In this episode, Ray Cochrane leads with Nvidia's board investigating reports that Chinese intelligence targeted CEO Jensen Huang. The same day, Huang told employees he had been unfaithful to his wife. Additionally, he covers the Justice Department's Super Intelligence Task Force and the fake job interview behind Binance's $6.3 billion crypto Heist. He also gets to a Sega hack that darkened arcades across Japan and the fall of NASA's Swift telescope.
In this episode, Ray Cochrane leads with the server farm revolt. Voters rejected data centers in 40 of 41 local ballot measures on November 3, and two days later the Nasdaq had its worst day since April 2025. Additionally, he covers Anthropic's IPO filing, a made-to-order melanoma vaccine, the finest Mars dust yet, and how voting is like a Klein bottle.
In this episode, Chris Cochrane tells the story of his dog Milo, who was paralyzed by intervertebral disc disease. He walks through the emergency surgery, the cost of care, and the long road of recovery at home. Chris also shares the GoFundMe he started to help with Milo's medical bills.
In this episode, Ray Cochrane returns to the studio in Michigan and leads with PHP2Shell. Those two PHP bugs, found with AI help, led sites from DeviantArt to government portals to go dark on purpose. Additionally, he covers OpenAI's forward-deployed engineers, Anthropic's Claude Frontier Academy, Apple's American iPhone suppliers, Euclid's first comet, and a new date for The Starry Night.
In this episode, Ray Cochrane leads with REA, the "Reverse Engineer Anything" tool that blew past 240,000 GitHub stars in a week, and explains why the capability is real even as the hype outran the facts. Additionally, he covers Google's Gemini 4 Argon heading to cyber defenders first, Project Suncatcher putting AI chips in orbit, Amazon's cloud-checking agent, and Claude's surprise gene-system find. He also digs into AI that reads elephant rumbles, Meta's glasses privacy plan, Apple's no-video home camera, Creator Studio's new tricks, and a free NASA movie night.
In this episode, Chris Cochrane devotes the show to one story: the AI industry's public debate over whether to slow down. He covers Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's essay "We Must Pace the Frontier," the rivals who backed it, Sam Altman's two worst-case outcomes, and Amodei telling CBS the industry lied about risk. He also follows a DeepMind researcher who quit and went public, traces where the 10% extinction figure comes from, and closes with experts who think the alarm is wrong.
In this episode, Ray covers the fight that broke out after Anthropic published five case files on scientists using Claude for pathogen research, and the virologists who read the same files and called the work basic research. Additionally, he digs into DeepMind's AlphaGenome Atlas mapping nine billion DNA variants, OpenAI's numbers-free customer story about Perplexity, Gemini's late arrival on Windows, and John Deere's self-repair service that almost nobody uses. Finally, the show closes with Europe's new plant-fluorescence satellite, a super El Niño already collecting damage, and a plankton shell that may be hiding a second species.
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