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We are excited to have Anthropic share their latest AI x Finance work at AI Engineer New York, coming up in 2 weeks! In case you’ve been under a rock, here’s a non-exhaustive list of what Anthropic has been shipping since closing the largest fundraise of all time in May at $47B ARR: * June: Launched Claude Tag and Sonn…
This week's host Jordan Klepper sits down with Daily Show writer Randall Otis to recap the latest news and preview the week to come. They weigh in on President Xi giving America the glorious gift of pandas during an otherwise fruitless summit with Trump, Sen. Tommy Tuberville obsessing over furry pilots in the airline…
The Build with Gemini X prize is presented by Gemini. Learn more at moonhsots.com Congratulations to the Build With Gemini X winners: 1st Place: POLYFORK by Lucas Martinic 2nd Place: TICIAN CIERRE by José Edgar Peña Ramirez 3rd Place: MYFIXAM by Jane Chukwuyen Odum and Ayodele Daniel Dada 4th Place: LAUNCHBRIDGE by Cha…
Welcome back to The Majority Report On today's program: Secretary of War Pete Hegseth releases a thinly veiled message to U.S. servicemembers to save America by registering to vote and cast their ballots for Republicans. Donald Trump releases a bizarre political ad that is paid for by the U.S. Government. On MSNOW, a p…
The FutureVision XPRIZE is presented by Salesforce, ARK Invest, Xsolla and Range at Moonshots Live 2026. Learn more at moonhsots.com Congratulations to the FutureVision XPRIZE winners: 1st Place: THE GIFTED by Jeff Synthesized — https://youtu.be/yivXyWCaEc8 2nd Place: NOBODY DIES ON MARS by Verena Puhm — https://youtu.…
It's a confusing time right now for gaming. Video games are becoming an increasingly expensive hobby. Games are expensive to make, too, and companies want to sell the most lucrative ones they can: Sony and Microsoft are cutting jobs to refocus on blockbusters. At the same time, we’ve got more ways to play than ever: ha…
AI agents don’t have to pose an existential threat to cause serious disruption. NLW examines recent OpenAI security incidents, the limits of agent permissions, and how agents doing exactly what users want could upend systems built around human friction. In the headlines: US-China AI talks, Trump meets Dario Amodei, and…
This episode was filmed at Moonshots Live 2026. Learn more at https://moonshots.com/ The mates sit down with Palmer Luckey on Moonshots Live to discuss autonomous weapons, AI risk, Anduril’s approach to humanoids, the real threats posed by AI, VR’s peak, and what’s next for the future of technology. Get access to metat…
Think about the last time you had a discouraging thought. Maybe you told yourself, "This won't work. I'm not cut out for this." Did you take that thought as fact? Last week, we talked with psychologist Martin Seligman about why some people come to believe that their actions don’t matter. In the second part of our conve…
The effect of pornography on the people who consume it is often moralised about, generally due to its influence over the nascent sexuality of young men. But the business model, technological innovations and broader, parasexual, cultural effects go crucially underexamined. This week’s guest, investigative reporter for t…
Is Jev actually a leap forward for classification or just hype and fake demos? We dig in, plus Claude Code’s new AGENTS.md support, TinyCast (the free, open-source Raycast alternative), an iPhone Fold simulator in Xcode, and a stack of dev tools you’ll want to try 00:00 Welcome to Syntax! 01:17 The iPhone Fold Simulato…
Facial recognition is everywhere now. It’s in surveillance cameras; it’s soon going to be in Meta’s RayBan pervert glasses, and some students already did that. You now have massively viral accounts that take clips of people, run them through facial recognition software, and then post their name and other personal info…
My guest today is Mike Cannon-Brookes, who is co-founder and CEO of Atlassian. Atlassian is one of those companies that every other company runs on — it makes important platform tools like Jira and Trello. This means Atlassian is also right in the middle of the way AI is changing how all these companies work. Or, if yo…
Show DescriptionBen Schwarz stops by to discuss the state of web performance, using his research on airline websites as a case study for practical insights on improving website speed and user experience. Listen on Website GuestsBen SchwarzGuest's Main URL • Guest's Social CEO at Calibre Analytics Links ShopTalk Archive…
Michael Pollan is a renowned author, journalist and professor at UC Berkeley. He is best known for his influential works on how humans and plants have shaped each other at the level of food, medicine, health, and culture. In this episode we discuss consciousness—what it is and how the recognition between our self vs ot…
Are you chasing material success to fill an emotional void from your childhood? Adam Neumann speaks about the psychological lessons and spiritual frameworks that he learned after the most publicized corporate collapse in modern history. Adam Neumann is the visionary entrepreneur who cofounded WeWork, growing it into a…
