Core Memory
Core Memory is a podcast about science and technology hosted by best-selling author and filmmaker Ashlee Vance. Vance has spent the past two decades chronicling advances in science and tech for publications like The Economist, The New York Times and Bloomberg Businessweek. Along with the stories, he's written best-selling books like Elon Musk’s biography, made an Emmy-nominated tech TV show watched by millions and produced films for HBO and Netflix. The goal has always been to bring the tales of complex technology and compelling people to the public and give them a path into exceptional and unusual worlds they wo...
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Episodes (85)
The Google Engineer Who Set The Skydiving Record At 58 - EP 83 Alan Eustace
Jul 22, 2026
An Implant That Tracks And Treats Cancer Tumors - EP 82 Ben Woodington
Jul 15, 2026
Inside The Media Marvel That Is TBPN
Jul 9, 2026
Quantum Everything Explained - EP 81 Prineha Narang
Jul 8, 2026
He Came From Oz To Save American Manufacturing - EP 80 Chris Power
Jul 1, 2026
The Manufacturing Phenomenon That Is SendCutSend - EP 79 Jim Belosic
Jun 24, 2026
Body Scanners, Banned Models, and DeepMind's Space Game Obsession - EP 78 Ashlee Vance And Kylie Robison
Jun 19, 2026
The Future Of Our Brains And Bodies - EP 77 Max Hodak Live Event
Jun 17, 2026
The Space Race Is So Back — EP 76 Ashlee Vance And Kylie Robison
Jun 10, 2026
Redwood Materials Has Built A Recyling Empire
Jun 9, 2026
Can You Reverse Decades of Drinking Damage? Perhaps. - EP 75 Jacob Kimmel Is Back
Jun 2, 2026
The Startup Trying to Save Us From AI Bioweapons- EP 74 Hannu Rajaniemi
May 27, 2026
Schmidt Out of Luck — EP 73 Ashlee Vance And Kylie Robison
May 22, 2026
The Freshman Who Took Down Stanford's President And Its Perfect Image - EP 72 Theo Baker
May 20, 2026
Meta's AI Chief On AI Beef, New Models And Life With Zuck - EP 71 Alex Wang
May 13, 2026
Everything You Need To Know About The Nuclear Energy Boom - EP 70 James Krellenstein
May 6, 2026
The Cyborgs Commeth - EP 69 Connor Glass
May 1, 2026
Is America Cooked? — EP 68 Ashlee Vance And Kylie Robison
Apr 28, 2026
The Great Reset At OpenAI — EP 67 Sam Altman And Greg Brockman
Apr 21, 2026
The $50,000 Underwater Drone - EP 66 Ulysses
Apr 16, 2026
The Very Wild, Very Real Plan To Build AI Data Centers In The Ocean - EP 65 Garth Sheldon-Coulson
Apr 15, 2026
The Company Helping Paralyzed People Move And Thrive Again - EP 64 Dave Marver
Apr 8, 2026
He Hacked Finance And Is Now Building An AI CEO - EP 63 Pedro Franceschi
Apr 1, 2026
Here Come The Space Lasers - EP 62 Baiju Bhatt
Mar 25, 2026
The Aussie Man Who Used AI To Create A Cancer Cure For His Dog
Mar 18, 2026
Inside The Race To Reboot Human Cells - EP 60 Nabiha Saklayen
Mar 11, 2026
He Thinks AI Code May Break Everything - EP 59 Will Wilson
Mar 4, 2026
She Survived Being Shot, Bombed And Working At Google - EP 58 Anna Prouse
Feb 25, 2026
The Grand Quest To Simulate Life - EP 57 Ed Boyden
Feb 19, 2026
What's Real And What's Fake In Tech - EP 56 Peter Barrett
Feb 11, 2026
The Joy And Doom Of New San Francisco - EP 55 Jayden Clark
Feb 4, 2026
The Present And Future Of Gene Editing - EP 54 Jennifer Doudna
Jan 28, 2026
He Left OpenAI To Think Bigger - EP 53 Jerry Tworek
Jan 22, 2026
Welcome To The Chinese Peptide Underground - EP 52 Jasmine Sun
Jan 14, 2026
New, More Precise Cancer Therapies Could Soon Be Here - EP 51 Richard Fuisz
Jan 12, 2026
Is The Era Of AI-Designed Drugs Actually Here? - EP 50 Josh Meier and Jack Dent
Dec 24, 2025
The Next Step Toward Understanding The Nature Of Intelligence - EP 49 Sebastian Seung
Dec 17, 2025
Attacking Cancer With Code And Winning - EP 48 Jake Becraft
Dec 10, 2025
America Has A Steel Start-Up. Yes, Really - EP 47 Laureen Meroueh
Dec 3, 2025
OpenAI's Research Chief On The Soup Wars, Poker And The Next Models - EP 46 Mark Chen
Dec 1, 2025
The Famed Hacker Trying To Find The World's Best Inventors - EP 45 Pablos Holman
Nov 26, 2025
The Open Source AI Model For The West - EP 44 Misha Laskin
Nov 19, 2025
Aliens, AI, and Saving the Planet - EP 43 Will Marshall
Nov 12, 2025
He Bought The First Tesla Roadster 2 In 2013 - EP 42 Konstantin Othmer
Nov 6, 2025
Trump's Cyber Czar on China's Infiltration of America - EP 41 Joshua Steinman
Nov 5, 2025
She's Here To Make Dogs (And Then Humans) Live Longer - EP 40 Celine Halioua
Oct 29, 2025
Now We Shall Mine The Oceans - EP 39 Gerard Barron
Oct 22, 2025
He's Building A Space Station For $1 Billion - EP 38 Jed McCaleb
Oct 15, 2025
The State Of Gene Editing - EP 37 Eryney Marrogi
Oct 8, 2025
We Shall Finally Map The Brain - EP 36 Andrew Payne
Oct 1, 2025