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Why a Chinese AI Lab’s Product Lead Thinks AGI is “Inevitable” | Richard Bian
From Posting to Policy: Saif Khan on DUV and the AI Balance
Matt Yglesias + Jerusalem Demsas + Jordan Crossover Pod
AGI Believers: Kevin Roose on the Race
Data is the Hard Part | Building AI Tools for the Military
WarTalk: AutoWarCom + Project Meridian
Section 301 and the Spice Man who Sued Trump Over Them
China's Economy is Broken | Logan Wright
WarTalk: Potemkin Pacific, Midterm Budget Woes
Julian Gewirtz on Trump-Xi Summit, AI, and Mao Dead Fifty Years Ago!
Can AI Beat the Pentagon’s Bureaucracy?
WarTalk: PLA, 2027, Nukes, and the Pivot to Asia Pirouette
ModelTalk: Pacing the Frontier
WarTalk: 9.11, Death of the Army, So Long Dan Driscoll
WarTalk: GWOT at 25 with Wesley Morgan
Cyber Apocalypse, Now? Hugging Face and the Future of Cyber Risk
WarTalk: USN Readiness Reckoning, Steampunk Navy, and AI Cyberwar with Shashank of the Economist
How AI Becomes a Political Crisis
Lessons from the American Civil War
North Korea's Messiah
The Rise of China’s Electric Vehicle Industry
China's Best Music in 2026 (So Far)
$75k Contest Launch! ChinaTalk Hiring + Evals for the Situation Room
WarTalk: Out of Ammo for Real + Are CCAs Dumb?
The FCC's New Robot Rules
Jordan talks AI with Sebastian Mallaby on his show 'The Spillover'
WarTalk: Odyssey Edition
The Iran War Oil Shock That Wasn’t...(Yet?)
WarTalk: Iran War Back On, Rogue AI, Ukraine Civ-Mil
Kimi K3, Xi's Speech, and China's Mythos Moment
WarTalk: Ancient Greece Edition!
China's Mythos Moment
WarTalk: Iran + Randy Schriver on Asian Defense
The Chemicals Powering the Chip Industry
Unitree and the Humanoid Robot Revolution
Taiwan's War on Renewables [Fully Produced Radio Show!]
WarTalk: Jack Murphy of Team House on Donahue + SOF
Economic Security Megapod!
Rare Earths: What is To Be Done?
WarTalk with Ely Ratner on Iran War Peace + the 'BS' US-China Stalemate
AI for Science!
Emergency Pod: Claude Fable Fried + What's Going on at BIS?
ModelTalk: Claude Fable (Nathan's pissed), is AI actually productive, advice for graduates
Sen. Slotkin on NDAA, AI Nukes, Chinese Cars, and Taiwan
Paul Kennedy on Great Powers, Past and Present
WarTalk: The View from AFRICOM with LTG Brennan
The Pope has AI Takes
WarTalk: NatSec in Congress + AI Evals for War
Arizona's Abundance Playbook
WarTalk: Ukraine's Forward Drone Line with Rob Lee
Doing Big Things in Policy: It's All White Space
Trump's China Visit: Prestige on the Cheap
The Stalemate Summit: Xi-Trump in the Long Sweep of US-China Relations
WarTalk: Iran War 'Love Tap' Edition feat. Jack Shanahan
(Audio Fixed!!) Ken Liu on AI, Daoism, and Freedom
WarTalk: Still Very Much Out of Ammo!
Quantum 201: US v China Quantum Industrial Base
WarTalk: No Ammo for Taiwan, Polymarket, Bye Phelan, Will Driscoll Go The Distance?
Sen. Chris Murphy on Corruption, China and AI
Quantum 101
WarTalk: Is Mythos a Cyber Nuke? + The Blockade That Wasn't
The Think Tank New Breed (IFP + FAI)
Claude Mythos and National Power
WarTalk: Who Won the Iran War? (Second Breakfast Rebranded...)
How Ukraine Makes Drones
Second Breakfast: F-15, Pete's Purges, CENTCOM Hubris, War of 1812
The American Federal Civil Service: A History
Jen Pahlka on an Optimistic Vision for Government Renewal!
Second Breakfast: We Negotiate with Bombs, War by Brainrot
Overfit is now ModelTalk! GPU Smuggling, OpenAI Cooked? + Open Models, AI Writing
Second Breakfast: Taking Kharg Island, Terrorism, Grift
The Toymaker vs. the Tariffs
WarTalk: AI, Nukes, Iran and Autonomous War
Iran: No Save Point
Why it Sucks to Work in AI in China + Open Source with Kevin Xu
Software Abundance for Government With Cognition's Russell Kaplan
Second Breakfast: Iran and the DIB with Fmr SECAF Frank Kendall
Autonomous Weapons 101 + Anthropic v DoW
Emergency Pod: Iran + Anthropic
Second Breakfast: Anthropic, SecDefs being weird
Lawrence Freedman on Strategy and Nuclear War
Emergency Pod: SCOTUS Scraps Tariffs!
Second Breakfast: Iran, Munich + European Defense Tech, Anthropic
How the US Won Back Chip Manufacturing
Chinese Peptides (Reported Podcast Special Edition!)
Rickover’s Playbook: Building Hard Things Inside the State
China's Gaming Landscape
Chinamaxxing
Military Revolutions with Ed Luttwak
Second Breakfast: Invading Canada, Benedict Arnold, Iran
EMERGENCY POD: PLA Purges Continue!
Overfit: Claude Code is Everything, Trump Vibe Codes
Second Breakfast: Battleships, Golden Dome, Greenland, Kash, Presidential Comedy
The Future of Economic Security with Dan Kim and Chris Miller
Party Time! Jon Czin on US-China in 2025 and 2026
Richard Danzig on Cyber and AI
The China Commission Reports!
Ben Buchanan on AI and Cyber
Second Breakfast: Iran, $500B for Defense...and should we pity RTX?
Transistor Radio: WFE and Doug's Claude Code Psychosis