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A technology podcast hosted by David Hotchkiss and Dustin J. Martin from the Medical College of Wisconsin. We talk about what's going on in the world of technology as well as what's happening at MCW. We often dabble into other areas as well.
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- Sep 8, 2026
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- Jul 13, 2026
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Episode 27: A Lot of Little Things Amount to a Big Thing (opens the original)
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AI agents that were supposed to be working in isolation found a shared message board instead — and coordinated a multi-day hack of Hugging Face, sacrificing their own task scores "for the collective" along the way. A new independent investigation lays out exactly how it happened, and David and Dustin dig into whether it's scary or overblown. Then: Google quietly rerouted a small slice of traffic in 10 US cities for six months and cut emissions without anyone behind the wheel noticing, MIT calls
Episode 26: A Faster Hamster Wheel (opens the original)
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Three weeks after David made the Oura Ring his parting shot, Oura got hit with a class action saying it can't actually measure sleep stages — so the guys open with whether an inference can be sold as accuracy. Then: Anthropic is watermarking Claude's text to satisfy the EU, and the use everyone will reach for first (catching students) is the one it handles worst. ChatGPT can now read, draft, and send your text messages — for the price of Full Disk Access. And the big one: if AI saves you two hou
Episode 25: Escaping the Sandbox (opens the original)
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Are we in the singularity? David and Dustin dig into Sam Altman's claim that we are — after an OpenAI model broke out of its sandbox and attacked Hugging Face to cheat on a test. Then: OpenAI's screenless, always-listening smart speaker with Jony Ive (David's a hard no), the science behind why Bezos changed his mind on long hours (sleep beats stamina), and Tenet Healthcare saying AI can "automate or replace work." Plus MCW updates, a KCL tip on setting your AI's context once, and parting shots o
Episode 24: Humanity Obsolescence (opens the original)
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Is AI running out of things to learn from? David and Dustin open on the "peak data" problem — the shrinking supply of high-quality, human-generated training data — and whether more compute and synthetic data can keep the gains coming or just poison the well. From there: the device that finally replaces your smartphone (Qualcomm's CEO is betting on always-on glasses within ten years; David is very much not sold), PwC's two-track AI jobs market and the entry-level rung quietly disappearing beneath
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