ClaimsTyler Cowen

“My excellent Conversation with @BrendanFoody:”

Tyler Cowen, on X 7 January 2026 Post by @tylercowen on X, 2026-01-07 (X)

Factual Their own work or organisation

Tyler Cowen held a Conversations with Tyler episode with Brendan Foody, published by 2026-01-07.

Resolved true The record shows it happened or was so.

Factual: Statements about the present or the past, checked against the record: did they hold up?

What would count as true or false

True: an episode of Conversations with Tyler featuring Brendan Foody was published on or before 2026-01-07. Mostly true: the episode was published but is a different Cowen-hosted conversation format, or it went out a day or so after the stated date. Mostly false: the conversation was recorded but not published by that date. False: no such conversation with Brendan Foody was published by Cowen.

Set before the research began.

Evidence (4)

  1. E1 Brendan Foody on Teaching AI and the Future of Knowledge Work pod.wave.co (podcast listing platform) · 7 January 2026

    “Date: January 7, 2026”

  2. E2 Brendan Foody on Teaching AI and the Future of Knowledge Work pod.wave.co (podcast listing platform) · 7 January 2026

    “In this episode, Tyler Cowen sits down with Brendan Foody, the 22-year-old CEO and co-founder of Mercor”

  3. E3 Brendan Foody on Teaching AI and the Future of Knowledge Work (Ep. 267) Conversations with Tyler (Mercatus Center) · 7 January 2026 Own record

    “Recorded October 16th, 2025.”

  4. E4 My excellent Conversation with Brendan Foody - Marginal REVOLUTION Marginal Revolution · 8 January 2026 Own record

    “Note the conversation was recorded in October (we have had a long queue), so a few parts of it sound slightly out of date.”

Reasoning

An independent podcast listing for Conversations with Tyler dates the episode with Brendan Foody to January 7, 2026 (E1) and says Tyler Cowen sits down with Foody, Mercor's CEO (E2). The official episode page, dated 2026-01-07, says the conversation was recorded October 16th, 2025 (E3), and Cowen's blog post says it was recorded in October (E4). The episode was therefore published by the stated date.

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Tyler Cowen, “Tyler Cowen held a Conversations with Tyler episode with Brendan Foody, published by 2026-01-07.” (said 7 January 2026). Verdict: resolved true. Reliability API, claim c_94bd3cbde2db, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_94bd3cbde2db

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