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"The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

"The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

A biweekly podcast where hosts Nathan Labenz and Erik Torenberg interview the builders on the edge of AI and explore the dramatic shift it will unlock in the coming years.

Erik Torenberg, Nathan Labenz · Turpentine

386 episodesEN

Show overview

"The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis has been publishing since 2023, and across the 3 years since has built a catalogue of 386 episodes, alongside 1 trailer or bonus episode. That works out to roughly 650 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a several-times-a-week cadence, with the show now in its 2nd season.

Episodes typically run over ninety minutes — most land between 1h 20m and 1h 59m — though episode length varies meaningfully from one episode to the next. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-language Technology show.

The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 2 days ago, with 80 episodes already out so far this year. Published by Turpentine.

Episodes
386
Running
2023–2026 · 3y
Median length
1h 36m
Cadence
Several per week

From the publisher

A biweekly podcast where hosts Nathan Labenz and Erik Torenberg interview the builders on the edge of AI and explore the dramatic shift it will unlock in the coming years. The Cognitive Revolution is part of the Turpentine podcast network. To learn more: turpentine.co

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Governing AI Agents: Alan Chan of GovAI on Monitoring, Agent IDs, Rogue Agents & Preparing for RSI

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How Agents Decide: Goodfire's Eric Bigelow on Critical Tokens, Phase Shifts, & In-Context Learning

Oct 10, 20262h 2m

AI:AM: A Level We Shouldn't Pass? Notes from The Curve + Tokens vs. Salaries & Is SaaS Cooked?

Oct 8, 20261h 28m

Software That Never Breaks: OutSystems CEO Woodson Martin on Building Enterprise-Grade Apps at ...

Oct 7, 20261h 11m

One Brain, Any Body: Google DeepMind's Keerthana on Gemini Robotics 2, Cross-Embodiment & Humanoids

Oct 3, 20261h 32m

AI:AM: Was Trump-Xi Anything? What Counts as Utopia? + AWS GPUs Cost 3X & AI Diagnoses Rare Diseases

Oct 1, 20261h 29m

Obsolete or Irreplaceable? Garrison Lovely on Stopping the Race to Replace Human Labor

Sep 29, 20262h 14m

AI:AM: What If It Works Too Well? Colluding Agents, $200M Safety Orgs, Virtual Cells Saturate at 2%

Sep 27, 20261h 47m

What is Utopia? Presenting The Receipt Horizon, by Joel Borgen – Chapters 1–4

Sep 26, 20262h 51m

Zero to One in AI Safety: Halcyon's Mike McCormick on Launching 30 New Orgs & the Founder Bottleneck

Sep 25, 20261h 50m

AI:AM Highlights: Zvi on Pacing & Trump-Xi, Astra better behaved than Fable? + a new LLM Pain Axis??

Sep 19, 20261h 41m

No Code Is Code: Zapier CEO Wade Foster on Headless Tools, Zapier MCP & Automation Bench

Sep 17, 20261h 8m

The Balance of AI Power: Anton Leicht on Politics, Pacing Deals, and Muddling Through Well

Sep 15, 20262h 10m

AI:AM Highlights: Astra as AGI, OpenAI's Pause, Mythos @ Mozilla & Human Agency vs Technocapitalism

Sep 12, 20261h 42m

Nathan Goes to China #3: US-China Relations, the Art of the AI Deal & the Road to Pax Robotica

Sep 10, 20263h 17m

AI:AM Highlights: Welcome to the AGI Era

Sep 5, 20262h 20m

Write, Change, Recall, Forget: MongoDB's Pete Johnson on How Retrieval Drives Agent Performance

Sep 1, 20261h 36m

AI:AM Highlights: Recursive Self-Improvement, Rushed and Vibe-Coded?

Aug 28, 20262h 11m

RL's a Hell of a Drug: Metagaming, Reward Seeking & Motivated CoT Reasoning – Bronson Schoen, Apollo

Aug 26, 20262h 14m

AI in the AM — Weekly Highlights: Relaunch Week (Aug 17–20, 2026)

Aug 22, 20262h 33m