Episodes
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Deep Questions with Cal Newport
GPT-6 Astra’s hidden reasoning raises transparency questions
As AI models spend more effort reasoning internally, understanding what remains hidden becomes central to judging their capabilities and risks.
Sep 10, 2026 · 39 min
The a16z Show
AI pushes venture beyond software and toward bigger power laws
The episode argues that AI is widening the investable economy while making access, timing, and portfolio construction more consequential.
Sep 10, 2026 · 49 min
Sourcery
Saronic bets autonomy can rebuild American shipbuilding
The episode examines whether autonomous vessels, software, and domestic manufacturing can close a widening U.S.–China shipbuilding gap.
Sep 10, 2026 · 60 min
TBPN
YC bets on hard tech as AI reshapes startups and products
The episode connects AI’s safety, commercial, and geopolitical consequences with a new generation of companies building hardware, infrastructure, and specialized tools.
Sep 10, 2026 · 1h 28m
TBPN
AI risk meets startup valuations and the foldable iPhone test
The episode connects abstract AI catastrophe fears with concrete questions about regulation, inflated technology valuations, and whether new hardware solves a real problem.
Sep 10, 2026 · 27 min
Inside AsembleAI: DeepTech, AI & Science
Humanoids target Europe’s industrial labor gap
Europe’s worker shortage is pushing robotics companies to test whether humanoids can handle hazardous, undesirable tasks without displacing the people businesses still need.
Sep 10, 2026 · 13 min
Inside AsembleAI: DeepTech, AI & Science
Enterprise AI needs anchor use cases, not scattered pilots
As AI budgets tighten, the difference between durable enterprise adoption and abandoned experimentation increasingly comes down to governance, attribution, and measurable returns.
Sep 10, 2026 · 13 min
Bloomberg Tech
Apple tests Ternus’s strategy with a costly foldable iPhone
The iPhone Duo puts Apple’s next product era under scrutiny while exposing the supply, pricing, and AI bets shaping the technology market.
Sep 10, 2026 · 50 min
Claude AI Daily
AI platforms face a safety gap and a security breach
The episode connects long-term fears about controlling advanced AI with immediate risks from compromised accounts and stolen access tokens.
Sep 10, 2026 · 28 min
The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis
Anthropic researcher warns AI has ten percent chance of killing humanity
The high-profile departure of an industry insider underscores the growing urgency and political pressure surrounding the regulation of superintelligent AI systems.
Sep 10, 2026 · 36 min
Better Offline
AI’s losses test the limits of crisis management
The episode asks whether familiar startup comparisons conceal an AI business model that requires unusually large and potentially unsustainable capital.
Sep 9, 2026 · 22 min
The a16z Show
Independent evaluations race to keep pace with AI models
As models move into agents, enterprise workflows, and policy decisions, outdated or self-reported benchmarks can obscure both capability and risk.
Sep 9, 2026 · 40 min
TBPN
AI’s next test is adoption, not spectacle
The episode connects frontier-AI risk and valuations with the harder question of whether these systems can produce durable gains in creative work, business, and everyday life.
Sep 9, 2026 · 2h 59m
Big Technology Podcast
Apple bets hardware can outrun its AI lag
Apple’s possible leadership change and expanding device ambitions collide with a rapidly consolidating AI race led by Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic.
Sep 9, 2026 · 1h 4m
Bloomberg Tech
Apple’s foldable tests its ecosystem and new CEO
Apple’s first foldable could determine whether premium hardware, software, and brand strength can revive a slowing category while defining John Ternus’s leadership.
Sep 9, 2026 · 54 min
The 404 Media Podcast
DHS data unit turns personal records into police leads
The episode examines how opaque federal intelligence practices can convert financial and personal data into local traffic stops with limited public visibility.
Sep 9, 2026 · 43 min
The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis
The single-model AI era is ending as specialized architectures take over
As AI deployment costs and speed requirements diverge, businesses must master multi-model orchestration to remain competitive.
Sep 9, 2026 · 34 min
The a16z Show
AI models push mathematical discovery beyond human persistence
The episode examines whether reasoning models are becoming collaborators that can generate, test, and extend ideas in areas where mathematics remains poorly understood.
Sep 8, 2026 · 1h 5m
Sourcery
America’s shipbuilding gap becomes a defense emergency
The episode connects America’s shrinking maritime industrial base to military vulnerability and examines whether autonomy and commercial production can reverse it.
Sep 8, 2026 · 30 min
TBPN
OpenAI bets computer-using agents will replace the chatbot box
The conversation traces how stronger reasoning, computer use, memory, and health tools could shift AI from answering questions to pursuing supervised goals.
Sep 8, 2026 · 25 min
TBPN
AI agents move from dazzling demos to everyday infrastructure
The episode tests whether advances in reasoning and computer use can become durable businesses across software, healthcare, finance, and robotics.
Sep 8, 2026 · 3h 12m
TBPN
AI’s real breakthrough may be making machines useful
The episode tests whether AI’s significance will be measured by abstract intellectual feats or by systems that visibly change work and daily life.
Sep 8, 2026 · 32 min
Inside AsembleAI: DeepTech, AI & Science
AI leaders shift from efficiency gains to market creation
The episode frames AI adoption as a strategic choice between merely lowering costs and building new revenue, markets, and durable advantages.
Sep 8, 2026 · 13 min
Bloomberg Tech
Amazon diversifies AI chips as infrastructure hits physical limits
The episode connects a major chip-supply shift to the labor, power, compute, and manufacturing constraints shaping AI’s next phase.
Sep 8, 2026 · 52 min