Welcome to the Bear Lair!* (No, it’s nothing like that other show.) As we continue to explore the world of AI tools and vibe coding, we invited a few enterprising Vergecast fans to share their projects — and we invited The Verge’s Hayden Field to judge them with us. We’ll see what people are working on, and whether any of them will make us fabulously wealthy.*We came up with this name before we became aware that someone else thought of it first... no relation to the APTNtv show Bears'

AI, context, and New Zealand’s data center future Full Show Notes: https://www.theintelligenceagepodcast.com/843 Mark Smith speaks with Oliver Hartwich about how AI has changed since January, why agentic tools have become the real shift, and what that means for workflows, context, and cross-model collaboration. They also dig into New Zealand’s position in the global AI and infrastructure landscape, especially around data centers, energy, solar, batteries, and water use. Key topics In thi...

In this episode of Inside AsembleAI, host Mac Goswami sits down with Dr. Latha Karthigaa — Director & Head of AI Governance at the Global AI Certification Council (GAICC) — on why most companies that think their AI is governed are dangerously wrong, and what responsible AI actually looks like.What's Covered:"A Policy Is Not Governance" — The biggest myth in enterprise AI. Latha's highway analogy: governance is the guardrail that lets you drive faster, not the thing slowing you down.52% of

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Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Discover Fresh Perspectives. In this episode, host David Gouthro sits down with Mike McGraw, a candidate for mayor in the City of North Vancouver. David recently read a statistic which indicated that on Vancouver's North Shore, over the last number of elections, incumbents won something like 93% of the time. This makes it very difficult for someone who is not an incumbent (and may be relatively unknown) to be given serious consideration as a candidate. David (who ...

What does standing with teachers mean in South Sudan? On World Teachers’ Day, Radio Miraya speaks with education specialists Manuela Tiyu and Tawanda Madhangi about unpaid salaries, overcrowded classrooms and the challenges of keeping qualified teachers in rural schools. They discuss a three-year programme targeting more than 4,200 teachers, alongside practical support such as housing and training. The conversation examines what government, communities and businesses can do to help teachers stay in

Pranksy’s claim that Bored Apes helped ruin NFTs sparks a long debate over what actually went wrong during the last NFT cycle, from copycat projects and over-financialization to the communities that kept people engaged. The conversation also digs into builder persistence, product-market fit and when sticking with a project starts creating diminishing returns. Earlier in the show, ApeCoin’s recent move and ApePay lead into a broader discussion about whether spending volatile tokens makes sense...

Most MSPs say they don't want to compete on price.Then they spend the entire sales conversation talking about technology, comparing stacks, and trying to prove why they're worth more. Juan Fernandez took a very different approach. He built an MSP from zero to $20 million in six years by focusing less on what he was selling and more on whether he could actually solve the client's problem. In Episode 62 of The MSP Sales Podcast, Brian Gillette sits down with Juan, Chief Encouragement Officer at MSP

Send us Fan Mail Cesar Carvalho is the co-founder and CEO of Wellhub, the corporate well-being platform connecting millions of employees to top-tier fitness, mindfulness, therapy, nutrition, and sleep partners across 18 countries. Since founding the company as Gympass in 2012, Cesar has raised nearly $900 million in venture funding, reached a $2.4 billion valuation, and grown Wellhub to serve over 50,000 corporate clients worldwide. In this episode, Cesar sits down with Dan to d...

Intelligence too cheap to meter -- could that actually be coming? 🤑 Maybe, and you mighta missed one of the biggest signs. OpenAI said that its own model improved itself after release so well, that it was cutting prices to one model by 80%. What's that mean? Well, by definition, it's a broad example of Recursive Self Improvement, or when a model starts building better versions of itself. And over the past 8 weeks, RSI has gone from a science fiction future t...

