Xbox Labs, Animatronic Birds, IoT Device Warfare, Reflection, Decart, CharacterAI
John Coogan and Jordi Hays discuss corporate espionage at OpenAI, smart device surveillance from LG TVs, and consumer ad-targeting privacy debates before ranking smart home ecosystems. They interview startup founders, operators, and academics across fintech, retail, robotics, and aerospace, covering topics from Erewhon's disciplined growth model and Icon's 3D-printed housing economics to AI in mathematical discovery and the race between Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos to vertically integrate space.
- Frontier AI models from labs like OpenAI and Anthropic excel at solving well-posed problems and checking proofs, but they lack the judgment to decide which questions matter. Read →
- Erewhon tethers store expansion to a single downtown Los Angeles commissary kitchen, refusing to open stores farther than their daily delivery trucks can drive. Read →
- Ad networks do not need to stream ambient phone microphone audio; they match purchase receipts, Instagram social graphs, and shared GPS coordinates. Read →