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Lex Fridman· Jan 31, 2026PodcastThe Architecture Barely Changed. Data, Cost, and Open Weights Did.Host Lex FridmanNathan Lambert and Sebastian Raschka walk Lex Fridman through a year in which training methods and datasets moved more than model design, and 2026 looks like a fight over inference cost, agents, and who owns truly open models.
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Cognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jan 29, 2026PodcastAI Already Beats the Median Lawyer. Top Firms Bought the Tools and Left Them UnusedHost Nathan LabenzKevin Frazier and Alan Rozenshtein walk through how frontier models are changing legal practice, why billable hours stall adoption, and which new rights and government limits they want next.
1:40:51ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jan 14, 2026PodcastReasoning Models Just Made the Other 80–90% of Enterprise Data UsableHost Nathan LabenzSnowflake VP of AI Baris Gultekin on text-to-SQL, RAG, agent design, and why inference has to run next to governed data.
1:54:30ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jan 9, 2026PodcastFrom One in Ten Cancer Cells to One in a MillionHost Nathan LabenzNathan Labenz's solo AMA updates his son's lymphoma treatment, calls Claude Opus 4.5 software AGI, and ranks the live players of early 2026.
1:55:02ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jan 4, 2026PodcastAn Index Fund on AGI: How MATS Filters the Next 120 AI Safety ResearchersHost Nathan LabenzRyan Kidd, co-executive director of MATS, tells Nathan Labenz why he will not shout a timeline, why every safety technique is also a capabilities technique, and who actually gets hired.
1:18:40ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jan 1, 2026PodcastWhen AI Becomes the Oil Well: Luke Drago on the Intelligence CurseHost Nathan LabenzThe Workshop Labs co-founder tells the FLI Podcast why a world of non-human production could recreate the resource curse — and how private data, open weights, and moonshot careers might still break it.
1:43:19ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Dec 19, 2025PodcastA $100 Million Super PAC Named Him Public Enemy Number One. Donations Went Up.Host Nathan LabenzIn the second half of Cognitive Revolution’s year-end live show, Assemblymember Alex Bores, former White House adviser Dean Ball, and forecaster Peter Wildeford argue over state AI laws, chip sales to China, and what 2026 will actually feel like.
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Unsupervised Learning: With Jacob Effron· Dec 18, 2025PodcastThe Real Bottleneck in AI Research Is Compute, Not IdeasHost Jacob EffronAfter NeurIPS, Ari Morcos and Rob Toews sit down with Jacob Effron to argue about plateauing models, SSI’s secrecy, OpenAI’s cash burn, and a set of spicy 2026 bets.
1:09:48ENUnsupervised Learning: With Jacob Effron· Dec 5, 2025PodcastChina's AI Labs Went From 15 to Six. The Compute Gap Is 15-to-1.Host Jacob EffronJordan Schneider tells Unsupervised Learning that Chinese models were a private-capital story, that Beijing still thinks in hardware, and that the West's real edge is chips it can serve — not a state master plan.
1:25:54ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Dec 3, 2025PodcastHours after training ends, Z.ai puts the weights on the internetHost Nathan LabenzZixuan Li of Z.ai tells ChinaTalk how a Chinese lab ships GLM, treats open weights as a ticket into Western ecosystems, and still sees itself as an upstart.
1:11:18ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Nov 12, 2025PodcastHe Got Bored Five Minutes Into a Waymo. Nathan Labenz Says That's the PointHost Nathan LabenzOn a crossover with the Existential Hope podcast, the Cognitive Revolution host argues that the scarcest resource in AI is a positive picture of daily life, not another doom scenario.
1:39:05ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Oct 29, 2025PodcastThe Summer GPT-5 Disappointed Does Not Mean AI Progress Has StalledHost Nathan LabenzNathan Labenz tells Erik Torenberg why the GPT-5 backlash mixed up product mishaps, naming chaos, and a real jump in capabilities.
1:16:53ENUnsupervised Learning: With Jacob Effron· Oct 24, 2025PodcastKarpathy Called Today's Models Slop. His Decade Timeline Still Sounds BullishHost Jacob EffronDatology AI's Ari Morcos and Radical Ventures' Rob Toews walk through Karpathy's cold water, OpenAI's dealmaking, and who actually pays for the data-center boom.
2:49:12ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Oct 18, 2025PodcastWhy China's Master Plan for AI Never Mentions AGIHost Nathan LabenzBeijing-based Concordia AI CEO Brian Tse on China's safety rules, chip strategy, and why the two ecosystems look more alike than Washington assumes.
1:53:50ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Oct 8, 2025PodcastA curriculum rewrite takes five years. AI does not wait.Host Nathan LabenzJohan Falk, a Swedish teacher-turned-analyst, argues that AI literacy and AI friends are more urgent than putting a tutor in every classroom.
2:20:35ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Sep 28, 2025PodcastChatGPT Is a Thousand Days Old. Emad Mostaque Says We Have About a Thousand Left.Host Nathan LabenzThe Stability AI founder’s new economics argues that when intelligence is abundant, scarcity-based money and GDP stop making sense.
1:02:05ENUnsupervised Learning: With Jacob Effron· Sep 24, 2025Podcast$100 Million Researchers and a $200 Billion xAI: An AI Roundtable Does the MathHost Jacob EffronDatology’s Ari Morcos and Radical Ventures’ Rob Toews argue over whether models are plateauing, whether RL-environment startups will last, and why Google is the lab they would pick.
1:44:35ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Sep 11, 2025PodcastJoe Hudson: $500 Billion Went Into AI, and Nobody Defined 'Good for Humanity'Host Nathan LabenzSam Altman says the OpenAI coach's superpower is emotional clarity — and that it will be one of the most critical skills in a post-AGI world.
1:51:39ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Sep 3, 2025PodcastA native ad engine for AI—and the questions it cannot dodgeHost Nathan LabenzRyan Hudson, who sold Honey to PayPal for $4 billion, joins Nathan Labenz to explain ZeroClick’s bet on paid inference-time ads, and the societal incentives he has not yet had to confront.
3:17:35ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Aug 13, 2025PodcastTen Thousand Comments and 76 Spare Gigawatts: Four Months Writing America's AI Action PlanHost Nathan LabenzDean W. Ball spent four months as the White House's senior AI adviser, then left as the Action Plan landed — and explains how a to-do list got written inside a building that cannot run ChatGPT.
1:14:05ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Aug 9, 2025PodcastSullivan boils US-China AI competition down to four buckets, four examples, and a path he calls boringHost Nathan LabenzThe former national security advisor treats transformative AI as a planning assumption, not a prophecy, and wants Washington to compete hard with Beijing without pretending a grand bargain will cure the rivalry.
1:45:00ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Aug 6, 2025PodcastAmerica Holds 45% of the World's Data Centers. Everyone Else Must Build, Buy, or AllyHost Nathan LabenzAnjney Midha of a16z maps what “sovereign AI” actually means for companies and for countries that will never own the talent, data, and compute frontier.
1:27:01ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Aug 2, 2025PodcastThe $16 Trillion Services Market Is Being Bought, Not Sold ToHost Nathan LabenzMarc Bhargava of General Catalyst explains how AI-enabled rollups turn low-margin service firms into compounding, software-like businesses.
1:56:16ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jul 22, 2025PodcastSB 813 Would Hand AI Safety Checks to Licensed Private Firms — If Government Can Watch the WatchersHost Nathan LabenzGillian Hadfield and Andrew Freedman want California to set AI safety outcomes, license competing certifiers, and give companies a rebuttable presumption in court if they pass.Load moreShowing 24 of 147