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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 nas…
1 year, 2 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…
1 year, 2 months 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. Billio…
1 year, 3 months 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 cu…
1 year, 3 months 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. Bu…
1 year, 3 months 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 mode…
1 year, 3 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…
1 year, 3 months 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…
1 year, 4 months 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 …
1 year, 4 months ago
China’s Race to Dominate: Listen to Global Tech Wars
Season 1
For decades, China’s economic rise has been symbolized by its unstoppable force of low-cost manufacturing. Now, it’s the leading country in cutting-e…
1 year, 5 months ago