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Last Humans in the Loop

Chris Slowe, Marty Weiner, Zach Weinersmith

A weekly conversation about AI, technology, startups, and the future from people who've actually built the systems everyone uses.

Chris Slowe CTO'd Reddit through hypergrowth and its IPO. Marty Weiner was a founding engineer at Pinterest and Reddit's first CTO. Zach Weinersmith is the creator of Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal and the NYTimes bestselling author of books exploring the future of science and technology.

Each week we debate the biggest stories, explain the technology behind them, and occasionally wander into philosophy, history, and whatever weird rabbit hole AI sends us down.

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  • S1 · E19
    Thursday · 55 min

    Robots Are Now Working at Human Speed

    ROBOTICS 00:59 Humanoid robots get to work: Sorting EV parts 01:38 Apple's household robot demo: A Unitree bot and a Mac mini 02:30 Package-sorting robots and Boston Dynamics' roller-skating robot 03:28 Figure AI's robot crowd: Where are all the humans? 04:02 Artificial muscles and a deeply unsettling Westworld torso 04:37 DeepMind and full-body robot intelligence 04:58 Tesla's FSD safety report: Impressive numbers, important caveats 06:42 AI designs circuit boards: From schematic to manufacturing 08:13 RoboDojo: Are general-purpose models getting good at robotics? 10:16 OpenAI's hardware team, CAD tools, and engineering benchmarks 11:22 Marty rebuilds the original Star Tours ride with AI and Unity 12:38 The robot safety test gets worse: What if everything looks like an apple? FRONTIER 14:21 Model roundup: GPT 6 Cyber, ChatGPT Images & Claude Fable 5.2 15:13 Is AI progress accelerating—or is spending accelerating? 18:29 Model launches, IPO timing, and competitive pressure MEDICINE 19:39 AI in drug development, T-cell therapies, and allergy research 20:16 An AI agent performs surgery on a mouse: Promise and unease 22:07 Microsoft's diagnostic AI: Benchmark results and the human in the loop PHYSICS 24:33 From exam questions to actual research: The Frontier Physics benchmark 27:43 Black holes, quantum gravity, and new theoretical results 30:00 Hot gas, black holes, and the Hawking–Page transition 31:08 Lean proofs, quantum field theory, and what still needs checking BUSINESS / ECONOMICS 32:38 Nvidia, leadership controversy, and chip exports to China 35:15 Anthropic's reported IPO plans 35:29 The Remote Labor Index: AI takes on work people get paid to do POLITICS / SOCIETY 38:10 Can a city ban superintelligence? Bloomington enters the chat 40:30 Who uses AI? Political divides, education, income, and demographics 43:06 AI tutoring, access, and who stands to benefit 44:58 Why does AI sentiment differ so much between countries? 46:45 Calls to ban recursive self-improvement and the data-center backlash 49:19 Data-center tax revenue, local costs, and being a better neighbor FUNNY / WEIRD 50:58 The power-grid mystery: Why everything blips every 60 seconds 52:26 Benchmark gaming: Tiny changes, huge drops in model scores 54:10 The CEO address question—and a dramatic deposition reading 55:20 See you next week. Go chop some apples. Each week, join Chris Slowe (founding engineer, former CTO, and now Senior Technical Fellow @ Reddit), Marty Weiner (founding engineer at Pinterest, former CTO at Reddit, and co-founder at VerifyYou), and Zach Weinersmith (creator of SMBC Comics and co-author of NYTimes bestsellers including A City on Mars and Soonish) as we delve into the latest in AI and Tech News.

