Generative AI 101

Claude 4.5 isn’t just the teacher’s pet, it’s running the class, grading the papers, and rewriting the syllabus in Python. In this episode, Emily Laird breaks down why Anthropic’s newest model might b...

5 Nov 20259min

Last week, Amazon axed 14,000 white-collar jobs, and this time, the pink slip came with a side of machine learning. In this episode, Emily Laird is unpacking the biggest corporate AI bloodbath of 2025...

4 Nov 20258min

What do Call of Duty, Google Cloud, and your favorite cat video have in common? They all owe their lives to a battle raging deep inside your devices: GPU versus TPU. In this episode, host Emily Laird ...

3 Nov 202511min

Meta just threw its AI playbook in the shredder, lit the ashes on fire, and built a secret lab on top. In this episode, Emily Laird breaks down the end of FAIR, the open-source darling of Meta AI, and...

28 Okt 20259min

Humanoid robots are no longer sci-fi fever dreams or Silicon Valley party tricks, they’re coming for your chores (at least we hope). In this episode, Emily Laird's getting hands-on (literally) with Fi...

27 Okt 20258min

Tilly Norwood isn’t real but she is raising real eyebrows. Billed as the next Natalie Portman (if Natalie were a laggy IKEA algorithm), this AI “actress” is part influencer, part software stack, and p...

16 Okt 20259min

Elon Musk isn’t just tweeting through it, he’s building a supercomputer the size of a football stadium in the swamps of Memphis. It's called Colossus, and it’s stuffed with hundreds of thousands of Nv...

15 Okt 20259min

A continuation of Emily's exploration into the Andreeson Horowitz Top 100 Generative AI apps. Janitor AI is a full-blown fever dream with 5 million users, 2 million characters, and zero shame. In thi...

14 Okt 202513min