California Regulates A.I. Companions + OpenAI Investigates Its Critics + The Hard Fork Review of Slop
This week, Gov. Gavin Newsom of California signed a big package of A.I. and social media bills into law — including the first state law in the United States to regulate A.I. companions. We talk throug...
17 Okt 20251h 5min
ChatGPT’s Platform Play + a Trillion-Dollar GPU Empire + the Queen of Slop
This week, we discuss the standout moments from our field trip to OpenAI’s third annual DevDay — including a bizarre chat between Jony Ive and Sam Altman, and the announcement that OpenAI is putting a...
10 Okt 20251h 6min
Sora and the Infinite Slop Feeds + ChatGPT Goes to Therapy + Hot Mess Express
This week, we’re talking about the new A.I.-generated video tools and social media feeds from Google, Meta and OpenAI. Is this how A.I. is going to cure cancer? Then, the psychotherapist Gary Greenber...
3 Okt 20251h 5min
The Great A.I. Build-Out + H-1B Visa Chaos + TikTok Braces for the Rapture
This week, an eye-popping $100 billion deal between OpenAI and Nvidia — along with an announcement about the construction of five new American data centers — has us re-examining our predictions of an ...
26 Sep 202552min
Charlie Kirk and Online Rage + Inside Trump’s Chip Flip + This Week in A.I.
This week, we discuss the assassination of Charlie Kirk, freedom of speech and the terrifying new reality of extremely online violence. Then The Times’s David Yaffe-Bellany brings us inside the blockb...
19 Sep 20251h 13min
Are We Past Peak iPhone? + Eliezer Yudkowsky on A.I. Doom
Apple’s yearly iPhone event took place this week, and it left us asking, Is Apple losing the juice? We break down all the new products the company announced and discuss where it goes from here. Then, ...
12 Sep 20251h 12min
A.I. School Is in Session: Two Takes on the Future of Education
This week, we check in on the state of artificial intelligence in education. We talk with a co-founder of Alpha Schools, MacKenzie Price, about how her private K-12 schools are using A.I. to generate ...
5 Sep 20251h 11min
Intel’s New Deal + Waymo C.E.O. Tekedra Mawakana on Scaling Driverless Cars + Trumps in Tech
President Trump announced this week that the U.S. government, in a highly unusual deal, had agreed to take a 10 percent stake in the chip maker Intel, and that he was considering similar investments i...
29 Aug 20251h 2min
