A curated directory of podcasts covering the space industry, science, engineering, and exploration. Browse shows, listen to episodes, and search transcripts.
Not space-native, but kept in the directory for their relevance to the AI/compute buildout increasingly intertwined with the space economy — space-based datacenters, launch economics, and infrastructure investment.
Nathaniel Whittemore
Daily AI news-analysis show covering model releases, compute and infrastructure spending, and policy — a fast-moving pulse on the same compute buildout driving space-based datacenter proposals.
Latest episode: Aug 31
Craig S. Smith
Biweekly interviews putting AI advances in broader technological and societal context, hosted by a former New York Times correspondent.
Latest episode: Aug 31
Kevin Roose & Casey Newton
Weekly New York Times tech-news show with heavy recurring coverage of AI model releases, policy, and industry culture.
Latest episode: Aug 28
Sarah Guo & Elad Gil
VC-hosted interviews with AI founders and researchers on frontier model progress, compute bottlenecks, and startup dynamics — including the infrastructure race that space-based compute pitches are part of.
Latest episode: Aug 27
Changelog Media
Weekly show on real-world machine learning and AI implementations — useful background for tracking how AI compute demand, including space-based datacenter proposals, actually gets built.
Latest episode: Aug 28
Lex Fridman
Long-form interviews spanning AI, science, and technology with researchers and public figures; not every episode is AI-focused, but AI and compute are recurring threads.
Latest episode: Aug 26
Sam Charrington
Long-running interview show with ML researchers and practitioners on cutting-edge techniques — the research pipeline behind the compute and infrastructure buildout the space industry is starting to compete for.
Latest episode: Aug 26
swyx & Alessio
Technical AI engineering podcast covering how labs build agents, models, and infrastructure — directly relevant to compute/infrastructure coverage. Note: the feed also carries text-only newsletter posts alongside audio episodes.
Latest episode: Sep 1