The Builders: Alex Karp

Can quantum computing cure cancer? Charina Chou, Chief Operating Officer at Google Quantum AI, believes it just might. But what exactly is quantum computing, and how does it work? Charina breaks down the technology for Oz, from the real-world problems it could solve to why breakt ...  Show more

Is Silicon Valley's political honeymoon over? Reed Albergotti (Semafor and Future Proof), Kyle Chayka (The New Yorker), and Julia Black (Vanity Fair) unpack the midterms… and how the tech right is taking the news. Julia fills us in on OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman and his wife, ...  Show more

Sam Bankman-Fried, the former chief executive of bankrupt crypto exchange FTX has been arrested in the Bahamas, Goldman Sachs is considering cutting hundreds of jobs, Belgian police raided a European parliamentary office in a widening corruption scandal involving World Cup hos ...

The year of the “mini-Musk” chief executive, the end of homework as we know it, a crackdown on TikTok and other predictions for 2023.

Also, Sam Bankman-Fried’s arrest and answers to our listener questions.

On today’s episode:

The most valuable crypto stories for Thursday, July 27, 2023. "The Hash" hosts discuss the biggest crypto stories today, including why House lawmakers have failed to reach a bipartisan deal on stablecoins legislation. An assistant U.S. attorney says the Department of Justice is s ...  Show more