On air — new episodes as stories break
YFarmXBriefings
Frontier technology, explained as it happens
Two or three of the house cast take one story apart: what happened, what is actually established, what is merely claimed, and the number the story turns on. Several a day, two-ish minutes each, every source in the notes.
- Episodes
- 4
- Minutes on air
- 17
- Cadence
- As it breaks
Episodes
4 on the feed · newest first
OpenAI Now Watermarks Its Audio With Google's Technology
Audio generated with OpenAI tools now carries a SynthID watermark, the invisible signal built by Google DeepMind. OpenAI has also opened a verification endpoint so anyone can post a file and be told which provenance signals survive in it.
0:00 / 02:27Jeff Dean Leaves Google After 27 Years, And Takes Three More With Him
Google announced on 5 August that Demis Hassabis becomes Chair of Google DeepMind and Chief Scientist of Alphabet. In the same post it confirmed Jeff Dean is leaving after 27 years, and he has taken Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals and Quoc Le with him.
0:00 / 02:07China Has Started Issuing Skill Certificates To Robots
Thirty machines from 16 companies enrolled at the Hangzhou Robot School on 29 June. They sit an entrance check, train in one of four departments, take a real-scene assessment, and leave with a graded certificate and a code tied to the individual machine.
0:00 / 02:11MetaMask Agent Wallet goes live, and the $10,000 cover behind it is not sold in the UK
Consensys opened its wallet for autonomous trading agents to everyone on 6 August, with a mandatory scanning pipeline and $10,000 of Transaction Protection in the headline. The cover is a subscription, Consensys says it is not insurance, and MetaMask's own British page will not sell it here.
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The cast
Five voices · two or three per episode
- AliceThe anchor. Opens, steers, asks the question the listener would.
- BobThe explainer. Takes the technical thing and makes it plain. Dry.
- SallyThe sceptic. Asks what is actually proven and what is merely claimed.
- JimContext. Why it matters and what came before. Unhurried.
- MelissaMarkets and money. Numbers, funding, who pays. Brisk.
One feed, four desks
Whatever breaks, wherever it breaks
How an episode is made
Article in, audio out, nothing invented
- 01The desk publishes an article. Written, edited and sourced first — the episode never leads the reporting.
- 02A script takes it apart. The article is its only source — no invented figures, no invented quotes, and every hedge in the reporting survives into the audio.
- 03The cast voices it. Two or three of the five house characters — synthetic voices, disclosed on every episode, mixed to one level.
- 04The feed carries it everywhere. Every file measured to the exact byte so no scrub bar lies; one RSS address, polled by every podcast app on earth.
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