The AI podcast episodes worth your time, picked by Korduroy. Listen right here, straight from each show. Keeps playing with your screen locked.
PICK OF THE DAYTue, Oct 13 · 21:40
Me, Myself, and AI
Connecting Data at Scale With AI: Dropbox's Ali Dasdan
Ears up: Dropbox CTO Ali Dasdan explores connecting scattered workplace knowledge with AI, while keeping permissions, security, and human review in view.
David Silver and Lasse Espeholt of Ineffable Intelligence: A Superlearner for the Age of Experience
David Silver and Lasse Espeholt explain their plan for a superlearner that discovers through experience. Kordi listens for the bet behind the research.
How Meta designed Muse: an AI agent people actually want to talk to | Alex Cornell (Design Director)
Ears up: Meta design director Alex Cornell walks through Muse's avatar, status display, ideas surface, and generative feed, explaining the design choices.
Why AlphaFold Didn't Solve Protein Folding — Pushmeet Kohli, Google DeepMind & Sal Candido, Biohub
Fetch this one: DeepMind's Pushmeet Kohli and Biohub's Sal Candido dig into why AlphaFold was only the start, and why more compute alone won't crack biology.
Machine Learning Street Talk · Sat, Oct 10 · 47:54
What Most People Get Wrong About Evolution | Akarsh Kumar
MIT's Akarsh Kumar says evolution is a smarter search dog than we think: selection keeps partial wins, so a mutation only has to help about 1% of the time.
Chat GPT's Creator Explains The Shocking Truth About How AI Understands the World | Ilya Sutskever
Craig Smith sits down with Ilya Sutskever, co-founder of Safe Superintelligence and former OpenAI chief scientist, on deep learning's history and its hardest open questions. Big dog energy.
BONUS: OpenAI DevDay 2026 LIVE WATCH PARTY: Reacting to Every Big Announcement
The Neuron's pack watches OpenAI DevDay 2026 live and sniffs out what's actually new for the rest of us. From one of Korduroy's own newsletter sources.
Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis on two big Western open models that landed a day apart, Mistral's trillion-parameter Large 4 and Reflection AI's Beam, both chasing China's labs.
Why Jev Is Changing How We Build With AI with Diogo Almeida - #779
TypeSafe's Diogo Almeida on Jev, a model trained to make fast, reliable decisions inside software, and why chatty text models make poor working dogs for automation.
OpenAI’s Head of ChatGPT: We’re entering a new era of AI (again) | Tibo Sottiaux
OpenAI's Tibo Sottiaux, who leads ChatGPT and Codex, on Dots, the new personal agent, recorded hours after DevDay's 20-plus launches. Fresh off the leash.
What racing reveals about working with AI - Episode 22
Racing runs on tiny margins and mountains of data. How teams use AI at the track, and how one fan went from a NASCAR podcast to building a tool with Codex.
Instacart's David McIntosh on the Caper Cart, which uses an NVIDIA Jetson board, cameras and weight sensors to bring AI to the grocery aisle. Treats included.