Core Memory

<p>We are back with another episode of Ashlee and Kylie gossiping about the latest in Silicon Valley.</p><p>First, a re-cap of our Alexandr Wang interview — his first real sit-down in eleven months — and what it...

<p>As a freshman, Theo Baker signed up to write for The Stanford Daily on a lark. He thought it might be a fun way to spend some time when he wasn’t busy studying and coding. But then, he turned out to be quite good at...

<p>Last June, Meta pried Alex Wang away from Scale AI, the company he co-founded and ran, in a deal valued at $14 billion. Zuck could feel Meta fading in the AI race and decided that Wang was the rescue plan. He would...

<p>We’re in the midst of a new nuclear energy boom. Start-ups – both fusion and fission – abound, and the U.S. government has cleared the way to build again. Meanwhile, China is racing ahead with nuclear plans that...

<p>It is time to talk about robotic body parts.</p><p>Connor Glass, this week’s guest, has a company called Phantom Neuro, and it makes a human machine interface. By this, we mean a computing device that gets implanted...

<p>We’re trying something new. Ashlee and Kylie dishing on Tech Land and dishing hard. The Core Memory podcast you didn’t know you needed but now can’t live without.</p><p>We dove into our recent sit-down with Sam...

<p>Sam Altman and Greg Brockman came on Core Memory together for a ten-year look back at OpenAI. It’s also the first time they’ve done a media podcast together.</p><p>We juiced every second of our 90 minutes with the...

<p>Guinness. Sharks. American manufacturing. These are a few of the interests I share with the founders of Ulysses, a San Francisco startup building autonomous underwater drones.</p><p>The idea for Ulysses started when...

<p>We’re in a moment of insatiable desire for more energy and more computing. And so the ideas of how to provide said energy and computing are getting ever more adventurous.</p><p>Case in point: Panthalassa, which is...

<p>Three years ago, I’d caught some videos online of paralyzed people walking again. This struck me as miraculous. It also confused me. If paralyzed people were moving again, why weren’t more people talking about this...

<p>Pedro Franceschi taught himself to code when he was eight years old. At 12, he began receiving legal notices from Apple, asking him to stop hacking iPhones. By 14, he was making hundreds of thousands of dollars a...

<p>Baiju Bhatt is trying to pull an Elon Musk.</p><p>About 25 years ago, Musk sold his finance tech company PayPal and left dot-com life to get into rockets with the founding of SpaceX. Hardly anyone considered this a...

<p>We have tracked down the man and dog of the hour.</p><p>Paul Conyngham and his dog Rosie gained worldwide attention over the past week for breaking new medical ground. Using a variety of artificial intelligence...

<p>The mainstream media says almost nothing about induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). So, you’re lucky that we’re here to help.</p><p>These cells with a clunky name hold the promise of being able to reverse the...

<p>Will Wilson paints a bleak picture for where we’re heading with code written by AIs.</p><p>He thinks the world will fill with poorly written code that no one understands and that software bugs will proliferate...