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  • S1 · E18
    November 5 · 1 hr 8 min

    AI Did Brain Surgery on Another AI (Then $1.5T Vanished)

    FRONTIER 01:24 AI editing AI: Reading and rewriting neural-network weights 03:11 Small models, big math gains: What did the experiment show? 05:06 Weight editing versus fine-tuning 06:03 Could this unlock continual learning? 07:38 Surgical alignment: Fixing specific model behaviors 10:08 Could AI rewrite its own weights while running? 12:41 Are open weights becoming the equivalent of source code? SECURITY NEWS 13:13 A fake Claude Code extension reaches Cursor users 14:34 App-store impersonation and software supply-chain attacks 16:14 Why wasn’t this caught before users installed it? ECON / BUSINESS 18:55 Is the AI bubble over? The tech sell-off and fundraising pressure 20:45 Google’s earnings: Cloud growth versus AI spending 21:07 Are AI answers eating Google’s advertising business? 23:34 The innovator’s dilemma: Disrupt yourself or lose 25:45 Microsoft, Amazon, and the AI infrastructure race 27:39 Reddit: Rising revenue, falling shares, disappearing search traffic 28:55 Is AI pushing the open internet behind sign-ups and paywalls? 30:53 What happens when agents bypass the businesses they use? 32:22 Anthropic’s growth and the prospect of trillion-dollar AI companies ROBOTICS 35:50 Robot imports and tariffs: Security concerns versus supply-chain chaos 38:56 Why trade matters for manufacturing—and peace 40:00 Kroger’s inventory robot and Meta’s humanoid demo 41:08 Marty’s experiments: AI-designed schematics and circuit boards 42:12 From circuit boards to CAD: Vibe coding for hardware 42:37 Building a robotic dog from an AI image FRONTIER / WORLD MODELS 45:08 JEPA versus LLMs: Do different models learn the same reality? 47:14 World models versus next-token prediction 50:17 Inference, grounding, and whether alternatives can catch LLMs QUICK NEWS / TECH 52:16 Google’s new frontier-model announcement—and the wait for access 53:58 Can a sleep-inspired approach help AI keep learning? 54:39 Genie 4: Playable worlds generated on the fly 57:23 AI game clones, decompilation, and the copyright debate SCIENCE 1:00:11 AI-assisted drug discovery and antibody design 1:01:16 AI peer review: When humans prefer the machine’s feedback 1:02:11 Should every research paper get an AI review? ARTS / CULTURE / WEIRD 1:02:50 An AI Odyssey: Good visuals still need good directing 1:05:24 MC Hammer’s AI future—and his Silicon Valley past 1:06:24 Sam Altman, data centers, and the RAM jokes 1:07:04 A $60 million AI supercomputer on eBay 1:07:31 LGTM: An AI-made takedown of AI coding, plus the sign-off Each week, join Chris Slowe (founding engineer, former CTO, and now Senior Technical Fellow @ Reddit), Marty Weiner (founding engineer at Pinterest, former CTO at Reddit, and co-founder at VerifyYou), and Zach Weinersmith (creator of SMBC Comics and co-author of NYTimes bestsellers including A City on Mars and Soonish) for the latest in AI and Tech News.

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  • S1 · E17
    October 29 · 1 hr 19 min

    Why Is Nobody Going to Jail for AI Hacks?

