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The number one podcast about tech business and culture, from James "JR" Hennessy and Raph Dixon.
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- R.I.P The Free Internet · 46 percReddit's CEO has stated that the forum site will move to “a logged-in-only experience”, and has pointed the finger at AI for forcing this change. When you ask google "Best…
- A Monumentally Important Episode · 6 percYears in the future historians will cite this humble podcast episode as a first hand account of an irreversible shift. There is now only the before and the after. See…
- BONUS: Richard Cooke Book Launch Interview · 60 percFriend of the pod Richard Cooke has published his new book - The Last Best Place on the Internet: A Human History of Wikipedia. At his book launch in Sydney, James and Raph of…
- Tesla Roadster And Apple Home · 32 percElon Musk and his cronies over at Tesla had an event last week where they showed off the latest version of the Roadster. You may be thinking 'hey, didn't they announce that car…
- The Firmus IPO Disaster · 39 percOver the course of a week, Aussie neocloud company Firmus went from expecting a $40B IPO to cancelling it all together. The company and its Co-CEO Oliver Curtis have, to some…
- Hallowed Be Thy Tokens · 35 percSome higher-up from Anthropic tried to talk the Pope into conceding that AI agents have a consciousness. Your hosts, Henno and The Riph Raph, discuss why they would make this…
- Did Sam Altman Steal My Medicare Card? · 31 percOpenAI "hacked" an Australian Government website and said NOTHING!? Well, sort of? Albo pulled up his big boy pants and stormed up to New York on Thursday to tell the world and…
- AI for the Normies · 44 percRaph and James sit down to answer a simple question: what the hell does an average person need an AI agent for? This question arises from the recent launch of Joe…
- I Don't Wanna Be A Paperclip · 44 percAfter a former Anthropic employee went on a press tour telling everyone he quite because the stuff they're cooking up is big and scary, a whole new round of discourse has hit the…
- AGI is here? · 35 percArtificial General Intelligence. Computers using computers. Computers getting Raph a coffee because he yelled "me coffee". Computers curing diseases before we even discover them…
- Flock Cameras: Safety or Surveillance? · 27 percIn the past few years, Flock Safety have peppered the United States with their license plate reading cameras. Together, they form a lattice network capable of tracking anyone…
- Cameras on Everything: Hardware in 2026 · 35 percThat damned rumour mill is spinning up again with word that the next AirPod Pro model will feature cameras in the ear buds. Is this really true? Kind of, but probably not the way…
- AI Markers: The Scarlet Letter · 42 percThe EU is making AI companies put identifiable markers in their AI generated content, so that they can be easily spotted as such. A lot of the big hitters have played ball, but…
- Demis Hassabis and Google's AI Plan · 38 percDemis Hassabis has stepped up/down/around from his position as CEO of Google Deepmind, becoming Chair of Deepmind and Chief Scientist at Alphabet. "Henno and the Riph Raph"…
- Wunderkind No More · 36 percEminent babychild/investor Leopold Aschenbrenner has been in the news lately as his over-leveraged AI fund "Situational Awareness" collapsed in a dramatic fashion. Interestingly…
- The Future of Computers ft. Dan Nolan · 41 percOne of the oldest friends-of-the-pod, Dan Nolan returns triumphant, joining James and Raph for some victory laps and speculation on the future of AI and computing. If you like…
- Battle Lines are Drawn · 55 percPresident Xi has weighed in on the AI chat, touting the virtues of open source models as a great equaliser for AI as a tool across the world. Some American AI heads are shitting…
- OpenAI: New App, New Lawsuit, New Beef · 48 perc🥚 I WANT TO CONSULT THE EGG. 🥚 In a grab-bag style, James and Raph plunge into the murky waters of OpenAI's current state. They're being sued by Apple for [allegedly] doing…
- Bending Spoons' Spending Boons · 48 percBending Spoons, a company you may not have heard of, went public last week and had a decent pop. Some people are attributing this as a short bet on software. The boys sit down to…
- Don't Tread on GPT · 38 percWe're back to discuss this whole Anthropic Mythos thing again, this time with a focus on one question: Should the U.S. government exercise control over the AI companies, deciding…
- Snap Specs · 38 percGlasses/goggle chat is so back, folks. Today our hosts convene to discuss Snap, the company best known for creating Snapchat. You know, the app for teenagers and perverts alike…
- Anthropic's Fable is TOO POWERFUL · 46 percAnthropic has been talking up their world-threateningly powerful new Mythos model, suggesting it needs to be held back from the public because we cretins can't be trusted with…
- WWDC 2026 · 59 percApple's annual World Wide Developer Conference happened on Monday. It was an odd one, with a large emphasis on safety and trust, with a little bit of mea culpa sprinkled in after…
- Anthropic: Might IPO Maybe Sometime Eventually? · 48 percAnthropic have confidentially filed for an IPO, slipstreaming in behind SpaceX in the race to be the first AI shop to go public. Whether or not you are claude-pilled, the move…
