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Episode 234 · 16 August 2026 · 36 min

The Frontier Went Downloadable in Five Weeks

Dale Leszczynski and Nick McIntosh work through the five weeks that changed who controls frontier AI, and what it means for institutions that have spent three years assuming they'd always be renting. Nick argues the American strategy is the pharmaceutical playbook — expensive at home, high margins, a domestic market subsidising the frontier for everyone else — and that it only works when you have

Episode 5 · 8 March 2026 · 31 min

If AI Can do it, Why Teach it? The Education Question Nobody Wants to Answer

Dario Amodei has spent the past year writing essays about AI eliminating half of white-collar jobs. Then his company demonstrated it by having 16 AI agents build a C compiler for $20,000 — and published a legal plug-in that triggered a $1 trillion stock market sell-off the same week. Dale and Nick pull apart what actually happened, why the market panic reveals more about AI literacy than AI capabi

Episode 16 · 7 September 2025 · 30 min

Teachers, Students, and the Coming AI Winter: What Happens When the Boom Freezes?

Today’s episode covers how teachers are embracing AI, what students really think about AI vs teacher feedback, the latest AI news (from Anthropic to Apple), and why “nano banana” is more than just a meme. 00:00 — Opening Welcome + banter. Setting up today’s topics: teachers using AI, student trust in AI vs human feedback, rapid news, and the looming question — is an AI winter coming? 00:46 — Teach