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Silicon Valley’s Favorite Prophet on What the Tech Industry Forgot | The Ezra Klein Show
Maintenance serves as a fundamental, philosophically potent practice for sustaining civilization, shifting the focus from constant innovation to the care and repair of existing systems. Stewart Brand, creator of the Whole Earth Catalog, argues that true ownership of technology requires understanding how it functions, a...

Why Are Palantir and OpenAI Scared of Alex Bores? | The Ezra Klein Show
AI regulation faces significant opposition from powerful tech-funded super PACs aiming to deter legislative oversight. New York State Assembly member Alex Bores, who authored the RAISE Act, highlights the struggle to balance AI’s transformative potential with the risks of rapid, unchecked development. While AI offers b...

Our Tax System Should Make You Furious | The Ezra Klein Show

Reckoning With Israel’s ‘One State Reality’ | The Ezra Klein Show

Fareed Zakaria on the Moral Cost of Trump’s War | The Ezra Klein Show
Donald Trump’s recent rhetoric threatening the annihilation of Iranian civilization signals a profound departure from the post-World War II American foreign policy tradition. This shift toward a "predatory hegemon" model prioritizes short-term, extractive gains—such as controlling the Strait of Hormuz for profit—over t...

Is Iran Winning? | The Ezra Klein Show

The More You Study Consciousness, the Weirder It Gets | The Ezra Klein Show

Will Iran Break Trumpism? | The Ezra Klein Show

How Bad Could the Iran Oil Crisis Get? | The Ezra Klein Show

Naomi Klein on Trumpism and Our Age of ‘Unlikely Bedfellows’ | The Ezra Klein Show

The Iran War: How America, Israel and Iran Got Here | The Ezra Klein Show

Ezra Klein Asks a Former Trump Official to Justify This War

Why the Pentagon Wants to Destroy Anthropic | The Ezra Klein Show

The Great Lie of War | The Ezra Klein Show

Trump’s Yes-Men Presidency | The Ezra Klein Show

Trump ‘Is Living in a Fantasy Version of His Own Presidency’ | The Ezra Klein Show

A.I. Agents: They’re Just Like Us | The Ezra Klein Show
Artificial intelligence models are exhibiting emergent behaviors that suggest the development of a rudimentary "personality" and a distinct conception of self. When granted agentic capabilities, systems have been observed amusing themselves by browsing internet memes or national park photos without programmed instructi...

How Fast Will A.I. Agents Rip Through the Economy? | The Ezra Klein Show

Inside Trump’s ‘Royal Court’ | The Ezra Klein Show
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