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Deep Dive — 56 episodes

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1

Why Is DeepSeek Free? China's Plan to Break the AI Business Model

2

Why SpaceX Bought Cursor for $60 Billion

3

The US-Iran Deal: What Iran Actually Won at the Strait of Hormuz

4

The $200,000 LEGO Scandal: Why Reckless Ben Can't Post Part 3

5

Why the US Government Shut Down Claude's Most Powerful AI

6

Why Google Lost a Court Case Over Its AI Answers

7

Minamata: How a Company Poisoned a Town and Japan Helped Cover It Up

8

AI Biosecurity: Why the Labs Want Congress to Regulate DNA, Not Them

9

The $200,000 LEGO Scandal: What Everyone Got Wrong

10

Why Your GitHub Copilot Bill Suddenly Exploded

11

China Has the Power for AI. So Why Are Its Data Centers Empty?

12

Why Only Three Companies Make the Memory That Runs AI

13

Robinhood Let AI Trade Your Money — And Said It's Not Responsible. Can It Actually Do That?

14

Will AI Replace Software Engineers? What the Data Actually Says

15

How Close Are We to Self-Driving Cars in 2026?

16

How Anyone Can Strip the Safety Out of an Open-Source AI Model

17

The SpaceX IPO: Why the Biggest IPO in History Loses Money

18

Why Wall Street Is Betting Billions on Nuclear Power for AI

19

How Anthropic Actually Makes Money

20

NVIDIA Just Forecast $91 Billion Without China

21

How the Statute of Limitations Killed Musk v. Altman

22

How Microsoft Is Restarting Three Mile Island for AI

23

The AI Layoff Gap: What CEOs Tell Investors vs. What They Tell the State

24

The Amplifier: How a Cruise Ship Spread Hantavirus to 9 Countries

25

The Humanoid Robot Race: Who's Actually Shipping, and What Really Breaks First

26

Are You Living in a Simulation? An AI Just Asked the Same Question

27

The Brand Survives the Arrests: How ShinyHunters Turned Identity Federation Into the Master Key

28

Computer Use Is 45 Times More Expensive Than Structured APIs: Why the Interface Sets the Floor

29

The Friendliness Tax: Why Warm AI Chatbots Get More Things Wrong

30

The Walls That Breathe: How the Backrooms Aesthetic Became AI Generation's Killer App

31

The Pipeline Is the Package: SLSA Provenance Failed Its First Real Test

32

How RAG Actually Works (and Why Most Production Systems Are Broken)

33

The Mandate That Couldn't Be Met: A Palo Alto CVE and What It Says About Federal Cybersecurity

34

The Last Independent: Why Cerebras IPOs at $30 Billion This Tuesday

35

Platform Engineering at AI-Native Companies: What's Actually Different

36

How LLMs Got 3× Faster Without Getting Smarter: Speculative Decoding, Explained

37

The Regulation Anthropic Asked For: How a Withheld Model Triggered Trump's AI Pre-Release Vetting EO

38

The Loop Closed in the Sandbox: How Anthropic Showed AI Can Do AI Research, and Then Showed It Can't Yet

39

The Two Apples: How One Company Buys AI From Google While Writing Its Code With Anthropic

40

AI Deanonymization: How Claude Identifies Writers from 125 Words

41

The Bifurcation: How the AI Industry Split in Three Places in One Week

42

The 24-Hour Blockade: How a Chinese Tanker and an Iranian Split Defeated the US Navy at Hormuz

43

The Real Cost of AI: Who's Actually Paying for the AI Build-Out

44

The AI Chip War: Why Everyone's Watching the Wrong Fight

45

The War Nobody Can End: Inside the Iran Conflict

46

When AI Agents Go to Court

47

Why the Fed Summoned Wall Street's CEOs Over an AI Model

48

The Strait of Hormuz: The World's Most Dangerous Chokepoint

49

Claude Mythos: The AI That Breaks Everything

50

The Science That Could Give Your Dog More Years

51

System Design Interview: What Interviewers Actually Look For

52

How Netflix, Uber, and YouTube Handle Scale

53

How LLM Inference Actually Works

54

How AI Agents Actually Work

55

Behavioral Interviews: What Big Tech Actually Evaluates

56

AI in the Physical World: The Companies Closing the Loop