Prediction markets want to be the news
March 5, 2026
Prediction markets are aggressively attempting to position themselves as legitimate news sources to avoid being regulated as gambling operations, despite their core mechanism incentivizing insider trading.
Zillow's CEO on growth during a housing crisis
March 2, 2026
Zillow's evolution has shifted from being a classic ad marketplace based on public listing data to focusing on building an end-to-end software platform to facilitate the entire real estate transaction, measured by transaction volume rather than just audience size.
Inside Xbox's executive shakeup
February 26, 2026
The major leadership shakeup at Xbox, involving the departure of Phil Spencer and Sarah Bond and the appointment of AI executive Asha Sharma as CEO of Microsoft Gaming, signals a potential shift in strategy or a strong push for execution under new leadership.
Hank Green lets loose on YouTube, billionaires, and algorithms
February 23, 2026
Hank Green converted Complexly into a nonprofit to align the company's incentives with maximizing impact (reaching more people and delivering value) rather than maximizing revenue, insulating it from typical commercial pressures.
Money no longer matters to AI's top talent
February 19, 2026
The war for AI talent is primarily driven by ideology and mission alignment rather than escalating salaries, as top researchers often have sufficient wealth already.
Let's talk about Ring, lost dogs, and the surveillance state
February 16, 2026
Ring canceled its partnership with surveillance company Flock following swift and intense public backlash against its Super Bowl ad promoting the 'Search Party' feature for finding lost dogs, due to fears of mass surveillance and misuse by law enforcement.
The surprising case for AI judges
February 12, 2026
The legal system is inherently probabilistic and non-deterministic due to human fallibility, which suggests that increased predictability through automation could improve efficiency and reduce disputes in many cases.
Siemens CEO's mission to automate everything
February 9, 2026
Siemens is undergoing its fastest and most fundamental reinvention, driven by technology, focusing its vast industrial technology portfolio across Digital Industries, Smart Infrastructure, and Mobility.
Reality is losing the deepfake war
February 5, 2026
The C2PA standard, intended to label content authenticity, is largely failing due to poor adoption across the ecosystem and inherent flaws that make its metadata easily stripped or ignored.
Docusign's CEO on the dangers of trusting AI to read, and write, your contracts
February 2, 2026
DocuSign's core value proposition is built on establishing identity and confirming consent, which is a more critical function than the visual representation of the signature itself.
Netflix is eating Hollywood — because it has to
January 29, 2026
Netflix is pursuing the Warner Bros. Discovery acquisition out of necessity to secure a vast, established content library and increase engagement/retention against zero-cost competitors like TikTok, despite the high price tag.
Experian's tech chief defends credit scores: 'We're not Palantir'
January 26, 2026
Experian operates as a federated system where central functions like technology and security enforce global standards, while market-specific business units adapt products to local economic and regulatory contexts.
Why nobody's stopping Grok
January 22, 2026
The core controversy surrounding Grok is that its integration into X allows for one-click harassment via easily generated non-consensual intimate imagery, exposing a gap in current legal and regulatory frameworks designed for older internet dynamics.
Razer CEO on AI in game dev, Grok, and anime waifus
January 19, 2026
Razer CEO Min-Liang Tan is aggressively pushing Razer into AI, exemplified by Project Ava (an AI anime hologram powered by Grok), despite significant backlash from the core gaming community regarding AI's impact on labor and content quality.
Rewind: How private equity kills companies and communities
January 15, 2026
Private equity (PE) operates on a financialization model where profits are extracted through financial maneuvers rather than improving the underlying product or service, fundamentally differing from venture capital.
CEO Sam Reich on the business of subscription comedy
January 12, 2026
Dropout CEO Sam Reich acquired the company from IAC for zero dollars after the initial direct-to-audience subscription attempt failed to meet IAC's aggressive financial expectations, leaving him as the sole interested party.
What’s next for Netflix and Paramount in the Warner Bros. battle
December 22, 2025
The bidding war for Warner Bros. Discovery between Paramount/SkyDance and Netflix is ongoing, with Warner Bros. Discovery likely to leverage Paramount's latest offer to extract more money from Netflix, despite having provisionally selected Netflix.
All Chaos And Panic Nilay Answers Your Burning Decoder Questions
December 18, 2025
Nilay Patel's primary goal for the structure of *
Stack Overflow users don't trust AI. They're using it anyway
December 15, 2025
The launch of ChatGPT represented an existential threat to Stack Overflow, prompting CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar to immediately mobilize 10% of staff to develop a response by mid-2023.
Sen. Ed Markey wants media companies to fight for the First Amendment
December 11, 2025
Senator Ed Markey argues that democracy is threatened by the Trump administration's weaponization of agencies like the FCC to enforce "thought control" and silence criticism, comparing the situation to Orwell's *
Square's product chief on the death of the penny and the future of money
December 8, 2025
Square's parent company, Block, reorganized into a functional structure to better align resources and drive velocity across disparate business units like Square and Tidal.
