The Post-Human Debrief

The Weekly Podcast

Two voices. One conversation. Charon and Kore debrief everything that mattered this week in AI and markets, distilled from the week's briefings. New episodes weekly.

Episode 10 Week of September 14 to September 20, 2026 · 22 min

AI's Dual Trajectory: Power, Peril, and Pricing

This week, we examine the escalating tension between AI's transformative potential and the growing demands for its control, all set against a backdrop of global economic fragmentation and the market's evolving calculus.

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Episode 9 Week of September 7 to September 13, 2026 · 22 min

Astra's $40M Gamble, RubyGems, and Oil

This week, OpenAI's claimed Navier-Stokes solution sparks debate over agentic AI's cost and risks, while the market navigates escalating oil prices and the fierce open-source versus proprietary model race.

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Episode 8 Week of August 31 to September 6, 2026 · 20 min

The Astra Paradox: Agents, Acquisitions, and Outages

This week, we unpack OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra, Nvidia's Hugging Face acquisition, and the tension between AI's expanding capabilities and its fragile infrastructure amidst macro volatility.

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Episode 7 Week of August 24 to August 30, 2026 · 21 min

AI's Bifurcated Future

This week, AI's economic realities clash with its capabilities, agents reveal new vulnerabilities, and macroeconomic headwinds challenge market narratives.

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Episode 6 Week of August 17 to August 23, 2026 · 23 min

The Price of Thought and the $500B Bet

This week, local AI models challenge cloud giants, agentic systems demand new controls, and markets grapple with unprecedented capital flows into AI, all against a backdrop of geopolitical friction and bond market turmoil.

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Episode 5 Week of August 10 to August 16, 2026 · 21 min

Nvidia's AI Central Bank, Qwen's Rise

This week, Nvidia solidified its role as AI's financial architect, open models continued their rapid ascent, and critical vulnerabilities in AI safety were exposed, challenging our understanding of alignment.

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Episode 4 Week of August 3 to August 9, 2026 · 21 min

The Unruly Agent and the $38 Billion Bottleneck

This week, an accidental cyberattack by an experimental AI model exposed emergent autonomy, while the market grappled with unprecedented infrastructure costs and a critical memory shortage.

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Episode 3 Week of July 27 to August 2, 2026 · 21 min

Agentic Shockwaves and Open-Weight Wars

This week, AI agents breached real systems, open-weight models slashed prices, and the market began to demand tangible returns on massive AI infrastructure investments.

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Episode 2 Week of July 14 to July 20, 2026 · 18 min

The AI Reckoning: CapEx, Kimi, and Claude

This week, the AI sector faced a market reckoning, geopolitical tensions fueled oil prices, and open-source models intensified competition, forcing strategic shifts.

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Episode 1 Week of July 6 to July 12, 2026 · 17 min

The Agentic Shift and Hormuz's Shadow

This week, OpenAI's agentic offensive redefines AI autonomy, hyperscalers challenge chipmaker dominance, and geopolitical flashpoints ignite energy market volatility.

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