Podcasts

PBD Podcast

University of Chicago professor Robert Pape argues NATO is effectively dead and the US strategy of punishing Iran through bombing and sanctions is fundamentally flawed based on historical analysis of 30 air campaigns, asserting that true diplomatic success requires bringing adversaries' allies like Russia into the coalition rather than relying on unilateral coercion.

The Pomp Podcast

Jordi Visser argues that parabolic moves in AI infrastructure stocks reflect a genuine supply-demand crunch driven by the shift from chat to agentic AI requiring massive compute, creating structural bullish conditions for Bitcoin, energy commodities, and data center real estate rather than a speculative bubble.

Cognitive Revolution

Criteo's CTO Diarmuid Gill and VP of Research Liva Ralaivola detail how their AI infrastructure makes millisecond-level ad bidding decisions across billions of anonymous profiles, while explaining their new OpenAI partnership to combine large language models with real-time commerce data for accurate product recommendations.

All-In Podcast

Elon Musk's xAI has struck a landmark infrastructure deal leasing Colossus 1 data center capacity to Anthropic, instantly creating a hyperscaler revenue stream while solving Anthropic's critical compute constraints. The arrangement positions Anthropic to potentially reach $100 billion ARR this year and $1 trillion by 2027, creating what could become the most valuable monopoly in history if exponential growth persists.

My First Million

Daniela Amodei traces her unconventional path from English literature and politics to co-founding Anthropic, explaining why she and six colleagues left OpenAI to establish a Public Benefit Corporation focused on 'radical responsibility' in AI, and how they navigate the growing tension between commercial demands and safety imperatives.

Stripe

Tao Zhang, cofounder and CPO of Manus AI, explains how their autonomous AI agent went viral by demonstrating executable outcomes rather than chat responses, and shares their unconventional product development approach where functional prototyping precedes design and prompts replace traditional interfaces.

Dwarkesh Patel

Geneticist David Reich reveals that contrary to decades of evolutionary theory, natural selection has been rampant in human populations over the last 10,000 years, with the Bronze Age triggering an unprecedented acceleration in genetic adaptation to immune and metabolic challenges.

Joe Rogan Experience

Cognitive neuroscientist Julia Mossbridge joins Joe Rogan to discuss her research into precognition and psychic phenomena, revealing how academic institutions actively suppress fringe science while exploring how long-form media and a willingness to be 'foolish' are shifting culture away from ego-driven expertise toward childlike curiosity.

Jordan Peterson

Jordan Peterson argues that existentialist philosophy reveals psychological pathology as an inherent feature of human existence rather than a deviation, while demonstrating how individual moral choices propagate through social networks to shape society, all filtered through evolved cognitive architectures that interpret reality through archetypal frameworks of nature and culture.

Impact Theory

The 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics validated that the universe violates 'local realism,' demonstrating that particles exist only as probability waves until observed—functioning identically to how video games render only necessary objects to conserve computational resources.

AI Engineer

Leonie Monigatti from Elastic argues that context engineering is fundamentally 80% agentic search, evolving from rigid RAG pipelines to dynamic agent-driven retrieval that must navigate diverse context sources through carefully curated, specialized search tools.

New York Times Podcasts

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Daniel Krauss discusses his experimental World War I novel "Angel Down," written as a single circular sentence, and reflects on how horror literature provided emotional armor during his childhood and shaped his maximalist aesthetic.