View the Page for This Episode Become a Member to Receive Exclusive Content Sign Up to Receive Peter's Weekly Newsletter Lloyd B. Klickstein is a physician-scientist who has spent more than 20 years at the intersection of drug discovery, healthy aging, and preventive medicine. Drawing on his experience in academic medi…
The mates sit down with Emad Mostaque to discuss Jensen Huang pushing back on AI doomers, Xi Jinping and Donald Trump’s AI talks, the rebranding of AGI as “superintelligence,” and the rapidly accelerating race in AI models, robotics, and science. Get access to metatrends 10+ years before anyone else - https://qr.diaman…
Andrew Yang faces 20 AI optimists in Jubilee’s Surrounded, defending four provocative claims: AI will accelerate inequality, eliminate jobs faster than new ones can emerge, make Universal Basic Income necessary, and push markets to prioritize profit over human dignity. Will Yang’s warnings withstand the optimism—or wil…
As the AI debate grows more polarized, a growing chorus is rejecting the choice between unchecked optimism and inevitable doom. NLW explores arguments from Francis Fukuyama, AI researchers, and Jeffrey Katzenberg that point toward a more productive conversation about AI risk, human creativity, and who gets a say in sha…
Catch all of the past week's great guests in one place. Ari Emanuel, of TKO and WME Group, sits down with Jon Stewart to discuss his new memoir, “Roll the Calls.” The two discuss what Emanuel has learned over his legendary career: how to advocate for himself despite his dyslexia, how to channel anger and ego into a suc…
Following their recent Trip episode on Situationism, the gang offer a close reading of The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord, first published in France in 1967. Nadia, Jem and Keir explore the layered references and subversions throughout Debord’s extremely quotable aphorisms, focusing on the first three chapters…
Weco let an AI coding agent rewrite the harness around another agent for eight days: its code, prompts and tools, while the underlying language model stayed fixed. Tim Scarfe asks Weco co-founder Zhengyao Jiang what the reported gains over two years of human engineering actually demonstrate.The discussion examines AIDE…
In this week's segment from Mehdi Unfiltered, Mehdi is joined by David Corn to discuss his new book, 'How Russia Won: Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and the Fight for America,' and whether or not he has any regrets about breaking the news of the now-infamous Steele dossier. SUBSCRIBE TO ZETEO TO SUPPORT INDEPENDENT AND…
Cloudflare discovered in June that bots already make up more than half of internet traffic — and CEO Matthew Prince says that bots could outnumber humans a thousand to one within five years. That's a huge change to the internet, and if the web is going to keep existing, it needs a huge change to its business model. Can…
Catch up on the latest headlines with the Daily Show news team. Jon Stewart digs into the White House's press ban on major media outlets and weighs Republicans' embrace of AI against their fearmongering about immigrants. Desi Lydic covers Trump's aggressive rant at the U.N. General Assembly, the president's bromantic m…
All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file: West Bank Takeover The AI Regulation Debate Diversity With Andrew Gas Prices and Oil Wars Executive Disorder: Trump Bans the “Free Press,” Palestinian National Council Elections, ICE Shooting, Canadian Neoliberalism You can…
From the earliest days of open-weight models to becoming the neutral routing layer for more than 10 million developers, OpenRouter is one of the clearest bets that the future of AI will be multi-model. In this episode, OpenRouter co-founder & CEO Alex Atallah, with AMP’s Anjney Midha returning with swyx to unpack how O…
In this week's segment from Mehdi Unfiltered, Mehdi is joined by Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed to discuss not sending money to Israel, being a girl-dad, and the never-ending questions about Hasan Piker. SUBSCRIBE TO ZETEO TO SUPPORT INDEPENDENT AND UNFILTERED JOURNALISM: https://zeteo.com/subscrib…
It's Casual Friday on The Majority Report On today's program: In his speech before the United Nations, Benjamin Netanyahu claims that NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani has made Jews in New York feel unsafe and calls out the mayor's friendship with streamer Hasan Piker. Jeet Heer, national affairs correspondent at The Nation and…
Jev is moving beyond viral demos into practical work, from analyzing ad campaigns and searching archives to prioritizing inboxes and checking AI writing. NLW breaks down six categories of real-world use cases, explains what makes this new “judgment model” different from an LLM, and offers a framework for deciding where…
Meta's Muse AI agent is cute (sometimes caked-up) and it performs well as a productivity tool. And, if you give it access to your social media and e-mail, it can know basically everything about you. This week on The Vergecast, Nilay Patel, Jake Kastrenakes and David Imel give their reactions to Mark Zuckerberg's demos…
This episode is sponsored by Claude. For problems worth solving, get started with Claude at Claude.ai. The Western Electric 500 Series Telephone used to be everywhere. For over 50 years, it was the default telephone for homes, offices and literally anywhere else you might need a phone… but how did that happen? Why was…
