justice. This is Jonathan’s second time on the show, and it’s a bit of an emergency podcast situation. On Monday, a federal court issued a monumental decision in the DOJ’s case against Google, holding that Google Search and the tex…

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Booking CEO Glenn Fogel wants you to take out your travel frustrations on AI chatbots 1:16:57

1M ago1:16:57

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Today, I’m talking with Glenn Fogel, the CEO of Booking Holdings, which owns a large portfolio of familiar travel brands: OpenTable, Kayak, and Priceline, as well as its largest subsidiary, Booking.com. This episode is pure Decoder bait all the way through — from Booking’s structure, to competition with hotels and airlines increasingly going direct…

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AI has a climate problem — but so does all of tech 36:42

1M ago36:42

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Every time we talk about AI, we get one big piece of feedback that I really want to dive into: how the lightning-fast explosion of AI tools affects the climate. AI takes a lot of energy, and there’s a huge unanswered question as to whether using all that juice for AI is actually worth it, both practically and morally. It’s messy and complicated and…

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Logitech CEO Hanneke Faber wants your next mouse to last forever 1:05:26

2M ago1:05:26

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Today, I’m talking with Hanneke Faber, the CEO of Logitech. Hanneke’s still pretty fresh to the role: She joined the company last October, after former CEO Bracken Darrell left following the pandemic boom and subsequent economic slowdown that halted Logitech’s growth. Hanneke, who comes from Unilever and Procter & Gamble, is new to the world of con…

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The Supreme Court ruling that could kill net neutrality 38:09

2M ago38:09

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The Supreme Court has just taken on the entire idea of the US administrative state — and the Court is winning. Earlier this month, a conservative majority overturned a longstanding legal principle called Chevron deference. The implications are enormous for every possible kind of regulation — and net neutrality looks poised to be the first victim. V…

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Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe says too many carmakers are copying Tesla 1:03:48

2M ago1:03:48

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Today, I’m talking with Rivian founder and CEO RJ Scaringe. RJ was on the show last September when we chatted at the Code Conference, but the past 10 months have seen a whirlwind of change throughout the car industry and at Rivian in particular. This year alone, the company unveiled five new models in its lineup and also just announced a $5 billion…

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What happened to the metaverse? 44:17

2M ago44:17

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This week I’m talking to Matthew Ball, who was last on the show in 2022 to talk about his book “The Metaverse: How it Will Revolutionize Everything.” It’s 2024 and it’s safe to say that has not happened yet. But Matt’s still on the case — in fact he just released an almost complete update of the book, now with the much more sober title, “Building t…

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Biden’s top tech advisor on why AI safety is a “today problem” 1:00:54

2M ago1:00:54

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Today, I’m talking with Arati Prabhakar, the director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. That’s a cabinet-level position, where she works as the chief science and tech advisor to President Biden. Arati and her team of about 140 people at the OSTP are responsible for advising the president on not only big developments in sci…

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Why The Atlantic signed a deal with OpenAI 51:28

2M ago51:28

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Today I’m talking to Nicholas Thompson, the CEO of The Atlantic. I was really excited to talk to Nick. Like so many media CEOs, including Vox Media’s, he just signed a deal allowing OpenAI to use The Atlantic’s vast archives as training data, but he also has a rich background in tech. Before he was the CEO of The Atlantic, Nick was the editor-in-ch…

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Canva CEO Melanie Perkins is happy to provide designers alternatives to Adobe 1:06:29

2M ago1:06:29

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Canva got its start more than a decade ago as a different form of disruptive tech for creatives. It’s a web-based platform that makes design tools cheaper and accessible for individuals, schools, and businesses from tiny to enterprise. Melanie has big goals to grow the company — and try to do good in the process. Links: Canva tackled digital design…

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How Big Green Egg CEO Dan Gertsacov is getting zoomers into the cult of kamado cooking 1:16:00

3M ago1:16:00

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It’s almost the Fourth of July, and that means it’s time for our annual grilling episode. This year, I’m talking with Big Green Egg CEO Dan Gertsacov, who has big plans for using very modern fan-based marketing techniques to expand the market for the company’s old-fashioned, fire-burning, aspirational product. Links: Big Green Egg Appoints a New CE…

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The rise of shadow lobbying and its influence on decades of US policy 45:53

3M ago45:53

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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’t touch every part of American politics, but the kind of lobbying we have now didn’t really exist before the 1970s. Now, our political debates about everything from energy, finance, and healthcare are…

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Netflix co-CEO Greg Peters on the streamer's shifting culture and where ads, AI, and games fit in 1:06:45

