MARS Magazine Podcast
The MARS Magazine dives into topics including artificial intelligence, gaming, entertainment, technology, entrepreneurship, current events, and so much more. The podcast is hosted by veteran technology journalist Adario Strange. For questions or inquiries, reach out at: contact@marsmag.com Subscribe to the MARS Magazine newsletter: https://marsmag.substack.com
Episodes
68 episodes
How the Rich Are Moving Money Now, with Howard Wu of Aleo
MARS Magazine Podcast Ep. 75: This time, we talk with Howard Wu, the creator of the first legally compliant privacy stablecoin, who joins Adario Strange to reveal why private crypto transactions can now legally exist inside U.S. regulation. The...
Is AI the Final Invention? Microsoft’s AI Investor Reveals the Truth
MARS Magazine Podcast Ep. 74: This time Adario Strange spoke to Michael Stewart, Managing Partner at M12, Microsoft’s venture capital arm, for one of the most wide-ranging conversations we’ve had on the channel. They dive into everything from t...
What if AI controlled your money? This crypto pioneer is creating the answer
MARS Magazine Podcast Ep. 73: In this episode, Adario Strange speaks with Sean Neville, the co-founder of Circle.com (the company behind the USDC stablecoin) and founder of Catena Labs, a bold new startup helping AI agents use crypto to work fo...
She built an AI design startup to rival Adobe, and it's working
MARS Magazine Podcast Ep. 72: Google and Yandex veteran Anna Veronika Dorogush joins Adario Strange to explain why her growing London-based startup, Recraft AI, is able to compete with tech giants like Adobe, how experienced designers can painl...
AI security hacks are an unfolding emergency, Christopher Sestito explains how to solve it
Hundred Year Podcast Ep. 71: AI security expert Christopher “Tito” Sestito, the CEO and co-founder of Austin-based Hidden Layer, joins Adario Strange to uncover what’s really happening in the world of AI when is comes to fighting hackers, malic...
The masters of AI filmmaking reveal what's next for Hollywood now the realize AI video is here
When Google unveiled Veo 3 a few weeks ago, even AI insiders were shocked at just how realistic the AI-generated videos were. Additionally, some from the Hollywood elite were taken off guard by the tool's ability to generate convincing audio di...
This Google veteran left to build the future of AI versus the wild world of tech giants
While OpenAI, Meta, Google, and others dominate the AI news, there’s a rapidly growing wild west of open source AI software and developers also pushing the technology boundaries forward, sometimes in unexpected ways. Manos Koukoumid...
AI cheating has invaded education, but author and professor Sarah Chardonnens has a smarter solution
Hundred Year Podcast Ep. 68. In this episode, Adario Strange is joined by Sarah Chardonnens, the author of the new book “The Learning Revolution: AI’s Influence on Intelligence and Education.” Chardonnens used her Ph.D. in Learning Sciences to ...
Veteran branding expert Aaron Kwittken reveals how AI is the next step how we shape reality
Hundred Year Podcast Ep. 67: In this episode, Adario Strange is joined by veteran marketing and public relations expert Aaron Kwittken, the founder of Prophet, a new tool that helps brands harness the power of AI to market to the public more ef...
AI expert Kirill Solodskikh explains how we will merge with AI rather than fight against it
Hundred Year Podcast Ep. 66: In this episode, Adario Strange meets Ph.D. AI expert Kirill Solodskikh, the founder of TheStage.ai, a new AI startup that just raised $4.5 million to help other AI companies optimize how they deploy their models. A...
AI expert Andriy Burkov explains why a robot apocalypse isn’t coming anytime soon
Hundred Year Podcast Ep. 65: In this episode, computer scientist and author Andriy Burkov joins Adario Strange to unpack the secrets of AI that many have overlooked. In his new book, “The Hundred-Page Language Models Book,” Andriy breaks down w...
