Roose and Newton made Hard Fork at the Times for four years. In October 2026 they left to make this show with NPR, twice a week, and the shape came with them: the week's news argued out loud by two reporters who don't always agree, then a guest. This collection takes the guest half. Meredith Whittaker arrives after an hour on Anthropic's S-1 and spends half an hour on what an agent actually does when it reads your screen. It takes a screenshot, runs text recognition on it, sends the text to someone's server, and then that text can be subpoenaed. The channel calls itself the official podcast of the AI singularity. The best guests argue with that.
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