Core Memory Podcast

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TBPN has never let anyone film behind the scenes of its studio until now. John Coogan and Jordi Hays built the Ultradome, a converted Quonset hut on an LA soundstage lot, into the home of tech's favorite live show, and they gave Ashlee Vance the first full tour. Along the way we go on air as the show's final guest of the day, hit the gong, and get the origin story of how two entrepreneurs looking for their next thing accidentally built a daily, three hour live broadcast about technology, business, and markets. The tour covers all the objects that TBPN fans know and love. There is the horse statue that Jordi had to have after spotting one in a store window, the $15,000 gong that closes out every lightning round, the soundboard John plays like a musical instrument, and the goalposts that physically move every time an AI lab claims it has reached AGI. You also meet Tyler the intern, who went from reply guy to on air character by reassembling a disassembled iPhone in an hour, creating what the guys call the first American assembled iPhone. Underneath the bits is a real business story. John and Jordi explain why they run a tech show from Los Angeles instead of San Francisco, how being physically removed helps them call balls and strikes, why they ran fake ads for Gulfstream before they had a single advertiser, and what it takes to prep and perform six hours a day, five days a week. They also reveal the chat's favorite weapon: the flashbang, which has gone off on everyone from Marc Benioff to Cathie Wood. LINKS TBPN: https://www.tbpn.com Core Memory: https://www.corememory.com SPONSORS Brex: https://www.brex.com/?partnerId=corememory Send Cut Send: https://sendcutsend.com/corememory/ ABOUT THE HOST Core Memory is hosted by Ashlee Vance, a two time New York Times best selling author and filmmaker who has spent two decades covering technology and science for The Economist, The New York Times, and Bloomberg Businessweek. He is the author of the best selling biography of Elon Musk, created the Emmy nominated series Hello World, and produced HBO's Wild Wild Space and Netflix's Don't Die. With Core Memory, he drops into the labs, garages, factories, hangars, and occasional questionable warehouses where scientists, inventors, oddballs, and startups are building the future. Subscribe to watch more Core Memory videos https://www.youtube.com/@CoreMemoryVideos/videos Check out our podcasts https://www.youtube.com/@CoreMemoryPodcast https://www.corememory.com/podcast Find Ashlee Vance at www.corememory.com https://www.instagram.com/ashlee.vance/ https://x.com/ashleevance Find Kylie Robison at https://x.com/kyliebytes https://www.instagram.com/kylie.robison CHAPTERS 00:00 Intro 03:04 Crashing the Live Show 06:21 Who Are John and Jordi, Really? 12:09 Why Build a Tech Show in LA? 17:45 The Tour Starts With a Horse 21:59 How Much Does a Gong Cost? 25:58 The Grind Nobody Sees 33:47 Meet Tyler the Intern 37:40 Who Got Flashbanged?

