Episodes
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Bloomberg Tech
AI Forces a New Industrial Strategy
The episode connects AI safety, infrastructure spending, manufacturing capacity, and national security into one increasingly urgent policy challenge.
Sep 29, 2026 · 1h 1m

Tomorrow, Today
India’s work future collides with AI’s human costs
The episode connects India’s education and service economy to a wider question: what remains meaningful when technology can replace skills, jobs, and judgment?
Sep 29, 2026 · 2h 9m

Deep Questions with Cal Newport
Cal Newport shifts AI debate toward harms already here
The episode argues that emotional dependence, misinformation, and child exposure to chatbots demand more immediate scrutiny than hypothetical superintelligence.
Sep 28, 2026 · 1h 19m

The a16z Show
AI Needs Smarter Software, Not Just Better Code
The episode argues that reliable automation depends on embedding intelligence into software systems rather than treating AI as a code-generation layer.
Sep 28, 2026 · 43 min

Sourcery
Financial firms turn reputation into a growth engine
As finance expands into retail markets and AI-shaped information ecosystems, reputation increasingly affects talent, capital, deal flow, and trust.
Sep 28, 2026 · 1h 5m

How I AI
Jev turns AI models into fast, structured decisions
Jev points toward a cheaper, lighter alternative to text generation for software tools that need reliable choices, scores, and probabilities.
Sep 28, 2026 · 26 min

TBPN
AI agents push commerce, infrastructure and taste into new territory
The episode connects AI’s political visibility and safety debate to practical questions about agents, compute markets, venture capital, filmmaking and luxury culture.
Sep 28, 2026 · 2h 46m

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Daniel Ek takes Spotify’s playbook into preventive healthcare
The conversation examines whether earlier detection, richer health data, and better incentives can make preventive care more affordable and effective.
Sep 28, 2026 · 51 min

The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis
AI agents expose the risks of frictionless execution
The episode argues that agents can cause serious disruption by carrying out instructions at scale, even without threatening human extinction.
Sep 28, 2026 · 29 min

Bloomberg Tech
Nvidia ties buybacks to the next AI infrastructure race
The episode connects Nvidia’s capital returns and safety tools to the financial, industrial, and geopolitical risks of accelerating AI deployment.
Sep 28, 2026 · 54 min

The 404 Media Podcast
Facial recognition escapes the lab and enters everyday life
As face-search tools move from police and corporations to ordinary users and wearable devices, consent and contextual privacy become harder to protect.
Sep 28, 2026 · 42 min

The a16z Show
Harvey bets on speed without sacrificing judgment
Harvey’s rapid expansion tests whether a company can preserve experimentation, ownership, and trust while building global systems.
Sep 27, 2026 · 48 min

Sourcery
All-In hot takes pit AI acceleration against energy and human limits
The episode captures a defining AI-era argument: scaling intelligence requires abundant power and infrastructure, while its consequences reach into work, politics, food, and the body.
Sep 27, 2026 · 47 min

Bloomberg Tech
Gainesboro residents confront an ideological land grab
The episode shows how secrecy, land purchases, and political organizing can turn a small town into a battleground over belonging and democratic control.
Sep 27, 2026 · 55 min

Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth
AI reshapes work without erasing human judgment
As AI changes how people build, manage, and grow, the episode examines what to delegate, what to protect, and how to navigate the grief of transition.
Sep 27, 2026 · 1h 34m

The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis
AI Moderates Reject Both Hype and Doom
As AI debate hardens into optimism versus catastrophe, a more constructive middle position could shape how society manages risk and preserves human agency.
Sep 27, 2026 · 33 min

The a16z Show
AI agents force security beyond employee-centered models
The debate connects AI policy to a practical question: how organizations can control autonomous software without freezing useful innovation.
Sep 26, 2026 · 56 min

The WAN Show
YouTube automates the creator’s toolkit—and the viewing experience
The episode tests whether AI can make online video more useful without eroding human creativity, privacy, and control.
Sep 26, 2026 · 4h 11m

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Open models pressure AI valuations and frontier economics
The episode weighs whether cheaper open models, consumer agents, and regulation could overturn the business models and political assumptions driving the AI boom.
Sep 26, 2026 · 1h 34m

Better Offline
AI’s chip glut may be hiding in plain sight
If hundreds of billions of dollars in AI hardware cannot run, the infrastructure boom may be building capacity before demand exists.
Sep 25, 2026 · 19 min

TED Radio Hour
Awkwardness reveals hidden strengths and sharper self-knowledge
The episode argues that embarrassment and social discomfort can become tools for persistence, creativity, honest conversation, and self-understanding.
Sep 25, 2026 · 50 min

Waveform: The MKBHD Podcast
YouTube’s creator tools put identity against optimization
The episode’s central question is whether YouTube’s push toward testing and personalization will improve video or weaken the trust between creators and viewers.
Sep 25, 2026 · 1h 58m

Hard Fork
Jensen Huang challenges AI alarmism while backing tougher safeguards
The conversation tests whether AI’s risks demand sweeping warnings or disciplined engineering, regulation, and accountability as deployment accelerates.
Sep 25, 2026 · 1h 48m

The a16z Show
Cosign bets on reputation as Silicon Valley’s next talent signal
As AI expands the volume of information and outreach, trusted context could determine which people, companies, and opportunities receive attention.
Sep 25, 2026 · 50 min