3M ago1:06:45

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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 basically the world’s biggest gathering of advertisers and marketers. It’s an increasingly important place for Greg to be, as Netflix’s new ad tier has nearly doubled in six months to more than 40 million s…

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Inside the players and politics of the AI industry 45:40

3M ago45:40

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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 kind of episode about AI. We talk a lot about AI in a broad sense on Decoder — it comes up in basically every single interview I do these days. But we …

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Why Tubi CEO Anjali Sud thinks free TV can win again 1:07:21

3M ago1:07:21

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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, and basically everything else, save Netflix and YouTube. All those streaming service price hikes are driving people to free options, and Tubi is right …

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Remix: How private equity took over everything 39:07

3M ago39:07

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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 anything but. It's everywhere, and it's not going away. In this summer remix, we're talking with Brendan Ballou, author of Plunder: Private Equity’s Plan…

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A Zoom With A View #1 1:22:04

3M ago1:22:04

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In this episode, I’m talking to Eoin MacCarthaigh. This is the first in what we hope will be a long line of episodes focused on issues in and around international English teaching. It’s important at the outset to explain that this is an unapologetic rip off another podcast that I personally love, namely Craig Barton and Ollie Lovell’s Tips and Tool…

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AI will make money sooner than you think, says Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez 1:10:21

3M ago1:10:21

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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 tension there: up until recently, computers have been deterministic. If you give computers a certain input, you usually know exactly what output you’re goin…

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Guy Claxton - What is school for? - Sussex 1:27:20

3M ago1:27:20

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In this episode I’m speaking with Professor Guy Claxton. Guy is a cognitive scientist, author and one of education’s foremost experts on practical ways of expanding young people's relationship with and capacity for learning. His most recent book, The Future of Teaching, And the Myths that Hold it Back, a work that seeks to reclaim the nuanced middl…

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Why the video game industry is such a mess 37:51

3M ago37:51

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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 huge financial pressures, and it doesn’t seem to be letting up anytime soon. So where did this enormous pressure come from, if consumer interest is h…

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Zoom CEO Eric Yuan wants AI clones in meetings 1:01:22

4M ago1:01:22

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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 platform. Zoom wants to take on Microsoft and Google and now has a big investment in AI – and Eric’s visions for what that AI will do are pretty wild. S…

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Google Zero is here. Now what? 27:57

4M ago27:57

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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 that platform. For a lot of small businesses and content creators, that’s suddenly not stable anymore. The number one question I have for anyone build…

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How the FBI built its own smartphone company to hack the criminal underworld 42:03

4M ago42:03

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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 Incredible True Story of the Largest Sting Operation Ever, and I can’t recommend it enough. It’s basically a caper, but with the FBI running a phone netwo…

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Google's Sundar Pichai on AI-powered search and the future of the web 44:40

4M ago44:40

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Today, I’m talking to Google CEO Sundar Pichai, who joined the show the day after the big Google I/O developer conference. Google’s focus during the conference was on how it’s building AI into virtually all of its products. If you’re a Decoder listener, you’ve heard me talk about this idea a lot over the past year: I call it “Google Zero,” and I’ve…

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TikTok's big bet to fight the ban bill 46:35

4M ago46:35

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Last week, TikTok filed a lawsuit against the US government claiming the divest-or-ban law is unconstitutional — a case it needs to win in order to keep operating under Bytedance’s ownership. There’s a lot of back and forth between the facts and the law here: Some of the legal claims are complex and sit in tension with a long history of prior attem…

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Why Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen is confident we'll all adapt to AI 1:00:45

4M ago1:00:45

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Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen has been at the top of my list of people I’ve wanted to talk to for the show since we first launched — he’s led Adobe for nearly 17 years now, but he doesn’t do too many wide-ranging interviews. I’ve always thought Adobe was an underappreciated company — its tools sit at the center of nearly every major creative workflow …

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Why the tech industry can’t crack the smart home 40:45

4M ago40:45

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Today, we’re going to talk about the smart home — one of the oldest, most important, and most challenging dreams in the history of the tech industry. The idea of your house responding to you and your family, and generally being as automated and as smart as your phone or your laptop, has inspired generations of technologists. But after decades of pr…

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Polestar CEO Thomas Ingenlath on life after Volvo and weathering the EV slowdown 1:04:10

4M ago1:04:10

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Today, I’m talking with Polestar CEO Thomas Ingenlath, whom I first interviewed on the show back in 2021. Those were heady days — especially for upstart EV companies like Polestar, which all seemed poised to capture what felt like infinite demand for electric cars. Now, in 2024, the market looks a lot different, and so does Polestar, which is no lo…

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