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The Decoded Podcast

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About the show

The Decoded Podcast explores the people, policy battles and market forces shaping the future of technology around the world, drawing on POLITICO’s reporting to make sense of what’s happening and what comes next.

Latest episodes

  • Sam Altman on rogue AI, Anthropic, and getting money out of politics

    October 5, 2026 · 28 min

    Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, says that he gets “ why AI has a really negative perception right now,” and doesn’t think a rebranding artificial intelligence to “super intelligence” will help. Decoded's Brendan Bordelon hears from Altman…

  • Welcome to The Decoded Podcast

    October 2, 2026 · 1 min

    The Decoded Podcast explores the people, policy battles and market forces shaping the future of technology around the world, drawing on POLITICO’s reporting to make sense of what’s happening and what comes next. Be sure to subscribe to the…

  • What’s behind Trump’s new Tech Force

    December 18, 2025 · 25 min

    The Trump administration launched the U.S. Tech Force this week, aiming to recruit 1,000 fellows with backgrounds in AI, cybersecurity and other high-tech fields into federal agencies. It’s the latest attempt to solve the government’s…

  • Why Trump is fighting states over AI

    December 11, 2025 · 23 min

    President Donald Trump declared on Truth Social this week that he will sign an executive order aimed at banning state AI laws. The move will almost certainly appease Silicon Valley executives and anger some of his fellow Republicans — not…

  • Craig Newmark sees an AI bubble. It may not be a bust.

    December 4, 2025 · 18 min

    Craig Newmark is best known for shaping our digital past. As the founder of Craigslist, he was  a pioneer in online classified advertising and lived the Silicon Valley dot-com bubble firsthand. These days, Newmark is donating his vast…

  • How AI is driving Trump’s energy agenda

    November 20, 2025 · 25 min

    Meeting the rising energy demands of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and other emerging technologies is one of the big challenges facing the Trump administration. And Dario Gil, the undersecretary for science at the Energy…

  • Rebroadcast: Joseph Gordon-Levitt on AI, Hollywood and owning your ‘digital self’

    November 13, 2025 · 28 min

    Joseph Gordon-Levitt has been called a “Luddite” and “anti-tech,” but the actor, filmmaker and entrepreneur insists he’s actually dazzled by artificial intelligence. He just has qualms with the tech companies building it, and how they’re…

  • Why energy bills could be AI’s new political problem

    November 6, 2025 · 16 min

    Democrats logged big election wins this week in Virginia, New Jersey and New York City. And in some races, artificial intelligence — and specifically the energy data centers will consume — was a key issue for voters. As the tech industry…