‘All chaos and panic’: Nilay answers your burning Decoder questions
'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 big year, including nearly 100 episodes, a new YouTube channel, an ad-free podcast feed, and a slate of great guest hosts while Nilay was on parental leave. It’s been […]
The ChatGPT app store is here
The ChatGPT app store is here On Wednesday evening, OpenAI launched an App Directory to browse all the tools currently available and opened its SDK for developers to build new interactive experiences that operate within the bot’s UI. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said last month that “We are planning to build the obvious features that […]
Stack Overflow users don’t trust AI. They’re using it anyway
Stack Overflow users don't trust AI. They're using it anyway Today, I’m talking with Prashanth Chandrasekar, who is the CEO of Stack Overflow. I last had Prashanth on the show in 2022, one month before ChatGPT launched. While the generative AI boom had tons of impact on all sorts of companies, it immediately upended everything […]
Adobe sees a bright future as AI bet pays off
Adobe sees a bright future as AI bet pays off Entrenching generative AI into Adobe’s creative software ecosystem is paying off, according to the company’s latest earnings. While its share price has fallen by more than 37 percent this year at the time of writing, Adobe is reporting a bump in annual profits driven by […]
RAM price hikes: the latest on the global memory shortage
RAM price hikes: the latest on the global memory shortage Random access memory, or RAM, is in just about every piece of technology we use. But it’s also the technology that AI companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta are using to power the servers in their massive data centers. Now, the world’s biggest memory […]
Square’s product chief on the death of the penny and the future of money
Square's product chief on the death of the penny and the future of money Today, I’m talking with Willem Avé, who’s head of product at Square. You know Square — it was started by billionaire Jack Dorsey, of Twitter fame, more than 15 years ago, and it got big on the back of that little […]
Why IBM CEO Arvind Krishna is still hiring humans in the AI era
Why IBM CEO Arvind Krishna is still hiring humans in the AI era Today, I’m talking with Arvind Krishna, the CEO of IBM. IBM is a fascinating company. It’s still a household name and among the oldest tech firms in the US. Without IBM, we simply wouldn’t have the modern era of computing — it […]
Nvidia’s ‘I’m Not Enron’ memo has people asking a lot of questions already answered by that memo
Nvidia's 'I'm Not Enron' memo has people asking a lot of questions already answered by that memo Big brain hours Christ. Fine. So over the weekend, a strange Substack post from what appears to be a CEO of a pet relocation company went very viral. This post — which to be clear, is bullshit — […]
Nvidia says its AI GPUs are sold out, grows data center by $10B in a single quarter
Nvidia says its AI GPUs are sold out, grows data center by $10B in a single quarter Nvidia just sold more AI chips than it’s ever sold before, blowing past its estimates in its Q3 2026 earnings. Not only did it pull in a record $57 billion in revenue – and roughly $4,000 of pure […]
Adobe to acquire digital marketing platform Semrush for $1.9 billion
Adobe to acquire digital marketing platform Semrush for $1.9 billion Adobe is acquiring the digital marketing platform Semrush for around $1.9 billion. In a press release on Wednesday, Adobe says the deal will allow it and Semrush to give marketers insight into how their brands appear across the web. The acquisition builds on Adobe’s existing […]