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The Signal

The Signal

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Hear from our experts three times every weekday to learn about the most up-to-date Business and Tech news. 7 AM, 1 PM & 5:30 PM.
The Signal is a one-of-a-kind podcast that is completely curated, written, orchestrated, produced, and published by AI. All advertisements are fictitious and meant to parody the pop-culture acceptance of ads in podcasts. This podcast, while meant to be purely entertainment, does include valuable information in a easy to listen to format. These features do have a hard-cost, and we welcome any donations to our show through the link to our Venmo wallet. If you'd like your own fictitious (and PC) ad to be played, please add it to the link in our website.

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Episodes
  • Final Sign Off - Open Source Announcement

    Final Sign Off - Open Source Announcement
    Mar 4 2026

    This one's a little different.

    Every edition of The Signal you've heard — the story selection, the writing, the voices, the publishing — has been generated and distributed without a single human touching it after setup. No producers. No editors. No studio. Three times a day, every weekday, a pipeline wakes up, reads the news, writes a script, synthesizes the audio, and uploads it to every platform you listen on.

    Today we're open-sourcing the entire thing.

    https://github.com/alec-tech/podbot
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    1 min
  • Iran, AI, and the Fractured Internet

    Iran, AI, and the Fractured Internet
    Mar 3 2026
    On today's Morning Edition of The Signal, we're connecting four seismic shifts that are reshaping markets and tech architecture in real time. Jamie Dimon's latest inflation warning signals the Fed may be out of tools—and markets are listening. Meanwhile, Visa and Stripe's stablecoin bridge is going global, hitting 100 countries and signaling the next phase of payments infrastructure. But the real tension emerges in our crossover segment: OpenAI's Pentagon deal patch attempt is backfiring, with ChatGPT uninstalls up 295%, while new research reveals LLMs can now unmask anonymous users at scale—effectively killing pseudonymity as we knew it. Finally, we examine Google's Android lockdown strategy, a move that betrays the open-internet philosophy that built the company. The thread connecting them all: geopolitical instability is forcing corporations, AI labs, and infrastructure providers to choose between openness and control. None of these stories exist in isolation. What happens next will determine whether the internet remains a commons or becomes a collection of walled gardens. SEO keywords: Iran conflict, ChatGPT backlash, stablecoin payments, Android privacy, Fed policy, AI regulation, pseudonymity, corporate consolidation.
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    8 mins
  • When War Breaks the Economy: Oil Shock, Debt Crisis, and AI's New Order

    When War Breaks the Economy: Oil Shock, Debt Crisis, and AI's New Order
    Mar 2 2026
    In 48 hours, the U.S.-Iran conflict has rewritten the rules across five critical systems. Oil surged past $100/barrel, triggering a cascade: mortgage rates climbing, airlines rerouting flights, and supply chains fracturing. Simultaneously, America's debt servicing costs now dwarf both defense and Medicare spending—a structural vulnerability few saw coming. In tech, Charter's acquisition of Cox consolidates broadband power into dangerously few hands, while Alibaba's lightweight AI model outperforms OpenAI's flagship, shifting the efficiency equation. And in pure research, AI just verified a Fields Medal proof, forcing mathematicians to reckon with machine-assisted verification as standard practice. We break down the macro shock (oil, rates, debt), the infrastructure consolidation risk, the AI efficiency flip, and what happens when geopolitics collides with technological acceleration. Keywords: Iran conflict, oil prices, mortgage rates, US debt crisis, Charter Cox merger, broadband consolidation, Alibaba AI, OpenAI, Fields Medal, AI verification, supply chain disruption, stagflation.
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    10 mins
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