Podcast Episodes

The AI Pioneer Developing New Kinds of Medicine

Season 1 Episode 144

Jakob Uszkoreit is the CEO and co-founder of Inceptive, a biotech start-up. He’s also a co-author of “Attention is All You Need,” the paper that created transformer models. Today, transformers power …

Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago

A Billion-Dollar Bet on Carbon Removal

Season 1 Episode 143

Nan Ransohoff is the head of climate at Stripe. The company is known mainly for facilitating online payments, but it’s become a key driver of the nascent carbon-removal industry.

On today’s show, Nan…

Published on 5 months ago

Giving Old Batteries New Life

Season 1 Episode 142

Megan O’Connor is the co-founder and CEO of Nth Cycle. Megan’s problem is this: How do you create a new system that can both refine the raw metals we need for new batteries and recycle metal from old…

Published on 5 months, 1 week ago

Engineering the Future of Fusion

Season 1 Episode 141

Getting energy from nuclear fusion has been a dream for decades; it would be cheap, abundant, and safer than today’s nuclear fission reactors. Billions of dollars have flowed into fusion startups in …

Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago

Can Robots Fix Recycling?

Season 1 Episode 140

Recycling plants take in a huge amount of random (and occasionally hazardous) stuff, which they then have to turn into reliable outputs that their customers will buy. That’s why Rebecca Hu Thrams cal…

Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago

Warlords, Espionage, and Disinformation | Introducing Hot Money: Agent of Chaos

Season 1

In 2020, the Financial Times exposed a 2 billion euro fraud at Wirecard, a high-flying German fintech. Many thought that was the end of the story. But for reporter Sam Jones, it was just the beginnin…

Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago

Inside the Mind of an AI Model

Season 1 Episode 139

AI  might be the most consequential advancement in the world right now. But – astonishingly – no one fully understands what’s going on inside AI models. Josh Batson is a research scientist at Anthrop…

Published on 6 months ago

Teaching Robots How to Do Everything

Season 1 Episode 138

AI is better than humans at a lot of things, but physical tasks – even seemingly simple ones like folding a shirt – routinely stump AI-powered robots. Chelsea Finn is a professor at Stanford and the …

Published on 6 months, 1 week ago

Making a Universal Flu Vaccine

Season 1 Episode 137

Jacob Glanville is the founder and CEO of Centivax. Jacob’s problem is this: Can you create a vaccine that protects people against almost all strains of flu – even strains that haven’t evolved yet?

Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago

Teaching Computers to Smell

Season 1 Episode 136

Alex Wiltschko got obsessed with perfume when he was 12 years old. He grew up to be an AI researcher at Google. Then he started Osmo, a company that fused his job at Google with his childhood obsessi…

Published on 6 months, 3 weeks ago