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TechSurge: Deep Tech Podcast
Deep tech conversations on science, engineering, startups, and frontier technology commercialization.
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Physical AI, Quantum, and Bio-Innovation: Inside Canada’s Research Frontier
This episode examines why Canada’s world-class university research so often commercializes elsewhere, using Waterloo and McMaster as contrasting models. The conversation focuses on creator-owned IP, co-op education, quantum, physical AI, AI governance, nuclear isotopes, and how commercialization could become a core university function.
Google's Chief Technologist on Intelligent Search in the Age of AI
Prabhakar Raghavan traces search from link analysis and PageRank to AI systems that predict, recommend, and increasingly answer directly. He argues the next era of search is less about finding pages and more about understanding intent, reasoning through ambiguity, and completing tasks with limited but high-signal context.
Battle for the AI Data Center: Deep Dive on the Semiconductor Supercycle
Stacy Rasgon argues the AI buildout has pushed semiconductors into a demand-driven supercycle, with memory, advanced packaging, and equipment all constrained at once. He says the real economic test now is inference—not training—and that power, fabs, and supply-chain bottlenecks will shape how far the boom can run.