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Get the Check welcomes Florian Juengermann, CTO and co-founder of Listen Labs, to talk about his journey from a small town in Germany to becoming an international mathlete and starting an AI company. Maya and Priya ask about Florian's origin story from wanting to program his toys to winning IOI medals (the olympics for nerds). They also dig into his path to America: Harvard, Tesla's self-driving t...

Maya woke up to Happy New Years texts from people she hadn’t heard from in awhile. She thought it was really special till she realized she texted them first the night before and forgot. Including Anika and Priya who got 5 Happy New Years texts from her each. Another year, and the same friends. The pod talks about 2026 as an IPO comeback year and highlight SpaceX, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Cerebras. M...

In the final episode of the year, the pod gives out superlatives: Most likely to dupe the FTC Moment of the year Most questionable purchase of the year Biggest startup product letdown They kick things off by debriefing the Somali-run fraud scandals in Minnesota (Anika’s home state), then dive into their superlatives. They pick Nvidia and Groq’s $20B licensing deal as Most Likely to Dupe the FTC ....

In this episode of Get the Check , Anika and Priya debrief booking a flight 2 hours before it left to surprise their college friend for his birthday. Once they settle in, they break down power struggles across AI, the economy, and autonomous vehicles. They start with OpenAI’s internal code red after Google’s Gemini 3 launch began cutting into ChatGPT market share. The hosts explain why this moment...

In this episode of Get the Check , the pod covers one of the largest deals of the year: Netflix’s $82B bid for Warner Brothers. Also, Harvey AI’s third raise this year for a total of $760M at an $8B valuation, and why Meta is making cuts to Reality Labs. Netflix’s $82B bid to acquire Warner Brothers gives it access to some of the best IP in the world like Harry Potter and Game of Thrones . The hos...

In this episode of Get the Check the pod returns from Thanksgiving break and their podcast offsite. They debrief the Gemini 3 model drop, AI music start up Suno, and Nucleus Genomics’ current controversies. They start with Gemini 3 and how Google has been able to catch up in the AI race by proving they don’t need Nvidia GPUs to create a state of the art model. TPUs deliver significantly more perfo...

In this episode, the pod takes a break from analyzing tech and instead analyzes themselves. Anika, Priya, and Maya sit in Priya’s childhood home during Thanksgiving break and walk through their early career paths, their recruiting wins and disasters, and the moments that made them question everything, including the time Anika almost peed her pants at her first job?! Maya breaks down how she landed...

In this episode, we sit down with Daksh, the CEO and co-founder of Greptile: the AI code-review agent used by thousands of engineering teams and backed by Benchmark. If you don’t know him from Greptile, you probably know him from his viral quote on SF culture that talked about 996, steak and eggs, and marrying early. Daksh tells us how he went from high school musical theater and almost joining a...

This week's episode is brought to you by Kalshi :) trade on anything! Receive a bonus after trading 100 contracts: https://kalshi.com/r/getthecheck In this episode of Get the Check, Maya, Anika, and Priya break down the biggest stories in AI this week, from Google’s latest moonshot to the rise of AI-generated music. They start with Project Suncatcher, Google’s plan to move AI data centers into...

This week the hosts sit down with Saikat Chakrabarti, who was Stripe’s second engineer and later worked on the Bernie Sanders campaign and served as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s first Chief of Staff. He is now running for California’s 11th House district, which represents San Francisco, against Nancy Pelosi and Scott Wiener. Pelosi has held this seat for nearly four decades. They talk about why Saik...

Maya, Priya, and Anika start by unpacking why they need to edit the podcast, while their other podcaster friends just upload the raw file. This week they dive into reports that the Trump administration may (or may not?) take a stake in quantum computing companies. The hosts break down what quantum is and what the important use cases are. They dive into Google’s new “Quantum Echo” breakthrough, whi...

It’s day 21 of the government shutdown. The pod’s true fans were there when Maya told everyone to put money on the Kalshi 15+ days shutdown market two weeks ago. If you still haven’t made a Kalshi account, you’re probably not a true fan, but on the upside, if you do it now, Kalshi is giving Get the Check listeners $40 after they trade 100 contracts if you use this link: https://kalshi.com/r/getthe...

