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The scariest scam calls don't sound like strangers anymore. They sound like family.

Ryo Koyama and Mike Johnson talk to Patrick Coughlin, CEO of Savi Security and author of Dark Side of the Boom, about how AI has turned scamming into the fastest growing crime in the country, from an AI-cloned kidnapping call aimed at his own mother to a voice-cloned scam that fooled one of Remote.It's own employees.

Full episode out now.

Some of the most striking art on the playa is wired as much as it’s welded.

Ryo Koyama and Mike Johnson talk to Kevin Clark, founder of Reared In Steel, about building large scale fire art for Burning Man and how AI and technology are starting to work their way into that process.

Somebody has to build the road before you can drive on it.

Sam Cox, CTO of Mountain Vector, joins Ryo Koyama to talk energy data, legacy utilities, and the unglamorous infrastructure behind Physical AI — from dot-matrix-era utility bills to running hundreds of remote devices with a 12-person team.

Plus: why the future is declarative, not imperative, and why AI made him busier, not idler.