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WIRED

Jack Black and Paul Rudd answer the internet's most searched questions about themselves, revealing Black's six-time tenure as Kung Fu Panda and valuable 'puritanical' coin collection while Rudd shares his SNL five-timer status and diverse musical tastes ranging from Bach to Mingus, all while promoting Black's new film 'Anaconda' releasing December 25th.

Machine Learning Street Talk

Dr. Mike Israetel argues with 97% certainty that Artificial Super Intelligence (ASI) will arrive by late 2026—defined as systems vastly exceeding humans in most cognitive domains—while debating whether true intelligence requires physical embodiment or merely abstract problem-solving capability.

BG2Pod

Databricks and Glean executives argue that while 95% of enterprise AI projects currently fail, this reflects necessary experimentation in a market where LLMs have become commodities and true competitive advantage comes from leveraging proprietary data through learning-based systems rather than brittle automation.

AI Explained

2025 delivered breakthrough reasoning models like Gemini 3 Pro and playable world generators like Genie 3, yet simultaneously saw AI slop fool millions and benchmark gaming proliferate. The year revealed an industry advancing rapidly on technical metrics while struggling with trust, measurement reliability, and intensifying competition from open-source Chinese models.

Newsthink

After failing to become CEO of Texas Instruments, Morris Chang founded TSMC in 1987 and pioneered the "pure play" foundry model that separated chip design from manufacturing, creating the infrastructure that now produces over 90% of the world's most advanced semiconductors for companies like Apple, NVIDIA, and Tesla.

ColdFusion

Porsche's operating profit collapsed 99% in 2025 as the luxury automaker faced a perfect storm of plummeting Chinese demand, disruptive competition from tech-focused domestic brands like Xiaomi, and a costly, faltering EV transition that forced the CEO to admit their decades-old business model is no longer viable.

The Net Ninja

This tutorial demonstrates how to extend Gemini CLI by creating custom slash commands stored as TOML files in `.gemini/commands/`, enabling complex automated workflows like UI component generation with integrated testing, git branching, and preview rendering through structured multi-step prompts.

Machine Learning Street Talk

Despite consuming hundreds of billions of operations per token, current large language models fail at reliable arithmetic and algorithmic reasoning, revealing a fundamental limitation that tool use cannot fix; the path forward requires categorical deep learning to provide the unifying theoretical framework that geometric deep learning cannot.

We Study Billionaires (TIP)

Despite reaching nearly 1 billion monthly users and capturing 75% of the 13-34 demographic across 25 countries, Snapchat has destroyed shareholder value since its IPO through a toxic combination of zero-vote share structures, relentless unprofitability, and misguided strategic pivots, trading at one-third of its IPO price while insiders extracted nearly as much wealth as the company has lost.

AI Explained

Google DeepMind leadership predicts "minimal AGI" by 2028 through converging language, image, and world models, but exponential scaling faces imminent constraints from compute costs, data scarcity, and the need to divert resources from research to serving current users.

ColdFusion

Netflix's proposed $82.7 billion acquisition of Warner Bros.' film studios and HBO faces a hostile $108.4 billion counterbid from Paramount/Skydance and intense regulatory scrutiny, threatening to create a streaming monopoly that could reshape Hollywood by eliminating theatrical releases and consolidating iconic franchises under one platform.

Programming with Mosh

Despite fears of AI replacing entry-level developers, junior job listings have rebounded 47% since late 2023, but the bar has risen—employers now demand deep fundamentals and practical skills in high-demand languages like Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, and SQL rather than just tutorial-level knowledge.