Best Mark And Shashank Podcasts (2025)

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#98 Shashank Joshi: Why America Attacks Europe and Appeases Russia - And Why It’s Only Getting Worse 38:30

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➡️ Watch the full interview ad-free, join a community of geopolitics enthusiasts and gain access to exclusive content on PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/DecodingGeopolitics ➡️ Sign up to my free geopolitics newsletter: https://stationzero.substack.com/ This is a conversation with Shashank Joshi, the chief Defence Editor at the Economist and one of…

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#97 Steven Everts: Why Europe Is Stuck in a “Psychology of Weakness” - And How to Get Out 42:51

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➡️ Watch the full interview ad-free, join a community of geopolitics enthusiasts and gain access to exclusive content on PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/DecodingGeopolitics ➡️ Sign up to my free geopolitics newsletter: https://stationzero.substack.com/ This is a conversation with Steven Everts, a former EU diplomat and the director of the EU Insti…

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#96 Chun Han Wong: China Is Entering a New Phase - And Nobody Knows Where It Leads 41:19

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➡️ Watch the full interview ad-free, join a community of geopolitics enthusiasts and gain access to exclusive content on PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/DecodingGeopolitics ➡️ Sign up to my free geopolitics newsletter: https://stationzero.substack.com/ This is a conversation with Chun Han Wong, a reporter at the Wall Street Journal, author of the …

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#95 Linas Kojala: This Is How The Baltics Are Preparing For War with Russia 35:27

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➡️ Watch the full interview ad-free, join a community of geopolitics enthusiasts and gain access to exclusive content on PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/DecodingGeopolitics ➡️ Sign up to my free geopolitics newsletter: https://stationzero.substack.com/ This is a conversation with Linas Kojala - the director of the Geopolitics and Security Studies …

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#94 Gabrielus Landsbergis: Europe Is Being Humiliated By Everyone. This Might Be Our Last Warning. 28:53

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➡️ Watch the full interview ad-free, join a community of geopolitics enthusiasts and gain access to exclusive content on PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/DecodingGeopolitics ➡️ Sign up to my free geopolitics newsletter: https://stationzero.substack.com/ This is a conversation with Gabrielus Landsbergis. Gabrielus is a visiting fellow at the Stanfor…

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#93 Victor Davis Hanson: Trump Is West’s “Tragic Hero”. He's Bad News for Russia and a Hope for Europe. 37:00

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➡️ Watch the full interview ad-free, join a community of geopolitics enthusiasts and gain access to exclusive content on PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/DecodingGeopolitics ➡️ Sign up to my free geopolitics newsletter: https://stationzero.substack.com/ This is a conversation with Victor Davis Hanson - a classics professor, military historian, a Se…

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Gemini 3, GPT-5.1, Anti-Gravity & Yann LeCun’s Exit: Are We Near AGI or Just in a Bubble? 1:00:59

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Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@GenerativeAIMeetup Mark's Travel Vlog: https://www.youtube.com/@kumajourney11 Mark's Personal Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@markkuczmarski896 Attend a live event: https://genaimeetup.com/ Shashank Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shashu10/ In this episode of the Generative AI Meetup Podcas…

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#92 Francis Fukuyama: Why the “End of History” Never Happened - And Why Global Order Is Breaking Down 29:30

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➡️ Watch the full interview ad-free, join a community of geopolitics enthusiasts and gain access to exclusive content on PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/DecodingGeopolitics ➡️ Sign up to my free geopolitics newsletter: https://stationzero.substack.com/ This is a conversation with Francis Fukuyama, a professor and research fellow at Stanford and on…

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#91 Nigel Gould-Davies: Why Russia Is Running Out of Time in Ukraine 39:01

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➡️ Watch the full interview ad-free, join a community of geopolitics enthusiasts and gain access to exclusive content on PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/DecodingGeopolitics ➡️ Sign up to my free geopolitics newsletter: https://stationzero.substack.com/ You can access Nigel's analysis at: https://www.iiss.org/online-analysis/online-analysis/2025/10…

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#90 Marcel Dirsus: Why Dictators Always Seem Unstoppable - Until They’re Not 40:15

