Podcast Episodes

Charlie Kirk and Online Rage + Inside Trump’s Chip Flip + This Week in A.I.

Episode 154

This week, we discuss the assassination of Charlie Kirk, freedom of speech and the terrifying new reality of extremely online violence. Then The Times’s David Yaffe-Bellany brings us inside the block…

Published on 7 hours ago

Are We Past Peak iPhone? + Eliezer Yudkowsky on A.I. Doom

Episode 153

Apple’s yearly iPhone event took place this week, and it left us asking, Is Apple losing the juice? We break down all the new products the company announced and discuss where it goes from here. Then,…

Published on 1 week ago

A.I. School Is in Session: Two Takes on the Future of Education

Episode 152

This week, we check in on the state of artificial intelligence in education. We talk with a co-founder of Alpha Schools, MacKenzie Price, about how her private K-12 schools are using A.I. to generate…

Published on 2 weeks ago

Intel’s New Deal + Waymo C.E.O. Tekedra Mawakana on Scaling Driverless Cars + Trumps in Tech

Episode 151

President Trump announced this week that the U.S. government, in a highly unusual deal, had agreed to take a 10 percent stake in the chip maker Intel, and that he was considering similar investments …

Published on 3 weeks ago

Is This an A.I. Bubble? + Meta’s Missing Morals + TikTok Shock Slop

Episode 150

Note: This episode contains sexually explicit music.

This week, the whole tech world seemed to be asking: Are we in an A.I. bubble? We’ll explore the cases for and against, including who we think stan…

Published on 4 weeks ago

GPT-5 Backlash + Perplexity C.E.O. Aravind Srinivas on the Browser Wars + Hot Mess Express

Episode 149

OpenAI spent the week responding to outcry from users who miss the behavior of the old ChatGPT, before the latest flagship model was released.

We discuss the criticism, why it caught the company by su…

Published on 1 month ago

GPT-5 Arrives, and We Try the New Alexa+

Episode 148

This week, OpenAI released its much-anticipated flagship model, GPT-5. We break down what we know about the upgrade, drawing from our initial testing and a special news briefing with Sam Altman. Then…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

Age-Gating the Internet + Cloudflare Takes On A.I. Scrapers + HatGPT

Episode 147

This week, we look at the fallout from a sweeping internet age-verification law that went into effect in Britain. We explain why age restrictions are suddenly popping up all over the internet — and h…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Trump Fights ‘Woke’ A.I. + We Hear Out Our Critics

Episode 146

On Wednesday, President Trump signed three A.I.-related executive orders, and the White House released “America’s A.I. Action Plan.” We break down what’s in them, how the federal government intends t…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

X Hits Grok Bottom + More A.I. Talent Wars + ‘Crypto Week’

Episode 145

This week, we tick through the many dramatic headlines surrounding xAI, including the departure of X’s chief executive, Linda Yaccarino; the Grok chatbot spewing antisemitic comments; and the A.I. co…

Published on 2 months ago