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Quantum computing has been ten years away for about thirty years, and Prineha Narang is here to explain what actually changed. A physics professor at UCLA, a U.S. Science Envoy who advises the government on quantum policy, and an operating partner at the deep tech fund DCVC, Narang sits down with Ashlee Vance to sort out what is real about quantum right now and what is still hype. She walks through the news that set off a wave of texts across Silicon Valley, a run of results from Google, Caltech, and the neutral atom startups suggesting that the encryption protecting your bank account, your messages, and the entire internet could be cracked by a quantum computer far sooner than almost anyone expected. The conversation gets specific about why that estimate collapsed from millions of qubits down to roughly 10,000, what post quantum cryptography means for the RSA and elliptic curve encryption we all rely on, and whether it is time to panic about so called Q-Day. Narang also makes the case that quantum and AI have stopped competing and started merging into one giant bucket of next generation compute, where the real question is no longer speed but energy. Then the two of them go somewhere most quantum interviews never do: quantum sensing, the idea that a chip the size of a blueberry could replace GPS, detect a single sneeze in a crowded airport, or one day sit inside the human body reading signals no classical sensor can see. It is an accessible tour of the field, with detours into the race against China, why NVIDIA's video game chips quietly took over science, and whether consciousness itself might run on quantum rules. SPONSORS Brex: https://www.brex.com/?partnerId=corememory Send Cut Send: https://sendcutsend.com/corememory/ IN THIS EPISODE Narang Lab at UCLA: https://naranglab.ucla.edu DCVC: https://www.dcvc.com Oratomic (the Caltech neutral atom spinout): https://www.oratomic.com Atom Computing: https://atom-computing.com Mesa Quantum: https://mesaquantum.com Google's work on the cost of quantum factoring: https://blog.google/security/tracking-cost-of-quantum-factori/ NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography: https://csrc.nist.gov/projects/post-quantum-cryptography DARPA Quantum Benchmarking Initiative: https://www.darpa.mil/research/programs/quantum-benchmarking-initiative Hyperlite Mountain Gear (the Dyneema packs Prineha swears by): https://www.hyperlitemountaingear.com ABOUT THE HOST Ashlee Vance is a best selling author, filmmaker, and journalist who has spent more than twenty years chronicling science and technology for The Economist, The New York Times, and Bloomberg Businessweek. He wrote the best selling biography of Elon Musk and created the Emmy nominated series Hello World. On Core Memory he travels the world to drop into labs, garages, factories, and hangars and spend time with the scientists, inventors, oddballs, and startups pushing the future forward. Subscribe to watch more Core Memory videos https://www.youtube.com/@CoreMemoryVideos/videos Check out our podcasts https://www.youtube.com/@CoreMemoryPodcast https://www.corememory.com/podcast Find Ashlee Vance at www.corememory.com https://www.instagram.com/ashlee.vance/ https://x.com/ashleevance Find Kylie Robison at https://x.com/kyliebytes https://www.instagram.com/kylie.robison Chapters 00:00 Intro 02:17 The Physicist Who Almost Became a Pro Runner 13:39 A Cold Email, a Full Ride, and the Road to Caltech 26:15 How Video Game Chips Quietly Took Over Science 31:56 Is Quantum Losing the Spotlight to AI? 40:50 "I Still Don't Believe in Quantum": Answering the Skeptics 46:28 The Google Result That Could Break Encryption 53:44 Is It Time to Panic About Q-Day? 1:06:48 Quantum Sensing and the Case of Who Sneezed 1:17:30 Does Consciousness Run on Quantum Rules? 1:22:28 The Advice She Gives Terrified Students 1:30:20 So When Does Quantum Actually Get Real?

