Why Casey left Substack, Elon Musk and drugs, and an A.I. Antibiotic discovery

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Hosted by Kevin Roose and Casey Newton

Produced by Davis Land and Rachel Cohn

Edited by Jen Poyant

Designed by Alyssa Moxley

Original music by Dan Powell, Marion Lozano, Diane Wong and Pat McCusker

Casey is pulling his Platformer newsletter from Substack as criticism mounts over the company's handling of pro-Nazi content. Then the Wall Street Journal spoke to witnesses who said Elon Musk had used LSD, cocaine, ecstasy and psychedelic mushrooms, worrying some of his directors and board members. businesses. And finally, how researchers discovered a new class of antibiotics using an artificial intelligence algorithm used to win the board game Go.

Today's guests:

Kirsten Grind, business reporter for the Wall Street Journal

Felix Wong, fellow postdoctoral fellow at M.I.T. and co-founder of Integrated Biosciences

Additional reading:

Why Platformer is leaving Substack.< /p>

Elon Musk allegedly used illegal drugs, worrying Tesla and SpaceX executives.

Researchers have discovered a new class of antibiotics using A.I.

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Why Casey left Substack, Elon Musk and drugs, and an A.I. Antibiotic discovery
Listen and follow “Hard Fork”Apple | Spotify | Amazon | YouTube

Hosted by Kevin Roose and Casey Newton

Produced by Davis Land and Rachel Cohn

Edited by Jen Poyant

Designed by Alyssa Moxley

Original music by Dan Powell, Marion Lozano, Diane Wong and Pat McCusker

Casey is pulling his Platformer newsletter from Substack as criticism mounts over the company's handling of pro-Nazi content. Then the Wall Street Journal spoke to witnesses who said Elon Musk had used LSD, cocaine, ecstasy and psychedelic mushrooms, worrying some of his directors and board members. businesses. And finally, how researchers discovered a new class of antibiotics using an artificial intelligence algorithm used to win the board game Go.

Today's guests:

Kirsten Grind, business reporter for the Wall Street Journal

Felix Wong, fellow postdoctoral fellow at M.I.T. and co-founder of Integrated Biosciences

Additional reading:

Why Platformer is leaving Substack.< /p>

Elon Musk allegedly used illegal drugs, worrying Tesla and SpaceX executives.

Researchers have discovered a new class of antibiotics using A.I.

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