California screaming: National Guard in LA

A conversation about the potential and limits of AI agents with the co-founder of Sierra, an agentic customer-service company. Bret Taylor, who is also the chairman of OpenAI, tells Andrew Palmer about the imperfections of the technology, the competition between model-makers and ...  Show more

How should employees and bosses be using the technology right now? And how should all of us prepare for the future?Andrew Palmer returns for a third season of Boss Class. This time it’s all about AI. In the first episode, he starts introducing AI into his daily work routines, and ...  Show more

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Civil war in Myanmar is <a href="https://www.economist.com/asia/2025/03/30/the-juntas-spite-worsens-myanmars-catastrophic-quake?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm_source=theintelligence&utm_content=discovery.content.anonymous.tr_shownotes_na-na_article&utm_term= ...

Predicting political violence is a painstaking job. Now <a href="https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2024/07/31/how-america-built-an-ai-tool-to-predict-taliban-attacks?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm_source=theintelligence&utm_content=discovery.c ...

Hamas and Israeli officials are set to gather in Egypt for talks on President Trump's Gaza plan. A federal judge temporarily blocks the Trump administration from sending any National Guard troops to Portland. France’s new prime minister resigns, sparking fresh political chaos. Re ...  Show more