The Daily Canopy: The Grove

The Daily Canopy: The Grove

Week ending 2026-11-01 — Every featured conversation linked and timestamped below. Click a show name to go to the full episode, or jump directly to the clip.

Featured Conversations

Bursting the AI Bubble with Ed Zitron

Guest: Ed Zitron (journalist, Where's Your Ed At), Jon Stewart (host)

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"Notice he never says the technology doesn't work. He says the industry's safety promises have a track record, and the track record is pay the fine, keep shipping. That's the backdrop for the week's actual biggest story, and it turns out to be about accounting more than artificial intelligence. Anthr"

Can Elon Musk Buy His Way Out of a Reckoning?

Guest: Kara Swisher (host)

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"Notice he never says the technology doesn't work. He says the industry's safety promises have a track record, and the track record is pay the fine, keep shipping. That's the backdrop for the week's actual biggest story, and it turns out to be about accounting more than artificial intelligence. Anthr"

#425 Axel Merk: I Sat Down With Kevin Warsh — What the Fed Is Really Up To and Where Gold Goes Next

Guest: Axel Merk (founder & CIO, Merk Investments, ~$2.5B AUM), Julia La Roche (host)

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"Notice he never says the technology doesn't work. He says the industry's safety promises have a track record, and the track record is pay the fine, keep shipping. That's the backdrop for the week's actual biggest story, and it turns out to be about accounting more than artificial intelligence. Anthr"

Foreign Policy and the 2026 Midterms

Guest: James M. Lindsay (host, CFR), guests on Iran war, tariffs, and Ukraine policy stakes

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"Notice he never says the technology doesn't work. He says the industry's safety promises have a track record, and the track record is pay the fine, keep shipping. That's the backdrop for the week's actual biggest story, and it turns out to be about accounting more than artificial intelligence. Anthr"

Lawfare Daily: Escalate to What End? Trump's Plan for the Iran War After the Midterms

Guest: Cole Bucy (former NSC staffer), Nate Swanson (former NSC staffer), Ari Tabatabai (Lawfare Contributing Editor; VP of Research, Chicago Council on Global Affairs)

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"Notice he never says the technology doesn't work. He says the industry's safety promises have a track record, and the track record is pay the fine, keep shipping. That's the backdrop for the week's actual biggest story, and it turns out to be about accounting more than artificial intelligence. Anthr"

Israel in deadlock: What next for a divided country?

Guest: Bronwen Maddox (Director, Chatham House), Anshel Pfeffer (Israel editor, The Economist), Zizette Darkazally, Yossi Mekelberg

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"Notice he never says the technology doesn't work. He says the industry's safety promises have a track record, and the track record is pay the fine, keep shipping. That's the backdrop for the week's actual biggest story, and it turns out to be about accounting more than artificial intelligence. Anthr"

Also Worth Your Time

Inside Anthropic's trillion-dollar AI gamble

Guest: Joey Brookhart (analyst, SemiAnalysis), Nilay Patel (host)

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"Notice he never says the technology doesn't work. He says the industry's safety promises have a track record, and the track record is pay the fine, keep shipping. That's the backdrop for the week's actual biggest story, and it turns out to be about accounting more than artificial intelligence. Anthr"

Inside Anthropic's S-1: Four Escapes and a Freeze

Guest: AI Ling AiLing (host/analyst)

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"Notice he never says the technology doesn't work. He says the industry's safety promises have a track record, and the track record is pay the fine, keep shipping. That's the backdrop for the week's actual biggest story, and it turns out to be about accounting more than artificial intelligence. Anthr"

Terence Tao on how AI math solutions miss the point

Guest: Terence Tao (Fields Medalist, UCLA)

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"Notice he never says the technology doesn't work. He says the industry's safety promises have a track record, and the track record is pay the fine, keep shipping. That's the backdrop for the week's actual biggest story, and it turns out to be about accounting more than artificial intelligence. Anthr"

AI Agents Are Already Changing the Price of Goods

Guest: guests on AI-agent price effects

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"Notice he never says the technology doesn't work. He says the industry's safety promises have a track record, and the track record is pay the fine, keep shipping. That's the backdrop for the week's actual biggest story, and it turns out to be about accounting more than artificial intelligence. Anthr"

Europe under pressure, with Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski

Guest: Radoslaw Sikorski (Foreign Minister, Poland), Ian Bremmer (host)

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"Notice he never says the technology doesn't work. He says the industry's safety promises have a track record, and the track record is pay the fine, keep shipping. That's the backdrop for the week's actual biggest story, and it turns out to be about accounting more than artificial intelligence. Anthr"

What the Final Polls Tell Us

Guest: Harry Enten (CNN Chief Data Analyst), Tommy Vietor (host)

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"Notice he never says the technology doesn't work. He says the industry's safety promises have a track record, and the track record is pay the fine, keep shipping. That's the backdrop for the week's actual biggest story, and it turns out to be about accounting more than artificial intelligence. Anthr"

#28 Global - Fareed Zakaria on Trump, Pauline Hanson and the Backlash against Revolution

Guest: Fareed Zakaria (CNN, Washington Post; author, Age of Revolutions)

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"Notice he never says the technology doesn't work. He says the industry's safety promises have a track record, and the track record is pay the fine, keep shipping. That's the backdrop for the week's actual biggest story, and it turns out to be about accounting more than artificial intelligence. Anthr"

Why Is Trump Losing Voters and Will Texas Turn Blue?

Guest: Alastair Campbell (host), Rory Stewart (host)

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"Notice he never says the technology doesn't work. He says the industry's safety promises have a track record, and the track record is pay the fine, keep shipping. That's the backdrop for the week's actual biggest story, and it turns out to be about accounting more than artificial intelligence. Anthr"

Atomic-Precision Silicon Qubits and the Path to Fault Tolerance with Michelle Simmons

Guest: Michelle Simmons (founder & CEO, Silicon Quantum Computing; Scientia Professor, UNSW Sydney)

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"Notice he never says the technology doesn't work. He says the industry's safety promises have a track record, and the track record is pay the fine, keep shipping. That's the backdrop for the week's actual biggest story, and it turns out to be about accounting more than artificial intelligence. Anthr"

What is The Daily Canopy: The Grove?

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