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The Pulse
EPISODE 482
How agentic AI is rewriting the job description.
Three big labs shipped browser-controlling agents this month. Riley and Sasha sit down with researcher Mira Patel to talk about what changes for everyday white-collar work, where the legal seams are, and what the hype is missing.
WITH MIRA PATEL · POLICY LEAD AT NEW HORIZON LABS
ALL SHOWS · 12 SERIES
Long-form interviews with the operators, engineers, and skeptics shaping AI policy.
Reverse-engineering the week's biggest gadget launches, one teardown at a time.
Internet culture, tab hoarding, and the streaming shows our editors are bingeing this week.
How the climate fight is being fought with software, hardware, and public dashboards.
Designers, founders, and product leads on the call they had to make right before launch.
Our reviewers debate whether the week's biggest gadget actually deserves your money.
On-the-ground reporting from a different tech-policy capital each month.
Anonymous interviews with the people inside the platforms — laundered through our editors.
Rebuilding the timeline of one tech disaster per month — and what it teaches the next one.
Engineers explain how the system actually works, with dashboards on screen.
Streaming, theatrical, and the messy middle — every Friday morning.
LATEST EPISODES · UPDATED DAILY
- THE PULSEEP. 482
How agentic AI is rewriting the job description.
THE PULSE · EP. 482
20:14MAR 12, 2026 - HARD QUESTIONEP. 102
Inside the EU's first audit of a recommender algorithm.
HARD QUESTION · EP. 102
55:38MAR 11, 2026 - DECODEDEP. 67
Tearing down the Framework Laptop 16, live on the workbench.
DECODED · EP. 67
44:09MAR 10, 2026 - OFF-HOURSEP. 88
What our group chats are talking about — and what we're skipping.
OFF-HOURS · EP. 88
38:47MAR 09, 2026 - CLIMATE CODEEP. 41
The satellite dashboards governments cannot redact.
CLIMATE CODE · EP. 41
36:22MAR 07, 2026 - MARKER / MAKEREP. 24
The product call you can't undo, with the founder of Replit Lite.
MARKER / MAKER · EP. 24
51:12MAR 06, 2026 - VERDICTEP. 56
Is the Pixel Watch 4 actually a downgrade?
VERDICT · EP. 56
34:18MAR 05, 2026 - STACK TRACEEP. 76
How a database outage took down half of Europe's checkouts.
STACK TRACE · EP. 76
29:54MAR 03, 2026