Best Recode Events Podcasts (2025)

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The DoorDash Problem: How AI browsers are a huge threat to Amazon 30:55

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Okay, let’s talk about AI and what I’ve been calling the “DoorDash problem.” This is about to define the next battle in AI, and it might completely transform not only how you order a sandwich, but also how the entire internet economy works in general. If you’ve been listening to the show this past year, you’ve heard me bring up the Doordash problem…

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Kevin Reilly got to the top of the TV heap. Now he's in AI. 40:10

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If you watched something on TV that you liked in the past few decades, there’s a good chance Kevin Reilly was involved: at various times he’s held top jobs at FX, Fox, NBC, Turner and HBO Max. But that run ended in 2020, and now Reilly is running Kartel, an AI company that… well, I’m still not entirely sure what it does. (To be fair, as Reilly note…

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Ring's Jamie Siminoff thinks AI can reduce crime 1:10:17

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Jamie Simonoff, founder of Ring, won't let me call him the CEO. He says his title is and always has been 'chief inventor.' His mission with Ring is to make the world safer, and he has a pretty expansive view of what that means. He told The Verge last month he thought Ring could 'almost zero out crime' in some neighborhoods within a year or two. Tha…

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The company at the heart of the AI bubble 37:56

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So a lot of people think AI is a bubble. So we sent Verge senior reporter Liz Lopatto out to report on the AI bubble — whether it's real, how it might pop, and what all of this means. She’s joining the show today to talk about a particular company that sits right in the middle of all of it. That company is called CoreWeave, and Liz has spent consid…

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What the Disney–YouTube Battle Tells Us About the End of Cable 52:39

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It’s not unusual for a big TV network and a big TV distributor to fight about money. But the Disney-YouTube fight is unusual -- at the bare minimum, because it has stretched out for so long. CNBC’s Alex Sherman lives and breathes this stuff, so I asked him to walk me through it, and make some prognostications about when it might get settled (spoile…

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Somer Baburek of Hera Biotech: Advancing Women’s Health: Women in Tech Texas 1:05:05

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Don't miss out on the next #womenintech podcast episode, get notified by signing up here http://womenintechshow.com Be featured in the Women in Tech Community by creating your profile here http://womenintechvip.com “Somer Baburek of Hera Biotech: Advancing Women’s Health” #womenintech Show is a WeAreTech.fm production. Become a Most Valuable Listen…

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Sir Tim Berners-Lee doesn’t think AI will destroy the web 55:25

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Today, I’m talking with a very special guest: Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web. Tim is a legend in the history of the internet. He created HTML and HTTP. It doesn’t really get more foundational than that — Tim was there at the very very beginning of the modern internet. He also has a new memoir out called This Is For Everyone…

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How AI is fueling an existential crisis in education 39:37

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We keep hearing over and over that generative AI is causing massive problems in education, both in K-12 schools and at the college level. Lots of people are worried about students using ChatGPT to cheat on assignments, and that is a problem. But really, the issues go a lot deeper, to the very philosophy of education itself. We sat down and talked t…

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The Bulwark's Sarah Longwell on Why Republicans Won the Attention War 45:25

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In some ways, the Bulwark feels like other small publishers in 2025: it’s found growth and profit by pushing itself out on any platform it can find. But that wasn’t the plan when the company started in 2018. Back then, it was a non-profit cofounded by Republicans who couldn’t stand their party’s embrace of Donald Trump, and wanted a place to organi…

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Lyft CEO David Risher on paying drivers more and the shift to robotaxis 1:18:02

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David Risher was on Lyft's board for years, but only stepped in as CEO in 2023, to help turn the company around. He's done pretty well so far, but there are still a lot of open questions for him to face. It's not just competition for riders and drivers Lyft has to deal with; it’s the future of transportation itself, and new AI tools that might take…

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How Silicon Valley enshittified the internet 1:09:41

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This is Sarah Jeong, features editor at The Verge. I’m standing in for Nilay for one final Thursday episode here as he settles back into full-time hosting duties. Today, we’ve got a fun one. I’m talking to Cory Doctorow, prolific author, internet activist, and arguably one of the fiercest tech critics writing today. He has a new book out called Ens…

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The Man Who Fixed The New York Times Wants to Fix CNN 52:17

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Would you pay $7 a month to stream CNN? Because CNN CEO Mark Thompson would like you to do that. I know, I know, I’m skeptical, too. But Thompson has been here before: At his last job, as CEO of the New York Times, he helped shepherd that company’s subscription business, which had a gazillion naysayers at the start. And now the Times’ business mode…

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LexisNexis CEO says the AI law era is already here 1:05:07

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LexisNexis is one of the most important companies in the entire legal system. For ages it's been where you went to look up case law and do legal research. There isn’t a lawyer today who hasn’t used it — it’s fundamental infrastructure for the legal profession, just like email or a word processor. But in 2025, apparently nobody can resist the siren …

