Today, I’m talking with Hank Green, a longtime friend of Decoder and the cofounder and now former owner of Complexly, an online education company he started with his brother John in 2012. I say former owner because Hank and John have just converted Complexly into a nonprofit and given up their ownership of the company…
Today on Decoder we’re going to talk about the war for AI talent. Right now, the hottest job market on the planet is for AI researchers. Image: Ryan Quintal / Unsplash The vast majority of these people are concentrated into a small number of hugely valuable, extremely fast-growing companies in the San Francisco Bay Area….
With the just-released title track of her forthcoming album, “The Me That Remains,” Amy Grant refers to the 2026 bike accident that left her with a serious head injury: “Life cut me wide open / When my head hit the ground / Wasn’t my time for dying / Guess my soul just stuck around,” she…
Today, we’re going to talk about the role AI might play in deciding legal disputes. Not just drafting memos and doing research — actually deciding who’s right and who’s wrong, and who should pay. Image: Marek Studzinski / Unsplash My guest today is Bridget McCormack, the former chief justice for the Michigan Supreme Court and…
Apple CEO Tim Cook called the surge in demand for iPhones in the latest quarter “staggering.” Analysts say multiple factors can help explain why. Image: Marco Antonio Victorino / Pexels Source: CNBC
Today, I’m talking with Allan Thygesen, who is the CEO of Docusign. You know Docusign; it’s the platform where you sign things online. It turns out 7,000 people work there, which is one of those facts you see flying around sometimes that’s always felt like perfect Decoder bait. What are all those people doing? And…
Introduction Newly disclosed correspondence has pulled back the curtain on the private fundraising efforts for a controversial White House renovation. Internal documents show Microsoft was formally approached by Trump administration fundraisers, soliciting a corporate donation for a proposed $300 million ballroom. This revelation adds a new layer to the ongoing debate about the intersection of…
“A lot of people have left, a lot of people who haven’t yet left will leave,” Meta’s former chief AI scientist Yann Lecun said. Image: Photography Maghradze PH / Pexels Source: CNBC
As People Look for Ways to Make New Friends, Here Are the Apps Promising to Help The quest for meaningful connection is a fundamental human drive, yet in our hyper-connected digital age, genuine friendship can feel harder to find than ever. Tech Notice: Regulations change frequently. Verify with official sources. Geographic mobility, demanding work cultures,…
For nearly two decades, a Gmail address has been a digital tattoo, a permanent identifier chosen in a moment of youthful whimsy or professional naivete. That era of immutability is finally beginning to crack. Google has quietly begun allowing a subset of users to change their primary @gmail.com address, a seismic shift for one of…
