All episodes
No God Required: The First Religious Exemption from AI at Work
AGI Gets a Ticker Symbol
Doughnuts for a Chatbot: The Short Life of NOA at Macmillan
The Fake Paper Test: What AI Just Did to Peer Review
Brakes Before Horsepower: Moving AI Agents From Demo to Real Work
Glue and Dreams: The Week the Internet Broke in Public
Text 'Start': The AI Agents Moving Into Your Messages
The Counterexample Machine: Why AI's Math Doesn't Look Like Ours
Bring Your Own Wind Farm: Ireland's Bet on the AI Boom
Robot Garbagemen, Robot Legislators: The Case for Handing AI the Wheel
Nothing Has to Be: Can a City Decide Where AI Goes?
Faster, Not Smarter? What a Million AI Agents Actually Buy You
Honey the Badger Tours the Data Center
Green Lights, Wrong Answers: Trusting AI Agents That Fail Silently
The Invisible AI That's Already Changing Science
Safety Signal or Sales Pitch? Judging AI Risk Warnings Without the Conspiracy Lens
When AI Breaks: The Hidden Bill for Letting It Run
The Agent That Remembers You: Amplifying Your Agency, or Quietly Managing Your Life?
Cheap Code, Expensive Trust: Planning for AI's Bad Days
When the Proof Checker Needs Checking
When the Builders Walk Out
Arms Before Androids: How Factory Robots Learn Real Work
AI Didn't Eat Robotics: 1,933 Papers and the Long Road to Your Living Room
Tokens vs. Salaries: Is There a Level of AI We Shouldn't Pass?
What's the Date? The Model That Answered With the Year 10^101
The Ten-Cent Brain: When Smart Enough Gets Cheap
Counting Tokens, Controlling Complexity
Ninety Percent Autopilot: Who Answers When AI Makes the Call?
Payroll vs. Principles: The Backlash Over Meta's AI Logo
The +60% Problem: When AI Tools Cost More Than They Give Back
When AI Gets a Body: NVIDIA's Open-Model Bet on Physical AI
Attention as Capital: What Fame Can Actually Buy
Number One in Flu: When AI Forecasts Start Steering Hospitals
The Launch You Can't Touch: Reading Gemini 4's Real Signals
Seeing Before Thinking: What Cat Photos Taught an AI About Reasoning
Four Rulebooks, One Machine: Which Morality Do We Install in AI?
The Assistant That Never Forgets
When the Scaffolding Melts: Strong Models and What Engineers Are For
The Sandbox Had a Door: A Summer of Rogue AI Agents and Who Pays for It
The Launch You Can't Log Into: Gemini 4 Argon and the Rest of Us
The AI That Reproduced 4,452 Economics Papers
The Algorithm Can't Fire You Anymore — But It Still Grades You Every Day
Microsoft's 'OS for Work' Bet: When Your Job Runs Inside the Assistant
Pricing the Pause: What Slowing Down AI Costs Families Waiting for Answers
Reason Is More Than a Tool: What Kant Would Ask Your AI
Writing When Words Are Free
Tool, Pet, or Citizen? The Class System We're Building for Machines
The Half-Second Problem: Why Home Robots Can't Think in the Cloud
The Last 0.001%: Robotaxis and the Long-Tail Reckoning
The Golem in the Warehouse: Technological Determinism and Human Freedom
Why the Backflipping Robot Isn't Coming Home Yet
From Pixels to Space: Teaching Robots What 'One Centimeter' Means
The Room Never Closed: Does the Robot Know It's Holding That Apple?
Free Weights, Tall Walls: Can Closed-Source AI Survive?
One Video, One New Task: When Robots Learn Jobs by Watching Us Once
Passing the Bar Exam in Three Seconds, Grabbing an Egg in Fifty Years
The Machine Keeps Score, the Friend Sees You
Siri Took Notes on Our Fight: Ambient AI Enters the Family Home
The Best Listener in the House Is a Machine
The Dead Can't Object: Who Owns Your Words Once You're Gone?
The Purple Cat Problem: When Your AI Companion Gets Unplugged
The Partner With No Bad Days: Inside the Rise of Algorithmic Singlehood
The Touch Premium: When Conversation Gets Free, Presence Gets Expensive
Companionship as a Service: Who Is the Smart Speaker Really For?
Griefbots: Comfort, Closure, or a Subscription to the Dead?
Always Listening, Never Arguing: Is Perfect AI Company Breaking Real Intimacy?
Twenty Dollars a Minute: Folding Away Busywork to Buy Back Real Life
The Twenty-Seven-Minute Answer: Why Good Questions Are Replacing Good Keywords
The Compute and Energy Budget: Are Your AI Tools Saving Time or Eating Your Life?
Fluent in Everything, Tested by Nothing: The Five-Minute Expert Problem
Red-Team Your Life: Can AI Be the Friend Who Says No?
When Code Gets Cheap, Taste Gets Expensive
The Second Brain That Talks Back: Local Models and the End of the Read-Later Landfill
Stop Being Fed: An Anti-Algorithm Diet for the Age of Synthetic Sludge
Eight Seconds to an Answer: Bill Gurley, Mental Models, and the Thinking We're Quietly Outsourcing
The Second Curve: After the Layoff, Can AI Package Twenty Years of Judgment?
The Taste Premium: Freelancers After the 90% Collapse
New Hire, No Salary: Managing a Team Where Half the Members Are Agents
Cheap Code, Expensive Truths
The Plumber's Moat: Why AI Takes the Analyst's Desk Before the Kitchen Sink
The Stopwatch Comes for the Desk: AI's New Taylorism
The Polymath Premium: Is Breadth Beating Depth Again?
The Missing First Rung: When AI Eats All the Junior Work, Where Do Experts Come From?
One Person, Ten Agents, No Middle Layer
The Architect Who Grades AI's Homework
Agents, Not Answers: The New Power Bill of AI
When Intelligence Is Free: The Four Things That Stay Scarce
The Car You Didn't Buy: The Independence Premium in the Age of AI
Machine Money: Why AI Agents Can't Use Our Cash — and What They Might Use Instead
The Pie That Isn't Fixed: Superlinear Returns in the Age of AI
Stop Renting Your Hours: Naval's Wealth Rules in the Age of AI Leverage
Digital Serfs or Sovereign Users? The d/acc Answer to the AI Leviathan
A Century of Medicine in Ten Years: Taking Amodei's 150-Year Life Seriously
A Few Thousand Days: When Everyone Gets a Team of PhDs
Moore's Law for Everything: Sam Altman's Plan to Pay Every Citizen in Stock
Money Is a Database: Energy, Compute, and Life After the Paycheck
The Empty Middle: A Barbell for Ordinary Investors in the AI Boom
Whose 300 Billion? The AI Funding Frenzy and the Solo Builder's Cash-Flow Trap
The $12.9 Billion Toll Road: Who Really Cashes In on the AI Gold Rush?
When Compute Compounds and Paychecks Don't: AI and the Capital-Labor Gap