Let’s talk about Ring, lost dogs, and the surveillance state

The security camera maker’s Search Party feature, advertised during the Super Bowl, has sparked a surveillance backlash.

The surprising case for AI judges

Bridget McCormack of the American Arbitration Association on AI-powered courts and the future of law.

Siemens CEO Roland Busch’s mission to automate everything

Roland Busch on AI-powered factories, tariffs in the Trump era, trade, and the future of NATO.

Why does Docusign employ 7,000 people?

We interviewed Docusign CEO Allan Thygesen on Decoder this week, and one standout moment was when I asked Allan about his headcount. Docusign now employs around 7,000 people, which is a staggering number of employees for a company with a core product many think of as straightforward and simple.

But as you’ll hear Allan explain, the business of Docusign is actually quite a bit more complex than it appears, and he says the company needs a lot more people than you might think.

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Reality is losing the deepfake war

Why AI labeling efforts are falling flat in the face of slop, disinformation, and messy metadata standards.

Docusign’s CEO on the dangers of trusting AI to read, and write, your contracts

Docusign’s Allan Thygesen says ‘not providing an AI service isn’t really an option.’

Netflix is eating Hollywood — because it has to

What the bidding war over Warner Bros. Discovery says about the future of Hollywood, with Puck’s Julia Alexander.

“We’re not Palantir.”

Alex Lintner, Experian’s CEO of tech and software solutions, came on Decoder this week. When I asked Alex whether he thought the average person likes Experian as a company, he gave me one of the most memorable answers we’ve ever gotten. Check out the clip below, and catch the full interview here on The Verge.

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Experian’s tech chief defends credit scores: ‘We’re not Palantir’

Alex Lintner, head of tech for the global credit reporting company, on AI, privacy, and what data brokerages really do.

Why nobody’s stopping Grok

How Elon Musk and xAI are putting a nail in the coffin of content moderation.

Gamers love AI in game dev — they just don’t know it yet, says Razer’s CEO

Razer’s Min-Liang Tan on gaming’s AI backlash, partnering with Grok, and creating anime waifus.

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Watch Hank Green interview Dropout CEO Sam Reich.

We’ve got something special for you today. It’s my friend Hank Green, longtime internet creator, science educator, and viral TikTok star, interviewing Dropout CEO Sam Reich, now in full video on our Decoder YouTube channel.

Hank did this episode as a guest host last summer while I was out with our new baby, and it’s a fan favorite, bringing together two internet personalities that’ve known each other for a very long time and who have a lot of inside knowledge about how the internet, Hollywood, and entertainment all intertwine. We think it’s one of the best episodes of Decoder we put out last year, and it’s honestly just a really fun conversation. Here’s the full transcript in case you want to read, rather than watch, the interview.

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Stack Overflow users don’t trust AI. They’re using it anyway

CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar on how ChatGPT became an “existential moment” for Stack Overflow.

Sen. Ed Markey wants media companies to fight for the First Amendment

“Grow up, Mr. President. Grow up, Brendan Carr.”

The Verge subscription turns one

Looking back at one year of The Verge’s subscription — and ahead to what’s next.

Square’s product chief on the death of the penny and the future of money

Square’s Willem Avé on AI automation, investing in crypto, and what it’s like working for Jack Dorsey.

Anthropic’s quest to study the negative effects of AI is under pressure

The Verge’s Hayden Field joins Decoder to discuss the politically fraught climate around AI safety.

IBM CEO Arvind Krishna says there is no AI bubble after all

IBM was early, you might argue too early, to AI. Now, CEO Arvind Krishna thinks big bets like Watsonx and quantum computing will start to pay off.

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

Amazon’s lawsuit against Perplexity has blown the doors open on the great AI browser fight.