Best Andrew Sharp And Ben Thompson Podcasts (2025)

Broadway represents some of the best and most exciting of what American theater has to offer. But for many people, it’s inaccessible. Whether because of geography, cost or other considerations, most people will never sit in a Broadway theater and experience a play or a musical in person. For years, cast recordings have offered a way to experience B…

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The Time of Monsters with Jeet Heer: Revolutionary Violence and One Battle After Another w/ David Klion 50:21

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Few movies have ever been as timely as Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest film One Battle After Another, which traces the battle between revolutionary resistance groups trying to protect immigrants and an authoritarian government run by racists. There are scenes from the movie that feel like they are being played out right now on the streets of Chicago,…

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Otherppl with Brad Listi: What Does It Mean to Be a Minor Writer? 1:07:59

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What does it mean to be a “minor writer” in a world obsessed with major success? In this episode, I talk with ⁠Jeff Alessandrelli⁠ about his essay ⁠'Minor, Minor, Minor Writer,'⁠ and what it has to say about literary ambition, obscurity, ego, and the quiet reality behind most books. We discuss BookScan recon, indie lit fame, the collapse of serious…

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In Moscow's Shadows: In Moscow's Shadows 220: Power Politics in the FSB and a new 'Most Dangerous Man in Russia'? 44:55

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Time to look at the spooks again. It seems that the FSB's Military Counterintelligence Department (in other words, the anti-coup squad) may be getting a new head. What does this mean for the internal struggles to replace the ailing current director, Bortnikov? Is 'crown prince' Sergei Korolev finally going to take his place? And what might this mea…

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This Week in Virology: TWiV 1261: Must-see TVs 1:50:19

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TWiV covers a MacArthur Award for Jason McLellan, 2025 Nobel Prizes in Physiology or Medicine, first treatment for Huntington’s Disease, structure of an archael dsDNA virus from head to tail, and discovery of a Legionella phage that explains a determinant of human disease. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Jolene Ramsey Subscribe (free): Ap…

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Letters from an American: October 10, 2025 10:05

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Get full access to Letters from an American at heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/subscribeBy Heather Cox Richardson

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Making Sense with Sam Harris: #438 — “More From Sam”: Israel-Hamas Deal, Qatari Air Force Base, Trump, Charlie Kirk, Ezra Klein, & Rapid Fire Questions 27:44

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In this latest episode of the “More From Sam” series, Sam and Jaron talk about current events and answer some of the questions you all submitted on Substack. They discuss the Israel-Hamas peace deal, the plans to build a Qatari air force facility in Idaho, why Trump lies about golf, the assassination of Charlie Kirk and the reactions from the Left …

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Outside Lands San Francisco: 448R: Presidential Visits to the Outside Lands 58:52

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Attention was always lavished on US Presidents when they visited Downtown SF. But it was even more notable when they traveled to the West Side. Former WNP Board President, Arnold Woods, shared his research for an article he penned on presidential visits to the Outside Lands in this classic episode rebroadcast.…

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Bannon`s War Room: Episode 4845: Hegseth Deal With Qatar

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Episode 4845: Hegseth Deal With QatarBy WarRoom.org

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Bannon`s War Room: Episode 4844: Rise Of The Economic Trade War With China

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Episode 4844: Rise Of The Economic Trade War With ChinaBy WarRoom.org

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The Gist: SCOTUS’s Shadow Docket, Calibrated + Steven Vladeck 35:22

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Mike previews the new Supreme Court term: Colorado’s conversion-therapy ban, transgender athlete cases out of Idaho and West Virginia, a Louisiana Voting Rights Act fight, and a Rastafarian grooming claim, then dials in the panic meter on the “shadow docket”: what it is, why Trump’s emergency-order wins look so lopsided, and where concern beats cat…

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Neon Liberalism: Liberalism 101: Liberalism and Limited Government 1:22:43

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If you remember anything from high school civics, it's the phrases "separation of powers" and "checks and balances." That separation and those checks are under the greatest attack we've seen in our lifetimes. But why does that matter? How does it affect the character of society? Join Samantha Hancox-Li and guest Robert Black, constitutional scholar…

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Macro N Cheese: Ep 349 - Cultural Syndromes of Capitalism with David Fields 57:59

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**This week’s Macro ‘n Chill gathering should be a lively one. Whenever we dive into the topic of cultural hegemony, it sparks a thoughtful discussion. Join us on Tuesday, October 14, 8pm ET/5pm PT. Click here to register This is the 349th episode of our podcast. Just sayin’. Steve’s guest is David Fields, talking about his recent article, The Cult…

