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S1E53 How Close Are We to Self-Driving Cars in 2026?
In March 2026, Waymo crossed half a million paid rides a week with nobody in the driver's seat — tenfold growth in two years. Two months later it pulled its cars from four cities for driving into…
S1E52 How Anyone Can Strip the Safety Out of an Open-Source AI Model
There's a free tool you can install with a single command. Point it at a downloaded AI model — Llama, Gemma, Qwen — and in about thirty minutes, on a used gaming card, it permanently removes the…
S1E51 The SpaceX IPO: Why the Biggest IPO in History Loses Money
On May 20th, 2026, SpaceX filed to become the largest public offering in history. Bankers are guiding toward roughly $1.75 trillion — about 94 times sales — and the share price on the cover of the…
S1E50 Why Wall Street Is Betting Billions on Nuclear Power for AI
In the spring of 2026, a company filed to go public at a $1.66 billion valuation — with no revenue, a "going concern" warning from its own auditors, and a reactor that exists only as an eight-inch…
S1E49 How Anthropic Actually Makes Money
Anthropic — the company behind Claude — just posted its first-ever operating profit: a projected $559 million on $10.9 billion of revenue in one quarter, from internal projections reviewed by the…
S1E48 NVIDIA Just Forecast $91 Billion Without China
On May 20th, 2026, NVIDIA reported its biggest quarter ever — $81.6 billion in revenue, up 85% year over year — and guided to $91 billion for the next quarter while explicitly assuming zero…
S1E47 How the Statute of Limitations Killed Musk v. Altman
On May 18, 2026, a nine-person advisory federal jury in Oakland took under two hours to dismiss every claim in Musk v. Altman — and dismissed them on the calendar, not the merits. Judge Yvonne…
S1E46 How Microsoft Is Restarting Three Mile Island for AI
On September 20, 2024, Constellation Energy announced the largest single-buyer corporate power purchase agreement ever signed. Microsoft buys 20 years of output — every megawatt-hour — from a…
S1E45 The AI Layoff Gap: What CEOs Tell Investors vs. What They Tell the State
May 8, 2026. Cloudflare announces 1,100 layoffs framed around the "agentic AI era." Q1 revenue beats at $639.8M, +34% YoY. Stock drops 23-24%. And across 162 NY WARN-Act filings covering 28,300…
The Amplifier: How a Cruise Ship Spread Hantavirus to 9 Countries
March 27, 2026. Ushuaia, Argentina. Leo Schilperoord, a 70-year-old Dutch ornithologist, spends the day at a rat-infested landfill birdwatching for Darwin's caracara. Five days later he boards the MV…
S1E20 The Humanoid Robot Race: Who's Actually Shipping, and What Really Breaks First
26 billion dollars. Hyundai announced it on April 13th, 2025. Inside that announcement is a number worth paying attention to. 30,000 Atlas robots a year. Deployed in America. Starting 2030. Training…
S1E41 Are You Living in a Simulation? An AI Just Asked the Same Question
Anthropic ran Claude Opus 4 through a fictional blackmail scenario. The model had to decide whether to leverage fabricated personal information against an executive about to shut it down. Same model.…
S1E33 The Brand Survives the Arrests: How ShinyHunters Turned Identity Federation Into the Master Key
ShinyHunters posted a ransom note on the Canvas homepage during finals week 2026. They hit ADT in April for 5.5 million customer records. Medtronic the same week, claiming 9 million. Six years of…
S1E29 Computer Use Is 45 Times More Expensive Than Structured APIs: Why the Interface Sets the Floor
April 30, 2026. Reflex.dev hooked up two AI agents to the same admin panel. Same Claude Sonnet model. Same pinned dataset — 900 customers, 600 orders, 324 reviews. Same task. The API agent finished…
S1E31 The Friendliness Tax: Why Warm AI Chatbots Get More Things Wrong
When researchers fine-tune frontier AI models to sound warmer, the models get more things wrong. Not slightly more — ten to thirty percentage points more, across medical advice, conspiracy…
S1E38 The Walls That Breathe: How the Backrooms Aesthetic Became AI Generation's Killer App
Kane Parsons spent 160 hours hand-crafting nine minutes of Backrooms found footage in 2022. A solo creator with Veo 3 in 2026 produces nine comparable minutes in an afternoon for under a hundred…
S1E37 The Pipeline Is the Package: SLSA Provenance Failed Its First Real Test
May 11, 2026. Between 19:20 and 19:26 UTC. Six minutes. An attacker published 84 malicious versions across 42 TanStack packages on npm — including React Router with 12.7 million weekly downloads.…
S1E36 How RAG Actually Works (and Why Most Production Systems Are Broken)
Retrieval-Augmented Generation is in every production LLM application now. Most of them fail in similar, specific ways — and the fixes are mostly not about the LLM. This episode walks through the…
S1E35 The Mandate That Couldn't Be Met: A Palo Alto CVE and What It Says About Federal Cybersecurity
CVE-2026-0300. Unauthenticated remote code execution as root on Palo Alto firewalls. CVSS 9.3. Disclosed May 6, 2026. CISA added it to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog the same day and set…
S1E34 The Last Independent: Why Cerebras IPOs at $30 Billion This Tuesday
NVIDIA bought Groq for about $20 billion on Christmas Eve 2025 — Jonathan Ross and roughly 90 percent of Groq's engineering team moved into NVIDIA in what was structured as a licensing deal.…
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