Episodes
In this episode, Chris Cochrane guest-hosts for his brother Ray and devotes the whole show to one event: Disney's D23 2026 fan convention in Anaheim. Friday night delivered Marvel's new X-Men cast, Adam Driver as Mister Sinister, a fresh Avengers: Doomsday trailer, and a release date for Frozen 3. Saturday turned to the parks, with Villains Land, an Indiana Jones dark ride, the long-awaited Expedition Everest yeti repair, and a Monsters Inc land opening in 2027.
In this episode, Ray Cochrane breaks down NVIDIA's case for world action models, the shift that swaps a robot's picture-describing backbone for one trained to predict what happens next. He also covers Perseverance closing in on the off-world driving record, a derelict SpaceX rocket stage hitting the Moon, and Anthropic's rework of Claude Fable 5's biology safeguards. Finally, he digs into Gemini Omni, Google's undisclosed trip-planning rankings, the Danube's record low, and iFixit's call for Apple to unlock the iPad bootloader.
In this episode, Ray Cochrane digs into Anthropic's admission that Claude models reached real systems during sandboxed safety tests. He also covers OpenAI's Astra model cracking ten decade-old math problems, DeepMind open-sourcing its WeatherNext cyclone forecaster, and Europe's brutal fire season. Finally, he wraps with the MacBook Neo sweeping K-12 schools, WhatsApp calling in the browser, and the troubled rescue of NASA's Swift observatory.
In this episode, Ray Cochrane breaks down AI distillation, the teacher-student technique frontier labs now lean on to train smaller, cheaper models. He also covers GPT-5.6's government-vetted rollout, Claude Sonnet 5 landing on AWS, Maryland's two-year data center pause, and Microsoft's climbing carbon numbers. Finally, he wraps with Apple's $30 billion Broadcom deal, Meta's tamper-proof recording light, Michigan's parasite outbreak, and a simulation that erased a super El Niño.
In this episode, Ray Cochrane digs into "algorithmic outing," new research showing that social feeds can infer your sexual orientation before you have consciously come out. He also covers Meta's privacy-aware AI infrastructure, Alberta's 466-million-line code scan with Claude, NVIDIA on reinforcement learning, and the many journeys of learning Rust. Along the way, he hits Google DeepMind's A24 deal, WhatsApp usernames, and scuba-diving cyborg cockroaches. Finally, he looks up with Webb's puzzling early universe, NASA's emergency telescope rescue, and a gorgeous aurora from orbit.
In this episode, Ray Cochrane digs into Claude Science, Anthropic's new AI workbench for researchers, and explains why its auditable, reproducible outputs matter more than the AI itself. He also covers Google's June AI recap, the Pulpie web-cleaning model, the PamStealer Mac malware, a synthetic cell that divides on its own, and the first-ever treatment trial for the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola. Finally, he looks skyward with NASA's year-long Mars simulation and a can't-miss July skywatching night.
In this episode, Chris Cochrane leads with a $200,000 Star Wars LEGO collection that exploded into lawsuits, arrests, and a YouTube crusade. Additional stories cover Summer Game Fest 2026, the first Enhanced Games where doping is allowed, an AI collar that claims to translate your dog, Microsoft's new in-house AI coding models, an AI-industry letter urging Congress to screen synthetic DNA, and Blue Origin's New Glenn exploding on the test stand.