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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.

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From: Me, Myself, and AI · Apple Podcasts · Episode page

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  • Training Data · Tue, Oct 13 · 1:08:02

    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.

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    From: Training Data · Episode page

  • The AI Daily Brief · Mon, Oct 12 · 39:29

    How to Go from AI Power User to AI Leader

    Paws up: NLW and Nufar explore how AI power users can become team leaders, help colleagues, and turn individual expertise into business value.

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    From: The AI Daily Brief · Apple Podcasts · Episode page

  • Everyday AI · Mon, Oct 12 · 29:30

    Ep 879: New: OpenAI Presence. Has The AI Customer Service Takeover Finally Arrived? (Replay)

    A replay digs into AI voice and chat agents for customer service, sales, HR, and IT. Ears up for where the phone tree could change.

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    From: Everyday AI · Apple Podcasts · Episode page

  • Decoder · Mon, Oct 12 · 1:00:10

    Rewind: Ronan Farrow on Sam Altman’s ‘unconstrained’ relationship with the truth

    A rewind with Ronan Farrow revisits his reporting on Sam Altman and questions about AI oversight. Kordi keeps an ear on the interview.

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    From: Decoder · Apple Podcasts · Episode page

  • How I AI · Mon, Oct 12 · 37:47

    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.

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    From: How I AI · Apple Podcasts · Episode page

  • Latent Space · Sat, Oct 10 · 31:56

    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.

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    From: Latent Space · Apple Podcasts · Episode page

  • The Cognitive Revolution · Sat, Oct 10 · 2:02:05

    How Agents Decide: Goodfire's Eric Bigelow on Critical Tokens, Phase Shifts, & In-Context Learning

    Ears up: Goodfire's Eric Bigelow sniffs out how a model's answer can flip on one critical token. A deep dig into how language models decide.

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    From: The Cognitive Revolution · Episode page

  • 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.

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    From: Machine Learning Street Talk · Apple Podcasts · Episode page

  • No Priors · Fri, Oct 9 · 1:09:44

    Beam: The Great American Open Model with ReflectionAI Co-Founder and CEO Misha Laskin

    ReflectionAI's Misha Laskin unleashes Beam, a 500 billion parameter open-weight reasoning model, and why companies want to own their AI, not rent it.

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    From: No Priors · Apple Podcasts

  • Hard Fork · Fri, Oct 9 · 44:20

    Anthropic’s Quest to Give A.I. Morals

    The Hard Fork crew sniffs around Anthropic's quest to give its AI morals, which they call part research and part evangelism.

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    From: Hard Fork · Apple Podcasts · Episode page

  • Last Week in AI · Fri, Oct 9 · 1:25:20

    #259 - Dots, Sonnet, Self-Safety, Rogue AI

    Andrey and Jeremie fetch the past week's big AI news, including Dots and Sonnet. A good catch-up while you walk the dog.

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    From: Last Week in AI · Apple Podcasts · Episode page

  • Eye on AI · Fri, Oct 9 · 41:45

    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.

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    From: Eye on AI · Episode page

  • Big Technology Podcast · Fri, Oct 9 · 54:39

    Meta & Microsoft's Claude Slowdown, His Agent Leaked His Banking Info, Don’t Bully Your AI

    Alex Kantrowitz and Ranjan Roy chew on Meta and Microsoft pulling back on Claude, slower Claude Code downloads ahead of Anthropic's IPO, and more.

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    From: Big Technology Podcast · Episode page

  • The Neuron: AI Explained · Fri, Oct 9 · 2:05:32

    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.

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    From: The Neuron: AI Explained · Apple Podcasts · Episode page

  • Practical AI · Thu, Oct 8 · 44:24

    Narrative intelligence and the human advantage

    Reed Frerichs joins Daniel and Chris on narrative intelligence: how to stay a good leader of the pack while AI tools change everyone's role.

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    From: Practical AI · Episode page

  • AI Inside · Thu, Oct 8 · 1:14:06

    Mistral Drops a Trillion Parameter Open Model

    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.

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    From: AI Inside · Apple Podcasts

  • The TWIML AI Podcast · Tue, Oct 6 · 1:30:09

    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.

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    From: The TWIML AI Podcast · Episode page

  • Lenny's Podcast · Sun, Oct 4 · 37:23

    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.

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    From: Lenny's Podcast · Episode page

  • Google DeepMind: The Podcast · Thu, Oct 1 · 38:06

    From deepfakes to DNA: the science of watermarking AI

    Hannah Fry and DeepMind's Pushmeet Kohli on SynthID, a scent trail for AI-made content that's spreading from text, images and video into biology.

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    From: Google DeepMind: The Podcast · Episode page

  • Dwarkesh Podcast · Thu, Sep 17 · 1:20:10

    Noam Brown – Agent swarms, alignment, & recursive self-improvement

    Noam Brown on agent swarms, the burst of math progress, and how we'd know models are aligned before AI starts improving itself. Ears all the way up.

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    From: Dwarkesh Podcast · Apple Podcasts · Episode page

  • Lex Fridman Podcast · Wed, Aug 26 · 5:21:57

    #501 – DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Agentic Engineering, Vibe Coding & Linux

    DHH, creator of Ruby on Rails, talks with Lex about the future of programming, agentic engineering and vibe coding. A long walk, worth the steps.

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    From: Lex Fridman Podcast · Apple Podcasts · Episode page

  • Gradient Dissent · Tue, Aug 18 · 1:34:09

    Elon's Former Battery Chief: AI Data Centers Will Make Electricity Cheaper

    Former Tesla battery chief Drew Baglino on why AI data centers need a grid-to-chip overhaul, not just a bigger power plant to bark at.

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    From: Gradient Dissent · Apple Podcasts · Episode page

  • OpenAI Podcast · Thu, Jul 16 · 41:23

    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.

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    From: OpenAI Podcast · Episode page

  • NVIDIA AI Podcast · Wed, Jun 24 · 39:55

    Inside Instacart's AI-Powered Smart Shopping Cart | NVIDIA AI Podcast Ep. 302

    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.

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    From: NVIDIA AI Podcast · Episode page

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