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The Ezra Klein Show: Jon Favreau on Where the Democrats Went Right 1:08:48

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The government shutdown is the Democrats’ first big strategic bet of Trump’s term. Not everyone in the party agreed that shutting down the government was the right move or that health care was the right message. So why did they ultimately pick this fight? What are the risks? And what could Democrats learn here that might help shape their strategy f…

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The Good Fight: Oren Harman on the Magic of Metamorphosis 1:00:49

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To listen to the full episode and support the podcast, please subscribe today! Oren Harman is a Senior Fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute and teaches at the Graduate Program in Science Technology and Society at Bar Ilan University. His latest book is Metamorphosis: A Natural and Human History. In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and O…

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The Nation Podcasts: It’s Never A Strategy To Remain Quiet with Nick Tilsen | A People's Climate 29:08

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What does true climate justice look like when it’s rooted in sovereignty, resistance, and liberation? In this powerful episode of A People’s Climate, Shilpi Chhotray sits down with Nick Tilsen—Oglala Lakota land defender and CEO of NDN Collective—to unpack the meaning of LandBack, the historic fight for the Black Hills, the release of political pri…

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Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts: Trump’s Insurrection Claims Could Lead American Democracy Off a Cliff 56:19

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Troops on America's streets, threats of “plenary powers”, and extrajudicial killings in the Caribbean have prompted members of the military past and present to say that we are in the biggest civil/military crisis since the Civil War. On this week's Amicus, how SCOTUS' immunity decision in Trump v. United States helped deliver us to this scary momen…

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The Daily: ‘The Pyrotechnics of Puzzles:’ How NYT Games Are Made 30:18

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In a special, subscriber-only episode of “The Daily,” a team of editors from The New York Times’s Games department takes us behind the scenes. Wyna Liu, Joel Fagliano and Sam Ezersky discuss what goes into making games such as the Mini Crossword, Connections, the Spelling Bee and more. Guests: Wyna Liu, who writes the daily Connections puzzle and i…

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This Week in Virology: TWiV 1260: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin 48:36

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In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin with Vincent Racaniello chat about Jane Goodall’s death and the Nobel prize in Physiology/Medicine for understanding immune system control before Dr. Griffin deep dives into recent statistics on the measles epidemic, RSV, influenza and SARS-CoV-2 infections, the Wasterwater Scan dashboard, Johns Hopkins me…

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Bannon`s War Room: Episode 4843: Breaking Up The Left Wing Billionaire Cartel; Live Coverage From Wildwoods Rally

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Episode 4843: Breaking Up The Left Wing Billionaire Cartel; Live Coverage From Wildwoods RallyBy WarRoom.org

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The Gist: Funny You Should Mention: Steph Tolev 1:07:34

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Season 3 of Funny You Should Mention begins with the “Filth Queen” herself Steph Tolev to explore why gross can be smart, how crowd work goes viral, Bill Burr’s boost to her career, and the Canadian comedy grind. Big laughs, sharp ideas, adult themes. We also get into slapstick dummies, family lore, and why Boston brings the best chaos. Come for th…

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Jacobin Radio: Dig: From Fiscal Austerity to Monetary Abundance w/ Melinda Cooper 2:18:18

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Featuring Melinda Cooper on Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance. Balanced budget conservatism and supply side populism engineered a politics of austerity and budget deficits. Deep cuts to the social wage like welfare reform disciplined labor so severely that Fed chair Alan Greenspan opened the floodgates of easy money co…

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Letters from an American: October 9, 2025 9:26

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Get full access to Letters from an American at heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/subscribeBy Heather Cox Richardson

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The Majority Report with Sam Seder: 3600 - GOP Sweating Shutdown & Trump Targets Dem Activists w/ David Dayen & Francesca Fiorentini 2:46:11

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It's Casual Friday on The Majority Report On today's Show: Pam Bondi and a crew of absolute lunatics star in an anti-anti-fascist video posted by the White House. Despite the ridiculous nature of their Anti-Fa wild goose chase there will be serious consequences to activists with organizations like Indivisible and Act Blue already being pointed out …

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The Bulwark Podcast: Jacob Soboroff and Sarah McBride: Democracy at the Ground Level 1:15:37

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The administration may be trying to lay the groundwork for Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act by invading Chicago, but the real human stories are breaking through: ordinary Chicagoans are outraged that good, decent immigrants are being snatched off the street and their families’ lives ruined. And while Kristi Noem keeps promoting the bad guys tha…

