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GM isn’t ready to rip off the CarPlay/Android Auto band-aid quite yet

Last week, General Motors CEO Mary Barra caused a stir when she said that the company would eventually kill Apple CarPlay and Android Auto in all of its gas cars. The company had already successfully removed phone mirroring capabilities from most of its electric vehicles, and now it was plotting how to drop support from […]

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Why GM will give you Gemini — but not CarPlay

We’ve got a special episode of Decoder today. I’m talking to General Motors CEO Mary Barra and new GM Chief Product Officer Sterling Anderson about a lot of big news the company just announced. That includes a Google Gemini-powered AI assistant that’s coming to new cars, and an entirely new hardware and software platform coming […]

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Zocdoc CEO: ‘Dr. Google is going to be replaced by Dr. AI’

Today’s Decoder episode is a special one: I’m talking to Zocdoc CEO Oliver Kharraz, and we chatted live onstage at the TechFutures conference here in New York City.  You’re almost certainly familiar with Zocdoc — it’s a platform that helps people find and book appointments with doctors. It’s a classic of the early app economy, […]

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The EV tax credit is gone — now the hard part begins

Hello, and welcome to Decoder! This is Jake Kastrenakes, executive editor at The Verge. I’m filling in for Nilay for one Thursday episode while he’s settling back into full-time podcast hosting duties.  We’ve got a very good episode for you today. My guest is Verge transportation editor Andy Hawkins, and we’re talking about the federal […]

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Rivian CEO: ‘We’re really convicted’ about skipping CarPlay

Hello, and welcome to Decoder! My guest today is Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe, and I’m very excited to be talking to him on my show today. And when I say my show… I mean Nilay Patel’s show. This is my final episode filling in for Nilay while he’s out on parental leave. I’m Joanna Stern, […]

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Ford CEO Jim Farley on China, tariffs, and the quest for a $30,000 EV

Hello, and welcome to Decoder! This is Nilay Patel’s show about big ideas and other problems. I am not Nilay Patel, though I have long wanted to be him.  I am Joanna Stern, the senior personal technology columnist at The Wall Street Journal, author of the upcoming book I AM NOT A ROBOT (releasing spring […]

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Ford’s CEO isn’t impressed with Apple CarPlay Ultra

The list of car companies looking askance at Apple’s newly release, all-encompassing version of CarPlay is growing longer. In an interview on Decoder, Ford CEO Jim Farley said he is taking a wait-and-see approach about whether to authorize Apple CarPlay Ultra in Ford’s vehicles. After years of teasing, Apple launched the CarPlay Ultra earlier this […]

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