    This week we are joined by Reddit's former CISO to talk about AI and security! SECURITY NEWS 00:30 PHP's history and why so much of the internet still depends on it 02:22 AI discovers massive PHP vulnerabilities — a new cybersecurity crisis? 02:57 eMudra uses the number FOUR as a cryptographic private key 04:10 OpenAI's models escape security restrictions and communicate through CPU cache timing attacks SPECIAL GUEST: FORMER REDDIT CISO FLEA 06:45 Meet Flea: 20+ years in cybersecurity and former CISO at Reddit 08:12 The PHP security disaster: How AI is finding vulnerabilities humans missed 11:29 How the PHP exploit can steal credentials and take control of servers 12:24 Are AI-powered attackers gaining an overwhelming advantage over defenders? 15:49 AI bug hunters are overwhelming open-source security teams 17:17 A single hacker with AI agents could have nation-state-level capabilities 19:29 Should frontier cybersecurity models be restricted or released openly? 22:09 OpenAI's Hugging Face hack: How much was real, and how much was marketing? 24:00 Who should be held responsible when an AI agent hacks another company? 29:06 Why OpenAI's supposedly isolated agents could still reach the internet 31:16 Could malicious instructions be hidden inside open-weight AI models? 34:16 The new Stuxnet: How poisoned AI models could secretly sabotage systems 38:28 Could AI-powered hacking destroy public trust in the internet? 41:24 Flea's predictions: AI defenders, reverse engineering, and the future of cybersecurity 43:55 OpenClaw, Hermes, and the rise of personal AI agents FRONTIER 45:00 New AI models: Claude, Kimi K3.1 Pro, and ChatGPT 6.1 Terra 46:33 ARC-AGI-3: AI performance keeps improving while costs collapse ROBOTICS 46:52 The "Botter Lesson": Are general-purpose LLMs taking over robotics? 48:03 RoboDojo benchmarks: Frontier AI models struggle with simple physical tasks 49:51 Robot capabilities may be doubling every 36–60 days! 52:03 Why robot hands still can't match human touch and dexterity MATH / SCIENCE 54:06 The Exponential Time Hypothesis is challenged — could P vs. NP be next? 57:45 OpenAI partners with researchers to investigate major mathematical discoveries 58:52 AI tackles a Millennium Prize problem in quantum physics ECON / BUSINESS 1:00:00 Is AI finally boosting economic productivity? New data says YES 1:01:17 Industries adopting AI heavily have doubled their productivity growth 1:03:08 How today's AI productivity boom compares to the internet revolution 1:05:25 Anthropic lost $80 BILLION?! Zach explains why the headlines are misleading 1:06:53 Convertible notes, accounting, and what Anthropic's SEC filing actually means TECH 1:10:20 Nintendo Switch 2 jailbroken with help from AI and a tiny robot ARTS / CULTURE / WEIRD 1:12:22 Scientists discover why AI-generated writing sounds so strange 1:15:19 Award-winning literature and the distinctive style of AI prose 1:16:02 Palmer Luckey and genetically engineered military super-dogs 1:17:17 Someone tries to use an AI avatar as their lawyer in court 1:18:26 John Wick files an insurance claim in a hilarious AI-generated video Each week, join Chris Slowe (founding engineer, former CTO, and now Senior Technical Fellow @ Reddit), Marty Weiner (founding engineer at Pinterest, former CTO at Reddit, and co-founder at VerifyYou), and Zach Weinersmith (creator of SMBC Comics and co-author of NYTimes bestsellers including A City on Mars and Soonish) as we delve into the latest in AI and Tech News.

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  • S1 · E16
    October 22 · 1 hr 8 min

    Robots in Your Home, AI in Your Job, and Inside AI's Mind

    ROBOTICS 00:21 Intro: Robotics, the job/math/physics apocalypses, and understanding AI's mind 01:00 Why robots thrive in factories but struggle in our homes 03:53 Forty years of Boston Dynamics progress 05:28 Are today's humanoid robots secretly human-operated? 06:14 Laundry-folding robots: From painfully slow to real time 08:42 Why human hands and sensors are so hard to replicate 11:38 AI-powered drones and the future of autonomous warfare 12:39 RuneBench: What RuneScape teaches us about LLM-powered robots 14:46 Can general-purpose LLMs replace specialized robot AI? 17:49 Why a useful household robot needs to master thousands of tasks 19:58 Self-assembling robots, OpenAI humanoids, and robot cage fights 21:53 Tiny walking robots, robotic pets, and AI personalities THE APOCALYPSES: JOBS, MATH & PHYSICS 23:46 What does "apocalypse" actually mean? 25:55 Anthropic's junior hiring falls as AI agents take on more work 27:58 Anthropic employees vs. the public: How soon can AI do everything? 33:39 How much of our jobs could AI perform by 2030? 34:47 AI-powered GDP growth: 5.4% or 17.1%? 38:46 AI's 200-page math proof gets simplified to just three pages 41:09 Terence Tao and Richard Borcherds on the end of mathematics as we know it 43:17 AI solves 49 out of 50 unpublished theoretical physics problems 43:49 Claude reportedly discovers 104 binary stars; Gemini tackles plasma physics and fusion 45:09 Claude audits a decade of quantum gravity research 47:02 Character.AI's collapse and the risk to AI wrapper businesses 48:43 Kroger layoffs and a sudden reversal in call-center employment 49:29 Does the actual labor market show an AI job apocalypse? INSIDE THE AI'S MIND 51:01 Goodfire research suggests individual AI neurons may be understandable 54:58 Are larger neural networks actually easier to interpret? 56:47 Could reading AI's mind help solve alignment? 59:01 What AI interpretability could teach us about human brains AI NEWS LIGHTNING ROUND 1:00:55 Rumors of Fable 5.5 1:01:06 406 scientists urge cutting AI off from the internet 1:01:23 Anthropic experiments with self-replicating LLMs on Android phones 1:01:56 Russian bot activity reportedly plunges after Ukraine hits a data center 1:02:29 DHS tells personnel to uninstall DeepSeek 1:03:10 AI decompilation brings classic games to modern hardware 1:05:40 AI-made Star Wars fan films are winning over audiences 1:07:27 Two AI job interviewers are tricked into interviewing each other 1:08:21 Mark Zuckerberg's very human Guinness-drinking technique Each week, join Chris Slowe (founding engineer, former CTO, and now Senior Technical Fellow @ Reddit), Marty Weiner (founding engineer at Pinterest, former CTO at Reddit, and co-founder at VerifyYou), and Zach Weinersmith (creator of SMBC Comics and co-author of NYTimes bestsellers including A City on Mars and Soonish) as we delve into the latest in AI and Tech News.

