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EPISODE · Aug 13, 2025 · 51 MIN

A Busy - and Expensive - Summer for AI, with NYT's Mike Isaac

from Channels with Peter Kafka · host Vox Media Podcast Network

What makes a particular engineer worth $250 million to Mark Zuckerberg? What does Trump 2.0 mean — and not mean — to people building large language models? I didn’t know the answers to these questions either. So I got the New York Times’ Mike Isaac, who covers this stuff for a living, to walk me through some of the biggest questions in AI right now — which means we’re also getting at some of the biggest questions in tech. Warning: This is a pants-free episode. Probably still Safe For Work, though. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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