EMERGENCY POD: Are We Cooked?
Kevin Xu of https://interconnect.substack.com/, Matt Klein of https://theovershoot.co/, and Peter Harrell, Biden's U.S. White House as senior director for international economics in 2021-2022 and host...
7 Apr 202546min
EMERGENCY POD: Liberation Day with Tanner Greer of Scholarstage
Tanner Greer of Scholar's Stage and I try to make sense of Liberation Day, the intellectual underpinnings of Trump's team, and what it all means for the world. Tanner's report: https://www.fpri.org/...
5 Apr 20251h 41min
The Soviet Cold War Machine: Inside the Sino-Soviet Rivalry
Welcome to part two of our series on Cold War history with Sergey Radchenko. Here’s part one. In today’s interview, we discuss… Khrushchev’s removal from power and the transition to the Brezhnev era...
1 Apr 20251h 15min
Superintelligence Strategy with Dan Hendrycks
Is there a stable state the US and China can hope for on the road to AGI? To discuss we have on today Dan Hendrycks. A CS PhD, Dan runs the Center for AI Safety and is an advisor at xAI and Scale AI....
30 Mars 20251h 14min
SemiAnalysis + Asianometry on Intel, Gemini 2.5, and Chinese Robots
The Transistor Radio boys are back. Jon of Asianometry, Doug O'Laughlin and Dylan Patel of SemiAnalysis on the pod to talk about Google's AI push, Intel's new CEO, Chinese robots, and the rise of Core...
26 Mars 202528min
The Soviets' Bid for Global Power
Sergey Radchenko’s book, To Run the World: The Kremlin’s Bid for Global Power, is a masterwork! In my mind, it’s in pole position for best book of 2025. Sergey takes you into the mind of Soviet and Ch...
24 Mars 20251h 50min
Building Compute in America
Despite leading the world in AI innovation, there’s no guarantee that America will rise to meet the challenge of AI infrastructure. Specifically, the key technological barrier for data center construc...
17 Mars 20251h 15min
Manus: A DeepSeek Moment?
A Wuhan-developed AI agent went viral this weekend. Guests Rohit Krishnan of the substack Strange Loop Canon, Shawn Wang of Latent Space, and Dean Ball of Mercatus and Hyperdimensional join us to disc...
10 Mars 202552min
