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Decoder is a show from The Verge about big ideas — and other problems. Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel talks to a diverse cast of innovators and policymakers at the frontiers of business and technology to reveal how they’re navigating an ever-changing landscape, what keeps them up at night, and what it all means for our shared future.

Decoder with Nilay Patel

The last time Canva CEO Melanie Perkins was on Decoder, the company was starting a big push into enterprise. Now, she's leading it through a total reinvention, going, in Canva's words, "from a design platform with AI tools to an AI platform with design tools."

But there's a lot of competition in that AI enterprise space. Not only is Canva competing with design software like the Adobe Creative Suite, but also it's competing with AI companies, like Anthropic and Meta, that are launching their own AI design platforms. So we talked a lot about whether Canva really is the right platform to bring the whole workspace together.

Read the full interview transcript on The Verge.

Links: 

 Canva AI 2.0 goes all in on prompt-powered design tools | The Verge

 The creative software industry has declared war on Adobe | The Verge

 Anthropic launches Claude Design | TechCrunch

 Canva is now in the coding and spreadsheet business | The Verge

 Melanie Perkins thinks the world needs more alternatives to Adobe | Decoder (2024)

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Decoder is a production of The Verge and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.

Decoder is produced by Kate Cox and Nick Statt and edited by Ursa Wright. Our editorial director is Kevin McShane. 

The Decoder music is by Breakmaster Cylinder.
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Canva's CEO on its big pivot to AI enterprise software

Today I’m talking with Ronan Farrow, one of the biggest stars of investigative reporting working today. He broke the Harvey Weinstein story, among many, many others. 

Just last week, he and co-author Andrew Marantz published an incredible deep-dive feature in The New Yorker about OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, his trustworthiness, and the rise of OpenAI itself. So Ronan came on the show to discuss the piece, his reporting process, and why he thinks this story and the revelations it contains really matter. 

Read the full interview transcript here on The Verge.

Links: 

 Sam Altman may control our future — can he be trusted? | The New Yorker

 Hey ChatGPT, which one of these is the real Sam Altman? | New York Times

 Suspect throws molotov cocktail at Sam Altman’s home | Wired

 The attacks on Sam Altman are a warning for the AI world | The Verge

 The vibes are off at OpenAI | The Verge

 Why Sam Altman was booted from OpenAI | The Verge

 Sam Altman, unconstrained by the truth | Gary Marcus

 A brief history of Sam Altman's hype | MIT Tech Review

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Credits:

Decoder is a production of The Verge and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.

Decoder is produced by Kate Cox and Nick Statt and edited by Ursa Wright. Our editorial director is Kevin McShane. 

The Decoder music is by Breakmaster Cylinder.
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Ronan Farrow on Sam Altman's "unconstrained" relationship with the truth

Sarah Personette is the CEO of Puck, a media company that's been around for about five years. Puck hires big star reporters who write newsletters as part of a subscription bundle. Those newsletters are often must-reads in their industries, and those reporters get equity in Puck and a share of the company's revenue.

It's a place where the financial incentives of the influencer economy crash right into the rigors of traditional journalism — and as regular Decoder listeners know, I have a lot of questions about how those two things work (or don't) in the modern media landscape. 

Read the full interview transcript on The Verge. 

Links: 

 Puck buys Air Mail in deal valued at $16M | The Wrap

 The man yelling ‘iceberg’ on the Hollywood Titanic | New York Times

 Sarah Personette joins news startup Puck as CEO | Variety

 Are we past peak newsletter? | New York Times

 Two new newsletters bet they’ve got Hollywood covered | LA Times

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Credits:

Decoder is a production of The Verge and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.

Decoder is produced by Kate Cox and Nick Statt and edited by Ursa Wright. Our editorial director is Kevin McShane. 

The Decoder music is by Breakmaster Cylinder.
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Can Puck’s CEO reinvent the news business for the influencer age?

Today, let’s talk about the looming AI monetization cliff, and whether some of the biggest companies in space can become real, profitable businesses before they careen right off it.

My guest today is Hayden Field, who’s our senior AI reporter here at The Verge. She’s been keeping close tabs on both Anthropic and OpenAI, and how these two companies, both slate to go public this year, tell us a whole lot about the AI industry in 2026. 

Links: 

 The vibes are off at OpenAI | The Verge

 Anthropic essentially bans OpenClaw from Claude | The Verge

 Why OpenAI killed Sora | The Verge

 OpenAI just bought TBPN | The Verge

 National poll shows voters like AI less than ICE | The Verge

 The spiraling cost of making AI | WSJ

 OpenAI’s Fidji Simo taking leave amid exec shake-up | Wired

 OpenAI raises another $122B at $850B valuation | The Verge

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Credits:

Decoder is a production of The Verge and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.

