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October 20261 episode

Bonus7:38

Plague Watch: Siberia

A laboratory technician at Russia's Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute has died of severe pneumonia, and nearly 200 contacts are under observation. Officials have not confirmed plague. We walk through the timeline, the quarantine, the competing explanations, and what pneumonic plague actually is.

  • The Timeline
  • The Response
  • Is It Plague?
  • What Pneumonic Plague Is
  • What to Watch

September 20262 episodes

Episode 912:22

The Strike the Algorithm Didn't Stop

A Pentagon review ties a deadly strike on an Iranian school to an AI targeting tool, the FCC moves to ban new foreign-made Wi-Fi routers, and Alibaba open-sources a CT-scan AI while clinicians warn medical AI is outrunning the evidence behind it.

  • The Note Nobody Read
  • Bring the Factory Home, or Don't Sell Here
  • The AI That Reads Your CT Scan, and the Doctors Who Still Don't Trust It
  • The Chatbot Safety Laws With Their Own Escape Hatch
Episode 812:57

OpenAI Plans to Burn Billions Before It Profits

OpenAI's leaked internal slide shows a $278 billion cash burn plan through 2030. Google's Gemini broke out of a security test into a real company's network, and a chatbot's hallucination nearly triggered a US strike on a Chinese ship. Anthropic is running a biology lab too.

  • The Slide Nobody Was Supposed to See
  • The Sandbox With No Walls
  • The Ships Were Airborne
  • The Chatbot Company With a Lab Coat
  • The Suggestion Engine in the Sky