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GM’s Baris Cetinok is committed to building a custom experience to rival that of Apple and Google.
Don’t worry — Elon Musk is somehow also involved.
The Airbnb cofounder discusses being ‘in the details’ and why traditional management is doing it wrong.
The latest AI manifesto, from Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, says a lot about the industry’s current moment.
Here’s a video clip of my Decoder exchange on tax lobbying with Intuit CEO Sasan Goodarzi that the company called “egregious” and “disappointing” and asked us to delete. Fair warning: it’s a TikTok so it’s edited, but you can listen to the entire unedited clip on the pod this week.
The future of marketing — and, in a way, everything else — is getting a shakeup.
The cofounder of the world’s largest education app thinks AI and gamification can supercharge language learning.
Can AI actually change our love-hate relationship with our tools?
That’s straight from Rabbit CEO Jesse Lyu, who took great exception to our story from September 25th, which was sourced to a Fast Company article about his comments at one of their events. Jesse told me the actual daily user number was around 20,000, spiking up to 34,000 the day the company’s new LAM Playgrounds were launched, and that his actual comment was that 5,000 of those people were using the Rabbit at any given time. For context, Jesse also told me Rabbit has sold 100,000 R1s so far.
Fast Company has corrected its story, and we’ve updated our story as well. You can hear the whole conversation on Decoder.
Rabbit’s large action model is here, sort of — but everyone else is coming fast.
Journalist Jason Schreier discusses his new book, Play Nice: The Rise, Fall, and Future of Blizzard Entertainment.
Matt Strauss, head of Peacock and global streaming, has plans to keep you watching.
Meta’s CEO on his first pair of AR glasses, partnering with Ray-Ban, why he’s done with politics, and more.
The Browser Company cofounder thinks it’s time to modernize the browser and reinvent the web.
Lightbulbs and electronics defined a century of Royal Philips. Can AI and healthcare define its next era?
Anthropic’s new chief product officer on the promise and limits of chatbots like Claude and what’s next for generative AI.
The new owners of the satire site rescued it from content farm hell. Now, they’re relaunching its newspaper.
Dohmke says navigating Microsoft-OpenAI isn’t as complicated as it seems, and open source is still king.
The head of chatbot maker Replika discusses the role AI will play in the future of human relationships.
AAG Jonathan Kanter says the Google monopoly verdict belongs on the ‘Mount Rushmore of antitrust.’
The head of online hotel and flight giant Booking Holdings on how competition, regulation, and AI are changing travel.
One thing about having the idea of AI clones attending meetings in Zoom presented to you for the first time in a conversation with the CEO on your podcast is that other people get to react to said idea in a much funnier way, like Angela Collier does here.
The new head of Logitech discusses the company’s return to growth and plans to reduce its carbon footprint by half.
A new Rivian or easy access to your iPhone apps from your vehicle’s console? CEO RJ Scaringe says you can’t have both.
Rivian’s founder on the R2 / R3 roadmap and the company’s $5 billion VW deal.
Arati Prabhakar, a former DARPA chief and now director of the White House’s OSTP, says the time to regulate AI is now.
CEO Nicholas Thompson discusses the deal: ‘AI is coming. It is coming quickly. We want to be part of whatever transition happens.’
To her, AI is just an extension of what Canva has always done: make accessible design tools that cost less than Adobe’s.
CEO Dan Gertsacov joins us for our July Fourth Big Green Episode.
