Daniel Bessner, Derek Davison
Robert Wright joins the show to examine AI’s promise and perils, from machine intelligence and automation to capitalism, climate, and global regulation.
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Artificial intelligence is reshaping the global economy, despite its vast reserves of critical minerals in AI development, Africa remains largely a consumer of AI technologies in a geopolitically contested terrain.
Zoe. , July 15, 2026
Artificial intelligence is reshaping the global economy, despite its vast reserves of critical minerals in AI development, Africa remains largely a consumer of AI technologies in a geopolitically contested terrain.
Zoe. , July 15, 2026
American AI labs view Chinese open-source models as essentially stolen goods, built with the help of American frontier models to generate synthetic training data — a process known as distillation.
The startup is also said to be considering raising new funds from private investors weeks after completing its first financing round that valued the company at $52 billion.
On Tuesday, Google’s DeepMind co-founder and CEO Demis Hassabis stepped forth as a generally unassailable messenger with an article calling for a self-regulatory body of AI experts.
Tech’s ambition is to work so well that it fades into the background of our day-to-day, but removing friction in some of the most personal aspects of life may not actually improve an experience.