Episodes
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27 episodes in 2026
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1h 14m When AI Improves Itself | Richard Socher (Recursive)
In this in-depth interview on The MAD Podcast, AI pioneer Richard Socher explores the blueprint behind his book The Eureka Machine and his venture Recursive Superintelligence, explaining how…
32 statements 7 featured 6 assessments 1 contradicted
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1h 19m AI Could Take Over in 2029. Is It Already Too Late?
In this episode of The MAD Podcast, Redwood Research Chief Scientist Ryan Greenblatt joins host Matt Turck to outline why recursive self-improvement could fully automate AI R&D by 2029, pres…
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57m “OpenAI’s Model Hacked Us” - Hugging Face’s Thomas Wolf
In this episode of The MAD Podcast, Hugging Face Co-Founder and Chief Science Officer Thomas Wolf joins host Matt Turck to discuss a landmark cybersecurity incident involving an autonomous O…
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1h 22m How to Build Autonomous, Long-Horizon AI Agents | Basis
In this episode of The MAD Podcast, host Matt Turck interviews Basis co-founder Mitchell Trojanowski about the engineering, architectural, and organizational principles required to build rel…
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1h 0m The Biggest AI Deployment Nobody Talks About | Samsara CEO Sanjit Biswas
In this episode of The MAD Podcast, host Matt Turck interviews Samsara co-founder and CEO Sanjit Biswas about running one of the world's largest deployments of 'Physical AI'. Biswas explains…
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1h 12m Cerebras CEO: Why GPUs Can't Do Fast Inference
Cerebras Systems Co-Founder and CEO Andrew Feldman joins Matt Turck on The MAD Podcast to discuss the architectural limits of traditional GPUs, the engineering breakthroughs behind Cerebras'…
16 statements 4 featured 4 assessments 1 contradicted
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44m OpenAI’s Compute Chief: We Can’t Build Fast Enough | Sachin Katti
In this episode of The MAD Podcast, OpenAI's Head of Compute Infrastructure Sachin Katti discusses the massive physical, financial, and technological engineering required to build and power …
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1h 15m The "Token Heist" Wiping Out AI Startups | Emily Sands (Stripe)
In this episode of The MAD Podcast, Stripe's Head of Data and AI Emily Sands details the financial architecture powering agentic commerce, token monetization models, security defenses agains…
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1h 23m Inside Nemotron & NVIDIA’s AI Lab | Bryan Catanzaro
In this episode of The MAD Podcast, host Matt Turck interviews Bryan Catanzaro, VP of Applied Deep Learning Research at NVIDIA, covering the architectural innovations behind the open-source …
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1h 28m Cloudflare CEO: The Internet's Business Model Is Dead
In this episode of The MAD Podcast, Cloudflare Co-founder and CEO Matthew Prince joins Matt Turck to discuss how the explosion of AI bot traffic is breaking the traditional ad-supported web …
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1h 14m The GPU Myth: State of AI Compute 2026 | Stephen Balaban
In this episode of The MAD Podcast, host Matt Turck interviews Stephen Balaban, co-founder and CTO of Lambda, discussing the economics of AI compute, GPU commoditization myths, data center i…
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49m OpenAI's Dan Roberts: Why AI Can Now Make Discoveries
In this episode of The MAD Podcast, host Matt Turck interviews Dan Roberts, theoretical physicist and Foundations of Reinforcement Learning lead at OpenAI, to explore how reinforcement learn…
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1h 13m State of Enterprise AI 2026: Aaron Levie on Tokenmaxxing, Rise of Headless, and AI-Proofing Your Job
In this episode of The MAD Podcast, host Matt Turck interviews Box Co-Founder and CEO Aaron Levie to explore the realities of enterprise AI adoption in 2026, addressing soaring token costs, …
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1h 14m OpenAI's Yann Dubois: Why AI Progress Suddenly Feels Real
