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May 4, 2026
Dara Khosrowshahi on replacing Uber drivers — and himself — with AI
Today, I’m talking with Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi. It’s become something of an annual tradition to have Dara join us in the studio when he comes to New York for Uber’s big GO-GET event every year,...
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April 27, 2026
That UL safety logo is a lot more complicated than it looks
Today, I’m talking with Jennifer Scanlon, who is the CEO of UL Solutions. That’s Underwriters Laboratories – you know, the UL logo listed on all your electronics? That symbol means it’s been tested...
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April 23, 2026
THE PEOPLE DO NOT YEARN FOR AUTOMATION
Today on Decoder, I want to lay out an idea that’s been banging around my head for weeks now as we’ve been reporting on AI and having conversations here on this show. I’ve been calling it software ...
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April 20, 2026
Canva’s CEO on its big pivot to AI enterprise software
Today, I’m talking with Melanie Perkins, founder and CEO of Canva, a popular online design tool. I always enjoy talking with Melanie. She was last on the show a couple of years ago, just as the AI ...
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April 16, 2026
Ronan Farrow on Sam Altman’s ‘unconstrained’ relationship with the truth
Today on Decoder, 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. And just last week,...
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April 13, 2026
Can Puck reinvent the news business for the influencer age?
Today, I’m talking with Sarah Personette, CEO of Puck, which is a fancy new media company that’s been around for just about five years now. Puck hires big stars and gives them newsletters that are ...
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April 9, 2026
The AI industry’s race for profits is now existential
Today on Decoder, let’s talk about the looming AI monetization cliff, and whether some of the biggest companies in the space can become real, profitable businesses before they careen right off it. ...
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April 6, 2026
Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins wants data centers in space
Today, I’m talking with Chuck Robbins, CEO of Cisco. Cisco is one of those big companies that everyone has heard of but that most of us don’t have to interact with very much; it’s not really a cons...
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April 2, 2026
A jury says Meta and Google hurt a kid. What now?
Today on Decoder, we’re talking about the landmark social media addiction trials that just resulted in two major verdicts against Big Tech. There’s one case in New Mexico against Meta, and another ...
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April 1, 2026
Everything is iPhone now
This is part of our package about Apple's 50th anniversary. Read more here. The thing about the iPhone is that everyone knew it was going to be a big deal, and then it was an even bigger deal than ...
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March 30, 2026
Okta’s CEO is betting big on AI agent identity
Today, I’m talking with Todd McKinnon, who is co-founder and CEO of Okta, a platform that lets big companies manage security and identity across all the apps and services their employees use. Think...
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March 26, 2026
Everyone hates Ticketmaster. Why’d Trump go easy on them?
Today on Decoder, we’re talking about the major antitrust lawsuit against Live Nation, and what it might mean for antitrust and competition law in general now that the Justice Department under Trum...
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March 23, 2026
Confronting the CEO of the AI company that impersonated me
Today, I’m talking with Shishir Mehrotra, who is CEO of Superhuman — that’s the company formerly known as Grammarly, which is still its flagship product. Shishir also used to be the chief product ...
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March 19, 2026
Paramount’s $110 billion Warner Bros. gamble
Today, let’s talk about the big Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger. This deal could reshape all of media and entertainment if and when it closes. That’s still an if, which we’ll come back to —...
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March 16, 2026
Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone on reviving the web’s homepage
Today, I’m talking with Jim Lanzone, who is the CEO of Yahoo. It’s basically impossible to sum up the Yahoo story, but the short version of it is that a long time ago Yahoo paid Google to run the s...
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March 12, 2026
Anthropic doesn’t trust the Pentagon, and neither should you
Today we’re talking about the messy, fast-moving situation at Anthropic, the maker of Claude that now finds itself in a very ugly legal battle with the Pentagon. The back-and-forth is complicated,...
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March 9, 2026
Hasbro’s CEO has an AI Peppa Pig help design toys
Today, I’m talking with Chris Cocks, CEO of Hasbro. You know, Hasbro — the toy and game company that makes some of the most iconic products in the world, from toy lines like Transformers and My Lit...
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March 5, 2026
Prediction markets in the news are a dangerous gamble
Today on Decoder, let’s talk about prediction markets, which continue to insert themselves into the news cycle and the news itself in increasingly weird, unsettling, and potentially illegal ways. ...
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March 4, 2026
iPhone 17e hands-on: nothing more, nothing less
Apple announced the $599 iPhone 17e earlier this week, and we just got a chance to play with one for a few minutes at the company's "experience" for media in New York City. The 17e is more or less ...
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March 2, 2026
Zillow’s CEO on growing the company during a housing crisis
Today, I’m talking with Zillow CEO Jeremy Wacksman. Zillow is one of those apps that really exemplifies what you might call the smartphone era of software: the company built a great mobile app for ...
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February 26, 2026
Xbox is in danger. Will Microsoft fix it or kill it?
Today, we’re talking about the future of Xbox. Phil Spencer, a two–time Decoder guest who’s led Xbox for more than a decade, retired last week. But in a shocking twist, his deputy and long-assumed ...
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February 23, 2026
Hank Green will gladly take billionaire money for education videos
Today, I’m talking with Hank Green, a longtime friend of Decoder and the cofounder and now former owner of Complexly, an online education company he started with his brother John in 2012. I say for...
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February 19, 2026
Money no longer matters to AI’s top talent
Today on Decoder we’re going to talk about the war for AI talent. Right now, the hottest job market on the planet is for AI researchers. The vast majority of these people are concentrated into a sm...
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February 16, 2026
Let’s talk about Ring, lost dogs, and the surveillance state
Today, let’s talk about the camera company Ring, lost dogs, and the surveillance state. You probably saw this ad during the Super Bowl a couple of weekends ago: Since it aired for a massive audien...
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February 12, 2026
The surprising case for AI judges
Today, we’re going to talk about the role AI might play in deciding legal disputes. Not just drafting memos and doing research — actually deciding who’s right and who’s wrong, and who should pay. M...
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