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Why GM will give you Gemini — but not CarPlay 1:18:03

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Today’s guests are General Motors CEO Mary Barra and new GM Chief Product Officer Sterling Anderson. There’s a lot of big news the company just announced, including a Google Gemini-powered AI assistant that's coming to new cars and an entirely new hardware and software platform coming to the Escalade IQ in 2028 alongside true Level 3 autonomous dri…

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The End of Mass Media—and What Comes Next 56:54

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We spend a lot of time on this show talking to people who run media companies. We also spend a lot of time talking to media reporters. So here’s our one-man Venn diagram: Brian Morrissey runs The Rebooting, where he podcasts, writes and hosts events, all geared at making people in the media business smarter about the media business. If you want to …

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Building Evenigo: Christina Ness on Grit, No-Code, and Connection - Women in Tech Los Angeles in Tech 25:50

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Women in Tech Podcast - Episode Shownotes Episode Title: Building Evenigo: Christina Ness on Grit, No-Code, and Connection Host: Espree Devora Guest: Christina Ness CEO & Founder of Evenigo Episode Highlights: In this inspiring episode, Espree Devora chats with Christina Ness, an entrepreneur based in Los Angeles and the founder of Evenigo, a socia…

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Zocdoc CEO: "Dr. Google is going to be replaced by Dr. AI" 1:06:06

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Hey everyone, it’s Nilay. I’m back from parental leave, and I’m really excited to jump back into Decoder. Today’s episode is a special one: I’m talking to Zocdoc CEO Oliver Kharraz, and we chatted live on stage at the TechFutures conference in New York City. You’re almost certainly familiar with ZocDoc — it’s a platform that helps people find and b…

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The EV tax credit is dead. What now? 39:43

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This is Jake Kastrenakes, executive editor at The Verge. I’m filling in for Nilay here while he settles back into full-time hosting duties. We’ve got a very good episode for you today. My guest is Verge transportation editor Andy Hawkins, and we’re talking about the federal EV tax credit. The tax credit expired at the end of September, and there ar…

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Announcing an ad-free Decoder feed for Verge subscribers 0:22

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If you're a paid subscriber to the Verge, there's great news: you can now listen to Decoder, Version History, and The Vergecast completely ad-free. Just head to your Account Settings page to opt-in and start listening without ads. Not a member of The Verge yet? No worries! You can sign up at theverge.com/subscribe to get ad-free podcasts, plus othe…

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The PR Guy Who Says the AI Boom Is a Bust 54:36

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The AI story is changing fast. A few months ago, it was all promise and inevitability. Now even AI boosters are asking if the numbers make sense. Ed Zitron got there early. He runs a PR firm for a living, which means he’s supposed to help people sell their stories. But he’s become best known for tearing tech’s biggest stories apart. And he’s been p…

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The AI industry is at a major crossroads 44:02

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This is Hayden Field, senior AI reporter at The Verge and your Thursday episode guest host. It’s been a very big news week in AI, and a lot of it had to do with OpenAI, its DevDay in San Francisco this week, and the viral explosion of AI-generated video thanks to the company’s new Sora app. So I brought in Kanjun Qiu, CEO of AI startup Imbue and a …

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Why the Guardian Doesn't Need a Billionaire to Thrive 39:00

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In lots of ways Guardian Media Group is facing the same problems as every other news publisher: A tricky ad environment, platform problems, looming AI threats. One big difference: The Guardian also has a $1.5 billion trust backing the non-profit, which seems way, way better than being owned by a run-of-the-mill billionaire who might want to meddle …

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Building the ‘Zillow of Franchising’ with Mariyam Shamshidova of Wefranch Women in Tech New York 58:20

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Women in Tech Podcast: Mariyam Shamshidova Wefranch US tour: https://tour.wefranch.com/signup/los-angeles-2 Host: Espree Devora Guest: Mariyam Shamshidova (Growth & Product Lead, Wefranch) Location: Lighthouse Studio, Venice, CA Episode Theme: Navigating Entrepreneurship, Franchising, and Building Purposeful Careers in Tech Key Topics & Highlights …

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Rivian CEO on CarPlay, Lidar, and affordable EVs 50:38

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I’m Joanna Stern, the senior personal tech columnist at The Wall Street Journal, and this is my final Decoder episode filling in for Nilay while he’s out on parental leave. My guest today: Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe. This is RJ’s third time on the show, and it felt like the perfect follow-up to my conversation last week with Ford CEO Jim Farley. I love…

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The good, the bad, and the future of AI agents 46:35

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This is Hayden Field, senior AI reporter at The Verge and your Thursday episode guest host. Today, I’m talking with David Hershey, who leads the applied AI team at Anthropic. I wanted to have David on because earlier this week, Anthropic released a brand-new AI model called Claude Sonnet 4.5 that’s been making waves. So I wanted to sit down with Da…

