From AI building software in an hour to AI agents discovering new materials — this episode looks at what large models can now actually do, and where they go wrong: forged cartoon signatures, a diary read by police, a hacked Mac Mini. Then security and privacy news from Texas to Denmark, developer tooling updates, and the industry moves shaping robotics and chips.
4 Oct 2026
1004 | Broken Cultures, Bending Light, and Bin Sensors
A rapid tour of this week's tech and society news: AI safety split, agents' failures, GPU and WebP engineering wins, free-culture fights over Flock and 3D scans, plus niche tools and games.
3 Oct 2026
1003 | Harnesses, Satellites and Stratego Kings
From SaaS becoming harnesses around models to TPUs in orbit, this episode looks at how AI is reshaping software, hardware, and privacy — plus local inference engines, agent databases, a Stratego-playing AI, exoplanet imaging, Zig's new release, a Gleam blogging pipeline, von Neumann lore, and museum visits.
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