How China Is Quietly Winning the Iran War Energy Crisis
Five months of war in Iran have completely reshaped energy markets. This week, the Baker Institute’s Kristian Coates Ulrichsen joins Rebecca Patterson and Sebastian Mallaby to examine how conflict in ...
12 Aug 47min
Spillover Summer Reading: The Best Books on Forecasting, Silicon Valley, and the Future
In this episode of The Spillover, Rebecca Patterson and Sebastian Mallaby swap summer reading recommendations, including fiction and nonfiction picks covering American thinkers’ predictions for the tw...
5 Aug 1h 7min
Jordan Schneider Thinks the Real AI Race Is About Compute, Not Models
In this episode of The Spillover, host Sebastian Mallaby sits down with Jordan Schneider, founder and editor-in-chief of the ChinaTalk podcast and newsletter, to discuss AI progress and security, as w...
28 Jul 1h 2min
The AI Trilemma + Open-Weight Proliferation + the “Singularity Delusion”
In this episode, The Spillover’s Sebastian Mallaby is hosted by Dan Kurtz-Phelan, editor of Foreign Affairs, to discuss the “AI trilemma”—the challenge U.S. policymakers face in encouraging enough inn...
21 Jul 54min
Rahm Emanuel Talks Israel, Midterm Elections, and the Democratic Party
Rebecca Patterson and Sebastian Mallaby are joined by Rahm Emanuel, who served as President Bill Clinton’s political strategist, President Barack Obama’s first White House chief of staff, and Presiden...
15 Jul 1h 4min
Washington Considers a Stake in OpenAI + Altman’s Gambit + America, Inc.
On this episode of The Spillover, Rebecca Patterson and Sebastian Mallaby, joined by CFR expert Jonathan Hillman, examine the U.S. government's rapidly growing portfolio of equity stakes in private co...
13 Jul 51min
Gold vs. Bitcoin Showdown
Cohosts Rebecca Patterson and Sebastian Mallaby stage a friendly debate over two so-called dollar alternatives—gold and bitcoin—weighing whether either has truly earned its reputation as a store of va...
9 Jul 43min
Two Brits Unpack America’s 250th Birthday + The Cultural Civil War
America’s 250th birthday is the talk of the nation. But the more important story might be what the milestone reveals about the fragile bargain between democracy and markets, and whether the republic c...
1 Jul 47min
