Jen Pahlka on an Optimistic Vision for Government Renewal!
Jen Pahlka is an American Hero, in a past life the US Deputy Chief Technology Officer and member of the Defense Innovation Board. She wrote Recoding America and the wonderful Eating Policy substack (h...
27 Maalis 59min
Second Breakfast: We Negotiate with Bombs, War by Brainrot
Full house with Bryan, Eric, Tony and Justin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
25 Maalis 53min
Overfit is now ModelTalk! GPU Smuggling, OpenAI Cooked? + Open Models, AI Writing
Nathan Lambert of https://www.interconnects.ai/ and Jasmine Sun of https://jasmi.news/ catch up. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
23 Maalis 41min
Second Breakfast: Taking Kharg Island, Terrorism, Grift
The administration is reportedly considering seizing Kharg Island, and the global economy is beginning to buckle under the pressure of disrupted energy flows. Eric Robinson is a lawyer now who worked...
20 Maalis 1h 18min
The Toymaker vs. the Tariffs
A century-old toy company has taken down Trump’s Liberation Day tariffs with a self-funded lawsuit. But how? Today’s guest is Rick Woldenberg, CEO of Learning Resources, creator of Spike the Fine Mot...
19 Maalis 33min
WarTalk: AI, Nukes, Iran and Autonomous War
WarTalk launches! We chat with Pranay Vaddi (MIT, Sandia, formerly Biden NSC) and Chris McGuire (State, NSC, now CFR) about AI, nuclear command and control, deterrence, and how new military technologi...
16 Maalis 1h 59min
Iran: No Save Point
Two weeks into the US-Iran war, CENTCOM has struck 6,000 targets, but Hormuz is closed, oil is at $100 a barrel, the regime hasn’t fallen, and 400 kilograms of highly enriched uranium sit somewhere un...
13 Maalis 1h 9min
Why it Sucks to Work in AI in China + Open Source with Kevin Xu
Kevin Xu of http://interconnected.blog/ and I did a liveshow on substack! We chat about why working in Chinese AI looks so much tougher than building in the West: less compute, lower upside, more po...
12 Maalis 50min
