Alexa, Fire Middle Management: The Amazon Layoffs
Last week, Amazon axed 14,000 white-collar jobs, and this time, the pink slip came with a side of machine learning. In this episode, Emily Laird is unpacking the biggest corporate AI bloodbath of 2025...
4 Marras 20258min
GPU vs TPU
What do Call of Duty, Google Cloud, and your favorite cat video have in common? They all owe their lives to a battle raging deep inside your devices: GPU versus TPU. In this episode, host Emily Laird ...
3 Marras 202511min
Meta Firings: The Great FAIR Purge and Rise of the AI Death Star
Meta just threw its AI playbook in the shredder, lit the ashes on fire, and built a secret lab on top. In this episode, Emily Laird breaks down the end of FAIR, the open-source darling of Meta AI, and...
28 Loka 20259min
Domo Arigato, Laundry-Bot-o: Meet Figure 03
Humanoid robots are no longer sci-fi fever dreams or Silicon Valley party tricks, they’re coming for your chores (at least we hope). In this episode, Emily Laird's getting hands-on (literally) with Fi...
27 Loka 20258min
Tilly Norwood: Artificially Famous
Tilly Norwood isn’t real but she is raising real eyebrows. Billed as the next Natalie Portman (if Natalie were a laggy IKEA algorithm), this AI “actress” is part influencer, part software stack, and p...
16 Loka 20259min
Swamp Thing: Musk’s AI Beast Rises in Memphis
Elon Musk isn’t just tweeting through it, he’s building a supercomputer the size of a football stadium in the swamps of Memphis. It's called Colossus, and it’s stuffed with hundreds of thousands of Nv...
15 Loka 20259min
Janitor AI: Chatbots Gone Wild (Seriously)
A continuation of Emily's exploration into the Andreeson Horowitz Top 100 Generative AI apps. Janitor AI is a full-blown fever dream with 5 million users, 2 million characters, and zero shame. In thi...
14 Loka 202513min
OpenAI Dev Day 2025: The Recap
OpenAI Dev Day 2025 wasn’t just a product drop, it was a full-on software coup. In this episode, host Emily Laird breaks down how ChatGPT graduated from chatbot to operating system, complete with apps...
13 Loka 20258min
