We Need Inventors. And Inventors Need Us. Pablos Holman on Finding and Backing Zero to One Builders

Plus: the virtue of focusing on just one thing

The Moon, the Mythos, the Mayhem

Keep FAFO Weird!

Trust Is All That's Left: How AI Scrambles the Creator Economy | Jim Louderback Live from SXSW

What's your meme? > What's your elevator pitch?

FAFO Is a Webby Nominee for Best Tech Podcast!!!

And you can help make it a winner!

Cooling Earth with everything from mushroom bacon to giant sky parasols | Eben Bayer (climate-tech founder)

Shade-as-a-Service?

Melania's Humanoid Guest, Robot Teachers, and What We Lose When Learning Is "Instant"

The productive struggle is real

What should kids study? How should AI help? Khan Academy's learning chief on the productive struggle

Glimpsed at SXSW: Robot Soccer, AI Sweet Nothings, and Pants That Do the Walking | It's FAFO Friday

Everything Converging Everywhere All at Once

"Train the Monkey First" — How Google Built a Moonshot Factory | Astro Teller (Captain of Moonshots)

"It Sounds Like Something From Marvel" — Building an Antivirus for AI... With AI | Daniel Hulme (Founder, Conscium)

Would a conscious AI be safer than a zombie AI?

Choose Your Own Adventure | It's FAFO Friday

Quantum leaps, robot dancers, and breakfast tacos

Dead as a Dodo? Maybe Not! Colossal's Beth Shapiro on the Science of De-Extinction — and Moonshots

Why bringing back extinct species can protect those still here

To Accede or Not To Accede? That Is The Question | It's FAFO Friday!

Murderbots, mass layoffs, and media takeovers...

"I just want AI to replace me as a scientist" | The co-founder of Diagnostic Robotics predicts the future

Realizing a childhood dream

AI Delivers Mediocre Results—By Design. So How Do You Stand Out? | MetaLab CEO Luke Des Cotes

AI wrappers, FTW!

Could AI Make Capitalism Better? Henrik Werdelin Is Optimistic

A pitch for positivity

"Shut Up, C-3PO" or Do We Have a Duty to Treat Machines Well?

"Never tell me the odds!"

Everyone's “Jumpy” Right Now: Azeem Azhar on When—Or Is It If?—AI Can Be Profitable

Why AI winners will come from odd places

Claude Goes High Brow With Its Super Bowl Ad and "Constitution"; OpenAI Scrambles | It's FAFO Friday!

TGIFAFOF

Steer the Future or Get Steamrolled: Baratunde Thurston on Our Collective Power

On living well *with* machines

Why do Tim Cook and CEOs keep bending the knee? Baratunde Thurston on a basic truth they don't get

Solidarity

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Will AI Disrupt — or Entrench — the Travel Industry's Big Players? | Rafat Ali (Founder & CEO, Skift)

And can we stop the enshittification of travel?