The Local Business Survival Conundrum
A local business can fail while everyone still claims to love it. Customers praise the shop that knows their name, the restaurant that sponsors the school fundraiser, the repair company that still ans...
29 Aug 26min
What Have We Learned After 800 AI Shows?
Episode 800 became a retrospective on what three years of daily AI conversations have changed. The hosts described the value less as memorizing every model or tool and more as learning to pay attentio...
28 Aug 1h 2min
Are We Really About To Get AGI?
The episode opened with Bill Gates’ warning that AI is moving faster than society can adapt. His proposals included taxing robots or AI that replace human workers and potentially protecting some jobs ...
27 Aug 1h 2min
Chrome Wants To Be Your Next AI Agent
The episode opened with Google’s push to make Chrome an agentic hub. The hosts discussed Jacob Bank returning to Google after building Relay.app and what happens when the browser can work across tabs,...
26 Aug 1h 3min
Who Should You Trust to Teach You AI?
The episode opened with Perplexity Deep Research suddenly behaving very differently from the product Brian had used for months. Instead of detailed research, it returned short answers, mixed old conve...
25 Aug 57min
Is the Backlash Against AI Data Centers Justified?
The episode opened with a fact-check of claims defending the current AI data center buildout. Brian compared arguments about electricity prices, taxes and water use against research he had gathered, w...
24 Aug 1h
The Synthetic Anchor Conundrum
Mirage’s AI news experiment points to a version of media that does not need a studio, a broadcast schedule, or a human anchor reading from a desk. A channel can appear in a day. It can label synthetic...
22 Aug 29min
Should We Rebuild Work Around AI?
The episode opened with a practical warning for people building AI systems: timestamps and time zones can quietly break databases, automations and search tools. That led into Slack Code, a new collabo...
21 Aug 1h 7min
