‘All chaos and panic’: Nilay answers your burning Decoder questions

Welcome to our end-of-year Decoder special! Senior producers Kate Cox and Nick Statt here. We’ve had a large year, including astir 100 episodes, a caller YouTube channel, an ad-free podcast feed, and a slate of large impermanent hosts portion Nilay was connected parental leave. It’s been a lot.

We’ve besides had a batch of large questions and comments this twelvemonth from you, our audience. It’s present an yearly contented for america to crook the tables connected Nilay for our last occurrence of the year, truthful we pulled unneurotic each the feedback we’ve received connected topics similar CarPlay, Monday occurrence impermanent suggestions, and — of people — AI. We besides received a batch of large questions implicit the past fewer weeks asking astir however Decoder is enactment together, what topics we should absorption connected successful the future, and however we deliberation astir the format and operation of the amusement itself.

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So today, we welcomed Nilay to Decoder, to grill him connected each these questions and much and besides to get his thoughts connected the past 12 months: What he’s liked, what helium wants to improve, and however he’s making decisions for Decoder in the caller year. 

When we did this last year, our apical 2 astir often asked questions were precise straightforward. First: Why isn’t Decoder on YouTube? Thankfully, we fixed that one. We launched the Decoder YouTube channel successful October, and we present people afloat video episodes each week, starting with our classical Monday interrogation format. We besides got asked a batch astir an ad-free podcast enactment past year, and we’re blessed to accidental that besides since October, Verge subscribers now person entree to ad-free audio feeds.

We’ve received immoderate feedback astir making our Thursday explainer episodes afloat video, too. Trust america — we’re moving connected it. It’s a small much analyzable and resource-intensive, and truthful it’s going to instrumentality immoderate clip to robust retired the kinks. Beyond that, we’re precise excited to experimentation much with format, video, and adjacent unrecorded accumulation successful 2026. (Come articulation america unrecorded astatine CES connected January 7, astatine the Brooklyn Bowl!)

If you’d similar to cheque retired immoderate of the past Decoder episodes and quality stories we talked astir successful this episode, cheque retired the links below. Happy New Year, and acknowledgment for listening! We’ll beryllium backmost with each caller episodes successful mid-January.

• Answering your biggest Decoder questions, 2024 variation | Decoder
• The DoorDash Problem | Decoder
• How decision-making volition alteration erstwhile AI answers are inexpensive and (too) casual | Decoder
• Why GM volition springiness you Gemini — but not CarPlay | Decoder
• Rivian CEO: ‘We’re truly convicted’ astir skipping CarPlay | Decoder
• How SharkNinja took implicit the home, with CEO Mark Barrocas | Decoder
• Why Tubi CEO Anjali Sud thinks escaped TV tin triumph again | Decoder
• Disney accuses Google of ‘massive’ copyright infringement pursuing woody with OpenAI | The Verge

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