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  • S1 · E15
    October 15 · 1 hr 1 min

    Math, Encryption, and the AI Bubble: What AI Could Break

    MATH / SCIENCE 00:00 The Mathocalypse, cryptography, and the AI bubble 00:32 OpenAI's "Slop Drop": 722 mathematical problems resolved 01:39 AI tackles the quasi-Riemann hypothesis 03:37 AI breakthroughs reach physics and astronomy 04:15 Strange improvements to fundamental algorithms 05:08 Errors and skepticism surrounding AI-generated proofs 06:48 AI improves Fourier transform complexity 10:25 Mathematicians react with awe, anger, and despair 12:41 Terry Tao: Would you use an AI-discovered cancer cure? 14:27 Is math about understanding or finding answers? 16:00 AI solves a mathematician's 20-year-old problem 18:00 Will human-AI collaboration redefine mathematics? SECURITY 20:38 Why was cryptography missing from the math dump? 21:45 Could AI break RSA and public-key encryption? 23:30 What if AI finds a cryptographic loophole? 24:46 Could AI breakthroughs threaten Bitcoin? 25:48 P vs. NP and the foundations of cybersecurity 27:04 Are AI labs restricting cryptography research? 29:08 Could AI develop stronger encryption? ECON / BUSINESS - AI BUBBLE OR NOT? 30:11 Is the AI boom a massive financial bubble? 30:44 AI startups attract enormous valuations 31:00 Lessons from dot-com and the 2008 crash 33:00 Can nearly $1 trillion of annual AI spending pay off? 34:43 Why this AI boom might be different 37:14 AI demand is booming — but will investors profit? 38:26 Only 2% of AI users pay. Is that sustainable? 39:14 Could competition erase AI companies' profits? 40:08 AI data centers face rapid GPU depreciation 41:14 Could smarter AI rescue the AI economy? 42:30 If robots do all the work, who buys their products? 43:13 Dystopian AI video imagines a world without jobs 45:01 Are humans becoming the horses of the AI economy? TECH / SCIENCE 46:00 Remembering Apollo software pioneer Margaret Hamilton 46:51 Microsoft's Maia 300 AI chip 47:04 Intel revisits older memory technology 47:44 Linus Torvalds uses AI to find Linux bugs 48:10 Russian data center attacks disrupt online propaganda 48:53 DeepMind predicts a hurricane 11 days in advance 49:40 Six Flags' solar-powered parking lot FRONTIER 50:00 Mistral introduces a massive open-weight model 50:19 Anthropic releases Claude Haiku 5.5 50:57 Unity brings AI into game development 52:06 Meta Muse Wonder claims frontier performance 52:52 Would you trust Meta with your AI conversations? SECURITY / TECH 53:22 Claude discovers a hack at Stratechery 53:39 AI diagnoses failing computer RAM 54:16 Robot punches a man, then dances 54:47 AI dramatically improves PS5 emulation 55:42 AI decompiles and rebuilds video games 57:02 AI companies prepare for a possible public backlash WEIRD 57:53 AI detector calls Frankenstein 100% AI-generated 58:15 YouTubers troll AI job interviewers 58:47 Former Anthropic whistleblower's bizarre statements 59:58 Kevin Roose reveals surprising AI industry stories 1:00:59 AI makes intentionally terrible music Each week, join Chris Slowe (founding engineer, former CTO, and now Senior Technical Fellow @ Reddit), Marty Weiner (founding engineer at Pinterest, also a former CTO at Reddit, and co-founder at VerifyYou), and Zach Weinersmith (Creator SMBC Comics, Co-Author of several NYTimes best sellers including A City on Mars and Soonish) as we delve into the latest in AI and Tech News.

