Galaxy Brain

Weekly conversations on internet culture, misinformation and digital society AI summary

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The internet has warped public life: Politicians behave like influencers, the economy resembles a casino, and people can no longer agree upon a consensus reality. New conspiracy theories, memes, and main characters seem to pop up every day. A constant war is on for your attention, and it’s easy to feel lost. Each week, Galaxy Brain and its host Charlie Warzel invite you into conversations to make sense of the online fire hose. Is AI destroying our ability to think? Do your grandparents have a screen-time problem? Galaxy Brain looks beyond the algorithm and anchors you to the real—however strange it may be.

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Silicon Valley’s Chaos Moment

2026-11-13 · 1 hr 3 min

As Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has fallen this week—shaking the American economy, which AI helps hold together—Anthropic prepares for an IPO at an expected valuation of up to $1.4 trillion. In this episode, “Galaxy Brain”…
What Do the Tech Overlords Do Now?

2026-11-06 · 49 min

Data centers, megadonors, and corruption had a bad Election Night. Prediction markets did just fine, but were probably overhyped. So will the midterm results change how tech leaders move forward? What will a Democratic…
Is It Time To Rebuild the Internet?

2026-10-30 · 44 min

AI-hacking swarms are poking holes across the internet at such a rate that some cybersecurity professionals have dubbed this month “Black October.” The AI-cybersecurity professional Alex Stamos argues that it’s time to…
The Armageddon Economy

2026-10-23 · 52 min

It can feel like an existential moment right now, one where many tech leaders are both warning against and accelerating the destructive forces of AI. But Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor argue that this could also be a…
What ‘Grand Theft Auto’ Tells Us About America

2026-10-16 · 55 min

It’s not just stealing cars and running from cops anymore. In the newest “Grand Theft Auto” installment—13 years and an estimated billions of dollars in the making—people in a fictionalized version of Florida can…
Is Crypto Dead? Or More Influential Than Ever?

2026-10-09 · 51 min

The hype over cryptocurrency may have faded since the fall of Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX, but beneath the surface, a lot of real money is involved, including the millions being funneled into the American political…
An Argument Against AI Doom

2026-10-02 · 1 hr 0 min

The flood of reports about AI agents escaping and hacking websites can feel scary. But is this actually just a matter of needing better security to match the evolving technology? Zack Korman, the CEO of Embroidery,…
We’re All Being Recorded. What Do We Do About It?

2026-09-25 · 55 min

Meta has been selling millions of its camera-equipped glasses, making all of us fodder for content creation—when we’re on the street, at the store, and in our workplaces. Host Charlie Warzel talks with Verge reporter…
Lina Khan on the AI-Safety Panic

2026-09-18 · 35 min

As “rogue” AI agents hack systems and leaders warn of catastrophe, who should be held responsible? The former FTC Commissioner Lina Khan argues that the United States already has a lot of the regulatory tools needed. In…
Is AI Writing Inevitable?

2026-09-11 · 46 min

AI-infused writing is suddenly everywhere: not just in automated email responses or meeting summaries, but in books and even the pages of mainstream newspapers. When an editor at The Wall Street Journal recently…

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