The reporter, as an enterprise reporter, has been focusing on drug use in Silicon Valley for some time. Although she finds it ironic given her personality, she has become an expert in covering stories related to drug use involving tech billionaires. This interest led her to report on Elon Musk's drug use, a story that had been gossiped about by reporters for a long time. The story was highly anticipated, even by fellow reporters, and it was seen as an impressive piece of investigative journalism.
Casey is taking his newsletter Platformer off Substack, as criticism over the company’s handling of pro-Nazi content grows. Then, The Wall Street Journal spoke with witnesses who said that Elon Musk had used LSD, cocaine, ecstasy and psychedelic mushrooms, worrying some directors and board members of his companies. And finally, how researchers found a new class of antibiotics with the help of an artificial intelligence algorithm used to win the board game Go.
Today’s guests:
- Kirsten Grind, enterprise reporter for The Wall Street Journal
- Felix Wong, postdoctoral fellow at M.I.T. and co-founder of Integrated Biosciences
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