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Tesla opened up its brand new Semi factory for a full walking tour, and we filmed the whole thing. In March of 2026, right as the plant outside Reno, Nevada was coming to life for the start of production, Ashlee Vance walked all 1.7 million square feet with Dan Priestley, the head of Tesla's Semi program. The tour runs the way the factory does, from raw coils of metal and a giant stamping press at one end to a finished electric semi truck rolling through a towering light tunnel at the other. At full speed, this building is meant to turn out 50,000 trucks a year, which works out to a new Semi coming off the line every seven or eight minutes. Along the way you see things few people outside Tesla ever have. Truck cabs glide overhead on some of the heaviest electric monorail carriers in the world, holding assemblies north of 10,000 pounds above the factory floor. Three battery packs, built on the same cells as the Cybertruck, get bolted into a frame in a process Tesla calls battery marriage. The cabs travel down the line sideways, a trick that saved about 40 percent of the floor space. Priestley also tells the origin story of the whole program, which started when JB Straubel asked why Tesla parts were being hauled between its factories on diesel trucks. Diesel semis are about 1 percent of the vehicles on American roads and burn 16 to 18 percent of the fuel. That is the opportunity. The tour ends with a ride in the Semi itself, where Priestley, who went out and got his trucker's license for this job, explains the center driving position, why regenerative braking changes mountain descents, and how a driver can put 300 miles back into the battery during a legally required 30 minute break. Tesla has more than 13 million test miles on these trucks. Now comes the hard part: convincing the trucking industry to switch. If you want to see how American manufacturing actually gets stood up, this is the whole thing, end to end. LINKS The Man Putting Tesla Motors Into Classic Cars - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0o11hZ1EuE Tesla Semi: https://www.tesla.com/semi More factory tours from the same corner of Nevada: Redwood Materials factory tour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSSgAPylz60 SendCutSend factory tour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8oufrrXaig Core Memory: https://www.corememory.com ABOUT THE HOST Core Memory is hosted by Ashlee Vance, a two time New York Times best selling author and filmmaker who has spent two decades covering technology and science for The Economist, The New York Times, and Bloomberg Businessweek. He is the author of the best selling biography of Elon Musk, created the Emmy nominated series Hello World, and produced HBO's Wild Wild Space and Netflix's Don't Die. With Core Memory, he drops into the labs, garages, factories, hangars, and occasional questionable warehouses where scientists, inventors, oddballs, and startups are building the future. Subscribe to watch more Core Memory videos https://www.youtube.com/@CoreMemoryVideos/videos Check out our podcasts https://www.youtube.com/@CoreMemoryPodcast https://www.corememory.com/podcast Find Ashlee Vance at www.corememory.com https://www.instagram.com/ashlee.vance/ https://x.com/ashleevance Find Kylie Robison at https://x.com/kyliebytes https://www.instagram.com/kylie.robison CHAPTERS 00:00 Intro 01:14 A Factory Laid Out Like a Truck 04:46 Why Does Tesla Even Make a Semi? 13:48 How Fast Can You Build a Semi? 16:55 Would You Get Married in a Light Tunnel? 22:30 One of the Heaviest Monorails on Earth 32:58 Witnessing a Battery Marriage 44:05 Why Are the Cabs Moving Sideways? 57:53 Time to Ride in the Semi 1:02:48 A Steering Wheel in the Middle? 1:06:28 Will Truckers Actually Go Electric?

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America forgot how to build things, and a 35 year old from Melbourne named Chris Power is betting billions that he can teach it again. In this Core Memory interview, Ashlee Vance sits down with the founder of Hadrian inside one of its Los Angeles factories, where rows of CNC machines and robots crank out the precision metal parts that go into rockets, satellites, missiles and fighter jets. Power spotted the problem years ago. The mom and pop machine shops that quietly supply American aerospace and defense are run by people in their 60s, their kids never wanted the job, and when those craftsmen retire, decades of skill retire with them. His fix is a full stack software company that captures that expertise, pours it into automated factories, and trains people from Home Depot, the Marines and desk jobs to run advanced manufacturing in about 30 days. The conversation goes straight at the scariest question in tech right now, which is whether the United States can rebuild its industrial base before it actually needs it. Power breaks down how the country offshored more than 90 percent of its manufacturing to China since the 1980s, why it now takes years to replace missiles like the Stinger and Javelin, and how Hadrian is jumping from making individual components to