Decoder is produced by Kate Cox and Nick Statt and edited by Ursa Wright. Our editorial director is Kevin McShane. 

The Decoder music is by Breakmaster Cylinder.
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The AI industry's existential race for profits

My guest today is Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins. Cisco is one of those big companies that everyone has heard of but most of us don’t have to interact with very much; they’re not really a consumer brand. But without Cisco's actual routers and switches and silicon — and the software to make those things work — there’s no internet, no cloud, and no AI. 

But a data center is a really unpleasant neighbor to have, and there’s robust opposition to new data center builds all over the country. So I had to start by asking what feels, strangely, like one of the most urgent questions of the moment: Should we build data centers in space?

Links: 

 Nvidia launches space computing, rocketing AI Into orbit | Nvidia

 Nvidia’s AI dominance expands to networking | CRN

 Amid rising pushback, 2025 data center cancellations surge | Heatmap

 Billionaires want data centers everywhere, including space | The Verge

 How Ciena keeps the internet online | Decoder

 Okta’s CEO is betting big on agent identity | Decoder

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Credits:

Decoder is a production of The Verge and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.

Decoder is produced by Kate Cox and Nick Statt and edited by Ursa Wright. Our editorial director is Kevin McShane. 

The Decoder music is by Breakmaster Cylinder.
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Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins wants data centers in space

Today, we’re talking about the landmark social media addiction trials that just resulted in two major verdicts against Big Tech — one in California against Meta and Google, and another in New Mexico against just Meta.

These are complicated cases with some huge repercussions for both how these platforms work and the very nature of speech in America. So we’ve brought on two heavy hitters: my friend Casey Newton, founder and editor of Platformer and co-host of Hard Fork, as well as Verge senior policy reporter Lauren Feiner, who’s been covering these trials since the beginning. 

Links: 

 Meta & YouTube found negligent in social media addiction trial | The Verge

 Meta misled users about its products’ safety, jury decides | The Verge

 Meta’s legal defeat: a victory for kids, or a loss for everyone | The Verge

 Can you have child safety and Section 230, too? | Platformer

 The terrible cost of infinite scroll | The New York Times

 I watched grieving parents stare down Zuckerberg in court | The Verge

 Section 230 turns 30 as it faces its biggest tests yet | The Verge

 Congress considers blowing up internet law | The Verge

 Sen. Rob Wyden: “Why the internet still needs Section 230” | The Verge

 How America turned against the First Amendment | The Verge

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Credits:

Decoder is a production of The Verge and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.

Decoder is produced by Kate Cox and Nick Statt and edited by Ursa Wright. Our editorial director is Kevin McShane. 

The Decoder music is by Breakmaster Cylinder.
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A jury says Meta and Google hurt a kid. What now?

My guest today is Okta CEO Todd McKinnon. Okta is a platform that big companies use to manage security and identity across all the many apps and platforms their employees use. Most of us run into it as login management at work.

SaaS companies like Okta are under a lot of pressure in the age of AI, which Todd even said on an earnings call he's "paranoid" about. But you'll also hear Todd say that for Okta specifically, there's also a world of opportunity as the very concept of a digital "identity" has to expand into things that aren't really people. 

Links: 

 CEO ‘paranoid’ as vibe coders stir SaaSpocalypse fears | The Register

 $300B evaporated. The SaaSpocalypse has begun | Forbes

 How AI assistants are moving the security goalposts | Krebs on Security

 What everyone’s missing about AI and development | CRN

 Agents run amok: Identity lessons from Moltbook’s experiment | Okta

 Breakup of IBM is Antitrust goal (1972) | New York Times

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Credits:

Decoder is a production of The Verge and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.

Decoder is produced by Kate Cox and Nick Statt and edited by Ursa Wright. Our editorial director is Kevin McShane. 

The Decoder music is by Breakmaster Cylinder.
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Okta's CEO is betting big on AI agent identity

Today, we’re talking about the major antitrust lawsuit against Ticketmaster parent company Live Nation, and what it might mean for antitrust and competition law in general now that the Trump DOJ has decided to settle its part of the case — even as several states including California, New York, and Texas carry on. 

To break it all down, I’m joined by Verge senior policy reporter Lauren Feiner. Lauren’s our resident court expert, and she’s been chronicling this trial from the beginning.

