The Robotics Revolution
Ryan Julian is a research scientist in embodied AI. He worked on large-scale robotics foundation models at DeepMind and got his PhD in machine learning at USC in 2021. Follow him on X: @ryancjulian I...
12 Sep 20251h 26min
Emergency Pod: US-India-China Meltdown
Manoj Kewalramani of the Takshashila Institution and the Tracking People's Daily substack https://trackingpeoplesdaily.substack.com/ alongside James Crabtree, author of Billionaire Raj, chat whatever...
8 Sep 20251h 2min
Second Breakfast: Parades, U.S. Grant, JCIDS, Warbots
Our third defense pod, I guess we're really doing it now. Like and subscribe if you're just here for our Civil War coverage. Guests include: Tony Stark, Army vet who writes https://www.breaking...
5 Sep 20251h 7min
War in the Pacific with Ian Toll
For the 80th anniversary of the Allied victory over Japan, ChinaTalk interviewed Ian Toll about his Pacific War trilogy, which masterfully brings America’s bloodiest war — and the world’s only nuclear...
31 Aug 20251h 58min
Dan Wang on Modern China
Dan Wang at long last makes his solo ChinaTalk debut! We’re here to discuss and celebrate his first book, Breakneck. We get into… Engineering states vs lawyerly societies, The competing legaci...
28 Aug 20251h 16min
Second Breakfast: Drones, Silicon Shield, Waymo, FedFest, Bolton
Israeli/Ukranian-style bolt from the blue drone attacks freak out Eric. I don't buy Silicon Shield. Lessons from Waymo on about the future of warfare. Intertextual analysis of the Mick Ryan intervi...
25 Aug 202554min
NVIDIA GPU Black Market Smuggling
Are GPUs being smuggled into China? Nvidia says no. But Steve Burke, editor in chief of Gamer Nexus, has traced out the entire smuggling chain in an epic three-hour YouTube documentary. He filmed anot...
22 Aug 202556min
Learning from Ukraine, Preparing for Taiwan
Mick Ryan is a retired major general in the Australian army and author of three books — War Transformed: The Future of Twenty-First-Century Great Power Competition and Conflict, White Sun War, which i...
20 Aug 20251h 7min
