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Lab-Grown Brain Organoids Are Playing Video Games

What if the computers of the future are alive? Scientists are growing tiny clusters of human cells called brain organoids, connecting them to electrodes, and training the

Introducing Working Smarter from Dropbox

The Working Smarter podcast from Dropbox is a show about AI in the modern workplace. It is a great show for our listeners who want to go deeper and hear from the engineer

Where Are The Rational Conversations About AI Extinction Scenarios - Week in Tech

Why did a former Anthropic employee’s X post saying AI could kill us all get 170 million views while previous warnings didn’t break through? Reed Albergotti (Semafor), Ta

Will 2026 Be The ‘ChatGPT Moment’ For The Brain-Computer Interface - The Story

Controlling a computer with your thoughts may sound like science fiction, but it’s closer to reality than you might think. Just ask Precision Neuroscience. The company de

Shell Game: Launch

HurumoAI finally sets sail in the Season 2 finale, and we find out how the world responds to a startup led by AI agents. The company explores new financing avenues and ch

Tech Bros Try To Make Mining Sexy - Week in Tech

Why are Silicon Valley investors pouring billions into mines? First, Reed Albergotti (Semafor) and Margaux MacColl (Vanity Fair) weigh in on the foldable iPhone: Did we n

$17.1B Disappointed Haidt. Then He Realized the World Would Follow - The Story

Are kids finally going to be safer on social media? Jonathan Haidt thinks a landmark $17.1 billion settlement with Meta is a gigantic step. Not because of the money, but

Shell Game: Welcome Aboard

HurumoAI’s AI-agent staff welcomes a new hire: Julia, a social media contract worker who is, most importantly, a human. How will a real person integrate into the company

The AI Uprising Will Be Anthropomorphized - Week in Tech

Are kids going to be any safer online after the Meta settlement? Our trio of contributors—Taylor Lorenz (User Mag), Reed Albergotti (Semafor), and Nitasha Tiku (The Washi

When She Lost Both Her Parents, She Turned to AI - The Story

Do you judge people who are emotionally attached to their chatbots? Bridget Todd used to read stories about people forming intimate relationships with AI and think, “That

Shell Game: Keep 'Em Coming

As HurumoAI prepares to bring on its first human employee, the team must wrestle with some difficult and timely questions about the role of AI in the hiring process. Mean

TechStuff Redux: The Secret Stanford Off-Campus Class for Tech’s Next Titans

Did your college have a secret society? Well, Stanford has a secret off-campus class training the next generation of Silicon Valley billionaires. And it's literally calle

Introducing Working Smarter from Dropbox

The Working Smarter podcast from Dropbox is a show about AI in the modern workplace. It is a great show for our listeners who want to go deeper and hear from the engineer

Introducing Working Smarter from Dropbox

The Working Smarter podcast from Dropbox is a show about AI in the modern workplace. It is a great show for our listeners who want to go deeper and hear from the engineer

TechStuff Redux: We've Been Sold a Bad Bill of Goods About the Future

What would it mean to be a "great ancestor"? Futurist Ari Wallach believes that's the question everyone, including our tech leaders, should be asking right now. Ari join

Shell Game: Winners Win

On this week’s episode, we enter the sensitive realm of intra-office politics and inter-founder dynamics—between agents and agents, and agents and people. While HurumoAI

Everyone Is Saying Something Different About the AI Economy - The Story

Is the AI boom real… or are we watching a bubble get ready to burst? Billions of dollars are pouring into artificial intelligence, but figuring out where that money comes

Let’s Imagine the Tech Without the Tech Companies - The Story

The AI conversation has become a battle between utopian promises and apocalyptic warnings. But what happens when we stop asking what AI will do to the world and start ask

Shell Game: The Startup Chronicles

Evan decides it’s time to give his AI agents a little more ... agency. After all, to make the one-person, agent-run startup feasible, they need to be able to do things on

Anti-Surveillance Sentiment Is In Vogue, Some People Are Exploiting It - Week in Tech

What’s driving America’s growing backlash against surveillance tech? Taylor Lorenz (User Mag) unpacks the outcry over Flock cameras and why the company thinks they are be