Today's Top Episodes
AI Bubble, Inflation, and the Limits of Monetary Policy | Jason Furman
Is the AI boom a bubble waiting to burst? Dive into the economic forces shaping our future, from inflation to the limits of central banks.
James Tour: Super Humans, Genetic Engineering, Cloning, Lies of Evolution, and What Really Is Life?
A nanotechnology expert dares to question the very foundations of life, evolution, and genetic engineering. What if everything you thought you knew was wrong?
Jailbreaking AGI: Pliny the Liberator & John V on AI Red Teaming, BT6, and the Future of AI Security
Beyond the hype: discover the hidden war being waged to break and secure AI, and what it means for our future.
#262 Aliia Roza - Russian Sex Spy on Seduction Perfumes, Sexpionage and Honeypot Tradecraft
From seduction to defection: A former Russian sex spy reveals the dark art of 'honeypot' espionage and how it targets the powerful.
Everything is gambling now
Is every decision becoming a bet? Explore how 'prediction markets' are turning everything into a gamble, and what it means for our society.
Elon's Recipe for Winning the AI Race: Grok5 and Colossus
- Two independent researchers significantly improved Grok-4's performance on the Arc AGI benchmark through novel training methods, specifically open source program synthesis and test time adaptation, achieving near-AGI results.
- Grok-4 Fast, XAI's new model, achieves remarkable efficiency, being 47 times cheaper than Grok-4 and surpassing Gemini 2.5 Flash in performance while boasting a two million token context window.
- A race is underway to build larger AI data centers, exemplified by XAI's Colossus 2 and Microsoft's response, validated by NVIDIA's $100 billion investment in OpenAI, highlighting the enormous capital expenditure going into future AI compute infrastructure.