![]() Of course, we talked about Semafor as well. Ben and I talked about a lot – where do journalists build their brands now? Where does traffic even come from anymore? What’s next? ![]() I say the fall of the social platform age pretty literally: just before we spoke, Buzzfeed actually shut down Buzzfeed News, saying it just wasn’t making enough money, Facebook and the rest are all in on vertical video, and the chaos at Twitter means a lot of baseline media industry assumptions are now up for grabs. Our Sr Audio Director is Andrew Marino and our Executive Producer is Eleanor Donovan.īen Smith is the former and founding editor-in-chief of Buzzfeed News, the founder and editor-in-chief of Semafor, and the author of a new book called Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral, which is about the rise and fall of the social platform age in media, through the lens of Gawker Media and Buzzfeed and, in particular, their founders, Nick Denton and Jonah Peretti. The Decoder music is by Breakmaster Cylinder. Today’s episode was produced by Creighton DeSimone and Jackie McDermott and it was edited by Callie Wright. Why the future of work is the future of travel, with Airbnb CEO Brian Cheskyĭecoder is a production of The Verge, and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network. Samsung caught faking zoom photos of the Moon Has it really made the company more agile and cohesive like he hoped? Has the bet on working from anywhere paid off?īrian Chesky's tweet announcing the summer 2023 launch I wanted to ask Chesky how that restructure is going. Now, the pandemic is ending, Airbnb has itself adopted a hybrid policy, Chesky’s back in the office several days a week, and they’re two years into that new structure. Back then, Airbnb was betting big on long-term stays for remote work amid the pandemic, and Chesky had just restructured the company to a more functional organization, getting rid of the divisions it had before. Visit /adchoicesīrian Chesky, the co-founder and CEO of Airbnb, was previously on the show in 2021. ![]() Microsoft thinks AI can beat Google at search - CEO Satya Nadella explains why What happens when Google Search doesn't have the answers? The nine biggest announcements from Google I/O 2023 This is a jam-packed episode – we talked about a lot, and I didn’t even get to Google’s AI metadata plans, or what’s going on with RCS and Android. We also talked about Sundar’s vision for Google – where he wants it to go, and what’s driving his ambition to take the company into the future. I can’t resist an org chart question, so we talked about why he made that call – and how he made it. Sundar is already going down that path – he just reorganized Google and Alphabet’s AI teams, moving a company called DeepMind inside Google and merging it with the Google Brain AI group to form a new unit called Google DeepMind. But that means remaking the web, and really, remaking Google. Web search right now can be pretty hit or miss, right? There’s a lot of weird content farms out there, and AI-based search might be able to just answer questions in a more natural way. So I wanted to know what Sundar thinks of this moment – and in particular, what he thinks of the future of search, which is the heart of Google’s business. But openAI and others have been first to market with generative AI products - and openAI in particular has partnered with Microsoft on a new version of Bing that feels like the first real competitor to Google search in a long time. It’s an important moment for Google, which invented a lot of the core technology behind the current AI moment – the company is quick to point out the T in chatGPT stands for Transformer, the large language model tech first which was invented at Google. We hung out the day after Google IO, the company’s big developer conference, where Sundar introduced new generative AI features in virtually all of the company’s products. We have a special episode today – I’m talking to Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google and Alphabet. ![]() I’m Nilay Patel, editor in chief of The Verge, and Decoder is my show about big ideas, and other problems.
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