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Podcasts in Technology & AI

a16z Podcast

a16z Podcast

Andreessen Horowitz

Discusses tech and culture trends, news, and the future — especially as 'software eats the world'. Features industry experts, business leaders, and other interesting thinkers.

Acquired

Acquired

Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal

Every company has a story. Learn the playbooks that built the world's greatest companies — and how you can apply them as a founder, operator, or investor.

Hard Fork

Hard Fork

The New York Times

A show about the future that's already here. Each week, journalists Kevin Roose and Casey Newton explore and make sense of the latest in the rapidly changing world of tech.

Latent Space

Latent Space

Alessio & Swyx

The podcast by and for AI Engineers. Technical deep dives on foundation models, agents, developer tools, and the AI engineering stack.

Lex Fridman Podcast

Lex Fridman Podcast

Lex Fridman

Conversations that explore technology, history, philosophy, physics, mathematics, biology, chemistry, engineering, AI, robotics, and beyond.

No Priors: AI, Machine Learning & Technology

No Priors: AI, Machine Learning & Technology

Elad Gil & Sarah Guo

At this moment of inflection in technology, co-hosts Elad Gil and Sarah Guo talk to the world's leading AI engineers, researchers, and founders about the biggest questions in AI.

The Cognitive Revolution

The Cognitive Revolution

Nathan Labenz & Erik Torenberg

A biweekly podcast exploring the transformative potential of AI across industries. Hosted by Nathan Labenz and Erik Torenberg, featuring leading researchers, founders, and builders.

The TWIML AI Podcast

The TWIML AI Podcast

Sam Charrington

Deep-dive interviews with ML researchers, data scientists, and AI practitioners. Covers cutting-edge machine learning, NLP, computer vision, and MLOps topics.

The Vergecast

The Vergecast

The Verge

The flagship podcast from The Verge about big tech news, gadgets, and the future of everything. Hosted by David Pierce, Nilay Patel, and Alex Cranz.

Recent Episodes

a16z Podcast

What's Missing Between LLMs and AGI - Vishal Misra & Martin Casado

LLMs perform mathematically precise Bayesian inference. That capability, while remarkable, is also the ceiling: they cannot update weights after training and cannot move from correlation to causation. Closing that gap is what AGI requires. ## 1. **The Origin: RAG Before RAG Was Named** In October

a16z Podcast

AI Startups vs. Big Chatbots — With Olivia Moore

AI startups can still build durable businesses against ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, but only in categories the labs will never prioritize. Olivia Moore (partner at a16z) maps where the gaps are, why OpenClaw matters, and what the next wave of consumer AI looks like. **1. Public Sentiment vs. Actual

a16z Podcast

Marc Andreessen on the Mindset of Great Founders — with David Senra

The world is primitive relative to what technology makes possible, and the founders willing to build anyway are the primary engine of progress. Marc Andreessen and David Senra cover founder psychology, the history of Silicon Valley, the structural logic behind a16z, and Elon Musk's management method

a16z Podcast

Emil Michael: Iran, Anthropic and the Future of AI at the Pentagon

Emil Michael (Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, Acting Director of the Defense Innovation Unit) argues that commercial AI vendors with restrictive usage terms embedded in critical military systems represent an active national security risk, not a policy debate. The urgency is s

a16z Podcast

Palantir CEO Alex Karp on the Zero-Sum AI Race

The West's AI advantage over China and Russia is real, was demonstrated in recent military operations, and is at risk if Silicon Valley refuses to align with the defense establishment. Alex Karp, co-founder and CEO of Palantir, argues that AI is a zero-sum geopolitical competition and that tech comp

a16z Podcast

What It Takes to Clear a Million Crimes a Year with Flock Safety's CEO

Flock Safety solves crime at scale by building infrastructure that law enforcement previously lacked: real-time license plate readers, drones, 911 integration, and an AI orchestration layer. Garrett Langley built the first prototype in 2017 after Atlanta police shrugged at a gun theft in his neighbo

a16z Podcast

The Top 100 Gen AI Consumer Apps

ChatGPT reaches 900 million signups but only 10% of the global population weekly. Six editions into a16z's Top 100 Gen AI Consumer Apps report, the three major platforms are developing distinct identities rather than converging. **1. Platform Divergence: ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini** ChatGPT leads

Acquired

Formula 1

Formula 1 is the world's most popular annual sporting series with 827 million fans, yet it spent decades as a financially broken sport kept alive by one unelected operator and cigarette money before becoming a professionally managed, publicly traded $25 billion enterprise. **1. Origins: Three Found

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