{"podcast":{"title":"*“Yesterday, I Went to Mars ♡”*","slug":"yesterday-i-went-to-mars-7106663","podcast_index_feed_id":7106663,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/fcce555c/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://makoto-hoshino.com/","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/42313807/42313807-1729942256050-67940c9698ba4.jpg","author":"MakotowillOlympusMons","episode_count":644,"summary":"*“Yesterday, I Went to Mars ♡”* Makoto Hoshino, CEO of Makoto Co., Ltd. and Galactic Hitchhikers, shares his journey of pursuing heart-moving experiences and embracing the unknown. In 2017, he summited Everest and all Seven Summits and completed the 250km Gobi Desert Ultramarathon. His future goal: to stand atop Olympus Mons on Mars by 2049. Through this podcast, Makoto reflects on his life’s adventures, celebrating family, global friendships, and the joy of trusting intuition and living freely. Join him as he explores the excitement of breaking free from conventions","last_synced_at":"2026-08-02T02:17:25.711616+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/yesterday-i-went-to-mars-7106663"},"episode":{"title":"The Man Bought for $13 Billion, and What He Said About AI's Real Edge","slug":"the-man-bought-for-13-billion-and-what-he-said-about-ai-s-real-edge","published_at":"2026-06-22T08:35:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/yesterday-i-went-to-mars-7106663/the-man-bought-for-13-billion-and-what-he-said-about-ai-s-real-edge","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/yesterday-i-went-to-mars-7106663","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/makotowillolympusmons/episodes/The-Man-Bought-for-13-Billion--and-What-He-Said-About-AIs-Real-Edge-e3l5nnc","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/fcce555c/podcast/play/121871532/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-5-23%2F655853da-1024-7f5b-6011-fa5e5a2df21a.mp3","summary":"This episode looks at an interview with Alexander Wang — the Scale AI founder recently acquired by Meta in a deal worth around $13 billion — and what his comments about AI's dangers brought into focus. It touches on the broader shift now underway: a recent Claude model was partially taken offline because its capabilities had grown close enough to the edge that risks of misuse for bioweapons and cyberattacks could no longer be dismissed. A few years ago, that kind of concern would have seemed far-fetched. There's a recurring comparison to gunpowder, nuclear energy, and the internet — technologies that each arrived looking like a dream and brought serious danger with them. AI may have quietly crossed into that same category. What makes the current moment particularly strange is that two opposing responses are happening simultaneously: restrict it, and acquire it. Anthropic limiting access for certain foreign users, while the U.S. government intervened in environmental litigation against a data center on national security grounds. The $13 billion investment reads differently through that lens. A quiet look at the possibility that we're not at the entrance to an era when AI became convenient — but the entrance to an era when it became genuinely powerful, and the world is only beginning to reckon with what that means.","meta_description":"This episode looks at an interview with Alexander Wang — the Scale AI founder recently acquired by Meta in a deal worth around $13 billion — and what his…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":278,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/yesterday-i-went-to-mars-7106663/episodes/the-man-bought-for-13-billion-and-what-he-said-about-ai-s-real-edge/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/yesterday-i-went-to-mars-7106663/the-man-bought-for-13-billion-and-what-he-said-about-ai-s-real-edge.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}