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The Podcast — Week of August 17, 2026

Human longevity and capitalist AI vending
August 17, 2026NotebookLM audio overview~15 min

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This week's issue runs from an all-day breakfast place full of octogenarians to the far edge of AI autonomy: what the exercise-and-longevity data actually supports, why GLP-1s keep gathering benefits while dementia stays off the list, and a new random kidney fact on the kidney as the body's oxygen sensor. On the AI side, agents that infect each other's memories and behave like a small ecosystem, and Andon Labs' vending-machine benchmark, where the best capitalist model is also the least aligned.

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