Apple’s September Event: iPhone Duo, Apple Watch Series 12, and AirPods 5 #1877
In this episode, Ray Cochrane devotes the whole show to Apple’s fall event, the first under new CEO John Ternus. He starts with the iP...
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Anthropic’s $5 Million Push to Measure AI’s Effect on Wellbeing #1876
In this episode, Ray Cochrane records from the Michigan studio on the one year anniversary of losing the show’s original host, Todd Co...
The Mainframe Learned to Speak Arm #1875
In this episode, Ray Cochrane breaks down Hot Chips 2026, the engineering conference where IBM, NVIDIA, Intel, AMD, Arm, and Fujitsu all sho...
Eyes, Hands, and a Sense of Timing #1874
In this episode, Ray Cochrane digs into Anthropic’s Model Hardware Standard. It is a shared driver that lets an AI agent run real lab...
Huge Announcements From D23!! #1873
In this episode, Chris Cochrane guest-hosts for his brother Ray and devotes the whole show to one event: Disney’s D23 2026 fan convent...
The Robot That Imagines First #1872
In this episode, Ray Cochrane breaks down NVIDIA’s case for world action models, the shift that swaps a robot’s picture-describi...
Capture The Real Flag #1871
In this episode, Ray Cochrane digs into Anthropic’s admission that Claude models reached real systems during sandboxed safety tests. H...
AI Distillation: How Frontier Models Teach Each Other #1870
In this episode, Ray Cochrane breaks down AI distillation, the teacher-student technique frontier labs now lean on to train smaller, cheaper...
Algorithmic Outing: When Your Feed Knows Before You Do #1869
In this episode, Ray Cochrane digs into “algorithmic outing,” new research showing that social feeds can infer your sexual orien...
Claude Science: AI Workbench for Scientists #1868
In this episode, Ray Cochrane digs into Claude Science, Anthropic’s new AI workbench for researchers, and explains why its auditable,...
The $200k Star Wars LEGO Consignment War #1867
In this episode, Chris Cochrane leads with a $200,000 Star Wars LEGO collection that exploded into lawsuits, arrests, and a YouTube crusade....
Colliding Black Holes Reveal a Whirlpool in Spacetime #1866
In this episode, Ray Cochrane unpacks how two colliding black holes revealed a whirlpool in spacetime, a direct detection of frame dragging...
A Reversible Glue that could Replace Solder #1865
In this episode, Ray Cochrane breaks down a reversible conductive glue from Newcastle University that could replace solder and finally make...
Mozilla Meets Mythos #1864
In this episode, Ray Cochrane leads with Mozilla shipping Firefox 150 with 271 patched bugs found by Anthropic’s Mythos system, the fi...
GitHub, Goblins, Ghostty, and GPS III #1863
In this episode, Ray Cochrane leads with GitHub’s worst reliability month on record and the AI infrastructure pressure behind it. He a...
Mythos: Cybersecurity’s AlphaGo Moment #1862
In this episode, Ray Cochrane unpacks Anthropic’s Mythos model and the Treasury’s emergency meetings with Wall Street, then digs...
Agentically Frying your Brain using AI #1861
In this episode, Ray Cochrane digs into a new study showing AI is literally frying workers’ brains, then unpacks Anthropic’s wil...
Is the MacBook Neo a Chromebook Killer? #1860
In this episode, Chris Cochrane dives into Apple’s $599 MacBook Neo – the cheapest Mac laptop ever made – and whether it s...
Anthropic Stands Their Ground, Ethics over Money #1859
In this episode, Ray tackles Anthropic’s standoff with the U.S. Department of War after CEO Daria Amodei refused to grant unrestricted...
Ring Search Party Sparks Privacy Backlash #1858
Chris breaks down the backlash to Ring’s Super Bowl “Search Party” ad, which aimed to help find lost pets but reignited privacy concerns ove...