Decoder with Nilay Patel

US recorded music is an $11B business and one AI company is worth $2T, says RIAA CEO

12 arguments: why the RIAA sued Suno, how the NO FAKES Act would give people a federal right to their own voice, and why distributors like DistroKid may…

Nov 10 • Scuttlebutt

NBCUniversal Chairman on NBC: "In 17 days, we reached over 225 million viewers"

5 takeaways: How the Olympics proved streaming grows live TV instead of cannibalizing it, why Peacock leans on ads more than rivals, and the YouTube…

Nov 3 • Scuttlebutt

Bill Gates: even the best-case AI future means 20 tumultuous years

7 takeaways: why the AI lab you trust doesn't matter, why alignment isn't ready, and why he wants regulation at the platform layer, not the model

Oct 23 • Scuttlebutt

Atlassian CEO: customers who connect AI tools to Jira raise their spending faster

13 takeaways: why he says the SaaSpocalypse gets enterprise software wrong, why he expects more knowledge workers in 10 years, and how the Dia browser…

Sep 29 • Scuttlebutt

Cloudflare CEO: bots passed humans online in May and could be 1,000x them in 5 yrs

24 takeaways: why AI bots should pay a fraction of a penny per page, why his local paper earns more from AI licensing than ads, and which jobs he cut…

Sep 27 • Scuttlebutt

"I've seen absolutely zero evidence": Bloomberg's Apple reporter on in-house AI

15 insights: The half-dozen AI devices Apple ships inside 18 months, why its chief hardware officer may already be leaving, and the case for foldables…

Sep 22 • Scuttlebutt

"It's largely a convenient boogeyman": former DOJ antitrust chief on AI and China

16 arguments: why he says the labs want permission to stop spending, what "robot jail" for AI agents would mean, and why the Apple case is still live

Sep 20 • Scuttlebutt

Adam Conover: Hollywood gave YouTube 60% of television and didn't notice

15 arguments: Why he says an algorithm is a harder gatekeeper than CBS ever was, what one episode of his cable show cost, and why he gave back Sam…

Sep 15 • Scuttlebutt

Kathy Hochul: 5 data centers in one county would consume a whole nuclear reactor

14 takeaways: Why she says New York law already asks more of Meta than the settlement does, what she would demand of Flock's chief executive, and who…

Sep 2 • Scuttlebutt

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