
News Club
Hosted by Claire Kimball and Kate Watson and Eliza Harvey and Andrew Williams · The Squiz
4.6from 9 ratings
- 515
- Episodes
- 194
- Transcribed
- 9
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2019
- First episode
- 152K
- YouTube views
About News Club
News Club is the place to go for conversations about the news. Agenda-free and hosted by friends - Claire Kimball and Kate Watson - we are here for you - making it easy to keep across the big issues and get ahead of what's coming up.
- Publisher
- The Squiz
- Category
- news
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 20 Aug 2019
- Latest episode
- 18 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
194 of 515 episodes have a transcript.

18 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
How scared should we be about AI? And the collapse of Cue

11 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
A wild week for One Nation, and a new world map

4 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
The push to switch off the algorithm, and the Lindsay Clancy trial
Inside a recent episode

How scared should we be about AI? And the collapse of Cue
Published 18 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] The point of this is that, as you alluded to there, it was an autonomous hack. The platform Hugging Face had to rebuild a bunch of its infrastructure, which just shows that it was damaged by this. That was expensive. Yeah. And so Hugging Face is one of a handful of incidents that's actually been reported by OpenAI and Anthropic as well. So around the same time, a version of one of Anthropic's AI models undergoing testing went rogue and attempted to persuade a real human to approve the insertion of malware. And so malware is just, you know, software sort of acting not for good purposes. So when you think of the risks, they start to expand. […]
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- YouTube views
- 152,011
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.6 / 5
- 9 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 81 / 100
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- Quality
- 95
- Social presence
- 97
- YouTube
- 86
- Engagement
- 32
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Who hosts News Club?
Claire Kimball and Kate Watson and Eliza Harvey and Andrew Williams host the show. Published by The Squiz.
How often do new episodes come out?
The show publishes daily, based on its RSS feed.
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