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What's Your Problem?

What's Your Problem?

By: iHeartPodcasts and Pushkin Industries
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Every week on What's Your Problem?, former Planet Money host Jacob Goldstein talks with entrepreneurs and engineers tackling the biggest challenges at the forefront of technology. How do you make a trip to space as routine as a plane flight? How do you turn solar energy into clean fuel? How do you use AI to stop deadly infections before they spread? We hear a lot these days about how the world is getting worse. What's Your Problem? learns from the thinkers and doers trying to make our future better.

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  • Can Robots Fix Recycling?

    Can Robots Fix Recycling?
    Jun 19 2025

    Recycling plants take in a huge amount of random (and occasionally hazardous) stuff, which they then have to turn into reliable outputs that their customers will buy. That’s why Rebecca Hu Thrams calls recycling “the most demented form of manufacturing on the planet.” Rebecca is the co-founder of Glacier, and her problem is this: Can you use AI and robots to make recycling a somewhat less demented business?

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    33 mins
  • Warlords, Espionage, and Disinformation | Introducing Hot Money: Agent of Chaos

    Warlords, Espionage, and Disinformation | Introducing Hot Money: Agent of Chaos
    Jun 17 2025

    In 2020, the Financial Times exposed a 2 billion euro fraud at Wirecard, a high-flying German fintech. Many thought that was the end of the story. But for reporter Sam Jones, it was just the beginning.

    This season on Hot Money: Agent of Chaos, from Pushkin Industries and the Financial Times, Jones investigates Wirecard’s chief operating officer who vanished just as Wirecard collapsed. And turned out to also be a Russian spy.

    Here’s episode 1. Listen to Hot Money: Agent of Chaos wherever you get your podcasts.

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    39 mins
  • Inside the Mind of an AI Model

    Inside the Mind of an AI Model
    Jun 12 2025

    AI  might be the most consequential advancement in the world right now. But – astonishingly – no one fully understands what’s going on inside AI models. Josh Batson is a research scientist at Anthropic, the AI company behind Claude, one of the world’s leading language models. Josh’s problem is this: How do we learn how AI works?

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    43 mins
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