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slash Vanta.com slash Vox. Welcome to Recode media with Peter Kafka.

That is me.

Today we've got, it's not an emergency pod, but it is a newsy one.

That's why you're hearing it on Wednesday.

I am talking to NPR's David Fulkenflick.

He is one of my favorite Rupert Murdoch watchers.

I'm talking, of course, about the $787.5 million dollar payment, Murdoch, and his Fox News Network

just made to settle a defamation case.

This is one of the stories where the outcomes, what everyone said the outcome was going to be,

yet it's still surprising, it's still newsworthy, it's very, very interesting.

David is super smart.

He will make you smarter smarter and it's free.

But before we get to that, a brief ad from me. Tomorrow, RICOD Media is launching a new series. I'm really proud of. It's a three-episode series on the AI moment that has suddenly happened upon us. We should figure out a name for this thing. I should do that really quick, huh? This is a really dizzying new world. I get paid to follow tech for a living. And between us,

I got to confess, I've been having a hard time getting my head around it. So this is kind of a reporting project for me, and we're taping it. You get to listen. So I'm trying to figure out

what's real, what's hype, what's possible, what's not, what, if anything, we should be doing about all of it.

I'm talking to people who are all in on AI, like Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott, people who have

real reservations about it, like technologist Gary Marcus.

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