Did a Chatbot Cause Her Son’s Death? Megan Garcia v. Character.AI & Google
What if the worst fears around AI come true? For Megan Garcia, that’s already happened. In February, after spending months interacting with chatbots created by Character.AI, her 14-year-old son Sewell...
5 Dec 20241h 9min
Nathan Myhrvold: Tech’s Renaissance Man
Nathan Myhrvold likes to challenge conventional wisdom. When the founder and CEO of Intellectual Ventures (and former Chief Technology Officer at Microsoft) isn’t running one of the world’s leading in...
2 Dec 20241h 6min
Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus: Billie Jean King
Happy Thanksgiving, On listeners — today, we’re featuring a special episode of Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, one of our favorite podcasts! On Wiser Than Me, Julia shares funny, heartfelt con...
28 Nov 20241h 8min
Leaving X? Where Next? On Bluesky, Threads and the “Fediverse”
Elon Musk’s social media platform X lost more than 280,000 global users the day after the US presidential election. Meanwhile, sites like Threads from Meta and newcomer Bluesky have seen huge surges i...
25 Nov 20241h 1min
Charlamagne tha God on Trump, Journalism and that Anti-Trans Ad
Lenard McKelvey is a best-selling author, entrepreneur and media mogul, but you probably know him as Charlamagne Tha God: host of The Breakfast Club. It’s an insanely popular and influential radio pro...
21 Nov 202459min
Jon Chu on Wicked, Silicon Valley, and Defying Hollywood’s Gravity
Jon Chu grew up in Silicon Valley, in the shadow of Apple Park. His father, Chef Chu, still runs his eponymous restaurant there, and Jon worshiped Steve Jobs as a kid. As a teen, he used Apple product...
18 Nov 20241h
Ta-Nehisi Coates On Trump, Palestine and Journalism as a “Contact Sport”
What role will writers play as we head into a second Trump term? Author, journalist and Howard University professor Ta-Nehisi Coates has some thoughts. The man who has been called “one of the most imp...
14 Nov 20241h
Trump’s Second Term: How He Did It & What to Expect
What does a second Trump presidency mean for America? Kara hosts a panel of experts and reporters to reflect on the results of the election and to find out what we can expect going forward. They discu...
11 Nov 202459min