How AI might save the economy via startup investing with Jeffrey Fidelman
Hundred Year Podcast Ep. 64: The stock market has been rocked! But that hasn’t stopped AI startups from raising billions in new funding as the wave of innovation refuses to be slowed by economic uncertainty. Investing expert Jeffrey Fidelman jo...
AI vs. Jobs Debate: Will most human office work vanish by 2030?
Hundred Year Podcast Ep. 63: AI progress is only speeding up, leading some to wonder what place humans may have in a new world dominated by AI agents. Host Adario Strange is joined by Irreverent Labs insiders Chloe Loughridge, a machine learnin...
This former OpenAI explains what China's DeepSeek really means for AI tech giants in the U.S.
In this episode, we are joined by the fascinating Andrew Mayne. A former OpenAI team member, he has also hosted documentaries on the Discovery Channel and worked with some of the world's most famous illusionists. Along with host Ada...
The dawn of AGI and superintelligence is upon us, these AI experts reveal what happens next
OpenAI, Anthropic, and others promise that 2025 will be a pivotal year for AI. So does that mean that artificial general intelligence (AGI) is here? Is AI superintelligence coming soon? And when these milestones do occur, what will humans be ab...
Will quantum computing accelerate the path to AI superintelligence? SandboxAQ might have the answer
The next phase of artificial intelligence is agents and robotics, but in the real of tangible scientific and medical breakthroughs, quantum computing combined with AI is where the future is headed. To introduce us to this new frontier of super-...
Is 2025 the year we build an AI god? Dr. Christopher DiCarlo explains what happens next
The year 2025 is guaranteed to reveal new surprises and advancements in artificial intelligence, but what about the human hands guiding that progress? Can we trust ourselves to wield this new power responsibly? Dr. Christopher DiCarlo, the auth...
The ultimate guide to the best AI video tools, and what's next in 2025 with Blaine Brown
The year 2024 experienced an explosion of AI video tools from existing players, Chinese tech giants, and even European startups. But how can you pick which one is right for you? Viral AI video creator Blaine Brown returns to The Hundred Year Po...
AI without security measures is a potential disaster, Protect AI CEO Ian Swanson explains why
Artificial intelligence can optimize our work and social lives, but without security measures, it can potentially destroy both. Joining Adario Strange is Ian Swanson, the founder and CEO of Protect AI, a company devoted to helping major compani...
The news business isn’t over, AI is just reinventing it, Nota CEO Josh Brandau explains how
The recent election season proved that many traditional mainstream media businesses have lost their way, as social media and independent creators suck up much of the attention and revenue. The rise of generative artificial intelligence would se...
Hugging Face lead medical researcher Dr. Cyril Zakka on how AI will change healthcare forever
Hugging Face is one of the leading names in artificial intelligence and now they've launched an initiative to harness AI in the medical field. Leading these efforts is Dr. Cyril Zakka, a fellow at Stanford's Hiesinger Lab where a team of resear...
AI security expert Perry Carpenter on how to defend against AI hackers
Veteran security expert Perry Carpenter joins Adario Strange to talk about his new book "FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions." The book is an in-depth but easy-to-grasp dive int...
Everything you need to know about AI smart glasses with Adario Strange & Farbod Shakouri
In this episode, Adario Strange, who began researching and testing smart glasses over a decade ago, and Farbod Shakouri, the UK-based founder of AI smart glasses startup Phantom, join forces to break down the recent past, present, and near futu...
This European AI startup is challenging Silicon Valley using free software and social media virality
This episode brings us to the often-overlooked tech startup region of Western Europe, where Letz.ai founder Misch Strotz is building an AI social network that puts the power of creating AI models in the hands of mainstream users. Bootstrapped f...
These sci-fi masters just released the most realistic AI predictions we've ever seen
Aside from AI engineers, the next best guess at how AI will impact humanity will likely come from science fiction authors. Alex Shvartsman is tackling this mission through an elite collection of science fiction short stories called “The Digital...