Wall Street Journal
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The Wall Street Journal is a major U.S. business and general-interest newspaper published by Dow Jones.
19 episodes featuring Wall Street Journal
TBPN
AI agents promise convenience while threatening financial stability
The episode connects AI’s cultural arrival to a harder question: whether autonomous systems will reshape commerce and amplify systemic risk.
Sep 29, 2026 · 30 min
Letters from an American
Trump’s grievance politics create new risks for Republicans
The episode connects Trump’s escalating attacks and “final battle” imagery to the political liabilities Republican lawmakers may face before the midterm elections.
Sep 29, 2026 · 14 min
Sourcery
Financial firms turn reputation into a growth engine
As finance expands into retail markets and AI-shaped information ecosystems, reputation increasingly affects talent, capital, deal flow, and trust.
Sep 28, 2026 · 1h 5m
TBPN
AI agents push commerce, infrastructure and taste into new territory
The episode connects AI’s political visibility and safety debate to practical questions about agents, compute markets, venture capital, filmmaking and luxury culture.
Sep 28, 2026 · 2h 46m
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AI buildout collides with gambling, rates and real-world risk
The episode connects speculative behavior, infrastructure spending and technological optimism to the financial, regulatory and social risks shaping AI’s next phase.
Sep 25, 2026 · 2h 12m
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Microsoft tests whether enterprise reach can beat AI-agent rivals
The episode connects Microsoft’s agent strategy to a broader argument about AI spending, financial conditions, gambling culture, and concentrated wealth.
Sep 25, 2026 · 31 min
TBPN
AI abundance meets the limits of economic measurement
The episode tests whether AI is already reshaping investment, infrastructure, politics, productivity, and everyday communication—or remains mostly a story about the future.
Sep 17, 2026 · 3h 2m
Better Offline
How rationalist ideas shaped the AI race
The episode examines how speculative beliefs about superintelligence moved from online communities into institutions and incentives driving frontier AI development.
Sep 16, 2026 · 1h 24m
TBPN
AI agents meet higher rates and harder questions of trust
The episode connects AI governance and personal-agent economics with the financing conditions shaping startups and infrastructure.
Sep 16, 2026 · 2h 20m
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AI evaluators face a trust and accountability test
The episode connects AI safety oversight to legal responsibility, monetary policy, and the incentives shaping frontier-lab transparency.
Sep 16, 2026 · 31 min
TBPN
AI turns business strategy into a race over productivity and visibility
The episode connects AI’s economic effects to concrete changes in hiring, journalism, entertainment, insurance, regulation, and how companies reach automated agents.
Sep 15, 2026 · 2h 57m
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AI’s deflation promise collides with rates, geopolitics and safety politics
The episode connects AI’s economic effects to interest rates, China’s strategic position, safety regulation and enterprise adoption.
Sep 15, 2026 · 32 min
TBPN
AI’s race raises questions about safety, supply chains and durable businesses
The episode connects frontier-AI governance to semiconductor bottlenecks, cybersecurity, consumer software, industrial strategy and the economics of consolidation.
Sep 14, 2026 · 2h 50m
TBPN
AI safety debate collides with regulation, markets, and political theater
The episode tests whether slowing AI requires independent oversight, broad supply-chain controls, or simply more skepticism about the technology’s promises and harms.
Sep 14, 2026 · 26 min
Better Offline
AI safety warnings distract from companies’ concrete failures
The episode argues that weak security, poor training, and reckless deployment pose more immediate risks than speculative claims about autonomous systems.
Sep 11, 2026 · 22 min
TBPN
AI risk meets robot arms, agent investing and chip competition
The episode connects abstract arguments about AI safety to hands-on robotics, emerging agent businesses and the hardware race challenging NVIDIA.
Sep 11, 2026 · 1h 46m
TBPN
Apple’s foldable bet meets Meta’s personal AI push
The discussion links two competing visions of consumer technology: hardware that expands how phones work and AI that reshapes how people access information.
Sep 10, 2026 · 32 min
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YC bets on hard tech as AI reshapes startups and products
The episode connects AI’s safety, commercial, and geopolitical consequences with a new generation of companies building hardware, infrastructure, and specialized tools.
Sep 10, 2026 · 1h 28m
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AI risk meets startup valuations and the foldable iPhone test
The episode connects abstract AI catastrophe fears with concrete questions about regulation, inflated technology valuations, and whether new hardware solves a real problem.
Sep 10, 2026 · 27 min