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➡️ Watch the full interview ad-free, join a community of geopolitics enthusiasts and gain access to exclusive content on PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/DecodingGeopolitics ➡️ Sign up to my free geopolitics newsletter: https://stationzero.substack.com/ This is a conversation with Marcel Dirsus, a political scientist whose research focuses on the f…

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Neo Arrives: Tele-Ops Today, AGI Tomorrow? 1:01:22

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From a tiny island in Seychelles to the heartland of Ohio, we unpack a wild week in AI. First up: 1X’s “Neo” humanoid—$20k to buy or $500/month to rent—promising laundry, dishes, and errands soon…with a lot of teleoperation today. We debate whether tele-ops is a feature (not a bug), who it employs, and how quickly autonomy could follow. Then we zoo…

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#89 Paul Scharre: The Real Life ‘Slaughterbots’: We're Building a Battlefield From Hell 36:22

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➡️ Watch the full interview ad-free, join a community of geopolitics enthusiasts and gain access to exclusive content on PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/DecodingGeopolitics ➡️ Sign up to my free geopolitics newsletter: https://stationzero.substack.com/ This is a conversation with Paul Scharre - a senior researcher at Center for Naval Analyses and …

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#88 John Bolton Warns: The System Is Breaking Down - And The World’s Out of Control 31:56

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➡️ Watch the full interview ad-free, join a community of geopolitics enthusiasts and gain access to exclusive content on PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/DecodingGeopolitics ➡️ Sign up to my free geopolitics newsletter: https://stationzero.substack.com/ This is a conversation with John Bolton - a former US ambassador to the United Nations and a for…

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Intelligence Brief: Why Taiwan Is Losing Its Only Way to Stop China 13:24

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#87 Ben Hodges: Russian Collapse Is Coming. They’re Bleeding Out Fast And Their Time Is Running Out 32:14

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Sora 2, Claude 4.5 Sonnet, and the AI Browser Wars: Is NVIDIA Unstoppable? 1:13:05

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By Mark and Shashank

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#86 Dan Wang: Will China Rule the 21st Century? 38:54

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➡️ Watch the full interview ad-free, join a community of geopolitics enthusiasts and gain access to exclusive content on PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/DecodingGeopolitics ➡️ Sign up to my free geopolitics newsletter: https://stationzero.substack.com/ Probably the biggest trend defining geopolitics today is the global competition between two supe…

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#85 Michael Hirsh: The Dark Logic Behind America’s New Foreign Policy 31:29

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➡️ Watch the full interview ad-free, join a community of geopolitics enthusiasts and gain access to exclusive content on PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/DecodingGeopolitics ➡️ Sign up to my free geopolitics newsletter: https://stationzero.substack.com/ This is a conversation with Michael Hirsh, columnist for Foreign Policy and one of the most expe…

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#84 Estonia’s Ex-Air Force Chief Jaak Tarien: This Is How You Really Deal With Russian Violations 34:57

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➡️ Watch the full interview ad-free, join a community of geopolitics enthusiasts and gain access to exclusive content on PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/DecodingGeopolitics ➡️ Sign up to my free geopolitics newsletter: https://stationzero.substack.com/ This is a conversation with Jaak Tarien about two pretty big things that happened recently - the…

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#83 Francis Farrell: The New Ukrainian Fighting Strategy That Could Decide War 36:23

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➡️ Watch the full interview ad-free, join a community of geopolitics enthusiasts and gain access to exclusive content on PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/DecodingGeopolitics ➡️ Sign up to my free geopolitics newsletter: https://stationzero.substack.com/ This is a conversation with Francis Farrell - a reporter for Kyiv Independent and someone who sp…

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Can AI reverse DNA Damage? 1:13:37

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Ask a question on our Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@GenerativeAIMeetup Mark's Travel Vlog: https://www.youtube.com/@kumajourney11 Mark's Personal Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@markkuczmarski896 Attend a live event: https://genaimeetup.com/ Shashank Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shashu10/ In this episode of the Gener…

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#82 Patrick McGee: How China Is Using American Companies to Trap the West 39:05

