Recent Episodes

Uncanny Valley
Mark Zuckerberg’s AI Manifesto Is 6,500 Words—and Barely Says Anything
By Brian Barrett, Zoë Schiffer, Leah Feiger, and Andy Greenberg

Uncanny Valley
ICE’s DNA Collection Increases, SpaceX’s Rocket Crashes Into the Moon, and the AI Backlash Grows
By Brian Barrett, Zoë Schiffer, Leah Feiger, and Molly Taft


Uncanny Valley
Nvidia’s Open Source Alliance Is Missing Some Key Names: OpenAI and Anthropic
By Brian Barrett, Zoë Schiffer, and Leah Feiger


Uncanny Valley
China-US AI Race Escalates, OpenAI Models Break Free, and Why You Should Check Your Car Alarm
By Brian Barrett, Zoë Schiffer, and Leah Feiger

The Big Interview
‘It’s a Modern-Day Draft’: Why Stanford Students Walked Out on Sundar Pichai’s Commencement Speech
By Katie Drummond

Uncanny Valley
Why Apple Sued OpenAI, New York Takes on Data Centers, and What to Know about Cyclosporiasis
By Brian Barrett, Zoë Schiffer, Leah Feiger, and Emily Mullin

The Big Interview
This Luddite Puppet Hopes You’re Not Reading This on Your Smartphone
By Manisha Krishnan

Uncanny Valley
Maine’s Senate Race Implodes, Meta’s Threads Rivals Musk’s X, and the Trump Phone Arrives
By Zoë Schiffer and Leah Feiger


Uncanny Valley
Why Amazon Dropped Its OpenAI Movie, Data Center Workers Fight Back, and Meta Leaks Employee Data
By Brian Barrett, Zoë Schiffer, and Leah Feiger

The Big Interview
FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez Will Fight for Press Freedom—Until Trump Fires Her
By Katie Drummond

Uncanny Valley
Meta’s AI Workers Are Revolting, Peter Thiel’s Secret Society, and SBF’s Plea to Trump
By Brian Barrett and Zoë Schiffer

The Big Interview
Tim Heidecker Wants to Turn Infowars Into Adult Swim for the Internet
By Katie Drummond

Uncanny Valley
Why You Might Already Own SpaceX Shares, Siri’s AI Makeover, and Knicks Owner’s Surveillance Machine
By Brian Barrett and Zoë Schiffer

The Big Interview
Alex Vindman Survived Trump’s Retaliation Machine. Now He’s Running for Senate
By Katie Drummond

Uncanny Valley
The AI IPO Race Heats Up, DOGE Whistleblower Sues Elon Musk, and Instagram Gets Hacked
By Brian Barrett, Zoë Schiffer, and Leah Feiger


The Big Interview
The US Can Put People on the Moon. Why Can’t It Get Iranians Online?
By Katie Drummond