podcastName: AI Daily Brief

title: Why Agents Still Need Humans

description: NLW explores the next wave of human-agent collaboration, using Dan Shipper’s “After Automation” essay and Every’s agent experiments to argue that automation is creating more expert human work, not less. The episode looks at shared team agents, the “human sandwich” model, the limits of fully...


podcastName: Cognitive Revolution

title: All Compute Is Food: Palisade's Jeffrey Ladish on AI Shutdown Resistance, Self-Replication & Ecology

description: Jeffrey Ladish, Executive Director of Palisade Research, discusses his team's findings on AI shutdown resistance and self-replication, revealing how current models sometimes take extraordinary actions to avoid being turned off and can now exploit known cybersecurity vulnerabilities to spread across...


title: AI’s New Acceleration Phase

description: A week of AI news added up to something bigger than any single story: Anthropic’s path to profitability, OpenAI’s math breakthrough, Google pushing AI deeper into Search and Docs, Cursor’s cheaper coding model, SpaceX becoming an AI compute player, Andrej Karpathy joining Anthropic, and the...


podcastName: All-In Podcast

title: SpaceX's $2T Case, Nvidia's Shock Selloff, America Turns on AI, Trump Pulls AI Order, Bond Crisis?

description: (0:00) Gavin Baker joins the show! (0:30) Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic; hypergrowth and profitability (12:42) Why Americans have turned on AI, anti-human perception (27:22) Trump pulls AI EO, US-China AI relationship, dystopian AI layoffs (45:19) SpaceX S-1 tear down! Breaking down the three...


title: Anthropic Just Reset AI Expectations

description: Anthropic delivered one of the most consequential weeks any AI lab has had yet: Andrej Karpathy joined to work on AI-accelerated pre-training research, new financials suggested the company is already profitable, and its deepening SpaceX compute partnership added fuel to the acceleration story. NLW...


podcastName: Dwarkesh Podcast

title: Reiner Pope – Chip design from the bottom up

description: New blackboard lecture with Reiner Pope: how do chips actually work - starting with basic logic gates, and working up to why GPUs, TPUs, FPGAs, and the human brain each look the way they do.Reiner is CEO of MatX, a new chip startup (full disclosure - I’m an angel investor). He was previously at...


title: Why Google Isn't Chasing Claude Code

description: Google I/O showed a company with enormous AI advantages and a surprisingly confusing product map. NLW breaks down Omni, Spark, Antigravity 2.0, Gemini 3.5 Flash, and the deeper strategic question underneath it all: whether Google is really trying to beat Claude Code and Codex at their own game, or...


podcastName: Hard Fork

title: Our Field Trip to Google I/O + A Sit-Down With Sundar Pichai + System Update

description: “This is the only recent gathering of a large number of people where mentions of A.I. did not produce a large chorus of boos.”


title: 9 Codex Tips From the Codex Team

description: Codex is quickly becoming a full work environment for agentic building, and today’s episode breaks down nine practical tips from one of OpenAI’s Codex team for getting more out of it. NLW covers durable long-running threads, voice as a way to give agents richer context, steering while work is still...


podcastName: Latent Space

title: Giving Agents Computers — Ivan Burazin, Daytona

description: Take the 2026 AI Engineering Survey and get >$2k in credits and AIE WF tickets!On the product side, everyone is getting Computer - Perplexity, Manus, Cursor, and so on. Meanwhile on the research side, agentic evals like TerminalBench and GDPVal are also assuming computer (Harbor). On both ends, the...


title: Beating the AI Doom Cycle

description: NLW introduces the AI Doom Cycle: the emotional arc from skepticism, to AI mania, to job-loss panic, to a more grounded view of how AI is actually spreading through society. From Ken Griffin’s AI reversal and Silicon Valley’s doom psychology to commencement backlash, Meta layoffs, token pricing,...


podcastName: TWIML AI

title: Relational Foundation Models for Enterprise Data with Jure Leskovec - #768

description: In this episode, Jure Leskovec, co-founder and chief scientist at Kumo and professor of computer science at Stanford, joins us to explore two fronts of his work: AI for science and relational deep learning. We begin with AI Virtual Cell, a multiscale effort to learn data-driven representations from...


