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Inside ChatGPT's Hidden Pipeline: 8 Models Per Reply
Episode 5507
Ask ChatGPT to reword an email and you assume one model answers. In reality, a single turn can pass through input moderation, PII detection, a server…
3 weeks, 1 day ago
AI Is Way More Than Chatbots
Episode 5506
When someone asks whether AI is a bubble, they usually mean: are large language models a bubble? That equation — AI equals LLM — happened gradually, …
3 weeks, 1 day ago
Send a Bot to Your Next Sales Call
Episode 5505
What if you never sat through another pseudo-personalized sales pitch again? This week we design "Herman," an AI meeting bot that joins the call in D…
3 weeks, 1 day ago
Motolola and the Art of the Near-Miss Knockoff
Episode 5504
A Motolola walkie-talkie on AliExpress — no "r" — opens a tour of the gray zone between inspiration and infringement. This episode maps the four-tier…
3 weeks, 1 day ago
Inside the Hidden Image Generation Pipeline
Episode 5503
You type a prompt, hit a button, and get a picture — but that single step is a myth. Drawing on ComfyUI's visible node graphs, leaked function calls,…
3 weeks, 1 day ago
Clifford Hutsell and the Storybook Houses of Dallas
Episode 5502
Hannah grew up in Dallas surrounded by houses everyone called the Hutsell houses — distinctive, almost fantastical, and impossible to research. Cliff…
3 weeks, 2 days ago
Pharisees vs Sadducees: What We Actually Know
Episode 5501
The Pharisees and Sadducees are two of the most famous groups of the Second Temple period, and almost everything we think we know about them comes fr…
3 weeks, 2 days ago
Eight Consulates That Answer to No One
Episode 5500
Eight countries — France, Belgium, Britain, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Greece, and Turkey — maintain consulates-general in Jerusalem whose diplomats repor…
3 weeks, 2 days ago
Jerusalem's Russian Compound: 17 Acres, Three Churches
Episode 5499
In the heart of Jerusalem, a 68-dunam walled district flies a flag that isn't Israeli. The Russian Compound — Migrash ha-Rusim in Hebrew, al-Muskubiy…
3 weeks, 2 days ago
Who Was a Superpower Before America?
Episode 5498
The word "superpower" was coined in 1944 by William T.R. Fox to describe exactly three countries: the United States, the Soviet Union, and Britain. S…
3 weeks, 2 days ago