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The Dig: From Fiscal Austerity to Monetary Abundance w/ Melinda Cooper 2:18:19

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Featuring Melinda Cooper on Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance. Balanced budget conservatism and supply side populism engineered a politics of austerity and budget deficits. Deep cuts to the social wage like welfare reform disciplined labor so severely that Fed Chair Alan Greenspan opened the floodgates of easy money co…

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Changelog: A new direction for AI developer tooling 1:29:52

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Elixir creator, José Valim, is throwing his hat into the coding agent ring with Tidewave –a coding agent for full-stack web development. Tidewave runs in the browser alongside your app, but it’s also deeply integrated into Rails and Phoenix. On this episode, José tells us all about it. Also: his agent flow, YOLO mode, an MCP hot take, and more. Joi…

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Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar: 10/10/15: CEASEFIRE BROKEN ALREADY? ROGAN TRASHES TRUMP, JESSE WATTERS FAKE GUESTS? 58:42

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Krystal, Ryan, Emily, and Griffin look at the latest on the ceasefire between Israel and Gaza, Rogan calling out ICE tactics as Kristi Noem doubles down on Chicago, and questions around a guest on the Jesse Watters FOX show. To become a Breaking Points Premium Member and watch/listen to the show AD FREE, uncut and 1 hour early visit: www.breakingpo…

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Bannon`s War Room: Episode 4842: Tee Up To The MArine Corp 250th; Pam Bondi Goes After Domestic Terrorists On The Left

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Episode 4842: Tee Up To The MArine Corp 250th; Pam Bondi Goes After Domestic Terrorists On The LeftBy WarRoom.org

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Bannon`s War Room: Episode 4841: First Day Of A True Ceasefire In Gaza; Prosecute The Left's Surveillance State

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The Dishcast with Andrew Sullivan: Michael Wolff On Trump's Psyche 47:27

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Michael is a media critic and author. He’s been a columnist for New York magazine, Vanity Fair, British GQ, the Hollywood Reporter, and the Guardian. Among his many books include four on Donald Trump — the third one we covered on the Dishcast, and the latest w…

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The Nation Podcasts: Venezuela-US Escalation, Myanmar Airstrike, France’s Political Crisis | American Prestige 38:33

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Yes, we will be releasing 25 subtle variations of this news roundup in order to catapult ourselves to the top of the podcast charts, and no, we are not sorry. This week: a ceasefire agreement was reached for Gaza, but there was too much information for us to cover in the news, so please check out our special here. Syria’s interim government handpic…

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Volts: Super-deep geothermal drilling ... with microwaves 44:40

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In this episode, I chat with Quaise CEO Carlos Araque about unlocking geothermal energy on a planetary scale by drilling miles into the Earth’s crust. He explains how his company’s technology vaporizes rock with microwaves to reach depths where intense heat sends the water supercritical, packing ten times the energy density of conventional geotherm…

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Hillsdale College Podcast Network: How to Heal Modern Medicine

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Guests: Aaron Kheriarty & Wilfred McClay Host Scot Bertram talks with: Aaron Kheriarty, director of the Program in Bioethics, Technology, and Flourishing at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, about America’s failing healthcare system and his new book Making the Cut: How to Heal Modern Medicine. And Wilfred McClay, Victor Davis Hanson chair in cla…

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Dwarkesh Podcast: Nick Lane – Life as we know it is chemically inevitable 1:20:08

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Nick Lane has some pretty wild ideas about the evolution of life. He thinks early life was continuous with the spontaneous chemistry of undersea hydrothermal vents. Nick’s story may be wrong, but I find it remarkable that with just that starting point, you can explain so much about why life is the way that it is — the things you’re supposed to just…

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Big Technology Podcast: AGI or Bust, OpenAI’s $1 Trillion Gamble, Apple’s Next CEO? 1:00:12

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Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover: 1) Why the AI industry needs to get to AGI to make the investments pay off 2) The diverging tracks between AI model improvement and investing in scaling 3) Why the LLM craze may delay the path to AGI 4) So what is all this compute for? 5) OpenAI's $1 trilli…

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99% Invisible: Hidden Levels #2: Stick It to 'Em 41:36

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From airplanes to Pac-Man to the battlefield, the joystick has quietly shaped the way humans connect with machines. Hidden Levels is a production of 99% Invisible and WBUR's Endless Thread. Subscribe to SiriusXM Podcasts+ to listen to new episodes of 99% Invisible ad-free and a whole week early. Start a free trial now on Apple Podcasts or by visiti…

