Decoder with Nilay Patel
Summary
Decoder with Nilay Patel is hosted by Eli Patel covering Geopolitics, Creator Economy, Supply Chain Management, and Global Trade. Notable guests include Evan Smith (Co-founder and CEO, Altana), Hayden Field (Senior AI Reporter, The Verge), Dr. Jill Lepore (Professor of History and Law, Harvard University; Staff Writer, The New Yorker), and Bart Butler (CTO, Proton). Episodes span from Jul 2026 to Jul 2026.
Altana is positioning itself as the essential data and AI infrastructure for a new era of fragmented global trade, serving governments and the world's largest logistics firms. Despite US policy goa...
Apple has filed a major trade secret lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging that former Apple employees, including hardware chief Tang Tan, systematically stole confidential information to benefit OpenAI...
The concept of the 'artificial state' is introduced, where private multinational corporations, particularly tech companies, have usurped key functions of the nation-state by privatizing public disc...