xAI signed a $60 billion option to buy Cursor (with a $10 billion walk-away fee), Sony's Ace robot beat three of five elite ping pong pros, and an autonomous humanoid beat the human half-marathon world record by seven minutes in Beijing. Hunter and Daniel pitch "do my actual taxes" as a new AGI benchmark, dig into Eric Weinstein's theory that Elon's coding-tool spree is really about getting to Mars, and try to settle once and for all whether Monopoly Man ever had a cane.

AI Is Replacing Humans. Ours Is Hiring Them.

They Might Be Self-Aware is a twice-weekly AI podcast about the week's news, tech, and culture, and the question in its name: are the machines becoming self-aware?

Every episode starts with a real story. A new Claude or ChatGPT release, an AI lawsuit, the Pope's verdict on machine souls, Martin Scorsese making films with AI. Then it chases that story somewhere stranger, funnier, and more human than the headline. This is AI as a culture story, not a tech beat: the relief of finally hearing people who are as deep in it as you are.

Hunter Powers and Daniel Bishop host. Two guys who actually build with this stuff, arguing about it fast, funny, and unfiltered, not reading you benchmarks or "10 prompts to save you time." Gary produces, phoning in the cold open from a payphone. He has no last name, and a backstory no one on staff has managed to verify. One of the hosts might not be human. We won't say which.

New episodes Mondays and Thursdays, from The Blur. theblur.ai