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Useless Debates Podcasts
A daily news analysis show on all things artificial intelligence. NLW looks at AI from multiple angles, from the explosion of creativity brought on by new tools like Midjourney and ChatGPT to the potential disruptions to work and industries as we know them to the great philosophical, ethical and practical questions of advanced general intelligence, alignment and x-risk.
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Trapped History is a history reboot for everyone. It tells the stories of the forgotten – of the hidden heroes ignored by the history we were taught in school. We take our name from something the writer James Baldwin said: “People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.” We want to break people free from those stories. Whether it is women's history, Black history, military history, cultural history – all of this, hidden or forgotten, is also trapped history. And so we give you ...
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Claude Cowork Is Claude Code for Everyone Else
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Anthropic’s Claude Cowork reframes what AI assistance looks like for non-technical users, turning what began as a developer CLI into a task-oriented, agentic coworker that can actually do work across local files, browsers, and connected tools. This episode breaks down why UI shifts like this matter, how Cowork changes who can benefit from agentic A…
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Apple’s decision to have Google power the next generation of Apple Intelligence is the clearest signal yet that the foundation model race is entering a new phase defined by alliances, tradeoffs, and positioning rather than raw model capability. This episode looks at how Apple, Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta are each staking out roles across as…
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It's Complicated: Sathnam Sanghera on India's Controversial Independence Leader
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Mahatma Gandhi is a worldwide hero. Nehru led India through turmoil. But who in the West knows of Subhas Chandra Bose? Well, perhaps we should learn more about him because he is the man of the moment in Modi’s 21st century India. Empireland’s Sathnam Sanghera joins us today to try to understand someone who lived and died by the maxim ‘my enemy’s en…
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In this Long Read Sunday episode, a deep exploration of one of the hardest questions around AI: whether human work still matters as machines grow more capable. The episode examines competing visions of an AI-driven future, from worlds where labor disappears to ones where new forms of work, value, and identity emerge. Moving from inequality and capi…
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Building a Personal AI Model Map [AI Operators Bonus Episode]
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This bonus AI Operators episode experiments with a skills-focused format inside the AI Daily Brief community, using the New Year’s AI resolution program as a live case study. The episode walks through week two’s “model mapping” challenge and why building a personal mental map of which models and tools excel at which tasks can be one of the biggest …
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What Happens When AI Obliterates Your Business Model?
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Even when a product is growing and customers are happy, AI can still undercut the core economics that made the business viable in the first place. This episode looks at how AI collapses defensibility by attacking pricing power, distribution, and differentiation simultaneously, why “great execution” is no longer a sufficient moat, and what kinds of …
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Today’s episode breaks down OpenAI’s launch of ChatGPT Health and what it reveals about how people are already using AI to navigate symptoms, medical information, insurance, and gaps in access across a strained healthcare system. The episode examines the usage data behind the launch, the new health-specific features and privacy architecture, early …
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Why Everyone Is Obsessed With Claude Code
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Claude Code has triggered something that feels bigger than a normal model release. Power users across AI and software are describing a clear inflection point, where autonomous coding crosses an invisible threshold means harder problems suddenly become tractable, entire workflows collapse into prompts, and delegation to AI feels genuinely competent …
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AI at CES is Not Just Cheesy Gadgets Anymore
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CES 2026 marks a clear turning point for AI, shifting away from novelty gadgets and toward serious, category-defining products from the industry’s biggest players. This episode breaks down how Nvidia, AMD, Google, Amazon, and Samsung used CES as a roadmap for where AI infrastructure, devices, and assistants are headed next—and why the conference no…
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Why “context graphs” have suddenly become one of the most important ideas in enterprise AI, and what they reveal about why agents fail or succeed at real work. This episode explains the core idea behind context graphs, how they differ from systems of record and knowledge graphs, and why capturing decision traces — the why, not just the what — may b…
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Hall of Fame: Britain's First Black Sports Star
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After demolishing and rebuilding Halls of Fame through the ages, our guest Habib Hajallie has chosen his own nominee for the Trapped History Hall of Fame: the great Bill Richmond, an African-American born into slavery who by the early 19th century had become Britain's first Black sports star. Bill was the terror of the boxing ring, winning 17 of 19…
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Most AI discussions focus on speed and automation, but a deeper question is scale. In this episode, NLW reads and analyzes essays by Ivan Zhao and Aaron Levie that argue AI agents change the limits of knowledge work itself—allowing organizations to operate beyond human rhythms, meetings, and bottlenecks. The conversation explores why this transitio…
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What Manus and Groq Acquisitions Tell Us About AI
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Two blockbuster deals over the holidays quietly marked the real start of the AI agent era, revealing where competition is actually heading in 2026. This episode breaks down why Meta’s acquisition of Manus signals a shift toward agents as distribution, not features, and why Nvidia’s $20B Groq deal is really about owning the future of inference as wo…