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Money Stuff: The Podcast: How the Snakes Dies: ICE, AMD, ARKK 32:18

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Katie and Matt discuss finance book parties, the ICE/Polymarket deal, understanding and pricing the future, the Grossman-Stiglitz paradox, prediction-market spillovers, sports quants, tokenization, the OpenAI/AMD deal, discounting the AI future, AI pricing power, Cathie Wood’s emotional maturity, the ETF ecosystem and the Midnight Madness puzzle hu…

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Ones and Tooze: The U.S. Government Shutdown 32:55

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Government shutdowns are one of the peculiarities of the U.S. budgetary system. Once again, the two parties have failed to agree on the government’s discretionary spending. Adam and Cameron discuss. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Foreign Policy

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Hard Fork: ChatGPT’s Platform Play + a Trillion-Dollar GPU Empire + the Queen of Slop 1:06:35

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This week, we discuss the standout moments from our field trip to OpenAI’s third annual DevDay — including a bizarre chat between Jony Ive and Sam Altman, and the announcement that OpenAI is putting apps into ChatGPT. Then, we try to make sense of the massive computing deal between OpenAI and AMD, and how it could impact the larger economy. And fin…

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The Bay Blend: Friday, October 10, 2025: Weekend events + an easier way to get to Clearwater Beach 6:05

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Today, you’ll hear about a St. Petersburg Council meeting that got spicy. And good news if you're looking for an easier way to get to Clearwater Beach. Plus events queen Malaika Hollist is here with some weekend events, like a mural festival in St. Pete and some family-friendly Halloween ideas. Website: https://www.wusf.org Sign up for our daily ne…

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Bankless: ROLLUP: Gold & BTC ATH | AI Bubble or Debasement Trade? | BNB Surge | $2B Polymarket Deal

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Gold shatters $4,000, Bitcoin quietly hits new all-time highs, and Wall Street just made its biggest bet yet on prediction markets. In this week’s Weekly Rollup, we break down why the debasement trade is heating up, how the AI bubble is shaping markets, and what it all means for crypto’s next move. We cover BNB’s explosive run to the #3 spot, ICE’s…

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Plain English with Derek Thompson: The Future of Entertainment, Part 1: Is Hollywood's Business Model Broken? 46:22

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The film and TV business has quietly—or, if you work in the industry, not so quietly—been in a depression for the past few years. Original TV work has plummeted. In 2024, Americans bought about 40 percent fewer movie tickets than they did in 2019, the year before the pandemic. The number of people employed in the motion picture industry in L.A. Cou…

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The Daily: How Trump Got Israel and Hamas to a Truce 29:05

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On Thursday, a potentially historic agreement between Israel and Hamas began to take shape. The deal, which was brokered by President Trump, secures the exchange of all remaining Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners. Leaders on both sides, and Mr. Trump himself, signaled that this was a decisive step toward the end of the two-year war in Gaza…

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Trending In Ed with Mike Palmer: Building Equal Opportunity Schools with AJ Gutierrez 28:56

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Mike Palmer welcomes back Friend of the Show, AJ Gutierrez, the pioneering co-founder of Saga Education, now CEO of Equal Opportunity Schools (EOS). AJ shares his transition from direct service to a focus on systemic change, detailing the crucial, often overlooked, mission of EOS: identifying and accelerating equitable opportunity for high-potentia…

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(Preview) OpenAI Astride the World, Infrastructure Buildouts and Boundless Ambitions, More on Sora and Creation 23:09

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Subscribe to Stratechery Plus to get all episodes of Sharp Tech, plus Stratechery Updates and Interviews, Sharp China, Greatest of All Talk, Asianometry, and Dithering. To email the show: [email protected] @SharpTechPodcast Channel — YouTube @Stratechery Channel — YouTube An Interview with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman About DevDay and the AI Buildout — S…

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Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson: (Preview) OpenAI Astride the World, Infrastructure Buildouts and Boundless Ambitions, More on Sora and Creation 23:09

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Thoughts on OpenAI after a month of infrastructure and partnership announcements, including the differences between OpenAI and a Mag7 company, Ben’s interview with Sam Altman this week, Apps in ChatGPT, and drawing on Windows, Apple, and WeChat to better understand the company’s strategy. At the end: Questions on Sora, the 90-9-1 law, and OpenAI’s …