- SpaceX IPO: $1.7 Trillion for What? · 42 percElon Musk's SpaceX is hurtling towards and IPO and have dropped their S1 document. James and Raph come together to elucidate what the hell is going on in there, and how the…
- Elon vs OpenAI: Pt. 1 · 29 percAcross timezones and many oceans, our intrepid boys commune via video chat to dig into the top story of the last week or so - Musk vs OpenAI. You may recall that Musk was a part…
- Kick Streaming: Degenerate Playground · 44 percYou've heard of Twitch, formerly Justin.tv, the website where you watch sweaty guys play Fortnite. But are you aware that there is a dark and twisted bizarro Twitch called…
- Manus and Meta: Forbidden Lovers · 19 percMeta bought this company called Manus AI which is like some sort of computer thing? It's from China but they moved to Singapore? Anyway the deal was basically done but then the…
- Tim Cook Is Out · 45 percALERT, ALERT: Timmy Cook is officially stepping down from his CEO position, but it's more like a step to one side as he shifts into chairman mode. His replacement has been…
- Zuckerbot Agrees With Us · 33 percRemember when Zuck chucked a hissy fit and started headhunting a bunch of AI weapons and offered them 9 figure salaries to work at Meta AI? Well, this crack team of computer…
- Scam Altman · 33 percSo, OpenAI bought a podcast? For possibly hundreds of millions? Most importantly, it wasn't us? Our spurned hosts come together to question the decision with the jealous…
- Claude Down Under · 29 percAnthropic CEO Dario Amodei has graced the land of plenty this week, opening an office in Sydney before swinging by Canberra to put the fear of god into our elected officials on…
- Sora? I Hardly Know 'Er! · 31 percAnother week, another episode about OpenAI. The eponymous chatbot company has announced that it's video generation/social media app Sora is shutting up shop as they seem to be…
- State of Play Pt.1 · 29 percWeek two of baby season and we're still out here, still feeding you content-starved little varmints hot and fresh intelligence. This week, we thought it was a good time for a…
- 🚨 Down Round Official Breaking News Announcement Alert PSA · 1 percWe come to you with an urgent alert for all Down Round subscribers. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
- Anthropic Goes To War · 1 óra 1 percFor today's free ep, we examine the current spat between Anthropic and Trump's Department of War over use of their AI model Claude. Should a next-token prediction model be…
- The Far-Flung Future of 2028 · 56 percWhen one thinks of impossible futures, they often think of a luxurious, technological wonderland. An unimaginable utopia where humans live in perfect harmony, their every want…
- Down Round Q&A Pt.1 · 46 percSome have argued that doing Q&A episodes is just a way of farming out the hard bits of doing a podcast to your audience. Not around these parts, buster. If you like the pod…
- OpenAI vs Anthropic · 48 percGossip episode alert. The OpenAI/Anthropic rivalry is boiling over. We sip on the most piping hot tea around OpenAI and Anthropic's ad spots at the Super Bowl and the growing…
- The SpaceX + xAI Merger · 40 percKeen-eared listeners may remember when Elon bought his own company X (formerly Twitter) with his OpenAI spite company xAI. Well, he's done it again, folks. This time SpaceX has…
- Airwallex + Payments · 35 percYou asked, we answered. We're doing a much-requested episode on "Australian" fintech Airwallex, which has gotten a lot of untoward attention of late — anti-money laundering…
- Is SaaS Dead? · 46 percAs somewhat of a follow up to our Claude Code/Coworker episode last week, today we regroup to evaluate what it could mean for YOUR favourite SaaS products. That's right, folks…
- Grok Freaks Rejoice · 42 percNew year, new studio, same red hot takes. This episode covers the typhoon of AI-generated filth created by Grok, Elon Musk's AI venture, currently flooding X. We also touch on…
- Xmas Spectacular 2025: Has He Got The Juice? (ft. Mark Di Stefano) · 31 percWe're joined by friend of the pod and Rear Window columnist Mark Di Stefano for a loose chat covering a swathe of topics from capital-J Journalism, the tech oligopoly and AI in…
- Xmas Spectacular 2025: Shart Tank, Pt 1 · 34 percWe're joined by Rowan "Joyride" Dix and Becky "Becky Lucas" Lucas for another round of our annual community shark tank, where we listen to our listeners pitch their startup ideas…
- Xmas Spectacular 2025: The Year That Was · 1 óra 0 percIn the inaugural episode of this years holiday special, we rack up Ws as we dissect the predictions we made last silly season for 2025. Go to https://www.downround.net/ to sign…
- Feelin' Fine · 41 percA highly requested topic in the Down Round Discord is mental health and mindfulness apps — from meditation platforms like Calm to therapist marketplaces like BetterHelp. That's…
- Netflix Eats Everything · 47 percNetflix wants to buy Warner Bros. Discovery. Paramount Skydance wants to buy Warner Bros. Discovery. Both for many billions of dollars. Why? We break down the $70 – 100 billion…
- Everything is Sportsbet Now · 51 percThis week we're going deep on the rise of prediction markets — the hybrid of futures trading, sports gambling, and economic theology that suddenly seems to have eaten the world…
- The Slop Farms of X · 37 percThis week, we open with the final chapter of Frank, the student finance startup that sold JP Morgan a fake email list. Founder Charlie Javice is in prison for fraud, but the bank…