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➡️ Watch the full interview ad-free, join a community of geopolitics enthusiasts and gain access to exclusive content on PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/DecodingGeopolitics ➡️ Sign up to my free geopolitics newsletter: https://stationzero.substack.com/ This is a conversation with Patrick McGee, and it’s perhaps a bit of an unusual episode. Patrick…

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#81 Nick Hare: World's Top Forecaster Predicts How Will the Ukraine War End and If China Will Invade Taiwan 48:23

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➡️ Watch the full interview ad-free, join a community of geopolitics enthusiasts and gain access to exclusive content on PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/DecodingGeopolitics ➡️ Sign up to my free geopolitics newsletter: https://stationzero.substack.com/ This is a conversation with Nick Hare, a former defense intelligence analyst in the UK governmen…

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#80 Sergey Radchenko: What Really Drives Russia’s Foreign Policy – From the USSR to Putin 36:04

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➡️ Watch the full interview ad-free, join a community of geopolitics enthusiasts and gain access to exclusive content on PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/DecodingGeopolitics ➡️ Sign up to my free geopolitics newsletter: https://stationzero.substack.com/ This is a conversation with Sergey Radchenko. Sergey is one of the most insightful historians of…

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How to Vibe Code 57:44

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Ask a question on our Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@GenerativeAIMeetup Mark's Travel Vlog: https://www.youtube.com/@kumajourney11 Mark's Personal Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@markkuczmarski896 Attend a live event: https://genaimeetup.com/ Shashank Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shashu10/ Mark Linked in: https://www.…

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#79 Robert D. Kaplan: The Fall of the American Empire and The Coming Era of Chaos 24:29

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➡️ Watch the full interview ad-free, join a community of geopolitics enthusiasts and gain access to exclusive content on PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/DecodingGeopolitics ➡️ Sign up to my free geopolitics newsletter: https://stationzero.substack.com/ This is a conversation with Robert D Kaplan - a legendary journalist, academic, and one of the m…

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GPT-5: One Model to Rule Them All? Consolidation, Comparisons, and AI's Educational Edge 1:05:07

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Ask a question on our Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@GenerativeAIMeetup Mark's Travel Vlog: https://www.youtube.com/@kumajourney11 Mark's Personal Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@markkuczmarski896 Attend a live event: https://genaimeetup.com/ Shashank Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shashu10/ Mark Linked in: https://www.…

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#78 Greg Smith: Rise and Fall of Nations - How Superintelligence Will Reshape Geopolitics 39:25

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➡️ Watch the full interview ad-free, join a community of geopolitics enthusiasts and gain access to exclusive content on PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/DecodingGeopolitics ➡️ Sign up to my free geopolitics newsletter: https://stationzero.substack.com/ This is a conversation with Gregory Smith, a policy analyst at Rand focusing on the influence of…

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AI's Explosive Week: Claude 4.1, OpenAI's Open-Source Return, and Google's Mind-Blowing World Models 1:12:20

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Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@GenerativeAIMeetup Mark's Travel Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@kumajourney11 Mark's Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@markkuczmarski896 Gen AI Meetup: https://genaimeetup.com/ Shashank Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shashu10/ Mark Linked in: https://www.linkedin.com/in/markkuczmarski/ Join hosts…

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#77 Anne Applebaum: What Putin Really Wants & How Ukraine War Will End 34:54

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➡️ Watch the full interview ad-free, join a community of geopolitics enthusiasts and gain access to exclusive content on PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/DecodingGeopolitics ➡️ Sign up to my free geopolitics newsletter: https://stationzero.substack.com/ This is a conversation with Anne Applebaum - a historian focusing on Russia and Eastern Europe a…

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#76 Jakub Jajcay: NATO Soldier Who Fought in Ukraine on Why This War Isn’t What You Think 33:58

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➡️ Watch the full interview ad-free, join a community of geopolitics enthusiasts and gain access to exclusive content on PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/DecodingGeopolitics ➡️ Sign up to my free geopolitics newsletter: https://stationzero.substack.com/ This is a conversation with Jakub Jajcay. Jakub has a very unique experience and perspective. He…

