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In this episode, Adario Strange speaks with Sean Neville, the co-founder of Circle.com (the company behind the USDC stablecoin) and founder of Catena Labs, a bold new startup helping AI agents use crypto to work for humans.

Neville takes us from his early tech days at Macromedia to the birth of Circle, sharing how USDC went from an experiment to a cornerstone of the global crypto economy. We dig into the big questions: What is a st...

Google and Yandex veteran Anna Veronika Dorogush joins Adario Strange to explain why her growing London-based startup, Recraft AI, is able to compete with tech giants like Adobe, how experienced designers can painlessly integrate AI into their workflow, and where AI design tools are most likely to dominate soon.

Then the two explore the world of European tech startups, a rapidly unfolding landscape of newcomers securing tens of mil...

AI security expert Christopher "Tito" Sestito, the CEO and co-founder of Austin-based Hidden Layer, joins Adario Strange to uncover what's really happening in the world of AI when is comes to fighting hackers, malicious code, and threats from other AI systems.  

Sestito has been working within the realm of cybersecurity for many years, but AI security presents new challenges, and we get into them, as well as discuss the threat of A...

While OpenAI, Meta, Google, and others dominate the AI news, there's a rapidly growing wild west of open source AI software and developers also pushing the technology boundaries forward, sometimes in unexpected ways. 

Manos Koukoumidis, the founder of Oumi.AI and a veteran of Microsoft, Meta, and Google, joins Adario Strange to explain how he's working to organize the open source AI community to help create a safer AI future, wheth...

In this episode, Adario Strange is joined by veteran marketing and public relations expert Aaron Kwittken, the founder of Prophet, a new tool that helps brands harness the power of AI to market to the public more efficiently. Kwittken isn't a newcomer to using data to leverage brands to shape their message, but the power of AI is taking his efforts to new levels, and he explains how the industry will impact everyone. Then the two d...

In this episode, computer scientist and author Andriy Burkov joins Adario Strange to unpack the secrets of AI that many have overlooked. In his new book, "The Hundred-Page Language Models Book," Andriy breaks down what AI actually means, how the space has developed over the last few decades, and how even non-AI engineers can begin to understand even the most complicated aspects of AI.

Later, the two attack the topic of AI moving i...

In this episode, we are joined by the fascinating Andrew Mayne. A former OpenAI team member, he has also hosted documentaries on the Discovery Channel and worked with some of the world's most famous illusionists. 

Along with host Adario Strange, the two explore what China's DeepSeek AI effort really means to Silicon Valley tech giants, whether OpenAI, Meta, and Google can catch up, and if this major development will continue to imp...

The next phase of artificial intelligence is agents and robotics, but in the real of tangible scientific and medical breakthroughs, quantum computing combined with AI is where the future is headed. To introduce us to this new frontier of super-powered AI, SandboxAQ vice president Fernando Dominguez Pinuaga joins the pod to explain the possibilities.

From new medicines and treatments for disease, to improving defenses against AI-en...

The year 2025 is guaranteed to reveal new surprises and advancements in artificial intelligence, but what about the human hands guiding that progress? Can we trust ourselves to wield this new power responsibly? Dr. Christopher DiCarlo, the author of "Building A God: The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence and the Race to Control It" has a few answers to these important questions. 

Host Adario Strange and Dr. DiCarlo investigate the c...

Artificial intelligence can optimize our work and social lives, but without security measures, it can potentially destroy both. Joining Adario Strange is Ian Swanson, the founder and CEO of Protect AI, a company devoted to helping major companies and individuals alike guard against malicious AI models and other nefarious exploits attempting to leverage AI against its users. After testifying in front of the U.S. Homeland Security co...

The recent election season proved that many traditional mainstream media businesses have lost their way, as social media and independent creators suck up much of the attention and revenue. The rise of generative artificial intelligence would seem to threaten to deepen the news media's woes, but Nota CEO Josh Brandau has a different vision for how journalists and publishers can harness the power of AI to evolve into the next era of ...

Hugging Face is one of the leading names in artificial intelligence and now they've launched an initiative to harness AI in the medical field. Leading these efforts is Dr. Cyril Zakka, a fellow at Stanford's Hiesinger Lab where a team of researchers have been creating new intersections between AI, cardiac imaging, and robotic surgery. 

Dr. Zakka joins Adario Strange to explain his childhood experience as a coder and later his entr...

In this episode, Adario Strange, who began researching and testing smart glasses over a decade ago, and Farbod Shakouri, the UK-based founder of AI smart glasses startup Phantom, join forces to break down the recent past, present, and near future of the emerging market of smart glasses powered by artificial intelligence.
 
The two delve into the many AI smart glasses offerings from Snapchat, Meta, Amazon, as well as the newest entr...

This episode brings us to the often-overlooked tech startup region of Western Europe, where Letz.ai founder Misch Strotz is building an AI social network that puts the power of creating AI models in the hands of mainstream users. Bootstrapped from Luxembourg, Misch and his team have leveraged AI open source tools to create a commercial business that has already gone viral for its ability to perfectly put people, animals, and produc...

Aside from AI engineers, the next best guess at how AI will impact humanity will likely come from science fiction authors. Alex Shvartsman is tackling this mission through an elite collection of science fiction short stories called "The Digital Aesthete: Human Musings on the Intersection of Art and AI." 

Among the science fiction masters included in the book are Ken Liu, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Marina and Sergey Dyachenko, Auston Habe...

Duncan Eddy has spent years working in the realm of space satellite communications, and now he's directing his talents toward AI as the Executive Director of the Stanford Center for AI Safety. In this episode, Duncan speaks with Adario Strange to explain why the commercialization of space will continue to fuel our explorations into the Moon and Mars, and how AI-powered robots may be the primary method for deep space exploration in ...