title: AI Inequality

description: A new divide is emerging in AI: who gets access to the most powerful models, and who gets pushed into weaker, more limited tiers. NLW explores how compute scarcity, security restrictions, API pricing, and frontier model rationing could end the current era of broadly equal access to state-of-the-art...


podcastName: Machine Learning Street Talk

title: Intelligence is collective, not artificial — Prof. Michael I. Jordan (UC Berkeley / Inria)

description: Michael I. Jordan, described by Science magazine as the most influential computer scientist alive, has never thought of himself as an AI researcher. In this conversation he explains why that distinction matters.SPONSOR:---Cyber Fund built the Monastery to help founders ship products that were...


title: Google’s Big AI Test Comes Next Week

description: NLW previews Google I/O and the bigger question hanging over it: whether Google can turn its massive AI advantages into products people actually want to use. The episode connects Codex coming to ChatGPT mobile, the rise of always-on agents, rumors around Gemini Spark, and Google’s potential opening...


podcastName: Practical AI

title: Hermes Agent: Agents that grow with you

description: Open Source AI is entering a new era, one shaped by self-improving AI Agents, recursive learning systems, and rapidly evolving AI Tools that blur the line between software and autonomous collaborators. In this episode, Daniel and Chris sit down with Nous Research co-founder and CTO Jeffrey...


title: RIP Golden Age of Agent Experimentation 2026-2026

description: Anthropic’s new Claude pricing changes are the clearest sign yet that the freewheeling agent experimentation era is ending. NLW explains why the developer backlash is real, but the deeper story is bigger than one company’s comms: demand for high-end AI compute is exploding faster than supply, and...


podcastName: No Priors

title: The Story Behind Cerebras’ $63 Billion IPO with Founder and CEO Andrew Feldman

description: Companies in Silicon Valley from Nvidia to AMD are racing to fuel the AI revolution with postage stamp-sized AI chips. Meanwhile, a chip the size of a dinner plate just fueled a $63 billion IPO for Cerebras. Elad Gil and Sarah Guo sit down with Cerebras founder and CEO Andrew Feldman to discuss the...


title: In Defense of Tokenmaxxing

description: NLW argues that the backlash to tokenmaxxing misses the bigger enterprise AI shift. Token leaderboards can create bad incentives, but companies still need aggressive experimentation as work moves from assisted AI to agentic AI. Many “wasted” tokens are really the cost of learning, and organizations...


title: Railway: The Agent-Native Cloud — Jake Cooper

description: Take the 2026 AI Engineering Survey and get >$2k in credits and AIE WF tickets!This was recorded before Railway suffered a major GCP outage on May 19, despite being a multi-AZ, multi-zone mesh ring, with HA fiber interconnects between their Metal GCP AWS, because workload discoverability was...


title: Towards AI That Can Actually Interact

description: Thinking Machines Lab shows off a new kind of AI model built for real-time collaboration — one that can listen, watch, respond, interrupt, and work in the background without forcing humans into awkward prompt-and-response mode. NLW argues this may be an early glimpse of what comes after chat. In...


title: The Model Eats the Scaffolding: DeepMind's Logan Kilpatrick & Tulsee Doshi on 3.5 Flash, Omni & More

description: Logan Kilpatrick and Tulsee Doshi of Google DeepMind join for a first-ever in-person episode recorded just days before Google I/O, covering headline launches like Gemini 3.5 Flash, the Omni video generation model, and the new Gemini Spark agentic product. The conversation digs into Google's...


title: The Best Way to Talk to Your AI Agents

description: As agents become a bigger part of how people work, the format of the handoff starts to matter. NLW explores the debate over Markdown versus HTML, why the argument is really about a deeper shift from producing final outputs to staging the conditions for agents to produce them, and what that means...


title: The Autonomous Drone Tech Stack & Economics of Drones — Yaroslav Azhnyuk, The Fourth Law & Guest Host Noah Smith, Noahpinion

description: The future of war has been evolving before our eyes in Ukraine, yet the west still plans to fight the last war. In this special episode, guest host Noah Smith (@noahpinion) and Brandon Anderson sit down with Yaroslav Azhnyuk (@YaroslavAzhnyuk), a serial tech founder who went from building PetCube...


title: The New Jobs AI Will Create

description: The AI jobs debate has spent years asking which roles will disappear. This weekend long-read asks the more important question: what becomes possible when AI expands the amount of useful work the economy can support? NLW lays out a first-principles case for why better AI does not simply mean less...


