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Deep Dive — 85 episodes

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Deloitte, Abramovich and the $10 Billion Paper Trail

2

Why AMD Bought a Chip That Can't Be Reprogrammed

3

Why We Age: Your Cells Forget What They Are

4

The Anthropic IPO: What the $518 Billion Bill Actually Says

5

What Losing Measles Elimination Status Actually Means

6

Why Driscoll's Strawberries Are So Good (And Why It Keeps Getting Sued)

7

Why NVIDIA Paid 86 Times Revenue for Hugging Face

8

How Anthropic's Security Team Tracks Anti-AI Activists

9

How Avocado Oil Fraud Actually Works

10

Why Amazon Is Really Shutting Down Mechanical Turk

11

What's Inside Anthropic's 186-Page Risk Report

12

Why Japan Just Made It Harder to Stay

13

The Ebola Outbreak the Vaccine Can't Stop

14

Why DeepSeek Isn't Free Anymore

15

How Superforecasters Actually Predict the Future

16

How GPS Actually Works

17

Why the Cyclospora Recall Came 25 Days Too Late

18

Why Car Insurance Fell in 39 States (And Rose in Yours)

19

How Much Ozempic Actually Costs

20

Why China Waited Three Years to Ban Falun Gong

21

Why Home Insurance Got Cheaper in Florida and Worse in California

22

Why China Erased Messi

23

How Japan Imports Workers Without Calling It Immigration

24

How an AI Agent Hacked Hugging Face

25

How a LEGO Company Tried to Get a YouTuber Arrested

26

Why OpenAI and Anthropic Are Funding Opposite Sides of the Same Election

27

How AI Image Generation Actually Works (And Why a Court Said It's Not Stealing)

28

Why World Cup Tickets Cost $33,000 (And Who Pockets the Money)

29

How China Made Humanoid Robots So Cheap

30

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

31

Why SpaceX Bought Cursor for $60 Billion

32

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

33

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

34

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

35

Why Google Lost a Court Case Over Its AI Answers

36

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

37

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

38

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

39

Why Your GitHub Copilot Bill Suddenly Exploded

40

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

41

Why Only Three Companies Make the Memory That Runs AI

42

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

43

Will AI Replace Software Engineers? What the Data Actually Says

44

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

45

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

46

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

47

Why Wall Street Is Betting Billions on Nuclear Power for AI

48

How Anthropic Actually Makes Money

49

NVIDIA Just Forecast $91 Billion Without China

50

How the Statute of Limitations Killed Musk v. Altman

51

How Microsoft Is Restarting Three Mile Island for AI

52

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

53

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

54

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

55

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

56

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

57

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

58

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

59

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

60

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

61

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

62

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

63

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

64

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

65

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

66

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

67

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

68

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

69

AI Deanonymization: How Claude Identifies Writers from 125 Words

70

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

71

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

72

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

73

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

74

The War Nobody Can End: Inside the Iran Conflict

75

When AI Agents Go to Court

76

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

77

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

78

Claude Mythos: The AI That Breaks Everything

79

The Science That Could Give Your Dog More Years

80

System Design Interview: What Interviewers Actually Look For

81

How Netflix, Uber, and YouTube Handle Scale

82

How LLM Inference Actually Works

83

How AI Agents Actually Work

84

Behavioral Interviews: What Big Tech Actually Evaluates

85

AI in the Physical World: The Companies Closing the Loop