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US President Joe Biden and President of the People's Republic of China Xi Jinping recently met in San Francisco. It was the first time Xi had visited the US in six years — and the first time the two leaders had met in person in a year. Geopolitical expert Ian Bremmer explains the implications of the meeting, sharing context and insight on areas where...

President Biden and China’s top leader met to repair their countries’ relations. Relations had sunk to one of their lowest points in decades. Edward Wong, a diplomatic correspondent for The New York Times, discusses the effort.

Bongino addresses the explosive new details about what seems to be another massive Biden Crime Family coverup. First photos reveal the COCAINE found in the White House FBI accused of targeting Trump types; agents who served in military deemed ‘disloyal’ San Francisco Cleans Up for Xi.

Everyone makes mistakes. How do you learn from them? Lessons from the classroom, the Air Force, and the world’s deadliest infectious disease.

RESOURCES:

• Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well, by Amy Edmondson (2023).
• "You Think Failure Is Hard? So Is Learning From It," by Lauren Eskreis-Winkler and Ayelet Fishbach (Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2022).
• "The Market for R&D Failures,"...

ChatGPT can now hear, see and speak — and that’s just the start of the deluge of A.I. news this week. Kevin and Casey unpack the lightning-speed updates.

Then, Meta’s next-generation headset, Quest 3, is here. Is there still hope for the metaverse?

And: An interview with a prompt engineer. Yes, that’s a real job.

Today’s Guest:

• Riley Goodside is a prompt engineer at...

We’re coming up on 10 years of Criminal. In the past decade, we've loved taking the show all over the country - including the time I ate a bad oyster in San Francisco and almost didn't make it on stage. It means a lot to us, to be together with you in person - so we're excited to be doing it again soon. This...

In this episode, I discuss the global assault on Rumble and free speech. News Picks: Rumble Slams 'Disturbing' Request From UK Government Over Russell Brand's Content San Francisco drug overdose deaths hit record high: ‘It’s like a zombie apocalypse’ F-35 pilot ejected from $100M jet over South Carolina due to ‘bad weather’ Democrats have been winning big in special elections Copyright Bongino Inc All...

Sid from San Francisco has a problem with his Ford SUV. He misplaced a live rat inside it that eventually died deep in the dash. His friend and owner Jacquie fills us in on Sid's tale of rodent woe.

After a closely watched vote, driverless cars, once a Silicon Valley fantasy, have become a 24-hour-a-day reality in San Francisco. Are autonomous vehicles an interesting and safe transportation alternative? Or are they a nuisance and a traffic-blocking disaster waiting to happen?

Cade Metz, who covers technology for The Times, describes the unique challenges of coexisting with cars that drive themselves.

Guest: Cade Metz, a...

Dario Amodei has been anxious about A.I. since before it was cool to be anxious about A.I. After a few years working at OpenAI, he decided to do something about that anxiety. The result was Claude: an A.I.-powered chatbot built by Anthropic, Mr. Amodei’s A.I. start-up.

Today, Mr. Amodei joins Kevin and Casey to talk about A.I. anxiety and why it’s so difficult to...