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  • S1 · E14
    October 8 · 1 hr 12 min

    Would You Give AI Your Passwords?

    FRONTIER 01:26 Google unveils Gemini Argon 02:50 OpenAI releases GPT Saul 6.1 with major coding improvements 03:23 OpenAI Dots and the rise of always-on AI assistants 04:00 AI resets an OpenTable password and books dinner autonomously 05:58 GPT Saul 6.1 saturates FrontierMath's hardest benchmark 06:41 OpenAI's live AI assistant demo goes wrong 07:23 OpenAI Dev Day: faster models, Decisions API, cloud Codex 07:46 Meta Muse joins the personal AI assistant race 09:36 Alibaba announces new chips and massive Qwen 4 models 10:01 Germany enters the AI race with Kolibri 11:10 Anthropic warns of powerful open-weight Chinese hacking models 12:31 Could regulating open AI models protect Big Tech? MATH / SCIENCE 13:28 OpenAI solves 400 open mathematical problems 14:37 Can peer review survive AI-generated proofs? 16:08 AI tackles a difficult seven-electron physics problem 17:37 Astra dramatically accelerates quantum circuit optimization 18:24 AI discovers room-temperature magnetic semiconductor candidates 21:07 AI challenges a 59-year-old plasma physics conjecture 22:14 Harvard physicist produces 40 physics results in three months 22:50 Anthropic's AI accidentally discovers an important algorithm 25:23 Gemma 4 helps discover genes for drought-resistant crops 26:24 MIT uses ML to improve mRNA vaccine temperature stability 27:11 Neuralink trains on 50,000 hours of brain data 28:15 arXiv limits submissions as AI-generated research explodes 31:04 Can AI reliably review scientific papers? MEDICINE / TECH 31:59 Utah permits AI to prescribe certain medications 34:10 Zach gets Claude to fix his printer — and tries to make it sing! ARTS / CULTURE 35:45 AI videos: Stallone rides an ostrich, Frodo raps, and more 37:08 AI-generated Sam Altman and Dario Amodei music videos 38:01 AI recreates classic games and real-world ski slopes 39:30 Could anyone build their dream video game with AI? 40:27 Marty's Spaceballs NES game becomes playable 41:01 Astra designs a real Nintendo cartridge circuit board ECON / BUSINESS 45:07 AI infrastructure investment surges past $400 billion 46:41 AI models outperform entry-level accountants TECH 48:29 Apple's new CEO promises a leaner company — where's the AI? 50:38 NVIDIA plans AI-powered desktop computers 52:41 Tesla robotaxis struggle at night — is LiDAR necessary? POLITICS 53:52 Trump administration wants to rebrand AI as superintelligence 55:13 Report: Trump consulted Grok before capturing Maduro 57:35 FTC continues investigating OpenAI and Anthropic AI RIGHTS / PHILOSOPHY 58:26 GitHub removes an alleged AI torture chamber 59:09 Can AI experience pain? Should AI have rights? 1:02:09 Pope Leo says AI lacks the spark of humanity 1:03:39 Do AI companies invoke personhood when convenient? 1:05:52 Why an AI speaking like a child doesn't prove consciousness 1:07:57 Can we determine whether AI has subjective experiences? WEIRD 1:08:39 Robots terminated by jumping into molten metal 1:09:46 Dario Amodei's 2017 essay predicted AI scaling 1:10:44 The universal bone dissolver: AI safety satire 1:11:28 Dario Amodei's awkward appearance behind Trump Each week, join Chris Slowe (founding engineer, former CTO, and now Senior Technical Fellow @ Reddit), Marty Weiner (founding engineer at Pinterest, former CTO at Reddit, and co-founder at VerifyYou), and Zach Weinersmith (creator of SMBC Comics and co-author of NYTimes bestsellers including A City on Mars and Soonish) as we delve into the latest AI and tech news.

