NY Decoded

Cities Decoded turns a year old. What now?

Celebrating Lunar New Year 2026 by celebrating cities decoded's new year.

Feb 16 • Sam Li, TEA (The Era Arc), humanbeyondtech, Jonathan Bensimon, and Catherine

1:22:51

Jonathan Bensimon's Field Notes #1 with Cities Decoded.

Feb 12 • Sam Li

📍AI video demos, quotes with CEO of Smooth Media and founder of CreatorNYC, and more in NY.

Field notes this past week from Jonathan Bensimon.

Feb 4 • Sam Li

S2 E1: Claude supercharges scientific research, Bitmine bets $200M on MrBeast's DeFi empire, Starlink helps Iranians circumvent severe…

A Jan 2026 TEA recap with the creator of the daily TEA.

Feb 2 • Sam Li and TEA (The Era Arc)

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📍Introducing NYC Field Notes with Jonathan Bensimon

He's one of the most consistent attendees of NY tech events. Now, we are so lucky to have him in our pages reporting the live, gnarly, frenetic pulse of…

Jan 30 • Sam Li

How Cities Decoded is telling the story of AI

Here's to a nuanced, complex, thorny, and above all, balanced, take on AI for 2026 — told by changemakers in America's cities.

Jan 18 • Sam Li

🎉We’re partnering with The ERA Arc to make AI news easier to track

Introducing a written/audio/video series to give more signal, less scroll, and the same Cities Decoded energy.

Dec 31, 2025 • Sam Li and TEA (The Era Arc)

2:19

ICYMI: New Media, AI trading bots gone wild, a TIME AI Agent, and much more

5 stories you may have missed (week of 11.9.25) from The Era Arc!

Nov 17, 2025 • Sam Li and TEA (The Era Arc)

Ep 0: How Gen Z has experienced tech evolutions so far

Introducing NY Decoded via the last episode of Accessible Intelligence. More to come in 2026!

Nov 10, 2025 • Sam Li, Magan Chin, Hill, Austin Nellessen, and Sam H Li

57:55

ICYMI: Ragebait marketing, Sora 2 celebrities, forward-deployed enigneers, and much more

5 stories you may have missed (week of 11.3.25) from The Era Arc!

Nov 8, 2025 • Sam Li and TEA (The Era Arc)

ICYMI: Otter.ai, AGI, X, "brain rot" LLMs, and the next biology revolution

5 stories you may have missed (week of 10.21.25) from The Era Arc!

Oct 23, 2025 • Sam Li and TEA (The Era Arc)

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