Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThe Transformer's Author Just Defected
Season 1 Episode 89
The week that asked who controls AI ends by zooming all the way in — to the individual. On June 17, Noam Shazeer, co-author of the 2017 paper that in…
4 months ago
Who Controls AI Just Got Three Answers
Season 1 Episode 88
All week the question was who controls AI. Today it got three answers, and none of them is "the market." First: four days after the largest IPO in hi…
4 months ago
Three Bets on Who Controls AI
Season 1 Episode 87
In a single week, three capitals placed three very different bets on who controls AI. At Bercy, the French government unveiled a "systemic" sovereign…
4 months ago
Washington Just Restricted Who Can Use an AI Model
Season 1 Episode 86
For the first time, the United States has applied export controls to an AI model itself — not a chip. The Department of Commerce is forcing Anthropic…
4 months ago
Invisible Guardrails and a 24-Hour Reversal
Season 1 Episode 85
Anthropic shipped Claude Fable 5 — its first broadly available Mythos-class model — with safeguards that silently degraded responses to suspected dis…
4 months, 1 week ago
Visa Ships the Wallet
Season 1 Episode 84
Three capabilities arrived this week and they belong in the same conversation. Visa embedded its global payment network directly into ChatGPT — agent…
4 months, 1 week ago
Anthropic Ships the Brain, Perplexity Ships the Body
Season 1 Episode 83
Anthropic released Claude Fable 5 to the public on Tuesday — the first Mythos-class frontier model with general availability. One million token conte…
4 months, 1 week ago
Anthropic Splits the Meter, Google Kills the Add-On
Season 1 Episode 82
Two vendor moves landed this week that change how AI shows up on your statement and what tools your team can open. Anthropic split Claude Code billin…
4 months, 1 week ago
Apple Blinks
Season 1 Episode 81
Three institutions reached the same conclusion this weekend — nobody wins at AI alone.
Apple opens WWDC today with Tim Cook's final keynote. The head…
4 months, 1 week ago
The Reckoning
Season 1 Episode 80
Two new principals just walked into every room where AI decisions are being made — the federal government and public markets.
President Trump signed a…
4 months, 2 weeks ago