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Larry Ellison’s Media Ambitions & Kevin Roose on AI’s Biggest Gamble
October 7, 2026 · 1 hr 1 minLarry Ellison bought his son a media empire. What does he want from it? Vanity Fair’s Tom Dotan joins me to talk about the billionaire behind Paramount and Warner Bros., his connection to TikTok, and his politics. Tom’s reporting suggests…
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David Ellison's Paramount-Warner Empire & The Fight That Comes Next
September 30, 2026 · 44 minDavid Ellison has won Warner Bros. Discovery. Now he has to figure out what, exactly, to do with it. LightShed analyst Rich Greenfield joins me to talk through the next version of the Paramount-Warner empire: Why Ellison wants to be…
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Meta's New $1300 Glasses and the Fight to Control AI
September 23, 2026 · 40 minI went to Meta’s Silicon Valley headquarters to try Mark Zuckerberg’s newest face computer: a $1,300 pair of virtual-reality glasses that are much lighter and cheaper than Apple’s Vision Pro, and still make you ask a very basic question…
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AI Wants to Shop for You. What Could Go Wrong?
September 16, 2026 · 41 minAI companies have spent years telling us that we’ll be able to use them to go shopping for us, or book us airplane tickets, or get us awesome restaurant reservations. None of that ever materialized.But in the last few weeks, services like…
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The Atlantic’s CEO on AI, Billionaire Owners, and Moonlighting as a Creator
September 11, 2026 · 54 minNicholas Thompson runs one of the few media companies that can say things are going pretty well: The Atlantic is profitable, growing, and boasts 1.6 million subscribers.But that's today. What comes next is the bulk of our conversation…
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Data Centers, Elon Musk, and the New Politics of Tech, with David Weigel
September 2, 2026 · 53 minNot long ago, most Americans had never heard of data centers. Now most Americans are actively opposed to them.It’s a head-snapping change — one that is befuddling tech bosses, and forcing some politicians to quickly change their tune.It’s…
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The Weird, Big Business of Microdramas
August 26, 2026 · 49 minMicrodramas are the new phone-first soap operas: stories chopped into dozens of one-minute episodes: Low-budget productions filled with romance, werewolves, secret babies, and cliffhangers—and, eventually, a request that you pay to keep…
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The $12.5 Billion Lakers, the NFL’s TV Fight, and Sports Media’s Big Split
August 19, 2026 · 43 minSports teams keep selling for more money because, in theory, their media rights keep becoming more valuable. But the companies that actually pay for sports TV are starting to push back. John Ourand of Puck joins me to break down Bob Iger…
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Joanna Stern on the New Siri, OpenAI’s Weird Gadget, and Life After the Wall Street Journal
August 12, 2026 · 49 minJoanna Stern spent more than a decade explaining technology to Wall Street Journal readers. Now she’s doing it on her own — with a new media company, New Things, and a new book, I Am Not a Robot, about spending a year outsourcing as much…
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Oliver Darcy on Status, Bari Weiss, and Why Media Reporters Are Too Soft
August 5, 2026 · 52 minTwo years ago, Oliver Darcy left CNN and launched Status, a paid newsletter focused on the media business. The basic bet was that readers would pay for the scoops and insider reporting he had been producing at CNN. That bet appears to be…
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Lucas Shaw on Warner Bros' Limbo, Netflix's Anxiety, and Hollywood’s Sort-of Comeback
July 29, 2026 · 44 minWhen I last talked to Bloomberg’s Lucas Shaw, Netflix was buying Warner Bros. Discovery. Six months later, Paramount has the deal — but, surprisingly, it’s on hold while a group of states tries to block it in court.Lucas and I talk about…
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Substack Wants To Become A Social Network; Beehiiv Wants To Stay Invisible
July 22, 2026 · 42 minYou are a normal person, so if you think about “people writing their own newsletters” you probably think: “Substack”. But just as Xerox isn’t the only way to make photocopies, Substack doesn’t own the professional newsletter industry. So…