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Oct 2023
2h 5m

About Unregulated AI Optimism and IRS Le...

Andrew Heaton, Jen Briney, Justin Robert Young
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The gang are back together!


A influential venture capitalist says AI regulation could cause death. Is he right?


The man who leaked Donald Trump's tax returns from the IRS faces a lighter sentencing than some expected. Is this a bad precedent? 


Emails about last week's episode on Israel and Palestine.

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