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Character.AI’s Teen Chatbot Crackdown + Elon Musk Groks Wikipedia + 48 Hours Without A.I.

Episode 160

This week, Character.AI announced that it would soon be taking its A.I. companions away from teens. We explain why this is a major development in the…

7 months, 2 weeks ago

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Celebrities Fight Sora + Amazon’s Secret Automation Plans + ChatGPT Gets a Browser

Episode 159

Backlash to OpenAI’s video generation app Sora has reached a new tipping point. We discuss two big changes the company is making, after Bryan Cransto…

7 months, 3 weeks ago

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California Regulates A.I. Companions + OpenAI Investigates Its Critics + The Hard Fork Review of Slop

Episode 158

This week, Gov. Gavin Newsom of California signed a big package of A.I. and social media bills into law — including the first state law in the United…

8 months ago

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ChatGPT’s Platform Play + a Trillion-Dollar GPU Empire + the Queen of Slop

Episode 157

This week, we discuss the standout moments from our field trip to OpenAI’s third annual DevDay — including a bizarre chat between Jony Ive and Sam Al…

8 months, 1 week ago

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Sora and the Infinite Slop Feeds + ChatGPT Goes to Therapy + Hot Mess Express

Episode 156

This week, we’re talking about the new A.I.-generated video tools and social media feeds from Google, Meta and OpenAI. Is this how A.I. is going to c…

8 months, 2 weeks ago

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The Great A.I. Build-Out + H-1B Visa Chaos + TikTok Braces for the Rapture

Episode 155

This week, an eye-popping $100 billion deal between OpenAI and Nvidia — along with an announcement about the construction of five new American data c…

8 months, 3 weeks ago

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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 Time…

9 months ago

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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 an…

9 months, 1 week ago

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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 h…

9 months, 2 weeks ago

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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…

9 months, 3 weeks ago

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