In Machines We Trust
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An award-winning podcast from MIT Technology Review that explores the far-reaching impact of artificial intelligence in our everyday lives. Host Jennifer Strong and the MIT TR team investigate how AI is used in industries like healthcare, surveillance, and hiring, often through narrative-driven stories. Each episode demystifies an application of AI – from face recognition to driverless cars – and examines the ethical and societal questions it raises, with insights from experts and those directly affected.
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Podcast•Feb 27, 2026•11 min
Airbnb Integrates AI Features & Customer Support Overhaul
The episode explores Airbnb's rollout of AI-driven features across search, discovery, and customer support, with hosts Jamie and Jane discussing how conversational AI could transform property searches into natural language queries and enable sponsored listings. They highlight competitive pressures from travel AI platforms and the potential for group chat collaboration on trips. The hosts also examine Airbnb's new CTO from Meta's Llama team and the company's goal to handle over 30% of support tickets via AI, aiming for multilingual chat and voice assistance. Throughout, they weigh the benefits for hosts and guests while noting revenue growth and the importance of reducing friction in the user experience.
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Podcast•Feb 25, 2026•10 min
SeedDance 2.0: AI Video Generator
The episode dives into ByteDance's new AI video generator, SeedDance 2.0, highlighting its impressive quality, lack of copyright filters, and the backlash from Hollywood over potential trademark and deep‑fake violations. Hosts discuss practical uses—from filmmakers and advertisers to YouTubers and...
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Podcast•Feb 10, 2026•13 min
OpenAI Launches Agentic Coding App!
Jamie and Jaeden break down OpenAI's new coding app, Codex, highlighting its core features such as real‑time code generation, debugging assistance, and integration with popular IDEs. They compare Codex to rivals like Lovable and Claude Code, noting where Codex excels...
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Podcast•Feb 7, 2026•11 min
Reddit's AI Answers & Meta's Vibes App
The episode examines how Reddit is deploying AI-driven search to deliver personalized answers and boost content licensing revenue, while Meta introduces Vibes, a standalone AI video app aimed at monetizing premium features. It highlights Reddit's shift toward AI to enhance...
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Podcast•Feb 5, 2026•11 min
Elon Wants Data Centers in Space?
In this episode, Jamie and Jaeden examine Elon Musk's recent acquisition of XAI by SpaceX, discussing how the merger could enable the creation of data centers in orbit and accelerate lunar manufacturing initiatives. They explore the strategic advantages of combining...
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Podcast•Jan 30, 2026•10 min
Anthropic's New Plugins and $3 Billion Lawsuit
The episode examines Anthropic's newly released Co‑Work plugins, which let enterprise users automate niche tasks and integrate AI more tightly into their workflows. It also breaks down the $3 billion lawsuit filed by music publishers accusing Anthropic of copying roughly 20,000...
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Podcast•Jan 28, 2026•13 min
Nvidia's Game-Changing Weather Model
In this episode, Jamie and Jaeden explore the latest breakthroughs in AI-driven weather forecasting, spotlighting Nvidia's new weather model that delivers markedly higher accuracy. They discuss how businesses, especially e‑commerce platforms, can harness these predictions to anticipate demand spikes tied...
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Podcast•Jan 6, 2026•8 min
Groq Leadership, Tech to Nvidia for $20 Billion
The episode explains Nvidia's $20 billion acquisition of Groq, focusing on how Groq's inference leadership and its LPU chiplet architecture dramatically boost memory bandwidth and lower latency for large language model serving. It highlights the strategic value of Groq's technology and...
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Podcast•Jan 4, 2026•12 min
Claude Launches Agent Plugin for Chrome—Risk Warning
The episode examines Anthropic's new Claude Agent plugin for Chrome, highlighting its broad tab manipulation and storage access capabilities that enable powerful agentic browsing but also introduce significant security risks. The host explains how the plugin's design allows stealthy data...
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Podcast•Dec 12, 2025•8 min
Episode 1,001: My AI Journey So Far
In this milestone episode, the host reflects on the evolution of the show and their personal AI journey, contrasting early experiences with current developments. They highlight what has fundamentally changed in AI tools and practices, as well as enduring principles...
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Podcast•Dec 12, 2025•9 min
Google Tests On-Article AI Breakdown Panels
The episode explores Google's new AI-powered "breakdown panels" that appear within articles to automatically highlight key events, people, and data. It discusses how these panels aim to enhance reader comprehension while noting publishers' wariness about depending on machine-generated summaries for...
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Podcast•Nov 26, 2025•0 min
AWS Announces $50B Push for Secure Government AI Compute
AWS announced a $50 billion initiative to build secure AI compute environments for federal agencies, featuring hardened data centers and advanced encryption pipelines. The program aims to provide a trusted infrastructure that can serve as the backbone for government AI workloads....
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Podcast•Nov 21, 2025•0 min
TikTok Lets Users Disable All AI Content on Their Feed
The episode discusses TikTok's new feature that lets users opt out of all AI-generated content, highlighting the platform's push for greater transparency in its feed. It examines the potential impact on creators, who worry the filter could fragment audiences and...
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Podcast•Nov 18, 2025•0 min
Lovable’s 8M-User Surge: The Future of AI App Building
In this episode, hosts Jaeden and Jamie dissect Lovable’s rapid growth to nearly 8 million users, highlighting how its AI‑driven app‑building platform is reshaping software creation. They discuss the platform’s core strengths, such as rapid prototyping and user‑friendly design, alongside security...
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Deals•Sep 25, 2025
Meta Acquires WaveForms in Sound Tech Deal
Meta announced the acquisition of WaveForms, a sound‑technology company, on September 25 2025. The terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the move is expected to bolster Meta’s audio and immersive‑experience capabilities.
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