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Envoys of Friendship
Season 7 Episode 7
AI agents are like middle schoolers; assessing progress from the Trump/Xi summit; combatting the security dilemma with summitry; creating new communi…
1 day, 4 hours ago
Humans Make Mistakes Too
Season 7 Episode 6
A big week for face-to-face diplomacy; the UN as a safe forum for high-level visits; the importance of side-meetings outside the General Assembly Hal…
1 week, 1 day ago
The Lingo of Our AI Tech Overlords
Season 7 Episode 5
The public debate over AI and the end of humanity; proposals to slow down AI development and improve safety; the challenges of coordinating domestica…
2 weeks, 2 days ago
Not Routine at All
Season 7 Episode 4
The international security implications of the Hugging Face hack; rogue AI agents and cyberattack attribution; competing explanations for the CIA Dir…
2 weeks, 6 days ago
This Could Result in an International Incident
Season 7 Episode 3
The fascinating story of OpenAI’s rogue models and the HuggingFace hacking incident; turning a mirror on our humanity; the natural inclination to coo…
4 weeks, 1 day ago
Twice as Popular as Taylor Swift
Season 7 Episode 2
Remembering Dolly Parton, global icon; US military capacity and the readiness costs of extended deployments in the Iran conflict; the US-Saudi Arabia…
1 month ago
All of This Has Been Done
Season 7 Episode 1
Cheap Talk’s triumphant return for season 7: Our favorite international news stories of the summer; cutting short military exercises with South Korea…
1 month, 1 week ago
Other Forms of Dust
Season 6 Episode 26
Cheap Talk ends season 6 with listener questions: Control of the Strait of Hormuz; an arrest for trading on classified information on Polymarket; Thu…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Waiting at the Airport
Season 6 Episode 25
The current state of US-Iran negotiations (or lack thereof); escalation and mixed signal-sending in the Strait of Hormuz; multiple veto players on ea…
5 months, 1 week ago
It's Real and It's Dangerous
Season 6 Episode 24
Excitement in the world of digital diplomacy; face-to-face diplomacy to end the Iran war; blockading Iran as a plan B and its prospects for success; …
5 months, 2 weeks ago