Prompted: Tech Talks

One hundred years after Werner Heisenberg worked out quantum mechanics on a North Sea island, the theory he started is both the foundation of modern technology and the center of a high-stakes industrial race. This episode traces the full arc: the 1925 breakthrough, the quantum technology already inside your phone and your hospital, how superposition, entanglement, and tunneling actually work, and...

The first episode in the Money Lifecycle series follows a single card tap through the system most people never see. In the two seconds after you pay, your transaction crosses a terminal, a token vault, an acquirer, a global network, and your bank's fraud models — and that's just the authorization. The money itself takes days, and roughly $1.57 of every $100 stays behind. This episode traces both j...

Large language models went from an academic paper to global infrastructure in under three years. This episode covers what they actually are, how they work under the hood, and the key concepts — context windows, tool-use, reasoning models — that shape what these systems can and can't do. Part one of two; part two covers the model comparisons. IN THIS EPISODE • Why LLMs became infrastructure so fast...

Part two of two on large language models. As of Q1 2026, there is no consensus winner among the frontier AI models — but there are real differences in architecture, infrastructure bets, and use-case fit. This episode maps the competitive landscape: OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google at the top tier; Meta's Llama, DeepSeek, and Mistral in the open-source tier; and the product layer of companies like Har...