WarTalk: Out of Ammo for Real + Are CCAs Dumb?
Six months into the war with Iran, the United States has fired 850 Tomahawks, emptied its LRASM and JASSM-ER inventories, expended essentially every ATACMS and PrSM in the arsenal, and burned through ...
7 Aug 1h 17min
The FCC's New Robot Rules
The FCC has spent the past year quietly rewiring the American import market, first routers, then drones, next undersea cables, and as of last week, robots. Adam Chan is national security counsel and ...
6 Aug 51min
Jordan talks AI with Sebastian Mallaby on his show 'The Spillover'
Don't sorry I put two ChinaTalk Records songs at the end! their show notes: On this episode of The Spillover, Sebastian Mallaby sits down with Jordan Schneider of ChinaTalk to unpack a frantic mont...
1 Aug 1h 20min
WarTalk: Odyssey Edition
Roel Konijnendijk of Oxford returns to talk Nolan's Odyssey, ancient PTSD, siege warfare, and the choices we'd all make in adapting. Justin McIntosh cohosts. YoungBoy Never Broke Again as well as ...
30 Juli 1h 28min
The Iran War Oil Shock That Wasn’t...(Yet?)
The biggest oil shock in modern history came and went without the catastrophe everyone expected. When Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz, analysts warned that oil could hit $200 a barrel, but the global...
26 Juli 1h 6min
WarTalk: Iran War Back On, Rogue AI, Ukraine Civ-Mil
Five months into the Iran campaign, the US has two carrier strike groups parked in the Arabian Sea, a blockade that may take months to bite, and a daisy chain of tankers stretching thousands of miles ...
24 Juli 1h 3min
Kimi K3, Xi's Speech, and China's Mythos Moment
The whole ChinaTalk gang gets together to discuss a big week in China AI with the release of Kimi K3 and Xi talking open source and safety at WAIC. We also discuss our latest article exploring the thr...
22 Juli 59min
WarTalk: Ancient Greece Edition!
What do actual historians think about the Thucydides Trap? Does our 'low T' discourse all just come back to the movie 300? How the did ancient Greeks fight and why does Homer still keep us coming bac...
21 Juli 2h