In this episode, Ezra travels to Nvidia’s headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif., for a wide-ranging conversation with the chief executive Jensen Huang about the future of A.I. and why he thinks predictions of imminent doom are overblown. Guests: Jensen Huang, chief executive of Nvidia Additional Reading: A transcript and…
That’s the question at the heart of a battle between Kalshi and state gambling regulators. As prediction markets boom, there are other questions, too — about insider trading, market manipulation, and whether the public has turned against them. (Part two of a two-part series.) SOURCES:Gary Gensler, former chair of the S…
Get the complete episode on Patreon here! It doesn’t come as a surprise that lawyers are using AI tech in legal practice, but British legal authorities and firms have gotten a bit wild: buying pallets of NVIDA GPUs to build their own data centres, submitting briefs with AI hallucinations of fake laws all the way to the…
Ben and Andrew begin with the Meta Connect keynote and a simple question: is this the first time since 2021 that Meta has been cool? From there, new VR glasses, the Muse Charm, a basketball analogy for Meta Connect in 2026, and the infrastructure and talent investments that have helped Muse resonate over the past few w…
Desi Lydic breaks down the headlines, and as America approaches the midterms, things are not looking good for the GOP. But thanks to Sen. Tommy Tuberville, Republicans have a trick up their sleeve that might save them in November: crack down on in-flight furries! Plus, Jordan Klepper reports from Trump’s meeting with P…
What if the right work-life balance looks completely different at every stage of your life? Nicola Kilner is the Co-Founder and CEO of DECIEM, the company behind The Ordinary, one of the world’s most disruptive and successful beauty brands. In this moment, Nicola Kilner reveals what the earliest days of building DECIEM…
Before he became Muhammad Ali, Cassius Clay was known as the "Louisville Loud-mouth", as famous for his sharp taunts and poetic put-downs as he was for his skills in the ring. In 1963, Clay arrived in England to take down beloved British Heavyweight, Henry Cooper. Clay is the clear favourite, but the showdown will be r…
In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron talks about how $200bn to $300bn of AI GPUs are sitting in warehouses, how hyperscalers like Microsoft are overstating their AI capacity, and why the AI data center overbuild is magntiudes worse than the Dot Com era fiber buildout. Where’re All The AI Chips? http…
In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron talks about how $200bn to $300bn of AI GPUs are sitting in warehouses, how hyperscalers like Microsoft are overstating their AI capacity, and why the AI data center overbuild is magntiudes worse than the Dot Com era fiber buildout. Where’re All The AI Chips? http…
Earlier this month, world model company Runway introduced GWM Worlds 2, a research preview that “turns high-fidelity video and audio generation into real-time interactive simulation.” Runway calls this an “autoregressive diffusion” model; with autoregressive describing how it generates over time. One new feature in par…
Why have we stopped talking about the risk of nuclear war when the risk is greater than ever? What is a ‘nuclear winter’ and why are nuclear exchanges such extreme risks for the future of humanity? And should the UK be investing in nuclear weapons – or could this make the country more vulnerable? Rory is joined this we…
Not only is Opus 5.5 out, pushing the frontier of AI, it also tells us much about what is going on inside the labs, as they both warn about, and promise, Recursive Self Improvement, aka automated AI research. I cover the model (digging into its 230 page paper), labs’ mixed record on promises, why following what is happ…
In this week's segment from Mehdi Unfiltered, Mehdi is joined by US-Palestinian academic and human rights lawyer Noura Erakat and the executive director of the Internationalist Law Center, Lydia Ghuman. Erakat joins Mehdi after she was arrested at a budget hearing in Palm Beach, Florida, for trying to speak out on the…
Meta and Snap both want to get on your face. The Verge's Victoria Song and Jay Peters tried out all the new hardware: Specs, audio-only Ray Bans, and Meta VR. Today, they join guest host David Imel to talk about how these new smart glasses feel, both physically and emotionally. Further reading: Meta’s next VR device is…
Meta is bringing Muse to smart glasses and a new wearable, while GrokBot is turning Teslas into voice-controlled personal assistants. As skeptics question whether consumers actually want AI agents, early users are finding real value in handing off life's annoying admin. In the headlines: Claude’s preliminary biology di…
It's an Emmajority Report Thursday on The Majority Report On toady's program: Local news stations across the country are highlighting how the Republican's war have sent gas prices soaring and sabotaged businesses. We look at interviews with a farmer in Iowa, a school bus company in Tennessee and long-haul truckers in G…