Overview
200 Episodes
Confronting the weirdness of a Waymo future.
Transcribed - Published: 29 May 2026
“This is the only recent gathering of a large number of people where mentions of A.I. did not produce a large chorus of boos.”
Transcribed - Published: 22 May 2026
After several years of dismissing A.I. safety as doomer fear-mongering, parts of the Trump administration now seem ready to support regulation.
Transcribed - Published: 15 May 2026
“It seems every other day I am reading a story about a massive insider trading scandal.”
Transcribed - Published: 8 May 2026
Will the rising tide of A.I. adoption lift all boats?
Transcribed - Published: 1 May 2026
The highlights, the lowlights, and how Apple changed in the years since Tim Cook took over as chief executive.
Transcribed - Published: 24 April 2026
Is anti-A.I. radicalization a growing trend?
Transcribed - Published: 17 April 2026
The new Anthropic model that’s too dangerous to be released is already revealing thousands of software vulnerabilities.
Transcribed - Published: 10 April 2026
“The platforms should be absolutely begging Congress to regulate them because the alternative is they get sued into oblivion by a bunch of law firms.”
Transcribed - Published: 3 April 2026
The Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark tells Ezra Klein what he sees coming in the new era of A.I. agents.
Transcribed - Published: 27 March 2026
Companies are using A.I. as a reason for layoffs, but the truth may be more complex.
Transcribed - Published: 20 March 2026
“When there is an attack that kills civilians or doesn’t hit its intended target, people are going to be asking, Oh, was that a human who made that mistake or was that an A.I. system?”
Transcribed - Published: 13 March 2026
“The Pentagon and OpenAI are saying to the public, You’re just going to have to trust us. And the public is saying, Well, we don’t.”
Transcribed - Published: 6 March 2026
It’s been a crazy 48 hours in the A.I. industry.
Transcribed - Published: 1 March 2026
“I think the mere fact that the markets can move so much, based on almost nothing, underscores how high anxiety is right now.”
Transcribed - Published: 27 February 2026
This would be an unprecedented escalation against a U.S. company.
Transcribed - Published: 20 February 2026
“I do think we are reaching an inflection point in people's feelings and senses about AI and where it's going.”
Transcribed - Published: 13 February 2026
“A very valuable and profitable company in SpaceX has acquired a cash furnace named xAI.”
Transcribed - Published: 6 February 2026
Is this the year the internet changes forever?
Transcribed - Published: 4 February 2026
In Minneapolis, it has become a battle of phone versus phone.
Transcribed - Published: 30 January 2026
“The question is not are these first couple of ads that we're seeing from OpenAI going to be good or not? It's whether two or three years from now, ChatGPT is being steered toward ad-friendly topics.”
Transcribed - Published: 23 January 2026
“If we can’t win on social media, then we definitely can’t win on A.I.,” says Haidt.
Transcribed - Published: 16 January 2026
A “Hard Fork” and “Search Engine” collaboration.
Transcribed - Published: 13 January 2026
“This is a story about how a tool can be used to try to affect politics and in particular to minimize women, denigrate them and push them out of the conversation.”
Transcribed - Published: 9 January 2026
“When we came into the studio last year to record our resolutions, I had the best of intentions.”
Transcribed - Published: 2 January 2026
If you’ve ever wondered what chatbots are good for and how best to use them, this episode is for you.
Transcribed - Published: 30 December 2025
A tech C.E.O. explains why A.I. probably won’t cure diseases anytime soon. Hint: You still need humans.
Transcribed - Published: 26 December 2025
“We were roadkill,” says Colin Angle, former chief executive of iRobot, maker of the robot vacuum.
Transcribed - Published: 19 December 2025
“I'm told that Australian teens, in preparation for this ban, have been exchanging phone numbers with each other.”
Transcribed - Published: 12 December 2025
“For OpenAI to realize its ambitions, it is not going to be enough for them to make a model that is as good as Gemini 3. They need to be able to leapfrog it again.”
Transcribed - Published: 5 December 2025
“You can't tell the story of 2025 without these icons.”
Transcribed - Published: 28 November 2025
Attacks against the site are piling up. Its co-founder says, Trust the process.
Transcribed - Published: 25 November 2025
This week the company announced that it would require users to undergo an A.I.-powered age estimation process in order to chat with others on the platform. Will this change reassure parents?
Transcribed - Published: 21 November 2025
Maybe more than other model releases, this one seems to have the attention of Google’s competitors. Will it put the company at the top of the A.I. leaderboard?
Transcribed - Published: 18 November 2025
“As you may have noticed, it is not easy to build data centers here on Earth.”
Transcribed - Published: 14 November 2025
People have been waiting for a robot to do their chores since they watched “The Jetsons.” Can the company behind NEO finally make it happen?
Transcribed - Published: 7 November 2025
“We are living through a dramatic contraction in the access that teenagers have to technology online.”
Transcribed - Published: 31 October 2025
“Now we are just seeing OpenAI do the full Facebook when it comes to content policy.”
Transcribed - Published: 24 October 2025
Could this be a blueprint for the nation?
Transcribed - Published: 17 October 2025
At DevDay, OpenAI signaled its ambition to take everything you can do on the internet and shove it inside ChatGPT.
Transcribed - Published: 10 October 2025
“I do not like the idea of pointing these giant AI supercomputers at people's dopamine receptors and just feeding them an endless diet of hyper-personalized stimulating videos.”
Transcribed - Published: 3 October 2025
“You now have the leaders of the biggest technology companies in the world saying, effectively in unison, that they do not care how much it costs to build all the way to A.G.I.”
Transcribed - Published: 26 September 2025
“We as a culture are optimizing for rage now.”
Transcribed - Published: 19 September 2025
“There's only so many things that you can do to redesign a glass rectangle in your pocket.”
Transcribed - Published: 12 September 2025
“I think that A.I. is going to help break, in a sense, the university model that has anyway reached a certain kind of end game,” says the Princeton professor D. Graham Burnett.
Transcribed - Published: 5 September 2025
“At its core, what this is is like a state-sponsored industrial project.”
Transcribed - Published: 29 August 2025
“It’s beyond enormous. It’s unprecedented.”
Transcribed - Published: 22 August 2025
“I think this was a growing up moment for OpenAI and the industry.”
Transcribed - Published: 15 August 2025
“Sam Altman in his remarks said that this is a major upgrade,” but he also said that “we’re not at A.G.I. yet.”
Transcribed - Published: 8 August 2025
“Frankly, if they’re going to behave like hackers, then we’re going to behave like trolls right back to them,” said Matthew Prince, chief executive of Cloudflare.
Transcribed - Published: 1 August 2025
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