Latest episodes 5,557 total
May 9
May 8
Elon's Anthropic Deal, The Next AI Monopoly?, "FDA for AI" Panic, Trading the AI Boom
(0:00) Bestie intros! Thoughts on the LA mayor election (4:38) SpaceX-Anthropic deal, Elon Web Services, SpaceX IPO valuation, Anthropic's insane growth traject…
The Week the AI Story Shifted
This week-in-review episode looks at a week when the AI narrative started to fork, from job-apocalypse panic toward a more mature picture of how AI will actuall…
The American Economic Rollercoaster
Happy Friday.We’re live on YouTube and 𝕏.The current thing in tech and business continues to be the bull frenzy around memory and Situational Awar…
David Reich – Why the Bronze Age was an inflection point in human evolution
David Reich is back.He and collaborator Ali Akbari just published a paper that overturns a long-standing consensus about human evolution — that natural selectio…
Can the U.S. Rein in Prediction Markets? + Joanna Stern on Her Year of A.I. Experiments + Our Producer Goes to Attention School
This week we’re taking another look at prediction markets and a new series of scandals. Is Congress finally ready to rein them in? Then, the journalist Joanna S…
Elon Musk Just Teamed Up With Anthropic and Claude Dropped A TON Of New Stuff.
Anthropic signed a compute partnership with SpaceX, with Elon Musk personally signing off. Months ago he said Anthropic hates Western Civilization. Um, what? Th…
May 7
May 6
#496 – FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet
Jean-Baptiste Kempf is lead developer of VLC and president of VideoLAN. Kieran Kunhya is a longtime FFmpeg contributor, codec engineer, and the person behind th…
Who Cares About Consumer AI
Consumer AI is the fastest-growing tech category in history, but the AI industry’s money, attention, and compute are moving hard toward enterprise and coding ag…
Loris Degioanni: Why AI Is Breaking Cybersecurity, and What Comes Next
AI has fundamentally changed the cybersecurity threat landscape, not by inventing new attack types, but by collapsing the timeline. The same tools that make sof…
Harrison Chase of LangChain on Deep Agents, LangSmith, and Earning Trust | NVIDIA AI Podcast Ep. 297
LangChain has surpassed 1 billion downloads—and the framework that started as a weekend project is now the harness powering the next generation of production-gr…
May 5
Why OpenAI and Anthropic Are Becoming Consultants
OpenAI and Anthropic are moving deeper into enterprise AI services, but NLW argues the real story is organizational readiness. The episode explores why “buy and…
🔬Doing Vibe Physics — Alex Lupsasca, OpenAI
Some people are going crazy over GPT 5.5. Some people. This is the story of the Jagged Frontier. People who use AI to write emails or even code implementation w…
GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen Joins TBPN Today
Happy Tuesday.We’re live on YouTube and 𝕏.The current thing in tech and business is the bull frenzy around memory stocks like Micron.Today’s…
From Vector Databases to Knowledge Engines: The Next Layer of AI
Peter Levine speaks with Ash Ashutosh, CEO of Pinecone, about the launch of Nexus and the shift from vector databases to knowledge engines. As agents become the…
The White House Wants To Approve AI Models. Blame Mythos.
A blockbuster New York Times story says the White House may soon require AI models to be approved before public release, with Anthropic's Mythos at the center o…
From Experimentation to Clinical-grade AI in Healthcare - with Alex Tyrrell of Wolters Kluwer
Agentic AI is running into a hard limit: most enterprise systems, security layers, and operational backends aren't yet built to support automated execution at s…
May 4
Is AI Doom Going Out of Style?
Faint but converging signals suggest the AI doom narrative may finally be cracking — and they're showing up in the chattering class and the markets at the s…
Neural Computers
Happy Monday.We’re live on YouTube and 𝕏.The current thing in tech and business is Gamestop’s offer to buy eBay for $55.5B.Today’s lin…
The AI Models Smart Enough to Know They're Cheating — Beth Barnes & David Rein [METR]
Beth Barnes and David Rein on the one graph that ate the AI timelines discourse, and why the two people who built it are the most careful about how you read it…
May 3
Why Agents Make Every Job a Startup
AI was supposed to save time, but agents have done something stranger — they've made the infinite backlog of everything you could be doing feel immediate an…
#243 - GPT 5.5, DeepSeek V4, AI safety sabotage
Our 243rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!Recorded on 04/29/2026Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie HarrisFeel free to email…
May 1
OpenAI Misses Targets, Codex vs Claude, Elon vs Sam Trial, Big Hyperscaler Beats, Peptide Craze
(0:00) Bestie intros (3:05) OpenAI misses targets, Codex gains on Claude (20:02) AI cybersecurity: a market that's about to explode (31:03) Elon vs Sam Altman l…
The Week AI Grew Up
From GitHub's move to usage-based pricing to Anthropic's reported $900B raise to the White House blocking Mythos's government rollout, this week'…
Baseten CEO Tuhin Srivastava on the AI Inference Crunch, Custom Models, and Building the Inference Cloud
Baseten CEO and co-founder Tuhin Srivastava sits down with Sarah Guo and Elad Gil to discuss the rapid growth of AI inference demand, Baseten’s 30x growth, and…
The Tech Earnings Quad Kill Recap
Happy Friday.We’re live on YouTube and 𝕏.The current thing in tech and business is Anthropic looking for a $900B valuation in its newest funding r…
#342 Andrew Thangaraj: The $5,000 IIT Degree: Can India Fix Its Broken Education System?
What if the most competitive exam in the world is also the most destructive? In this episode of Eye on AI, Craig Smith sits down with Professor Andrew Thangaraj…
OpenAI’s Big Reset + A.I. in the Doctor’s Office + Talkie, a pre-1930s LLM
This week, OpenAI announced a loosened partnership with Microsoft and an aggressive new strategy to secure computing power. We unpack what these updates signal…
Capturing Tribal Knowledge to Solve the Manufacturing Skills Gap - with Sebastian Dykas of Smith+Nephew
A widening gap between retiring experts, manual craftsmanship, and limited process visibility is making it increasingly difficult for manufacturers to maintain…