Nate Silver on AI, Politics, and Power
Nate Silver writes Silver Bulletin and is the author of On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything, now in paperback with a new foreword. In today’s conversation, we discuss… Honesty, reputation,...
18 Sep 20251h 19min
MP Materials, Intel, and Sovereign Wealth Funds
Uncle Sam is taking a bite out of companies left and right. Today, we’re going to focus on MP Materials — the Trump administration’s answer to China’s restrictions on rare earth material exports to Am...
16 Sep 20251h 1min
Second Breakfast: Department of War, Warrior Culture, Sicario, Dick Winters, SEALs in North Korea,
We're going weekly. Outtro music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk18bFIgOS4&ab_channel=ThereIRuinedIt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
14 Sep 20251h 17min
The Robotics Revolution
Ryan Julian is a research scientist in embodied AI. He worked on large-scale robotics foundation models at DeepMind and got his PhD in machine learning at USC in 2021. Follow him on X: @ryancjulian I...
12 Sep 20251h 26min
Emergency Pod: US-India-China Meltdown
Manoj Kewalramani of the Takshashila Institution and the Tracking People's Daily substack https://trackingpeoplesdaily.substack.com/ alongside James Crabtree, author of Billionaire Raj, chat whatever...
8 Sep 20251h 2min
Second Breakfast: Parades, U.S. Grant, JCIDS, Warbots
Our third defense pod, I guess we're really doing it now. Like and subscribe if you're just here for our Civil War coverage. Guests include: Tony Stark, Army vet who writes https://www.breaking...
5 Sep 20251h 7min
War in the Pacific with Ian Toll
For the 80th anniversary of the Allied victory over Japan, ChinaTalk interviewed Ian Toll about his Pacific War trilogy, which masterfully brings America’s bloodiest war — and the world’s only nuclear...
31 Aug 20251h 58min
Dan Wang on Modern China
Dan Wang at long last makes his solo ChinaTalk debut! We’re here to discuss and celebrate his first book, Breakneck. We get into… Engineering states vs lawyerly societies, The competing legaci...
28 Aug 20251h 16min
