Editor-in-Chief
When Nilay Patel was four years old, he drove a Chrysler into a small pond because he was trying to learn how the gearshift worked. Years later, he became a technology journalist. He has thus far remained dry.
Nilay Patel is co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Verge, the technology and culture brand from Vox Media. In his decade at Vox Media, he’s grown The Verge into one of the largest and most influential tech sites, with a global audience of millions of monthly readers, and award-winning journalism with real-world impact. Honored in Adweek’s "Creative 100" in 2021, under Patel’s leadership, The Verge received its first Pulitzer and National Magazine Award nominations.
Patel is a go-to expert voice in the tech space, hosting The Verge’s Webby award-winning podcasts, Decoder with Nilay Patel and The Vergecast, and appearing on CNBC as a regular contributor. He received an AB in Political Science from the University of Chicago in 2003 and his J.D. from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 2006.
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Search is an invisible platform that shaped the entire web. And it’s changing.
Just a reminder that Google CEO Sundar Pichai told me there is no solution to LLMs hallucinating on the roadmap.
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Cybersecurity journalist Joseph Cox, author of the new book Dark Wire, tells us the wild, true story behind secure phone startup Anom.
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The head of Google sat down with Decoder last week to talk about the biggest advancements in AI, the future of Google Search, and the fate of the web.
On today’s episode of Decoder, Verge editors Alex Heath and Sarah Jeong join me to discuss the lawsuit TikTok filed last week against the US government in response to the divest-or-ban bill.
One reason I wanted to have both Alex and Sarah on here is that there’s a lot of back and forth between the facts and the law; some of TikTok’s arguments are contradicted by the simple facts of what the company has already promised to do around the world, and some of the legal claims are complex and sit in tension with a long history of attempts to regulate speech and the internet.
TikTok averted a ban once before under the Trump administration. But this time around, the bill is on far more solid footing, and TikTok is arguing that divesting its US business is not possible “commercially, technologically, or legally.” So we walked through each of those arguments one by one.
Sergey posted up outside the area where Google was giving demos of Project Astra multi-modal chats. He said he thinks Sundar is doing a good job making hard decisions as CEO, said he mostly uses AI for coding tasks, and politely declined to answer a question from Bloomberg’s Shirin Ghaffary about Larry Page accusing Elon Musk of being a “speciesist.”
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Google even highlighted the wrong answer in the video!
Enjoy this video of the tank turn buttons on the new electric G-Wagen, won’t you?
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The tech and the consumers both might not be quite ready yet, but he’s betting big on an AI future.
Hayes reads liberally from Josh Dzieza’s award-winning 2020 feature on Foxconn in Wisconsin in telling the story of how President Biden came to announce a Microsoft AI facility in Racine, of course.
But look, it’s not all bad: the good people of southeastern Wisconsin can still gaze upon Foxconn’s tiny dome, where it makes 3+3=∞.