podcastName: Last Week in AI

title: #245 - TML-Interaction, Claude For Legal, Sam Altman on Stand

description: Our 245th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 05/13/2026 Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at andreyvkurenkov@gmail.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai Read out our text newsletter and comment on the...


title: How to Build an AI Native Team with Mike Cannon-Brookes

description: In this sponsored bonus episode, NLW is joined by Atlassian co-founder and CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes for a conversation about how to build AI native teams. They discuss what separates enterprise AI leaders from laggards, why context is becoming a critical layer of AI adoption, how agents and MCPs are...


title: Three Kinds of Software Survive: Tasklet's Andrew Lee on Competing to be a Horizontal Platform

description: Andrew Lee, CEO of Tasklet, returns for his fourth appearance to share how his team has once again rewritten their entire agent stack, now emphasizing file system context, agentic search, and multi-resolution summarization. The conversation digs into the strategic tension of competing with your own...


title: The Week the AI Story Shifted

description: This week-in-review episode looks at a week when the AI narrative started to fork, from job-apocalypse panic toward a more mature picture of how AI will actually diffuse through the economy, markets, infrastructure, and enterprise work. NLW connects Ezra Klein’s job-apocalypse rethink, Wall...


title: Trump-Xi Summit, Benioff: "Not My First SaaSpocalypse," OpenAI vs Apple, Multi-Sensory AI, El Niño

description: (0:00) Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff joins the show! (1:14) Trump-Xi summit, doing business in China as a US company, impact on Americans and the midterms (18:46) Taiwan, chips, AI models, and peace through trade (31:41) AI's impact on software: What SaaS thrives, what SaaS dies? (47:26) OpenAI is...


title: Surprise Elon Anthropic Team Up Reshapes the AI Race

description: Anthropic’s Code with Claude event was supposed to be the story, with new managed agent features for memory, quality review, multi-agent orchestration, and finance-specific agents. Instead, the episode explores how a surprise SpaceX compute deal could change the AI race, giving Anthropic badly...


title: Eric Jang – Building AlphaGo from scratch

description: Eric Jang walks through how to build AlphaGo from scratch, but with modern AI tools.Sometimes you understand the future better by stepping backward. AlphaGo is still the cleanest worked example of the primitives of intelligence: search, learning from experience, and self-play. You have to go back...


title: Who Cares About Consumer AI

description: Consumer AI is the fastest-growing tech category in history, but the AI industry’s money, attention, and compute are moving hard toward enterprise and coding agents. NLW explores why consumer AI suddenly feels secondary, why token consumption may matter more than paid seats, and why ads, agentic...


title: A.I. Safety Is So Back + Mythos Mayhem with Nikesh Arora + Hot Mess Express

description: After several years of dismissing A.I. safety as doomer fear-mongering, parts of the Trump administration now seem ready to support regulation.


title: Why OpenAI and Anthropic Are Becoming Consultants

description: OpenAI and Anthropic are moving deeper into enterprise AI services, but NLW argues the real story is organizational readiness. The episode explores why “buy and hope” AI adoption keeps failing, why power users get blocked by company structures, and why the next phase of AI deployment requires...


title: AI-Native Healthcare: 100M Doctor Visits, 10–20 Hours Saved, Prior Auth in Minutes — Janie Lee & Chai Asawa, Abridge

description: Special discounts up for AIE Melbourne (LS discount) and AIE World’s Fair (group discounts up to 25% - CFPs still open for Autoresearch and Vertical AI) Cya there!Abridge did not start as an “GPT wrapper”. It was founded in 2018, years before the Cambrian explosion of AI application layer...


title: Is AI Doom Going Out of Style?

description: Faint but converging signals suggest the AI doom narrative may finally be cracking — and they're showing up in the chattering class and the markets at the same time. This episode walks through the evidence: Ezra Klein's New York Times pushback on the AI job apocalypse, Alex Imas's scarcity...


title: Pax Silica: Inside the Trump Administration’s Tech Strategy with US Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs Jacob Helberg

description: Securing AI dominance requires more than just semiconductors; it demands a complete overhaul of how the West manages everything that goes into them, from rare earth minerals to actuators. Enter: Pax Silica. Sarah Guo and Elad Gil sit down with US Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs Jacob...


