The AI race has long been framed as a zero-sum game: Either the US or China will win in the end. But as concerns pile up around the increasing capabilities of AI models—especially AI agents—researchers in both countries are trying to team up to work on AI safety. This week, contributing editor Zoë Schiffer speaks
Leah Feiger: I mean, from the Trump White House, which has historically been so anti-AI-regulation that its very own AI czar for the first year of the Trump presidency, David Sacks, was like, “We’re not regulating,” to now where the White House has a slightly toothless, but still there, policy of sorts, especially in response
Lea Feiger: Yes. In recent days this has come up. You say, “I’ve been listening to them.” It’s like, “Oops, Zoë, your bill is ready.” And I say, “What’s going on there?” Zoe Schiffer: You’ve been listening to them. It’s embarrassing. That’s embarrassing. Lea Feiger: It’s something wild. No, honestly, if it’s making your life
in this episode of mysterious valleyOur hosts look at Threads as it recently hit 500 million monthly users, putting it on par with X, but is it really competing or just filling a different niche? Meanwhile, reviews have been coming in for the Trump-branded T1 phone in recent weeks as it finally started shipping after
Brian Barrett: Noah, you are a celebrated, venerated national security journalist. You are. You have covered national security for a long time and you have covered, for lack of a better word, real spy stuff. You’ve been deep in it. How does that compare to this in terms of source handling in terms of the
Brian Barrett: Our best and brightest. Leah Feiger: Yeah. And so I’m just like, no, no, no, this is clearly not just about tech. This is about showing very specifically who Trump’s allies are and being able to position himself in front of a country and leader that he hasn’t spent a lot of time