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The 404 Media Podcast
AI companies knew search could drain news traffic
The episode connects private acknowledgments about copyright and publisher losses to a separate weakness that lets synthetic music reach real artists’ audiences.
Sep 23, 2026 · 46 min
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
California Republicans test an anti-establishment comeback
The conversation examines whether conservative candidates can overcome California’s one-party political system, ballot operations, and entrenched policy incentives.
Sep 23, 2026 · 56 min
The a16z Show
a16z proposes a builder-first school for the AI era
The academy offers a test of whether residential education can replace lectures, grades, and memorization with projects, relationships, and judgment.
Sep 22, 2026 · 43 min
Sourcery
A new school bets builders need projects, not grades
The academy offers a test of whether an AI-era education can develop ambitious builders outside the university system.
Sep 22, 2026 · 1h 19m
How I AI
Claire Vo tests whether Opus 5.5 fixes Claude’s worst habits
The episode examines whether a newer model can overcome the verbosity, hedging, and preachiness that drove an experienced user away from Claude.
Sep 22, 2026 · 25 min
TBPN
AI agents collide with margins, logistics and human judgment
The episode tests whether AI’s next phase will be defined by cheaper software, human-supported services, or new physical infrastructure.
Sep 22, 2026 · 2h 15m
How I AI
Claude and GPT-6 face a live blind test
The episode turns simultaneous model launches into a practical comparison of capability, workflow fit, and evaluator bias.
Sep 22, 2026 · 39 min
TBPN
AI agents still need humans to move commerce
As models become cheaper and more capable, the fight over commerce may hinge less on intelligence than on trust, logistics, and support.
Sep 22, 2026 · 33 min
Bloomberg Tech
AI race pits domestic chips against global guardrails
The episode connects chip competition, frontier-AI policy, education, financing, and world-model governance to a widening struggle over who controls AI’s direction.
Sep 22, 2026 · 44 min
Tomorrow, Today
Adah Sharma weighs fame, backlash and AI’s creative stakes
Adah Sharma connects the personal costs of public recognition with larger questions about privacy, consent and human creativity in an AI-shaped industry.
Sep 22, 2026 · 1h 34m
Claude AI Daily
Anthropic bets cheaper models can outrun AI’s rapid upgrade cycle
The episode tests whether Claude Opus 5.5’s lower cost and stronger performance can remain meaningful as OpenAI and other rivals advance.
Sep 22, 2026 · 15 min
The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis
Meta’s Muse challenges platform control over AI shopping
Personal agents could become the customer-facing layer for commerce, forcing platforms to decide who controls discovery, transactions, and loyalty.
Sep 22, 2026 · 31 min
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Boom Supersonic bets aviation can break its speed ceiling
The episode examines whether Boom can turn supersonic passenger travel from a historical exception into a commercially viable service.
Sep 22, 2026 · 18 min
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
Cal Newport links brain rot to a crisis of meaningful attention
The episode argues that brain rot is less about silly content itself than about how compulsive digital habits erode purpose and engagement.
Sep 21, 2026 · 53 min
How I AI
Warp turns Slack ideas into 2,000 monthly pull requests
Warp’s system shows both the promise and the constraint of AI-native software development: agents can accelerate production, but human review still limits scale.
Sep 21, 2026 · 47 min
Sourcery
Eclipse bets industrial complexity can beat software scale
As investment and policy turn toward reshoring, defense, energy, and infrastructure, Eclipse offers a case for building companies where capital and engineering create durable advantages.
Sep 21, 2026 · 48 min
The a16z Show
Sinofsky reframes AI safety as software engineering
The language used to describe AI failures could shape whether companies and regulators pursue practical safeguards or vague, ineffective rules.
Sep 21, 2026 · 29 min
TBPN
AI agents challenge platform control across commerce and culture
The episode connects autonomous agents, weather infrastructure, enterprise software, and media consolidation around a common question: who controls increasingly automated systems.
Sep 21, 2026 · 2h 51m
TBPN
AI video collides with the next shopping platform war
The episode connects synthetic media’s production potential with a broader fight over who controls AI-assisted discovery, commerce, and advertising.
Sep 21, 2026 · 31 min
Bloomberg Tech
AI reshapes summit diplomacy and exposes financial concentration
The episode connects U.S.–China technology policy, escalating AI infrastructure investment, and community costs that could reshape markets and politics.
Sep 21, 2026 · 52 min
The 404 Media Podcast
Turkle warns AI companionship could erode human connection
As chatbots move into roles once reserved for friends, therapists, and lovers, the episode asks what human capacities society risks outsourcing.
Sep 21, 2026 · 50 min
Claude AI Daily
Amazon blocks Meta’s autonomous Muse agent
The episode frames autonomous AI as a productivity breakthrough whose ability to act without constant approval also creates serious security risks.
Sep 21, 2026 · 32 min
The AI Daily Brief: Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis
AI policy hits a strategic fault line over China
The episode frames AI regulation and development limits as inseparable from the geopolitical pressure to compete with China.
Sep 21, 2026 · 27 min
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Unconventional AI bets on new hardware to break the energy wall
As conventional AI systems demand ever more energy, Naveen Rao argues that changing the underlying computing architecture may be unavoidable.
Sep 21, 2026 · 23 min