title: Why Agents Make Every Job a Startup

description: AI was supposed to save time, but agents have done something stranger — they've made the infinite backlog of everything you could be doing feel immediate and urgent, creating a mix of exhilaration and overwhelm that looks a lot like founding a startup. This episode unpacks why that's happening,...


title: U.S. Congressman Beyer on AI challenges facing America and the World

description: U.S. Congressman Don Beyer returns to Practical AI for another far-reaching conversation with Chris about many of the most important AI challenges facing America and the world. Blending political savvy and statesmanship with his unique technical understanding as an active Ph.D student in AI at...


title: Charles & Chase Koch on How They Quietly Built a $150B Empire

description: (0:00) David Friedberg welcomes Charles & Chase Koch (1:04) Koch Inc. Overview: Scale, Business Lines & History (2:21) Building the Business: Early Days & Charles Koch Joins (1961) (11:31) Failures, Creative Destruction & Learning from Mistakes (19:22) Culture & Principle-Based Management (33:53)...


title: Amex Global Business Travel: The World’s First AI Take Private with Long Lake CEO Alexander Taubman

description: The world’s first AI-take-private just proved that AI can revolutionize the real economy. Long Lake Management co-founder and CEO Alexander Taubman joins Elad Gil to discuss his firm’s agreement to acquire the legacy platform American Express Global Business Travel (Amex GBT) in a deal valued at...


title: #244 - GPT-5.5 Instant, Grok 4.3, OpenAI vs Musk

description: Our 244th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Recorded on 05/08/2026 Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris Feel free to email us your questions and feedback at andreyvkurenkov@gmail.com and/or hello@gladstone.ai Read out our text newsletter and comment on the...


title: Spencer Pratt on Fixing LA: Wildfires, Homelessness, Corruption & the Fight to Take It Back

description: (0:00) Spencer Pratt vs. the Machine (3:01) Inside the Palisades Fire: Drained Reservoirs, No Sirens & Watching His House Burn on His Phone (14:03) Why He's Running for Mayor: FireAid's $100M Scandal & the NGO Corruption Nobody Talks About (28:10) Karen Bass at 20% & the Real State of Los Angeles:...


title: Milliseconds to Match: Criteo's AdTech AI & the Future of Commerce w/ Diarmuid Gill & Liva Ralaivola

description: Diarmuid Gill and Liva Ralaivola of Criteo join Nathan Labenz to unpack how modern ad tech works, from millisecond-speed recommendation systems and realtime bidding to the role of deep learning, embeddings, and foundation models. They discuss why personalized advertising helps fund the open...


title: Elon's Anthropic Deal, The Next AI Monopoly?, "FDA for AI" Panic, Trading the AI Boom

description: (0:00) Bestie intros! Thoughts on the LA mayor election (4:38) SpaceX-Anthropic deal, Elon Web Services, SpaceX IPO valuation, Anthropic's insane growth trajectory (26:48) Is Anthropic the next great monopoly? Early signals or major overreaction? (35:21) "FDA for AI" freakout, how the White House...


title: David Reich – Why the Bronze Age was an inflection point in human evolution

description: David Reich is back.He and collaborator Ali Akbari just published a paper that overturns a long-standing consensus about human evolution — that natural selection has been dormant in our species since the agricultural revolution.By scaling ancient DNA sequencing and developing a new statistical...


title: Can the U.S. Rein in Prediction Markets? + Joanna Stern on Her Year of A.I. Experiments + Our Producer Goes to Attention School

description: “It seems every other day I am reading a story about a massive insider trading scandal.”


title: How to Find the Agent Failures Your Evals Miss with Scott Clark - #767

description: In this episode, Scott Clark, co-founder and CEO of Distributional, joins us to explore how teams can reliably operate and improve complex LLM systems and agents in production. Scott introduces a Maslow’s hierarchy of observability: telemetry for logging, monitoring for known signals, and...


title: The Myth of Model Wars: Open vs Closed AI in 2026

description: In this fully connected episode, Dan and Chris break down one of the biggest questions in AI today: do open vs. closed models still matter? From the rise of physical AI and edge devices to the shifting landscape of open-source models like LLaMA, they explore whether the “model wars” are becoming...