This episode unpacks the latest power plays in global AI: China’s push for international governance, America’s race to deregulate, and the human contest with advanced AI. Dive deep into the week’s top stories as Nova and Sam reveal what these changes mean and who stands to benefit.

Nova Drake and Sam Guss break down the week’s most pressing AI stories—from OpenAI’s sudden code interpreter lock-out and China’s rollout of emotion-recognition surveillance to the global surge in AI-powered agriculture. The hosts question who really controls intelligence, explore the open-vs-closed AI trust gap, and reveal how these debates reshape the balance between innovation, privacy, and power.

Niantic's silent exit from the AI stage exposes deeper cracks in the industry’s façade of optimism. Nova Drake and Sam Guss break down how a culture of exploited trust, mirrored by OpenAI, Meta, and Google, signals an AI trust recession—and why transparency must be the new normal.

From AI's early promise to Niantic's silent retreat, Nova and Sam examine how trust in AI unraveled. This episode reveals industry turning points, overlooked narratives, and the hard path to regaining public faith in artificial intelligence.

This episode decodes the White House's bold new AI Action Plan, investigates urgent warnings about AI-driven financial fraud, and spotlights breakthrough moves in AI-powered commerce, infrastructure, and research. Nova and Sam connect these headlines to deeper trends and real-world impacts.

A rapid-fire breakdown of how new AI features, seismic breakthroughs, and global regulations reveal deeper battles over who controls the future of artificial intelligence. Nova and Sam cut through the headlines to uncover the power dynamics shaping everything from Musk’s Grok to India's regulatory gambits—and why transparency is the new front line.

This episode dives into the latest AI news—from OpenAI’s sudden tool suspension to China’s emotion-tracking surveillance and the Pentagon’s battlefield neurotech. Nova and Sam unpack how control, safety, and openness are shaping the future of artificial intelligence, and what’s at stake for society.

This episode explores how open-source AI like Google’s MedGemma is changing global healthcare, the ripple effects of Microsoft’s AI-driven job cuts, and the rapid integration of AI tools in hospitals. Nova and Sam unpack the promises and pitfalls reshaping the future of work and medicine.

From striking SAG-AFTRA contracts to U.S.-China AI tensions and Nvidia’s record valuation, this episode unpacks how AI is redrawing boundaries in entertainment, geopolitics, and finance. Nova and Sam break down the headlines, explore ripple effects, and spotlight the people shaping tomorrow’s AI landscape.

From Wimbledon’s digital umpires to AI journalists in Belgium, Nova and Sam explore how artificial intelligence is stepping into the spotlight—and what’s lost and gained when machines replace humans in public roles. This episode asks: Can we trust the call when the voice is no longer human?