Links: 

 States’ anti-monopoly case against Live Nation continues | The Verge

 The Live Nation trial restarts with a ‘velvet hammer’ | The Verge

 Live Nation settles government antitrust suit | The Verge

 The Live Nation settlement has industry insiders baffled | The Verge

 Listen to Live Nation CEO’s alleged threats to a concert venue | The Verge

 The threats and bare-knuckle tactics of MAGA’s top antitrust fixer | WSJ

 The Trump admin just gave Live Nation the gift of a lifetime | NYT

 How Live Nation allegedly terrorized the concert industry | The Verge

 The US government is trying to break up Ticketmaster | The Verge (2024)

 Taylor Swift vs. Ronald Reagan: the Ticketmaster story | Decoder (2023)

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Credits:

Decoder is a production of The Verge and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.

Decoder is produced by Kate Cox and Nick Statt and edited by Ursa Wright. Our editorial director is Kevin McShane. 

The Decoder music is by Breakmaster Cylinder.
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Everyone hates Ticketmaster. Why'd Trump go easy on them?

Today, I’m talking with Shishir Mehrotra, the CEO of Superhuman, the company formerly known as Grammarly, which is still its flagship product. Back in August, Grammarly shipped a feature called Expert Review, which allowed you to get writing suggestions from AI-cloned “experts,” and recently, reporters at The Verge and other outlets discovered that those experts included me, among many others. 

No one ever asked permission to use our names this way, and a lot of reporters were outraged by this. To Shishir’s credit, he did not cancel our interview and he came on and stuck it out. This conversation got tense at times, and it’s clear we disagree about how extractive AI feels for people. There’s a lot in this one, and I’m excited to hear what you think.

Read the full interview transcript on The Verge. 

Links:

 Why I’m suing Grammarly | New York Times

 Grammarly will stop using identities without permission | The Verge

 Grammarly to keep using writer identities unless they opt out | The Verge

 Grammarly turned me into an AI editor and I hate it | Platformer

 Grammarly is using our identities without permission | The Verge

 Grammarly is changing its name to Superhuman | The Verge

 Grammarly wants to become an ‘AI productivity platform’ | The Verge 

 Viacom v. YouTube, 2007 | Electronic Frontier Foundation

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Credits:

Decoder is a production of The Verge and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.

Decoder is produced by Kate Cox and Nick Statt. This episode was edited by Xander Adams. Our editorial director is Kevin McShane. 

The Decoder music is by Breakmaster Cylinder.
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Confronting the CEO of the AI company that impersonated me

Today, let’s talk about the big Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger. Right now, Paramount head David Ellison is very much acting like he’s over the finish line after outbidding Netflix, which walked away after what seemed like a done deal. 

Back in January, I asked Puck’s Julia Alexander to walk me through Netflix’s reasoning, and today I’m digging into Paramount’s with Rich Greenfield, a media and entertainment analyst and cofounder of research firm LightShed Partners. There’s a lot going on here, including the biggest question I’ve had throughout this entire saga: why would anyone want to buy Warner, which has basically killed every acquirer it’s had for the last quarter century?

Links: 

 David Ellison’s plan to compete with Netflix: Paramount+HBO | Rich Greenfield

 The worst acquisition in history, again | Prof G Media

 David Zaslav gets the last laugh | THR

 Warner Bros. Discovery agrees to Paramount merger | The Verge

 Tech, TV, Movies & News: Ellisons on brink of colossal empire | NYT

 Pete Hegseth says ‘the sooner David Ellison’ buys CNN, ‘the better’ | NYT

 Warner Bros CEO to pocket $887 million from Paramount deal | Reuters

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Credits:

Decoder is a production of The Verge and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.

Decoder is produced by Kate Cox and Nick Statt and edited by Ursa Wright. Our editorial director is Kevin McShane. 

The Decoder music is by Breakmaster Cylinder.
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Paramount's $110 billion Warner Bros. gamble

The Black List founder Franklin Leonard talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about how he accidentally created one of the most important lists in Hollywood and how he turned it into a real business for connecting screenwriters with producers. Leonard also talks about the statistics that show the benefits of reading scripts from diverse writers and the mostly-white 2020 Oscar nominations, about which he wrote a satirical op-ed for the Washington Post. Plus: Why he doesn't expect AI to replace human readers.
Click here to read a full transcript of this interview.
Featuring:
Franklin Leonard (@FranklinLeonard), founder, The Black List (@theblcklst)
Host:
Kara Swisher (@karaswisher), Recode co-founder and editor-at-large
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