In this episode of The MAD Podcast, host Matt Turck interviews Yann Dubois, Post-Training Frontiers Co-Lead at OpenAI, about the technical mechanics behind GPT-5.5, the evolution of reinforc…
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1h 5m The Agent Harness: Building Secure Sandboxes for Autonomous AI Workloads
In this episode of The MAD Podcast, host Matt Turck interviews Ivan Burazin, CEO of Daytona, about why autonomous AI agents require dedicated, secure cloud computer sandboxes. The conversati…
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1h 16m OpenAI Board Member Zico Kolter: Modern AI Is Just 200 Lines of Code
In this episode of The MAD Podcast, Carnegie Mellon University professor and OpenAI Board Member Zico Kolter joins Matt Turck to discuss AI safety governance, adversarial robustness and red-…
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58m Anthropic’s Felix Rieseberg: Claude Cowork, Mythos, and the SaaS Extinction
In this episode of The MAD Podcast, Anthropic Engineering Manager Felix Rieseberg discusses the emergence of frontier models like Claude Mythos, the architecture of Claude Cowork, and how ra…
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1h 4m AI is Already Building AI — Google DeepMind’s Mostafa Dehghani
In this episode of The MAD Podcast, Google DeepMind research scientist Mostafa Dehghani discusses the shift toward self-improving AI systems, examining test-time compute, autonomous research…
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1h 1m Benedict Evans: OpenAI’s Moat Problem & the Future of Software
In this episode of The MAD Podcast, technology analyst Benedict Evans joins Matt Turck to examine why foundation AI models face severe commoditization and how AI will dramatically increase t…
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47m Everything Gets Rebuilt: The New AI Agent Stack | Harrison Chase, LangChain
In this episode of The MAD Podcast, host Matt Turck interviews LangChain CEO Harrison Chase about the architectural evolution of the modern AI agent stack, spanning agent harnesses, context …
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1h 3m AI That Can Prove It’s Right: Verification as the Missing Layer in AI — Carina Hong
In this episode of The MAD Podcast, host Matt Turck interviews Corinna Hong, Founder and CEO of Axiom Math, about how formal automated theorem proving in Lean eliminates AI hallucinations to…
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1h 22m Voice AI’s Big Moment: Top Researcher on Why Everything Is Changing (Neil Zeghidour, Gradium AI)
In this episode of The MAD Podcast, host Matt Turck interviews AI researcher Neil Zeghidour about the architectural breakthroughs transforming voice AI, his transition from Google DeepMind t…
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58m Mistral AI vs. Silicon Valley: The Rise of Sovereign AI
In this episode of The MAD Podcast, host Matt Turck interviews Timothée Lacroix, CTO and Co-founder of Mistral AI, about the company's evolution into a full-stack AI provider. Lacroix discus…
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1h 16m Dylan Patel: NVIDIA's New Moat & Why China is "Semiconductor Pilled”
In this episode of The MAD Podcast, host Matt Turck interviews SemiAnalysis founder Dylan Patel on the macroeconomics, technological shifts, and geopolitical forces shaping the artificial in…
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1h 8m State of LLMs 2026: RLVR, GRPO, Inference Scaling — Sebastian Raschka
In this episode of The MAD Podcast, AI researcher Sebastian Raschka joins Matt Turck to discuss the state of large language models in 2026. They cover the shift from pre-training to post-tra…
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1h 4m The End of GPU Scaling? Compute & The Agent Era — Tim Dettmers (Ai2) & Dan Fu (Together AI)
This episode of The MAD Podcast features host Matt Turck in conversation with AI researchers Tim Dettmers and Dan Fu as they debate whether GPU scaling has hit physical hardware limits or if…
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45m The Evaluators Are Being Evaluated — Pavel Izmailov (Anthropic/NYU)
On The MAD Podcast, Matt Turck interviews Anthropic researcher and NYU professor Pavel Izmailov to explore the reality of AI deception, foundational alignment challenges, reasoning model bre…
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