How Sam Altman Uses Dots to Take Back His Time
Sam Altman's Dot, OpenAI's new always-on agent, gave him back the most productive part of his day. The OpenAI CEO would lose his early mornings—his window of "maximum creativity"—to whatever fire nee...
30 Sep 33min
How a Professional Writer Writes With AI
Two years ago, Katie Parrott was laid off from a crypto firm and couldn’t afford a career coach—so she turned to a $20-a-month ChatGPT subscription instead. The Every staff writer’s habit of feeding A...
2 Sep 47min
A $10B Hedge Fund’s AI Playbook (Best of the Pod)
Will England is the CEO of Walleye Capital, a hedge fund managing nearly $10 billion in assets. An engineer by training with a math background from Oxford, he has spent his career at the intersection ...
26 Aug 1h 7min
The AI Alien Companion App That's Bringing In $4M a Year (Best of the Pod)
LLMs are a new medium for storytelling. That’s according to the creators of Portola, the company behind Tolan: an embodied AI companion that lives on its own planet and chats to you with a distinct pe...
19 Aug 1h 22min
Microsoft’s Vision for an Internet Made for Agents With CTO Kevin Scott (Best of the Pod)
In 2025, Kevin Scott bet that the agentic web would be the next big thing in AI. The Microsoft CTO argued that for agents to be genuinely useful, they'd need to be able to take action on our behalf—wh...
12 Aug 28min
Why the Next Hit AI Product Will Be Social Why the Next Hit AI Product Will Be Social (Best of the Pod)
Most consumer AI so far has been single-player: you and a chatbot, alone. Benchmark partner Sarah Tavel, one of Pinterest's first 30 employees, is betting that's about to change. She's looking for a p...
5 Aug 48min
Best of the Pod: Wired's Kevin Kelly on Why AI Is a 50-year Overnight Success
Kevin Kelly has spent over 30 years experiencing the edge of new technology: from the earliest days of the internet to the first years of Burning Man. But he’s always treated the frontier as a place t...
29 Juli 53min
How Every's Team Used AI to Ship Its Biggest Launch Ever
Yash Poojary, a growth engineer at Every, dropped an idea for a campaign in Slack at 7 p.m. Instead of building it himself, Every’s head of growth Austin Tedesco took a screenshot of the Slack thread,...
22 Juli 46min