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#75 John Dotson: Why Taiwan Is Preparing for the Wrong Kind of War 50:11

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➡️ Watch the full interview ad-free, join a community of geopolitics enthusiasts and gain access to exclusive content on PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/DecodingGeopolitics➡️ Sign up to my free geopolitics newsletter: https://stationzero.substack.com/ This is a conversation with John Dotson, director of the Global Taiwan Initiative, former U.S. Na…

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#74 Ali Ansari: Iran Is Collapsing from Within: This Is What Comes Next 33:22

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➡️ Watch the full interview ad-free, join a community of geopolitics enthusiasts and gain access to exclusive content on PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/DecodingGeopolitics➡️ Sign up to my free geopolitics newsletter: https://stationzero.substack.com/ This is a conversation with Ali Ansari, a professor and a founding director of the Institute for …

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#73 Szabolcs Panyi: Why Viktor Orban's Era Is Coming To An End 32:57

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Grok 4, AI Browsers, and Mark Zuckerbergs 6GW Data Center 1:29:27

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Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@GenerativeAIMeetup Mark's Travel Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@kumajourney11 Mark's Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@markkuczmarski896 Gen AI Meetup: https://genaimeetup.com/ Shashank Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shashu10/ Mark Linked in: https://www.linkedin.com/in/markkuczmarski/…

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#72 Fabian Hoffmann: "Russia Is Stockpiling Missiles For War With NATO. Europe Is Shockingly Unprepared" 44:09

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#71 Sir Lawrence Freedman: How the War in Ukraine Will End 33:36

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Intelligence Brief: So, Has the Iran-Israel War Actually Achieved Anything? 14:22

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Most Replayed Moment: Sarah Paine - What Is China's Grand Strategy? 11:31

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Watch the full episode: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4vQiQmqq38Ymia0LYZiAzs?si=qkL_PYGkTvSYzVz98wZTNw ➡️ Sign up to my free geopolitics newsletter: https://stationzero.substack.com/ Sarah Paine discussess what is actually China's Grand Strategy - and what it means for the rest of the world.

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#70 George Barros: The Real Problem Behind Russia’s 1 Million Casualties - And How It Changes the War 44:08

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Why the US economy will crash 1:18:03

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Listen to the podcast: https://podcast.genaimeetup.com/ Join the Meetup: https://genaimeetup.com/ Subscribe to Mark's youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@UCqLp0T6WBwxmuJdmo4mUW5A Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@GenerativeAIMeetupBy Mark and Shashank

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Sarah Paine Interview Part 2: Avoiding WW3, War Over Taiwan & Future of Europe 32:22

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#69 Ed Arnold: What No One Dared To Say At The NATO Summit 27:23

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#68 Zineb Riboua: Iran’s Project Has Already Collapsed. It’s Weaker Than Ever and It’s Gonna Get Worse 37:17

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#67 Christopher Kirchhoff: How Pentagon Forgot How To Innovate & What War Will Look Like in 2035 36:36

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Intelligence Brief: Is China Running out of Time To Invade Taiwan? 9:22

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The theory goes: China’s in decline, so if it ever wants to invade Taiwan, it has to do it soon. But what if that theory depends on the wrong assumption? And who does Beijing actually see as the declining power?

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#66 Elizabeth Wishnick: The Limits of Russia-China “No-Limit Friendship” & Why 'Reverse Nixon' Will Fail 30:22

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Intelligence Brief: The End of the Human Soldiers Is Closer Than You Think 12:33

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The age of human infantry is slowly inching to its end. And it's closer than you might think. Ukraine is already running drone-only assaults. Commercial sector is quickly ramping up development and production of sophisticated humanoid robots. And when the next major war breaks out, the first thing to disappear might be human soldiers on the front l…

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#65 Seth Jones: Why The West Is Losing The Global Shadow War with Iran, Russia and China 32:52

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How Merlin AI went from zero to over 2 million users 1:13:13

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Try Merlin: https://www.getmerlin.in/ X: https://x.com/MerlinAIByFoyer Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@merlin_ai/videos South Bay Gen AI: https://genaimeetup.com/ Mark's Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@markkuczmarski896By Mark and Shashank