Slate Money - The Big Crazy at OpenAI
This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers discuss Sam Altman’s triumphant return to OpenAI and ponder the future of the artificial intelligence industry. They also discuss the legal wo...
25 Nov 202348min
Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - From "The Political Scene": Trump's Vindictive Second Term Agenda
While Amicus takes a break to digest turkey and count our blessings, we're sharing this episode of The Political Scene from our friends at The New Yorker.In recent weeks, Americans have begun to get a...
25 Nov 202335min
What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Where Scams Are Born
An app for open money laundering, a corridor of massive casinos in the middle of nowhere, and the global scamdemic. Guest: Cezary Podkul, reporter for PropublicaIf you enjoy this show, please consider...
24 Nov 202326min
Political Gabfest - Is Polling Broken?
This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss the problems with issue polling and issues with political journalism; the chaos and conflict of Sam Altman and OpenAI; and the failure...
23 Nov 20231h 8min
What Next - Decoder Ring: The Forgotten Video Game About Slavery
While the What Next team celebrates the holiday, enjoy this episode from our colleagues at Decoder Ring.In 1992, a Minnesota-based software company known for its educational hit The Oregon Trail relea...
23 Nov 202344min
What Next - How Israel-Hamas Has Divided Democrats
The war in Gaza has laid bare some deep fault lines within the Democratic party when it comes to Israel policy. How might that impact next year’s elections?Guest: Alex Sammon, Slate politics writer. I...
22 Nov 202322min
What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Inside OpenAI's Implosion
OpenAI was the hottest startup in Silicon Valley off the success of ChatGPT. Then, the board fired Sam Altman. Guest: Mike Isaac, technology reporter at the New York Times.If you enjoy this show, plea...
21 Nov 202328min
What Next - Moms for Liberty Tanked at the Polls. This Guy Called It.
Over the past few years, ultra-conservative activists took aim at school boards, trying to shape curriculums to match their beliefs. But this year, from Pennsylvania to Iowa, “parental rights candidat...
20 Nov 202320min
