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Why Humanoid Robots Need Two Clocks
Season 6 Episode 2
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A useful general-purpose robot has to do two things that fight each other. It has to think slowly enough to understand "put away the …
4 months, 1 week ago
Who is Liable for Onboard AI?
Season 6 Episode 1
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As foundation models move from the cloud into physical robots, a fundamental question emerges: who is accountable when an AI-controll…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Squeezing AI into your Pocket
Season 5 Episode 30
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By 2026, language models have moved off the cloud and onto the device in your pocket. What was a research demonstration two years ago…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
A chip that controls a balancing propeller on seven microwatts
Season 5 Episode 29
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Every battery-powered device you own has a quiet energy hog in it that nobody talks about. It is not the processor, it is not the rad…
5 months, 1 week ago
Why 95% of AI Deployments Fail
Season 5 Episode 28
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MIT's August 2025 study of 300 enterprise generative AI deployments found that 95% produced no measurable P&L impact. Gartner forecas…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Why Humans and Robots must Dream
Season 5 Episode 27
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Put a blindfold on a sighted adult and the visual cortex starts being colonised by touch and hearing within forty-five minutes. Not w…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Sovereign AI and the End of the Borderless Cloud
Season 5 Episode 26
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The borderless cloud era is ending. In the second week of January 2026, four government decisions announced in rapid succession made …
6 months ago
The Agentic AI Reckoning: Autonomy, Safety, and the Edge
Season 5 Episode 25
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In Q1 2026 the agentic AI conversation moved from theory to forensics. A crafted PDF triggered physical pump activation through a Cla…
6 months, 1 week ago
The High Interest of Leveraged AI Technical Debt
Season 5 Episode 24
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Developers feel 20% faster. They are measurably 19% slower. That 39-point gap between perception and reality is not a rounding error.…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Pi and the Mirage of Patternicity
Season 5 Episode 23
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In April 2025, a claim began circulating online: pi is gradually increasing around the 7,237th decimal place. A math enthusiast in Ci…
6 months, 2 weeks ago