Something's Rotten in Gotham City

In Season 2 of Shell Game, journalist Evan Ratliff tells a story of entrepreneurship in the AI age; or, how he tried to build a real company, run by fake people. Meet Kyle Law and Megan Flores, Evan’s AI agent cofounders, as he puts to the test the claims about an emerging future ...  Show more

Who’s afraid of China’s open-source AI models? Nitasha Tiku (The Washington Post) breaks down the secret battle between Silicon Valley and Chinese AI labs, why Anthropic was surveilling China-based users, and whether "adversarial distillation" is a national security threat or jus ...  Show more

The line between the ordinary and the extraordinary is often barely perceptible. But the stories that tale place on either side can be utterly curious.

Humans have a way of getting themselves into some pretty amazing situations. In fact, the stories about that are more than a little curious.

It seems like everything nowadays is a sequel or a prequel (or a reboot). We chat about separates the good sequels and prequels from the the bad,.And then we take two properties in the news that have had a ton of sequels to varying degrees, and add our own to the mix. Learn more ...  Show more

Jeremy and Vipin recruit an ally with an unusual connection, but new evidence makes it clear that the stakes are higher—and more deadly—than they first believed. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy inform ...  Show more