producing entire missiles. He and Ashlee dig into the humanoid robot supply chain that still runs through China, the reason nobody except SpaceX and Tesla seems able to master production, and what a real American Shenzhen would take to build. It gets blunt about how far behind we are and how fast things could unravel if a fight over Taiwan ever started. ABOUT THE HOST Ashlee Vance is a best selling author, filmmaker, and journalist who has spent more than twenty years chronicling science and technology for The Economist, The New York Times, and Bloomberg Businessweek. He wrote the best selling biography of Elon Musk and created the Emmy nominated series Hello World. On Core Memory he travels the world to drop into labs, garages, factories, and hangars and spend time with the scientists, inventors, oddballs, and startups pushing the future forward. SPONSORS Brex: https://www.brex.com/?partnerId=corememory Send Cut Send: https://sendcutsend.com/corememory/ IN THIS EPISODE Hadrian: https://www.hadrian.co/ Chris Power on X: https://x.com/2112Power Atomic Industries: https://atomic.industries/ Machina Labs: https://www.machinalabs.ai/ California Forever: https://californiaforever.com/ Subscribe to watch more Core Memory videos https://www.youtube.com/@CoreMemoryVideos/videos Check out our podcasts https://www.youtube.com/@CoreMemoryPodcast https://www.corememory.com/podcast Find Ashlee Vance at www.corememory.com https://www.instagram.com/ashlee.vance/ https://x.com/ashleevance Find Kylie Robison at https://x.com/kyliebytes https://www.instagram.com/kylie.robison CHAPTERS 00:00 Intro 04:07 From Melbourne to a California Factory Floor 07:37 The Thesis He'd Work On for the Rest of His Life 10:00 How America Gave the Whole Farm Away 14:46 Why We Can't Rebuild Our Own Missiles 19:08 Can You Really Put a Master Machinist Into Software? 24:38 From Missile Parts to the Entire Missile 29:19 The China Problem Nobody Wants to Say Out Loud 33:40 How Far Behind Is America Really? 41:45 "You Can't Automate This." Answering the Critics 45:22 Why Can't Anyone Else Copy Tesla and SpaceX? 53:03 Can America Actually Build Its Own Shenzhen?

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We get the full tour of SendCutSend, the online metal fabrication company that has quietly become one of the busiest factories in America, and you get to see the entire operation from the loading dock back. Ashlee Vance walks the floor with founder Jim Belosic and follows a raw sheet of metal through every step it takes to leave as a finished part, roughly 100,000 of them every single day. You see where the raw aluminum and steel come in, the 12 kilowatt Amada fiber lasers running four shifts a day, the water jets and CNC routers, the deburring and powder coating lines, the brand new five axis machine shop, and the shipping dock where 20,000 orders a month go out the door. Along the way Belosic explains how software runs the whole place, why he bought a baggage tug off Facebook Marketplace instead of spending 4 million dollars on robots, and the philosophy that keeps it all moving. Find good people, give them great software, and "just use dudes." It is also one of the best looks you will get at the state of American manufacturing. SendCutSend is a front row seat to reshoring, high mix low volume production, and the quiet comeback of making things in the United States. Belosic gets into why orders are flooding in, how the company complements the mom and pop shops instead of killing them, and what surprise ends up in every single box. Check our full interview with Jim Belosic on the Core Memory podcast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0bjZbiR8wk LINKS SendCutSend: https://sendcutsend.com/corememory/ Amada (the laser maker featured): https://www.amada.com/ ABOUT THE HOST Core Memory is hosted by Ashlee Vance, a two time New York Times best selling author and filmmaker who has spent two decades covering technology and science for The Economist, The New York Times, and Bloomberg Businessweek. He is the author of the best selling biography of Elon Musk, created the Emmy nominated series Hello World, and produced HBO's Wild Wild Space and Netflix's Don't Die. With Core Memory, he drops into the labs, garages, factories, hangars, and occasional questionable warehouses where scientists, inventors, oddballs, and startups are building the future. Subscribe to watch more Core Memory videos https://www.youtube.com/@CoreMemoryVideos/videos Check out our podcasts https://www.youtube.com/@CoreMemoryPodcast https://www.corememory.com/podcast Find Ashlee Vance at www.corememory.com https://www.instagram.com/ashlee.vance/ https://x.com/ashleevance Find Kylie Robison at https://x.com/kyliebytes https://www.instagram.com/kylie.robison CHAPTERS 00:00 Intro 01:46 How Busy Is Too Busy? Reading the Metal 03:09 The 1.3 Million Dollar Machine You Can't Stand Near 08:23 What 12 Kilowatts Does to a Sheet of Metal 13:38 Why "Just Use Dudes" Beats 4 Million in Robots 16:13 Turning a Sharp Edge Into a Finished Part 26:01 Inside the Fastest Growing Part of the Shop 32:41 Candy, Chaos, and 100,000 Parts a Day

