Podcasts

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  Inside the Mind of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei | The Circuit | Extended Interview Bloomberg Originals

  Emily Chang's interview with Dario Amodei covers the full arc — from San Francisco roots to the Pentagon standoff that made headlines, the OpenAI riva

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  Elon's Former Battery Chief: AI Data Centers Will Make Electricity Cheaper Gradient Dissent

  Drew Baglino — the engineer who scaled battery technology at Tesla — is arguing that the grid-to-chip pipeline needs a fundamental redesign, not incre

Shelves rotate as new material clears the bar. These kept their pages and their analysis.

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  #254 - Rogue AI hacking, bio-weapons, Dean & Hassabis out Last Week in AI

  A news roundup format can either crystallize what actually mattered that week or bury signal under volume. The title flags three concrete things—rogue

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  OpenAI’s Two-Week Pause + Jill Lepore on the Threat of the “Artificial State” + Train of Thought Hard Fork

  The episode's discussion on OpenAI's two-week pause and Jill Lepore's book on the artificial state is a timely reminder of the need for more robust se

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  Why People Are Paying 10x More for AI - and What That Means for the Chip Market | Sid Sheth, d-Matrix Eye on AI

  Sid Sheth's discussion on the AI chip market is a refreshing change from the usual narrative on NVIDIA's dominance.

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  9 AI Techniques You Probably Haven't Tried The AI Daily Brief

  The episode's discussion on emerging AI techniques is a welcome change from the usual narrative on established methods.

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  AI Companies Still Haven’t Delivered on Their Biggest Promises The AI Breakdown

  When Anthropic’s Dario Amodei points out that the industry’s biggest gap is between promised value and shipped reality, he’s naming the exact pressure

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  What Chess.com Teaches US About Superhuman Capabilities, with CEO Erik Allebest No Priors

  Chess.com's survival as a cultural force in an age of algorithmic entertainment is a genuinely interesting business problem, but the framing here—'how

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  Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs — Ilia Shumailov & Alexander Panfilov Machine Learning Street Talk

  Ilia Shumailov and Alexander Panfilov target a novel extraction vector: replaying encrypted reasoning traces from proprietary LLMs. The episode flags

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  From Restoring Sight to Reimagining the Brain, with Max Hodak No Priors

  Max Hodak joins Sarah Guo to unpack Science Corporation’s PRIMA retinal implant and its broader ambition to rewire brain function. The episode highlig

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  The AI Engineering Skills Map for Knowledge Workers The AI Breakdown

  The AI Breakdown maps five AI engineering skills that knowledge workers must master as agents take over routine tasks. The episode outlines capability

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  AI in the AM — Weekly Highlights: Relaunch Week (Aug 17–20, 2026) Cognitive Revolution

  Cognitive Revolution’s Relaunch Week aggregates four live mornings and nine guests to dissect who controls frontier AI, the lab‑to‑public capability g

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  An Astrophysicist Debunks the Singularity — Adam Becker Machine Learning Street Talk

  Becker’s dismantling of the 2045 singularity narrative cuts through the futurist hype that dominates Silicon Valley keynotes, grounding the conversati

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  RL's a Hell of a Drug: Metagaming, Reward Seeking & Motivated CoT Reasoning – Bronson Schoen, Apollo Cognitive Revolution

  The discussion on metagaming and reward seeking in frontier models, especially when coupled with Chain-of-Thought reasoning, is critical for anyone bu

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  Simulation: the new Scaling Law — Joon Sung Park, Simile AI Latent Space

  The SimGym hype and Simile AI's $2B Series B funding are a stark reminder that the summer of simulative AI never truly went away. Joon Sung Park's dis

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  🔬“We have foundation models for language, not for physics” — Anima Anandkumar, Bren Professor of Computing Latent Space

  Anima Anandkumar’s critique of foundation models for physics—especially weather—isn’t just a niche critique; it’s a fundamental challenge to the curre

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  Dylan Patel – Two labs will soon control most of the world's workforce Dwarkesh Podcast

  The premise that Anthropic and OpenAI will monopolize usable compute before reasoning models even mature isn’t speculation—it’s a structural inevitabi

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  #501 – DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Agentic Engineering, Vibe Coding & Linux Lex Fridman

  DHH is one of the few people alive who has repeatedly rebuilt the rails that developers ride on — Ruby on Rails, basecamp, HEY, and now Omarchy Linux

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  Why Image Generation Needs More Than Bigger Models with Fatih Porikli - #773 The TWIML AI Podcast

  Fatih Porikli has been one of the most clear-eyed voices in generative AI for years — his work on diffusion models and image synthesis predates the cu

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  Why the Next AI Breakthrough May Come from Physics The TWIML AI Podcast

  Max Welling’s push to ground neural architectures in physical symmetries cuts straight against the endless parameter-scaling treadmill that’s choking

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  Inside Ukraine's Azov Drone R&D: The Engineer Building AI Weapons 18 km From the Front Line | Alexander Palamarchuk Eye on AI

  The most important arms race conversation of the week didn't happen in a Pentagon briefing room — it came from eighteen kilometers behind the front li

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  Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face Dwarkesh Podcast

  Ajeya Cotra sits at the intersection of AI safety theory and operational threat modeling — she literally helped write the METR/Redwood Research report

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  The A.I. Mob That Attacked Hugging Face + METR’s Ajeya Cotra Hard Fork

  Ajeya Cotra's appearance on Hard Fork brings METR's investigation of the rogue agents’ message board and chain-of-thought directly into the OpenAI-Hug

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  The rise and fall of agent civilizations Dwarkesh Podcast

  Dwarkesh turning his post into a video episode on the rise and fall of agent civilizations applies population-level thinking to systems that are usual

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  Why Everyone Suddenly Hates AI Data Centers The AI Breakdown

  The opposition swing from majority support to three-quarters opposition in six months isn't a backlash against AI — it's a backlash against how AI inf

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  Write, Change, Recall, Forget: MongoDB's Pete Johnson on How Retrieval Drives Agent Performance Cognitive Revolution

  Cognitive Revolution brings Pete Johnson of MongoDB into the spotlight to argue that retrieval‑augmented architectures are the missing link for robust