What happens if you connect a hundred AI-powered robots to the internet and just let people give them any instructions they want? Enigma founder Jonathan Jacobi joins us to talk about his experience deploying a fleet of robots on the internet, keeping them operational, and watching people truly test the generality and robustness of frontier robotics models.Watch Episode 109 of RoboPapers with Chris Paxton and Ruijie He today!Learn MoreOriginal Post on XRobots.online website (no longer

In this episode of The Digital Shift, we break down the latest Microsoft Fabric updates from FabCon Europe 2026, including Fabric IQ in Copilot, the Data Engineering Agent, and expanded OneLake sharing.We discuss what these changes mean for Fabric teams and how Kanerika’s FLIP platform supports data platform modernization. Want to prepare your Fabric environment for what’s next? Connect with Kanerika:

MotorMind leverages a frozen VLM with mid-level prospective actions and asynchronous feedback to control robots zero-shot on manipulation tasks, requiring no task-specific training. This advances robot foundation models by demonstrating strong generalization across manipulation benchmarks without fine-tuning.

MAPF-World: Action World Model for Multi-Agent Path Finding

Adam Draper, Founder and Managing Director of Boost VC, joined me to discuss what the future of crypto could look like and where the next wave of innovation may come from. Boost VC invests across crypto, AI, robotics, space, and other emerging technologies. Adam, the son of legendary venture capitalist Tim Draper, was also an early investor in Coinbase and Bitcoin.Topics:- Investing early in Bitcoin and Coinbase- New economy with AI Agents & Robotics- Is the Metaverse dead?- Crypto market

Scott, Wes, and CJ ask whether Ruby on Rails is really dead (and whether Rust is just Rails you don't have to read), then dig into Meta's new Muse agent, which is free, comes with its own VM, and is already reading messages nobody asked it to. Plus: upm, a tiny TypeScript npm replacement, Opus 5.5 moonlighting as a motion designer, Tart VMs on Apple Silicon, and a foundry for gloriously bad web fonts.Show Notes 00:00 Welcome 01:11 upm is a tiny fast npm Pooya Parsa’s launch post

NEAR just got a new institutional gateway, but the ETF may only be the beginning of the story. Bitwise CEO Hunter Horsley and Sovereign’s Sal Ternullo join David to unpack why investors are starting to view NEAR through the lens of AI, how NEAR Intents has already processed more than $32 billion in volume, what staking and token buybacks mean for the asset, and why a future filled with many AI models, chains, agents, and stablecoins could play directly into NEAR’s strengths.--- 📣SPOTIFY PREMIUM

Andrea Malagodi is CTO at Sonar, which builds AI code verification and governance tools. When finance asked about the size of his team's AI bills, he calculated cost per PR. At one extreme was an engineer with more than 500 PRs in a short period and a low cost per PR. At the other was an engineer with very high spend and very few PRs.Judged on cost alone, the first engineer wins and the second looks like a problem. Malagodi looked closer. The first had built a personal agent factory, with

One of the more debilitating experiences in our current digital world is the sense of being trapped in relentless, reactive, busyness. This “whirlwind” can separate you from both ambition and presence, leaving you feeling flat and fried. In this episode, Cal discusses a simple trick he deploys when he finds himself in this state. It requires only a single sheet of paper.More from Cal Download Cal’s FREE guide to cultivating a deeper life: calnewport.com/ideas Learn more about Cal’s books:

The State of Devs 2026 survey results are in, and... they’re not great. We discuss. We also dig into a huge week of 1.0 releases (EmDash, Vinext, and Vite+), OpenAI's Dev Day, and more! Timestamps 0:00 - Intro1:12 - State of Devs 2026 survey28:26 - EmDash 1.030:37 - Vinext 1.032:46 - Vite+ 1.035:03 - OpenAI Dev Day40:55 - Agent safety42:38 - <model> element46:15 - What's making us happyNews All: State of Devs 2026 survey results are inLightning News Vite+ 1.0EmDash 1.0Vinext 1.0<mode...