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If you have ever wondered who actually makes the metal parts behind America's rockets, robots, and cars, the answer is increasingly a quiet company in Reno called SendCutSend. We drove to Nevada to spend a day with founder and CEO Jim Belosic, the guy whose name keeps coming up at every hardware startup, aerospace company, and defense shop in the country. You upload a design, his machines cut, bend, and machine it, and the finished part shows up at your door, sometimes by noon the next day. No venture capital for years, no outside sales team, no hype. Just a fast, easy way to turn an idea into a real piece of metal. Jim takes us through the whole story, from the $750,000 fiber laser he bought before he knew if anyone would buy anything, to the first paid order ever placed, a batch of pickleball keychains. We get into how a graphic designer turned Facebook software founder ended up running one of the most important on-demand manufacturing businesses in the United States, why he built almost all the software himself, and how SendCutSend now serves more than 300,000 customers that range from his mom to rocket companies, Zipline, DoorDash, and Fortune 500 names he is not allowed to mention. Along the way he explains the Teslonda, his half Tesla, half Honda hot rod that forced the whole company into existence. This one is really a conversation about American manufacturing and whether the reindustrialization everyone keeps talking about is real or theater. Jim has strong, unhyped views on competing with China, why "software first" is often a pitch built for investors, how he trains a 19 year old with no experience to run a million dollar machine, and why he refuses to build a business that only works if there is a war. Full disclosure, SendCutSend later came on as a Core Memory sponsor, but this interview was filmed months before that and was done independently. ABOUT THE HOST Ashlee Vance is a best selling author, filmmaker, and journalist who has spent more than twenty years chronicling science and technology for The Economist, The New York Times, and Bloomberg Businessweek. He wrote the best selling biography of Elon Musk and created the Emmy nominated series Hello World. On Core Memory he travels the world to drop into labs, garages, factories, and hangars and spend time with the scientists, inventors, oddballs, and startups pushing the future forward. SPONSORS Brex: https://www.brex.com/?partnerId=corememory Send Cut Send: https://sendcutsend.com/corememory/ Subscribe to watch more Core Memory videos https://www.youtube.com/@CoreMemoryVideos/videos Check out our podcasts https://www.youtube.com/@CoreMemoryPodcast https://www.corememory.com/podcast Find Ashlee Vance at www.corememory.com https://www.instagram.com/ashlee.vance/ https://x.com/ashleevance Find Kylie Robison at https://x.com/kyliebytes https://www.instagram.com/kylie.robison Chapters 00:00 Intro 04:09 What Does SendCutSend Actually Do? 06:01 The Black Market for One-Off Parts 08:31 The $750,000 Bet That Started It All 11:22 From Facebook Software to Cutting Metal 18:02 What on Earth Is a Teslonda? 24:31 The One Thing Nobody Else Tried 30:28 300,000 Customers, From Rockets to His Mom 35:23 Is Reindustrializing America Just Theater? 42:20 Why "Software First" Is a VC Trap 50:22 Is U.S. Manufacturing Stronger Than We Think? 1:03:42 Anodizing, Nevada, and What They Can Build Now 1:13:29 The One Competitor That Scares Him

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Kylie and I went to the Midjourney Scanner event and tried out their prototype device for your viewing pleasure. More info on the podcast Subscribe to watch more Core Memory videos https://www.youtube.com/@CoreMemoryVideos/videos Check out our podcasts https://www.youtube.com/@CoreMemoryPodcast https://www.corememory.com/podcast Find Ashlee Vance at www.corememory.com https://www.instagram.com/ashlee.vance/ https://x.com/ashleevance Find Kylie Robison at https://x.com/kyliebytes https://www.instagram.com/kylie.robison

