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Thariq Shihipar joined Anthropic for Claude Code and now works on the team building it, splitting his time between engineering, talks, and teaching people how to drive agents.
Seven weeks before California's 2026 gubernatorial election, Steve Hilton — Republican candidate, British-born immigrant, and former Silicon Valley entrepreneur — sat down with the All-In hosts, foll…
Diogo Almeida spent his OpenAI years making language models follow instructions — he fought to ship InstructGPT — and left carrying a question he could not pursue inside the lab: when the AI-based ec…
On 13 July 1793 Charlotte Corday drove a kitchen knife into Jean-Paul Marat's chest as he worked from his medicinal bath, and the Revolution's most incendiary street fighter became its most useful co…
Dr. Chris Thompson — Harvard Medical School professor and chief of interventional gastroenterology at Mass General Brigham — spent two hours with Huberman Lab walking through the digestive tract as h…
When Steven Bartlett put the question of the moment to the producer Rick Rubin on this September 2026 episode of The Diary Of A CEO — what is left for human creators when AI can generate music, image…
Voice interfaces keep improving and keep breaking the spell — a beat too long before replying, a clumsy interruption, a tone that misses the room.
In May 2025 a new bas-relief of Joseph Stalin appeared in a Moscow metro station, an exact replica of one torn down in the 1960s, and the question it raises is the question of this episode of Empire:…
Alexander Mercouris tells Alex Christoforou that Ukraine's military situation is deteriorating fast in every respect.
CIA Director Ratcliffe's surprise flight to Moscow aboard a massive C-17 Globemaster from Latvia has produced a fog of confident accounts.
Chess.com's story does not begin with a machine defeating a human player. Erik Allebest recalls that he and a friend bought the chess.com domain in 2005 for $56,000.
Ryan Greenblatt’s case begins with a conditional proposition: AI systems that match leading researchers on sufficiently verifiable AI R&D tasks could help build stronger successor systems.
The Disney described at the beginning of this Acquired episode is not an inevitable empire.
Pixar did not begin as a miniature Disney.
Netflix did not suddenly appear when Disney began planning Disney+. By the point the episode treats as the market's decisive recognition, Netflix was already a large public company.
Sarah Guo and Elad Gil do not deny the size of AI markets. They distinguish a market becoming large from a single company reaching trillion-dollar scale quickly.
Netic founder Melisa Tokmak does not describe the product as simply an AI that answers calls.
A conflict with the Houthis that is once again heating up first brings to mind missiles, drones, and border security.
The US halt of airstrikes on Iran entered its third day, but the program stressed repeatedly that this is not a ceasefire agreed by both sides.
Oil prices, gas reserves, diesel, and jet fuel were all placed on the same pressure gauge by the program.
The program begins with Maersk's decision to stop sending ships to Odesa.
The program opens with a report on Trump considering expanding strikes against Iran.
Lavrov and Rubio met in Manila for about thirty-five minutes, with no joint statement and no public results.
Ask DoorDash and the delivery robot Dot look like separate product lines: one lets a customer describe what they want to buy, while the other moves an order through the physical world.
Adam Brown opens with a problem of explanation. In the lecture's telling, Newtonian gravity looks instantaneous, while special relativity treats the speed of light as a limit on influence.
Glenn Fogel is not cautious about what AI may do.
Grant Sanderson argues that a high-profile result in mathematical problem solving would still be one benchmark among others, not a single moment at which general intelligence is settled.
Disney is now commonly represented as a precise flywheel: films create characters, merchandise, television, and parks expand their reach, and the resulting money and attention finance the next work.
Disneyland did not begin as a corporate strategy for extending film characters into the physical world.
Animation in the early 1930s could reliably produce laughter, but it had not proved that an audience would believe characters, follow emotion, and remain engaged across a feature.
Ada Palmer begins with the political setting around The Prince: a divided Italy, unstable Florentine institutions, and a writer addressing Lorenzo de’ Medici.
Sarah Paine’s lecture begins with an ideal-type contrast. Continental and maritime powers, she argues, have tried to organize the world differently, and the distinction still matters.
The week's headline news is an Axios report on a difficult Trump-Netanyahu phone call, but Alex Christoforou and Alexander Mercouris argue the real story is structural: the United States and Iran are…
When the three-day Victory Day ceasefire ended, Alex Christoforou and Alexander Mercouris returned to the judgment they have held for months: this war is not stuck.
The episode begins with Andriy Yermak under renewed legal pressure, but Alexander Mercouris does not treat corruption around Volodymyr Zelenskyy's circle as a new discovery.
The episode begins with a sharp contrast. European officials are described as preparing stronger sanctions because Russia's economy is supposedly close to collapse.
The Beijing visit looked cordial. Donald Trump and Xi Jinping exchanged friendly language, attended formal events, and avoided visible confrontation.
The episode treats Donald Trump's Beijing visit as a negotiation whose balance changed before it began.
The episode opens with a claim about an unusually direct act of deterrence before the Victory Day celebrations.
The episode begins from a political setback rather than a confirmed leadership contest.
Alexander Mercouris originally wanted to compare two wars: the intense, policy-driven conflict between the United States and Iran, and Russia's slow, systematic advance in Ukraine.
Drones have already changed the battlefield, but the point Stanislav Krapivnik raises on the show is not about numbers.
Ferrari is often reduced to one famous rule: make one car fewer than the market wants. But low volume alone does not create a luxury company. It can just as easily create a small, fragile manufacturer.
When Luca di Montezemolo returned to Ferrari in 1991, the obvious response to weak sales would have been to find more buyers. He did the opposite.
The episode presents Formula 1 as more than a racing championship.
The NFL's rise is often told as a story about America's love of football. In Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal's account, that explanation misses the operating system.
Sergey Levine points to autonomous driving as evidence that learning-based physical systems can move from a technology of the future into real deployment.
Anders Hejlsberg explains that TypeScript began inside the JavaScript ecosystem because self-hosting made the team daily users of the language and its tools.
Alexander Mercouris interprets reports of women being conscripted into Ukraine's military as evidence of a severe manpower crisis.