The Information Bottleneck

What a Work of Art, Part 2: Same Review, Different Paper

125,680 ICLR reviews, eight B200s, and a $38,320 sausage.

Nov 9 • Ravid Shwartz Ziv

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Dan Card: AI Hasn’t Changed Cybersecurity As Much As You Think

Listen now (81 mins) | Dan Card has spent more than 26 years in cybersecurity as a penetration tester, defender and architect.

Nov 7 • Ravid Shwartz Ziv

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1:21:04

October 2026

Why Video Games Still Don’t Use Modern AI | Julian Togelius (NYU)

Listen now (73 mins) | Julian Togelius, an NYU professor and co-founder of modl.ai, is living the dream of every kid who grew up as a computer geek and…

Oct 31 • Ravid Shwartz Ziv

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What’s Left for Mathematicians? | Daniel Litt

Listen now (78 mins) | In this episode, we talked with Daniel Litt, a mathematician at the University of Toronto.

Oct 20 • Ravid Shwartz Ziv

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1:18:18

The Political Economy of AI: Governance, Bias, and the Future | Andy Hall (Stanford/Anthropic)

Listen now (84 mins) | In this episode of the the information bottleneck podcast, we talked with Andy Hall, a Stanford professor and MTS at Anthropic.

Oct 16 • Ravid Shwartz Ziv

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John Platt (Google): AI for Climate and Science

Listen now (73 mins) | John Platt is a Google Fellow and leads the Applied Science team at Google Research, the group working on climate and science.

Oct 10 • Ravid Shwartz Ziv

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Yuandong Tian on Recursive Self-Improvement

Listen now (58 mins) | Yuandong Tian spent many years at Meta FAIR and recently left to co-found Recursive Superintelligence, a company building AI that…

Oct 5 • Ravid Shwartz Ziv

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September 2026

Chris Manning: Language Is the Real Unlock for Intelligence

Listen now (56 mins) | Chris Manning is a legend in NLP.

Sep 27 • Ravid Shwartz Ziv

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Why AI Still Can't See wtih Andrew Dai

Listen now (58 mins) | Andrew Dai spent over a decade at Google Brain and DeepMind, where he co-wrote the 2015 paper that introduced language model…

Sep 24 • Ravid Shwartz Ziv

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Can AI Replace Doctors? Zachary Lipton on the Future of Healthcare and AI

Zachary Lipton is an associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University and a co-founder of Abridge, a healthcare AI company (and a jazz saxophonist!).

Sep 21 • Ravid Shwartz Ziv and Allen Roush

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Sara Hooker on the End of Static AI

What comes after scaling?

Sep 16 • Ravid Shwartz Ziv

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Tiny Recursive Models Beat the Giants - Alexia Jolicoeur-Martineau (Microsoft)

Alexia Jolicoeur-Martineau is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft and the author of "Less is More: Recursive Reasoning with Tiny Networks," the paper…

Sep 15 • Ravid Shwartz Ziv and Allen Roush

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