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Midjourney, the company that taught computers to dream up images, just built a machine that scans the inside of your body. Founder David Holz pulled the cover off it at a members only club in a rough stretch of downtown San Francisco this week, and Ashlee Vance and Kylie Robison were two of the only journalists in the room. What they saw was a full body ultrasound scanner that lowers you into a pool of water, images your insides in about a minute, and throws off terabytes of data per scan. It is one of eight products the self funded AI company plans to ship, including a luxury spa to house the machines and, according to chatter at the party, a brain computer interface. In this episode of Core Memory they break down exactly what they saw, why the $40 billion dream might be the easy part, and what happens when a profitable AI startup decides to reinvent the annual physical. From there the conversation turns to the biggest fight in AI right now. The U.S. government banned Anthropic's newest model, the first time Washington has ever pulled an American AI model offline, and Ashlee was inside Anthropic as it happened. He walks through the leaks, the politics, and why the precedent should worry every other lab. The two also get into Google DeepMind's strange and brilliant partnership with EVE Online to train world models, Noam Shazeer leaving Google for OpenAI, the quiet death of the "scaling has hit a wall" narrative, and Snap's new $2,200 smart glasses that might be too big and too late. It is not all AI. Ashlee tells the story of nearly walking off with one of Rafael Nadal's rackets at Larry Ellison's compound, the two compare notes on Bryan Johnson's skincare routine, and Ashlee goes fishing with a robot that kills fish using a centuries old Japanese method to make better sushi. LINKS AND COMPANIES DISCUSSED Midjourney: https://www.midjourney.com Butterfly Network: https://www.butterflynetwork.com Anthropic: https://www.anthropic.com Google DeepMind: https://deepmind.google EVE Online: https://www.eveonline.com Snap Specs: https://www.spectacles.com Shinkei Systems: https://www.shinkei.systems Redwood Materials: https://www.redwoodmaterials.com ABOUT THE HOSTS Ashlee Vance is a best selling author and journalist who has spent two decades covering science and technology for Bloomberg Businessweek, The New York Times, and The Economist. He wrote the definitive biography "Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future" and "When the Heavens Went on Sale," created the Emmy nominated show Hello World, and produced the documentary Wild Wild Space. He is the founder of Core Memory. Kylie Robison covers the business of artificial intelligence and the companies racing to build it, including OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI. She previously reported on Big Tech and AI at Wired, The Verge, Fortune, and Business Insider. THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS Brex is the intelligent finance platform that 30,000 companies, from startups to the world's largest corporations, rely on for corporate cards, high yield business banking, and AI powered expense automation. Learn more at https://www.brex.com/?partnerId=corememory Send Cut Send is the online manufacturing service for custom metal and plastic parts, cut, machined, and bent fast. Get 15% off your first order at https://sendcutsend.com/corememory/ Subscribe to watch more Core Memory videos https://www.youtube.com/@CoreMemoryVideos/videos Check out our podcasts https://www.youtube.com/@CoreMemoryPodcast https://www.corememory.com/podcast Find Ashlee Vance at www.corememory.com https://www.instagram.com/ashlee.vance/ https://x.com/ashleevance Find Kylie Robison at https://x.com/kyliebytes https://www.instagram.com/kylie.robison Chapters 0:00 Intro 0:38 Inside Midjourney's Secret MRI Machine 15:42 What Does Brian Johnson's Skin Really Look Like? 21:14 The First AI Model America Ever Banned 36:26 Why Is DeepMind Obsessed With a 20-Year-Old Space Game? 45:47 The Transformer Inventor Just Switched Sides 49:36 Whatever Happened to "Scaling Hit a Wall"? 52:26 Who on Earth Is Buying $2,200 Smart Glasses? 1:00:34 Dating in San Francisco, COVID Shots, and the World Cup 1:05:32 The Time Ashlee Nearly Pocketed Rafael Nadal's Racket 1:16:21 A Robot That Kills Fish the Japanese Way 1:19:31 Is Ashlee Turning Republican? Plus Where Batteries Go to Die