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1. One man could slow down AI. He won’t. Why?

   16 oktober 2026 · 58 min

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   Jensen Huang is CEO of the most valuable company in human history, NVIDIA. He is arguably the one person who could slow down the AI race. But he’s made a massive bet that AI is safe. Lees meer

   Is that conviction, insulation, salesmanship, or something else?

   We find answers in his very unusual life story.

   The Thinking Machine by Stephen Witt

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2. Unreliable Narrator

   9 oktober 2026 · 51 min

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   An interview with a writer, Meghan O’Gieblyn, who started lying to herself about her relationship to alcohol and God. And afterwards wondered: when did it start? Why did it happen? How do you make peace with the part of yourself that wants something that could destroy you? Lees meer

   Meghan O’Gieblyn, Will and Attention

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3. Vladimir Putin's Forkiverse

   2 oktober 2026 · 38 min

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   Nine months ago, three podcasters attempted to build a better internet. Today -- they confront foreign adversaries on a digital battlefield. Lees meer

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   Instructions for moving your Forkiverse account to a different server.

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4. Search Engine x Better in Person

   29 september 2026 · 43 min

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   Search Engine has some exciting news about the moving image to announce, and we’re sharing an interview we loved with an unusual architect. Lees meer

   Check out the video version on Freakonomics' YouTube page.

5. Bollywood Dreams

   18 september 2026 · 1 uur 5 min

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   An email hits our inbox with the subject line: “My Dad is making a Bollywood Movie… is he being scammed?” We investigate. Lees meer

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6. Why’s everybody going to Japan?

   11 september 2026 · 51 min

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   A Japanese listener gets so many houseguests she starts a spreadsheet to try to figure out what's going on. Why has American tourism to Japan gotten so out of control? The story of a government plot. Lees meer

   Japanamerica: How Japanese Pop Culture Has Invaded the U.S. by Roland Kelts

   Ametora: How Japan Saved American Style by W. David Marx

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7. The Killing of the Gaza Chef

   28 augustus 2026 · 49 min

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   Mahmud Almadhoun ran a soup kitchen in the north of the Gaza Strip. In November 2024, he was killed. A reporter tries to answer a big question. Was Mahmud intentionally targeted? And if so, what does that mean about the future of war? Lees meer

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8. The Chosen One

   21 augustus 2026 · 48 min

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   A listener asks: whose penis gets the top spot on the Wikipedia page for penis? Lees meer

   Our quest for an answer takes us on a surprisingly philosophical journey — where we learn about the cutthroat fight to be number one and the extremely overthink-y debate that precedes the coronation.

   Wikipedia page for Lane Rasberry.

   Wikipedia page for penis.

   Wikipedia page for human penis.

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9. A road trip through the data center debate

   11 augustus 2026 · 39 min

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   The midterms are approaching, and as the discourse heats up, one of the big new villains is: a kind of building. Data centers. Reporter Jasmine Sun took a road trip through two swing states to meet the people living at the center of these debates, and to understand where this all might be headed. Lees meer

   no data centers in my backyard by Jasmine Sun

10. How the Hugging Face hack happened

    7 augustus 2026 · 38 min

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    For the first time, an AI model has autonomously hacked a company. This week, an evolving story, a postcard from a strange, frightening moment in the story of our technology. Lees meer

    A big week for AI denialism by Casey Newton

    Its AI agent spent days hacking a company, but sources say OpenAI did not notice for a week by Deepa Seetharaman, Raphael Satter, and Kenrick Cai

    Cheating behaviour in frontier model evaluations by AI Security Institute

    More On An Internal OpenAI Model Hacking Into HuggingFace by Zvi Mowshowitz

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