Google DeepMind: A Mini Origin Story
What do you get when you mix a chess prodigy, a neuroscience detour, and a borderline obsession with solving intelligence? Google DeepMind. In this episode, host Emily Laird goes into the mind (and mu...
6 Aug 20259min
Kimi K2 & the Continuation of the Great AI Arms Race
Meet Kimi K2! Join host Emily Laird as she explores the trillion-parameter powerhouse from Shanghai-based Moonshot AI that's throwing elbows at GPT-4.1, Gemini, and Claude 4. With a Mixture-of-Experts...
5 Aug 20258min
Perplexity's Comet Browser & the Rise of AI Browsers
Chrome is toast (ok, probably not). Or at least, it might be if Perplexity’s Comet Browser has anything to say about it. In this episode, host Emily Laird breaks down how Comet is trying to outsmart y...
4 Aug 20258min
Meta's Billion Dollar UpScale
Meta just dropped $14.3 billion to buy half of Scale AI and hired their CEO like it was a fantasy football draft. In this episode, host Emily Laird unpacks why Mark Zuckerberg raided Scale AI’s pantry...
30 Juli 20256min
Zuck to the Future: Meta's Superintelligence Lab
Meta just rage-quit its own AI strategy and rolled out the Superintelligence Lab, because nothing says "totally under control" like consolidating teams under Zuck himself. In this episode, host Emily ...
29 Juli 20258min
OpenAI’s Agent: What It Is, What It Does, and Why It’s a Big Deal
OpenAI’s Agent isn’t here to make small talk. It’s here to get stuff done, like your caffeinated intern who never sleeps, never eats, but still can’t log into your Gmail. In this episode, host Emily L...
28 Juli 202511min
AI: The Ozempic of Corporate America
Corporate America’s on Ozempic, and the side effect is mass layoffs. In this episode, host Emily Laird slices into the juicy mess of the AI-powered corporate slim-down brought to you by a fantastic ar...
23 Juli 20259min
Andy Jassy & the AI Workforce Purge
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy just dropped a memo that’s equal parts pep talk and pink slip warning: AI is amazing, and it’s coming for your job. In this episode, host Emily Laird breaks down how Amazon is un...
22 Juli 20259min
