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Todd Cochrane

Talking tech for the common man. With a twice weekly tech show covering a wide range of technical issues. A Top Tech Podcasts and home of the Author of Podcasting The Do it Yourself Guide Vi...

Episodes

20 of 56 episodes

The Ebola Query #1878

In this episode, Ray covers the fight that broke out after Anthropic published five case files on scientists using Claude for pathogen resea...

45:39Sep 22, 2026

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...

Sep 13, 2026

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...

Sep 8, 2026

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...

44:51Sep 5, 2026

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...

51:40Aug 28, 2026

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...

44:59Aug 25, 2026

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...

47:33Aug 13, 2026

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...

45:05Aug 7, 2026

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...

45:43Jul 10, 2026

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...

38:02Jul 7, 2026

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,...

32:47Jul 3, 2026

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....

42:16Jun 30, 2026

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...

32:57Jun 26, 2026

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...

43:55May 17, 2026

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...

49:34May 10, 2026

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...

53:27May 1, 2026

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...

41:00Apr 25, 2026

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...

43:24Apr 1, 2026

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...

25:02Mar 13, 2026

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...

28:00Mar 1, 2026