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Almost Everyone is Taking Money from OpenAI. Why is Ziff Davis suing them? 34:22

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In the future, digital publishers could get run over by AI. In the present, they are deeply concerned about Google, and the prospect that the search giant is going to choke off their last reliable traffic stream. That may explain why lots of publishers are making deals with OpenAI now -- and doing a lot of grousing about Google. Ziff Davis CEO Vive…

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Ford CEO Jim Farley on China, tariffs, and the quest for a $30,000 EV 1:03:22

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This is Joanna Stern, senior personal technology columnist at The Wall Street Journal. I’m the last Monday guest host filling in for Nilay here on Decoder while he’s out on parental leave with his adorable new son, and I’m very excited to be talking today to Ford CEO Jim Farley. I’m a longtime Decoder listener and my favorite episodes are car episo…

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How AI safety took a backseat to military money 42:56

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This is Hayden Field, senior AI reporter at The Verge — and your Thursday episode guest host. I have another couple of shows for you while Nilay is out on parental leave, and we’re going to be spending more time diving into some of the unforeseen consequences of the generative AI boom. Today, I’m talking with Heidy Khlaaf, who is chief AI scientist…

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The Future of Late Night TV, Jimmy Kimmel, and The First Amendment 26:53

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When’s the last time you stayed up to watch a late night TV monologue? Months? Years? Decades? I’m not sure, either. But I stayed up Tuesday night to watch Jimmy Kimmel’s return. James Poniewozik, who covers TV for the New York Times, just caught up with it the next day on YouTube. Which underscores one of the odder parts of the Trump v. Kimmel fig…

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Dropout CEO Sam Reich on business, comedy, and keeping culture weird 1:06:00

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Guest host Hank Green talks with his friend Dropout CEO Sam Reich about keeping a business simple, trying to run a company the “right way,” and why the internet should be full of as many weird little projects as possible. Read the full transcript on The Verge. Links: How CollegeHumor reinvented itself for the new internet age | People CollegeHumor …

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How chatbots — and their makers — are enabling AI psychosis 50:11

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Verge senior AI reporter Hayden Field and New York Times reporter Kashmir Hill discuss the significant mental health impact AI chatbots, such as ChatGPT, can have on users — both people in crisis, and also people who seemed stable. This episode contains non-detailed discussions of suicide and mental illness. If you or someone you know is in crisis,…

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The DoorDash Problem: How AI browsers are a huge threat to Amazon 30:55

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Kevin Reilly got to the top of the TV heap. Now he's in AI. 40:10

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Ring's Jamie Siminoff thinks AI can reduce crime 1:10:17

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The company at the heart of the AI bubble 37:56

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What the Disney–YouTube Battle Tells Us About the End of Cable 52:39

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Somer Baburek of Hera Biotech: Advancing Women’s Health: Women in Tech Texas 1:05:05

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Sir Tim Berners-Lee doesn’t think AI will destroy the web 55:25

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How AI is fueling an existential crisis in education 39:37

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The Bulwark's Sarah Longwell on Why Republicans Won the Attention War 45:25

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Lyft CEO David Risher on paying drivers more and the shift to robotaxis 1:18:02

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How Silicon Valley enshittified the internet 1:09:41

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The Man Who Fixed The New York Times Wants to Fix CNN 52:17

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LexisNexis CEO says the AI law era is already here 1:05:07

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Why GM will give you Gemini — but not CarPlay 1:18:03

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The End of Mass Media—and What Comes Next 56:54

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Building Evenigo: Christina Ness on Grit, No-Code, and Connection - Women in Tech Los Angeles in Tech 25:50

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Zocdoc CEO: "Dr. Google is going to be replaced by Dr. AI" 1:06:06

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The EV tax credit is dead. What now? 39:43

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Announcing an ad-free Decoder feed for Verge subscribers 0:22

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The PR Guy Who Says the AI Boom Is a Bust 54:36

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The AI industry is at a major crossroads 44:02

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Why the Guardian Doesn't Need a Billionaire to Thrive 39:00

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Building the ‘Zillow of Franchising’ with Mariyam Shamshidova of Wefranch Women in Tech New York 58:20

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Rivian CEO on CarPlay, Lidar, and affordable EVs 50:38

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The good, the bad, and the future of AI agents 46:35

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Almost Everyone is Taking Money from OpenAI. Why is Ziff Davis suing them? 34:22

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Ford CEO Jim Farley on China, tariffs, and the quest for a $30,000 EV 1:03:22

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How AI safety took a backseat to military money 42:56

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The Future of Late Night TV, Jimmy Kimmel, and The First Amendment 26:53

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Dropout CEO Sam Reich on business, comedy, and keeping culture weird 1:06:00

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How chatbots — and their makers — are enabling AI psychosis 50:11