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Tech & AI
New tools, new models, big claims. What's actually happening in tech and what it means.
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How recommendation algorithms decide what billions of people see
The feeds that shape modern attention are driven by recommendation engines optimizing for engagement. Explore how these systems actually work, what they optimize for, and the consequences of handing curation to machines.
12 min
AI winters: the booms and busts before this one
Artificial intelligence has surged and collapsed several times since the 1950s, each hype cycle followed by a funding drought. Explore the history of AI winters and the case for and against 'this time is different.'
12 min
The energy and water cost of AI
Training and running AI models consumes staggering amounts of electricity and water. Explore how the data-center boom is straining power grids and local resources, and the scramble to power the AI era.
12 min
The machine that makes every advanced chip
Nearly all cutting-edge chips depend on a single company's extreme-ultraviolet lithography machines — arguably the most complex devices humanity builds. Explore how ASML's tools work and why they sit at the center of global tech power.
12 min
Why AI Hallucinates
An exploration of the statistical mechanisms behind AI falsehoods, why current training rewards guessing, and the structural challenges of achieving factual accuracy in large language models.
12 min
How large language models actually work
Beyond the cliché that they just predict the next word: explore what transformers and attention really do, how training turns text into capability, and where the surprising behavior comes from.
12 min
Japan uses AI matchmaking to raise birth rates
Local governments are launching state-sponsored AI matchmaking and dating subsidies to combat a record-low birth rate. This look at the 'loneliness economy' explores how the state is attempting to engineer romance where tradition has failed.
12 min
The Cold War Tech Saving the AI Revolution
Engineers are repurposing nuclear submarine cooling and Soviet-era grid isolators to prevent modern AI data centers from melting down the power grid.
12 min
About Tech & AI
What's actually happening in technology, without the hype cycle. The stream covers how large language models really work, why AI hallucinates, the single company whose machines make every advanced chip possible, the energy and water bill behind the AI boom, and the booms and busts of the AI winters that came before this one. When a new model or a big claim lands, fresh episodes follow — and anything you're wondering about can become one too.
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