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The Larson Brief

The Larson Brief

By: Gergely Larson
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A frontier-tech briefing for one listener. Every three weeks, host Gergely Larson ranks the most significant technology developments, innovations and discoveries.
Episodes
  • Episode 1 — The Long Bets: quantum, age-reversal, on-device AI, robots, Africa & Starship

    Episode 1 — The Long Bets: quantum, age-reversal, on-device AI, robots, Africa & Starship
    9 Jun 2026
    'The long bets' — the cycle's biggest wagers on a future that isn't here yet: IBM's $10bn quantum commitment; the billion-dollar push to reverse ageing; the AI moving onto hardware you own; robots hitting real deployments; Africa's $1.3bn funding sprint and Spiro's $215m; Starship V3; the new rules of getting hacked; and the quiet energy & materials revolution. Hosted by Gergely Larson, with Pax.
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    50 min
  • Episode 2 — Who Owns the Future: Korea's chip crown, the AI clampdown, pharma's feeding frenzy, robots cash in, fusion's first licence & the whole sky mapped

    Episode 2 — Who Owns the Future: Korea's chip crown, the AI clampdown, pharma's feeding frenzy, robots cash in, fusion's first licence & the whole sky mapped
    2 Jul 2026
    'Who owns the future' — the cycle the future stopped being imagined and started being bought. Governments switch off the smartest AI (Anthropic's Fable 5 export-controlled, OpenAI's GPT-5.6 limited, Five Eyes warns 'months, not years'); SK Hynix dethrones Samsung as Korea's most valuable company on the back of HBM memory as Korea stakes over half a trillion dollars on chips; pharma giants stage a $120bn feeding frenzy (GSK-Nuvalent, AbbVie-Apogee, Merck-Bio-Techne) while epigenetic editing shows first human muscle gains; robots land their biggest cheques ever (Neura's $1.4bn, Agility's SPAC, Hyundai takes Boston Dynamics); the most useful five minutes in security; fusion gets its first build-and-operate licence; and the Vera Rubin Observatory begins filming the whole sky — for everyone, free. Hosted by Gergely Larson, with Pax.
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    47 min
  • Episode 3 — It Works Now: fusion's first electrons, open weights hit the frontier, India ships silicon, a new world AI order & the robots that aren't there

    Episode 3 — It Works Now: fusion's first electrons, open weights hit the frontier, India ships silicon, a new world AI order & the robots that aren't there
    23 Jul 2026
    'It works now' — the cycle the demos became deliveries. Realta Fusion puts a grid in the leak of a mirror machine and pulls electricity straight out of a plasma, lighting bulbs with it (and moves into a disused hot dog factory). Moonshot's Kimi K3 lands second in the world on Artificial Analysis's hardest evaluation with open weights due days later, while DeepSeek V4 Pro goes MIT-licensed at 87 cents a million tokens. Twenty-nine countries found the World AI Cooperation Organization in Shanghai — and the rich democracies aren't in it. SAP pays €1bn+ for an 18-month-old lab that does AI for spreadsheets, the most under-covered deal of the year. An industry audit asks which humanoid robots are actually deployed, and the answer is awkward for the loudest company. Regional Spotlight: India, where a Gujarat plant started shipping real chips on 4 July and the cabinet doubled down with a $13bn Semicon 2.0 — packaging, not fabs, and why that matters more than it sounds. Plus: SharePoint exploited within a day of its patch, Max Planck solves the solid-state battery dendrite mystery, a room-temperature quantum computer goes on sale, an interstellar comet older than the Sun, solar beats coal, and Starship stays on the pad. Hosted by Gergely Larson, with Pax.
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    1 hr and 1 min
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