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Nilay Patel

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Decoder is hosted by Nilay Patel covering AI Strategy, OpenAI, Corporate Strategy, and AI Agents. Notable guests include Mustafa Suleyman (CEO, Microsoft AI), Ryan Mack (Technology Reporter, The New York Times), Harvey Mason Jr. (CEO, The Recording Academy), and Wassim Ben Sayed (Chief Software Officer, Rivian & Co-CEO, RV Tech). Episodes span from May 2025 to Jun 2026.

52episodes
1,083total claims
12topics covered
52 episodes
Microsoft AI chief thinks superintelligence is near, but won't take your job
Jun 8, 2026

Microsoft has fundamentally shifted its AI strategy, moving from a dependency on OpenAI to independently developing its own frontier models and superintelligence capabilities, formalized in a new O...

AI StrategyOpenAIMicrosoft AIPartnership Dynamics+16 more
Elon Musk is steamrolling Wall Street to become a trillionaire
Jun 4, 2026

The SpaceX S-1 filing reveals a corporate governance structure that gives Elon Musk unprecedented control (85% of votes) and includes an unearned but votable 1.3 billion share pay package with fant...

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AI is blowing up music. How should the Grammys handle it?
Jun 1, 2026

Generative AI is now omnipresent in professional music production, used for tasks ranging from creating drum loops and lyrics to full orchestral arrangements. The Recording Academy is adapting to A...

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Rivian's software chief thinks you don't need CarPlay or buttons
May 28, 2026
How Sundar Pichai is rethinking Google for the AI era
May 26, 2026
Musk v Altman: Much ado about nothing
May 21, 2026
Exclusive: Jonah Peretti explains why he sold BuzzFeed
May 18, 2026
How companies weaponize the terms of service against you
May 14, 2026
Joanna Stern is not a robot, but she lived with them
May 11, 2026
Dara Khosrowshahi on replacing Uber drivers — and himself — with AI
May 4, 2026
How to win — or lose — Decoder
Apr 30, 2026
That UL safety logo is a lot more complicated than it looks
Apr 27, 2026
THE PEOPLE DO NOT YEARN FOR AUTOMATION
Apr 23, 2026
Melanie Perkins Canva's CEO on its big pivot to AI enterprise software
Apr 20, 2026
Ronan Farrow on Sam Altman's strained relationship with the truth
Apr 16, 2026
Can Puck’s CEO reinvent the news business for the influencer age?
Apr 13, 2026
The AI industry's existential race for profits
Apr 9, 2026
Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins wants data centers in space
Apr 6, 2026
A jury says Meta and Google hurt a kid. What now?
Apr 2, 2026
Okta's CEO is betting big on AI agent identity
Mar 30, 2026
Everyone hates Ticketmaster. Why'd Trump go easy on them?
Mar 26, 2026
Confronting the CEO of the AI company that impersonated me
Mar 23, 2026
Paramount’s $110 billion Warner Bros. gamble
Mar 19, 2026
Yahoo CEO on reviving the web's homepage
Mar 16, 2026
Anthropic doesn't trust the Pentagon, and neither should you
Mar 12, 2026
Hasbro's CEO lets AI Peppa Pig help design toys
Mar 9, 2026
Prediction markets want to be the news
Mar 5, 2026
Zillow's CEO on growth during a housing crisis
Mar 2, 2026
Inside Xbox's executive shakeup
Feb 26, 2026
Hank Green lets loose on YouTube, billionaires, and algorithms
Feb 23, 2026
Money no longer matters to AI's top talent
Feb 19, 2026
The surprising case for AI judges
Feb 12, 2026
Siemens CEO's mission to automate everything
Feb 9, 2026
Docusign's CEO on the dangers of trusting AI to read, and write, your contracts
Feb 2, 2026
Experian’s tech chief defends credit scores: ‘We’re not Palantir’
Jan 26, 2026
Why nobody is stopping Grok
Jan 22, 2026
Razer CEO on AI in game dev, Grok, and anime waifus
Jan 19, 2026
Stack Overflow CEO says ChatGPT was a "Code Red"
Dec 15, 2025
Square's product chief on the death of the penny and the future of money
Dec 8, 2025
IBM CEO Arvind Krishna says there is no AI bubble after all | Decoder
Dec 1, 2025
Ring's Jamie Siminoff thinks AI can reduce crime
Nov 17, 2025
Decoder Podcast Live! Host Nilay Patel interviews CEO of ZocDoc, Oliver Kharraz
Nov 14, 2025
The company at the heart of the AI bubble
Nov 13, 2025
Sir Tim Berners-Lee doesn’t think AI will destroy the web
Nov 10, 2025
Lyft CEO on paying drivers more & the shift to robotaxis
Nov 3, 2025
How Silicon Valley enshittified the internet, with Cory Doctorow
Oct 30, 2025
LexisNexis CEO says the AI law era is already here
Oct 27, 2025
Why GM will give you Gemini, but not CarPlay
Oct 22, 2025
Zocdoc CEO Oliver Kharraz on AI in healthcare
Oct 20, 2025
Hinge CEO Justin McLeod says dating AI chatbots is 'playing with fire'
Oct 13, 2025
Why Uber's CEO is okay with reinventing the bus
Oct 6, 2025
Google CEO Sundar Pichai on the future of search, AI agents, and selling Chrome
May 27, 2025

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