It seems like Anika was waiting for this week’s recording to confront Maya about something she said (or rather didn’t say) in the group chat. Once they get that out of the way, the hosts discuss Figure’s 03 humanoid announcement, the Israel-Palestine deal Trump is brokering, and OpenAI’s Dev Day. Figure 03 is Figure’s latest humanoid and the pod says it would get their check 1000%. The hosts talk...

It’s Tech Week and Get the Check’s one-year anniversary! Maya may have never believed in this milestone, but we know you all did. This Tech Week, the pod is co-hosting a DJ set at the Composio office on Sunday morning. Link’s in the bio! The hosts kick it off with DoorDash’s new delivery robot called Dot. It is an in-house autonomous vehicle built by DoorDash Labs that can drive on both roads and...

The hosts are back and diving into a massive week for OpenAI. They start with Nvidia’s $100B investment, which will fund OpenAI’s GPU purchases, and explain why this circular deal doesn’t necessarily signal an AI bubble. They also break down OpenAI’s trillion-dollar infrastructure buildout and the roles Oracle and CoreWeave are playing. Next, they cover OpenAI’s new product Pulse and the growing r...

This week the hosts are back, recharged after a trip to Thailand. They kick things off by recapping their first-ever female founders + investors dinner and share plans to host more events soon. Follow along on socials at @getthecheckpod to hear about the next event. The podcast dives into Meta Connect and the launch of Meta’s Ray-Ban Display and Neural Band. The glasses let you talk to Meta AI to...

This week on Get the Check, the hosts talk about how 1000 gallons of water flooded Maya’s apartment building and how ChatGPT may have saved her $11k. Anthropic just dropped $1.5 billion to settle with the Authors Guild after getting caught training Claude on pirated books from LibGen. The hosts talk about the details of the case and when copyrighted works fall under “fair use” versus not. They als...

The hosts start with Trump’s firing of Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook over alleged mortgage fraud. They unpack the legal battle around whether a president can remove Fed officials “for cause,” what that means for the Fed’s independence, and the potential implications for monetary policy, markets, and democracy. They draw historical comparisons, from Nixon and stagflation to the UK’s pre-1997 m...

This week the pod dives into the multi-trillion dollar question: is AI a bubble? The hosts break down the history of the dot-com bubble and compare what’s similar and what’s different this time. They also discuss the widely cited MIT study showing that 95 percent of organizations are getting no returns from generative AI, covering which types of implementations are seeing real value and where it a...

This week the pod sat down with Minh Le, one of the researchers behind the viral AI safety research study “Subliminal Learning: Language models transmit behavioral traits via hidden signals in data.” The paper showed that if you have a teacher model with a love for owls that teaches a student model a series of random numbers, the student will also inherit a love for owls as long as they share the...

You might remember Maya decided her life had no value after the pod read AI 2027 a couple of months ago, which outlines a doomsday AI scenario where the human race goes extinct. After this week’s OpenAI GPT-5 launch, Maya has hope again. Sam Altman says GPT-5 is as smart as any PhD student, but the pod discusses why many people aren’t buying into the hype, especially since OpenAI’s own announcemen...

The year is 2030 your Neuralink chip calls your Tesla back from an EV charging station and your Optimus robot opens the door for you (chivalry isn’t dead). This week the pod does a deep dive into Neuralink's technology and how the device is able to decode your brainwaves and send them to a model, which translates them into actions like playing a video game. Neuralink already allows Noland Arbaugh...

The pod read Trump’s 90 AI policy recommendations so you don’t have to. This week, they dive into the highlights, including why the government wants an open-source model, how to build a grid and workforce that can support AI innovation, and why the administration wants AI to be built on an American tech stack. The hosts break down why both China and the US want developers building on their models…...

If you read the entire internet multiple times over you would be the smartest person on Earth, so why is it that every frontier model has done that and you still have to read over a simple email ChatGPT writes? Tune into this week’s episode to hear Maya’s answer: AI models are getting trained too inefficiently and Moonshot AI’s Kimi K2 is an example of how training can be more efficient. Kimi K2 i...

What do Love Island and BILT have in common? They both just had a major breakup this season. BILT and Wells Fargo officially called it quits, something our OG podcast listeners might remember we predicted back in our very first episode. So far, BILT is winning the break up. BILT just raised $250M at a $10.75B valuation. Fintech valuations seem to be back, but Maya (aka our resident Fintech guru) h...