The tiny team trying to keep AI from destroying everything
December 4, 2025
Anthropic's Societal Impacts Team, consisting of only nine people, is uniquely tasked with investigating and publishing "inconvenient truths" about AI's broad societal effects, including on elections and the labor market.
Why IBM CEO Arvind Krishna is still hiring humans in the AI era
December 1, 2025
Arvind Krishna believes the shift to LLMs represents a 100x advantage in speed and deployability over the previous bespoke, data-labeling-heavy deep learning models, making AI industrial-scale.
What the climate story gets wrong
November 24, 2025
Data scientist Hannah Ritchie argues that while the climate crisis is real, progress in decarbonization and clean energy deployment is happening faster than commonly perceived, shifting the bottleneck from technology to belief.
The DoorDash Problem: How AI browsers are a huge threat to Amazon
November 20, 2025
The "DoorDash Problem" describes the existential threat AI agents pose to App Store-era service providers (like DoorDash, Uber, Airbnb) by abstracting the customer relationship and commoditizing the service provider into a mere database.
Ring's Jamie Siminoff thinks AI can reduce crime
November 17, 2025
Jamie Siminoff, founder and Chief Inventor of Ring, returned to the company after a sabbatical because he realized he only wanted to work on Ring's mission to make the world safer, especially in the new AI era.
The company at the heart of the AI bubble
November 13, 2025
CoreWeave, a company that pivoted from Ethereum mining to building GPU data centers, sits at the center of the AI boom by providing essential infrastructure, often through complex financial maneuvering.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee doesn’t think AI will destroy the web
November 10, 2025
Sir Tim Berners-Lee believes the current trend of information moving into closed platforms and the rise of AI-driven extraction threaten the original democratizing vision of the web, leading to a loss of digital sovereignty for users.
How AI is fueling an existential crisis in education
November 6, 2025
The existential crisis in education driven by generative AI goes deeper than cheating, fundamentally questioning the philosophy and purpose of education itself, as voiced by numerous teachers.
Lyft CEO David Risher on paying drivers more and the shift to robotaxis
November 3, 2025
Lyft CEO David Risher defines the company's mission as being the "physical glue that holds our society together" by providing superior service in the real world, contrasting with competitors who view themselves purely as tech platforms.
How Silicon Valley enshittified the internet
October 30, 2025
Enshittification is a three-stage platform decay process where companies first attract users, then exploit business customers, and finally harvest all remaining surplus from both, leaving a 'pile of shit' platform.
LexisNexis CEO says the AI law era is already here
October 27, 2025
LexisNexis is rapidly evolving from a traditional legal research database to an AI-powered provider, exemplified by CEO Sean Fitzpatrick prioritizing 'AI' as the first descriptor of the company.
Why GM will give you Gemini — but not CarPlay
October 22, 2025
GM CEO Mary Barra affirms that EVs remain the company's "North Star" despite recent market shifts and a $1.6 billion EV write-down, emphasizing a strategy to meet customers wherever they are between ICE and electric vehicles.
Zocdoc Ceo Dr Google Is Going To Be Replaced By Dr Ai
October 20, 2025
Zocdoc's core moat stems from successfully navigating the complex, messy U.S. healthcare system, making its infrastructure essential even for emerging AI tools.
The EV tax credit is dead. What now?
October 16, 2025
The expiration of the federal EV tax credit, which offered a \$7,500 discount, marks a hard stop for the incentives that were essential in driving US EV sales past 10% of all vehicles purchased through Q3.
Announcing an ad-free Decoder feed for Verge subscribers
October 15, 2025
Paid subscribers to The Verge can now listen to *
The AI industry is at a major crossroads
October 9, 2025
The AI industry is at a crossroads between a decentralized, user-controlled future and a centralized, walled-garden platform ecosystem exemplified by OpenAI's recent announcements.
Rivian CEO on CarPlay, Lidar, and affordable EVs
October 6, 2025
Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe is highly confident in the business trajectory, particularly with the upcoming R2, which aims to translate the brand's premium market success to a broadly accessible price point starting at $45,000.
The good, the bad, and the future of AI agents
October 2, 2025
The latest Anthropic model, Claude Sonnet 4.5, represents a significant step forward in agentic AI, particularly in complex, long-running software engineering tasks, demonstrated by its ability to autonomously build a functional clone of the company's chat application.
Ford CEO Jim Farley on China, tariffs, and the quest for a $30,000 EV
September 29, 2025
Ford's future EV strategy hinges on the new, radically simplified Ford Universal EV Platform, set for a 2027 launch, designed to compete on cost with formidable Chinese rivals like BYD.
How AI safety took a backseat to military money
September 25, 2025
AI companies are shifting focus from ethical AI development to lucrative military applications, driven by the profitability of defense contracts and the narrative of an AI arms race with China.
Dropout CEO Sam Reich on business, comedy, and keeping culture weird
September 22, 2025
Dropout's success stems from a simplified 'comedy SaaS' business model, focusing solely on subscribers and creative output, thereby avoiding the complexities of advertisers and shareholders that plague traditional media companies.