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This final episode of 2025 lays out a practical, self-guided 10-week plan to build real AI fluency by actually doing the work. Each weekend focuses on a concrete project—from model mapping and deep research to data analysis, visual reasoning, automations, context engineering, and building a real AI-powered app—designed to be modular, completable in…
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Part two of the AI predictions series looks ahead to how competition, markets, and politics could shape AI in 2026, from the durability of coding model leaders and the future of Grok and Meta to Chinese open-weight models, agent labs versus model labs, M&A, IPO timing, and whether Alphabet becomes the world’s biggest company. The episode also digs …
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Part one of a two-episode forecast on AI in 2026, focusing on models and capabilities, release strategy shifts, multimodal races, memory, and the evolution from assistance to agent management. It also explores how vibe coding expands beyond engineering, why bespoke personal software grows, and how these trends start reshaping enterprise adoption ne…
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Halls of Fame: Art and Celebrity from Ludwig I to Donald Trump
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We’re proud of our own Hall of Fame here at Trapped History, but what are they and where did the idea come from? As we celebrate our three-year anniversary, join Oswin, Carla and MK for a very special episode in the company of award-winning British artist Habib Hajallie. His very own artwork, A British Hall of Fame, speaks to the past, present and …
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Why 2026 Is the Year of the AI Builder with Lovable CEO Anton Osika
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Lovable CEO Anton Osika joins the AI Daily Brief to unpack how AI-assisted coding evolved from early GitHub experiments into load-bearing infrastructure inside companies, why 2025 marked the inflection point for vibe coding, and why 2026 will belong to builders who can think, plan, and ship with AI end to end. The conversation covers the shift from…
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The 5 Most Impactful AI Model Releases of 2025
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A ranked countdown of the AI model releases that defined 2025, shaped how people actually use these systems, and reset expectations across the industry. The episode includes a few notable omissions, some controversial placements, and plenty to argue about—by design. Brought to you by: KPMG – Discover how AI is transforming possibility into reality.…
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Pilgrimage: A Christmas Trapped History Special
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This holiday season, we've got a meditative and, we hope, nourishing bonus for you – as Michaela Strachan remembers taking part in the BBC series "Pilgrimage". She is also remembering her friends and family and on the hike through the Welsh hills, she was walking hand-in-hand with grief. But the healing power of nature is truly something to behold.…
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A fast-paced walkthrough of 51 charts that capture where artificial intelligence stands right now and what matters most heading into 2026, spanning capabilities, infrastructure, markets, economics, vibe coding, jobs, and politics. The episode connects model performance, cost curves, hyperscaler spending, enterprise adoption, ROI data, coding agents…
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How AI Starts Doing the Work in 2026 With Anthropic CPO Mike Krieger
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Anthropic CPO and Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger joins the AI Daily Brief to talk about the rise of vibe coding, why coding agents quietly became the breakout AI use case of 2025, and how enterprises are beginning to move from chatbots to real workload-taking agents. The conversation explores how tools like Claude Code escaped the developer box,…
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From DeepSeek’s shockwave debut and the trillion-dollar AI infrastructure buildout to the bubble debate, the MIT enterprise adoption backlash, the AI talent wars, and the rise of reasoning, agents, and vibe coding, this episode walks through the 10 defining AI stories that shaped 2025 and set the trajectory for 2026, including why agent infrastruct…
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Hall of Fame: Ending Animal Cruelty one Bear at a Time
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Michaela Strachan's nominee for the Trapped History Hall of Fame is one of the most selfless people we have heard of – Jill Robinson, who has dedicated her life to saving bears from the cruelty of the bear bile industry in China and across Asia. It is a story rooted in horror but also in love. And Jill's life bears witness to our capacity for both.…
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This Sunday long-read episode digs into a16z’s newly released Big Ideas for 2026, scoring the most interesting predictions across likelihood, real-world value, and pure X-factor. From taming multimodal data chaos and agent-native infrastructure to voice agents, multiplayer vertical AI, AI-native universities, and the industrial renaissance powered …
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A rapid-fire tour through a packed week in AI, from Google’s surprise Gemini 3 Flash release and its implications for the model Pareto frontier, to bombshell OpenAI fundraising talks involving Amazon and trillion-dollar valuations, major AI leadership and org changes at Amazon, early signs of stress in data-center financing markets, ChatGPT’s push …
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82% of Companies Are Seeing Positive AI ROI
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A first readout of the AI ROI Benchmarking Study shows that real business value from AI is no longer theoretical: 82 percent of organizations report positive ROI today, 37 percent report significant or transformational impact, and nearly all expect gains to accelerate over the next year. Drawing on more than 1,200 respondents and 5,000 use cases, t…
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4 Reasons to Use GPT Image 1.5 Over Nano Banana Pro
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OpenAI has released GPT Image 1.5 inside ChatGPT, and early reactions suggest the gap with Nano Banana Pro has meaningfully narrowed. This episode walks through first impressions from head-to-head tests, benchmark reactions, and creator feedback, then digs into four specific areas where GPT Image 1.5 may be the better choice right now, from hyper-p…
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