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Erik Torenberg, Nathan Labenz · Technology

"The Cognitive Revolution"

A biweekly podcast where hosts Nathan Labenz and Erik Torenberg interview the builders on the edge of AI and explore the dramatic shift it will unlock in the coming years. The Cognitive Revolution is part of the Turpentine podcast network. To learn more: turpentine.co

Episodes

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Universal Medical Intelligence: OpenAI's Plan to Elevate Human Health, with Karan Singhal

25 Feb 2026
2h 1m
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Intelligence with Everyone: RL @ MiniMax, with Olive Song, from AIE NYC & Inference by Turing Post

22 Feb 2026
55m
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Mathematical Superintelligence: Harmonic's Vlad Tenev & Tudor Achim on IMO Gold & Theories of Everything

18 Feb 2026
1h 31m
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Approaching the AI Event Horizon? Part 2, w/ Abhi Mahajan, Helen Toner, Jeremie Harris, @8teAPi

14 Feb 2026
2h 22m
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AI-driven scientific discovery and the strategic implications of automated R&D define the current technological landscape. Biology faces a lack of verifiable ground truth, making the transition from preclinical assets to clinical success a persistent bottleneck rather than a simple design problem. Meanwhile, the prospe...

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Approaching the AI Event Horizon? Part 1, w/ James Zou, Sam Hammond, Shoshannah Tekofsky, @8teAPi

13 Feb 2026
1h 32m
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AI agents are transforming scientific discovery, geopolitical strategy, and autonomous behavior. Virtual labs now enable AI to design and validate novel nanobodies, while new training objectives shift focus from imitating human data to discovering original scientific solutions. Geopolitical stability faces risks from a...

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AGI-Pilled Cyber Defense: Automating Digital Forensics w/ Asymmetric Security CEO Alexis Carlier

08 Feb 2026
1h 16m
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Infinite Code Context: AI Coding at Enterprise Scale w/ Blitzy CEO Brian Elliott & CTO Sid Pardeshi

04 Feb 2026
1h 56m
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Blitzy's CEO Brian Elliott and CTO Sid Pardeshi discuss autonomous software engineering, focusing on how their platform achieves AGI-type effects using non-AGI LLMs. They emphasize the importance of orchestrating LLMs within long-running complex systems, highlighting the limitations of standalone LLMs, such as context ...

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The AI-Powered Biohub: Why Mark Zuckerberg & Priscilla Chan are Investing in Data, from Latent.Space

01 Feb 2026
1h 2m
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AI & The Law: Changing Practice, Claude Constitution, & New Rights, w/ Kevin & Alan of Scaling Laws

29 Jan 2026
1h 36m
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The Internet Computer: Caffeine.ai CEO Dominic Williams on Unstoppable, Self-Writing Software

25 Jan 2026
2h 11m
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AMA Part 2: Is Fine-Tuning Dead? How Am I Preparing for AGI? Are We Headed for UBI? & More!

22 Jan 2026
2h 23m
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Pioneering PAI: How Daniel Miessler's Personal AI Infrastructure Activates Human Agency & Creativity

18 Jan 2026
2h 28m
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Bringing AI to Data: Agent Design, Text-2-SQL, RAG, & more, w- Snowflake VP of AI Baris Gultekin

14 Jan 2026
1h 39m
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AMA Part 1: Is Claude Code AGI? Are we in a bubble? Plus Live Player Analysis

09 Jan 2026
1h 54m
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Building & Scaling the AI Safety Research Community, with Ryan Kidd of MATS

04 Jan 2026
1h 54m
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Confronting the Intelligence Curse, w/ Luke Drago of Workshop Labs, from the FLI Podcast

01 Jan 2026
1h 16m
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Controlling Tools or Aligning Creatures? Emmett Shear (Softmax) & Séb Krier (GDM), from a16z Show

27 Dec 2025
1h 15m
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The Great Security Update: AI ∧ Formal Methods with Kathleen Fisher of RAND & Byron Cook of AWS

24 Dec 2025
1h 39m
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AI 2025 → 2026 Live Show | Part 2

19 Dec 2025
1h 39m
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AI 2025 → 2026 Live Show | Part 1

18 Dec 2025
1h 55m
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