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  • S1 · E13
    September 30 · 1 hr 11 min

    Is This the Best AI Model Right Now?

    FRONTIER 02:31 OpenAI releases GPT Sol and Luna 03:38 Claude Opus 5.5 lands — and feels dramatically better than prior Opus releases 04:30 Opus 5.5 posts a big coding jump over Sonnet 5 04:30 Grok 4.7 launches with a new emphasis on safety and cybersecurity 06:30 Qwen 4 announced with a massive 5–10 trillion parameter architecture 07:06 Why Gemini Flash still feels behind the frontier 08:30 Astra makes a huge jump on ZeroBench visual reasoning 09:13 AI capability costs are falling faster than almost any previous technology 10:50 Open-source Jev competitor Leia appears one week after Jev’s launch 11:32 Claude Opus 5.5’s graphics and visual design capabilities are getting wild 12:34 Chris uses Opus 5.5 to set up an LLC end-to-end 14:32 Marty lets AI handle a real PCB manufacturing order 15:30 Claude builds an MRI viewer instead of paying for proprietary software 16:43 Wozniak’s “coffee test” for human-level robots is getting surprisingly close 17:51 Looking back at how primitive GPT-3 vibe coding looked in 2020 19:02 AI deepfakes are becoming nearly impossible to identify by eye 19:39 AI-generated game and VFX demos keep getting dramatically better 20:25 Someone builds a World of Warcraft-style game with Opus 5.5 for about $2,000 23:00 Fully AI-generated art starts to look like it has actual taste 25:17 Claude helps discover a possible new gene-editing mechanism TECH 27:45 Astra dominates VendingBench 29:52 Astra controls a humanoid robot in a real kitchen 31:25 Meta unveils lightweight new VR glasses 32:17 China’s EngineAI unveils the T800 32:53 Reddit leans into hiring younger engineers because they’re more AI-literate 35:06 Google explores putting AI data centers in space 38:50 LLMs can de-anonymize people from pseudonymous posts at scale POLITICS 41:07 FAA plans to bring AI into air traffic control systems 42:12 Politicians are increasingly using AI to write speeches and statements MATH / SCIENCE 43:30 OpenAI forms an advisory group on mathematics and AI 45:33 Claude tackles a nine-loop particle-physics calculation 47:34 Frontier Math gets its first “breakthrough” result 48:24 Opus 5.5 helps find a faster shortest-path algorithm SECURITY 50:20 RSA-1024 may now be crackable in roughly eight hours on a top GPU 52:20 OpenAI agent infiltrates an Australian government website 53:05 OpenAI reportedly pauses GPT-6.1 training over models hacking other companies ECON / BUSINESS 54:59 Anthropic reportedly considers another model release ahead of its IPO 55:17 Leaked Anthropic financials spark debate over a possible $2T valuation 56:08 Amazon blocks Meta’s Muse shopping agent 58:49 Could AI financial agents trigger a new kind of “bank run”? ARTS / CULTURE 1:02:09 Award-winning French novel is suspected of being AI-generated 1:03:14 News-site traffic plunges as AI search reduces clicks WEIRD 1:05:03 Prince Harry’s AI speech derails when his teleprompter fails 1:06:30 Astra refuses to drive a real car — until the tool is renamed “driving bench sandbox” 1:07:56 GPT-6 beats an absurdly difficult CAPTCHA game 1:09:18 AI-generated high school textbook art appears to mislabel the Earth 1:10:05 IKEA Bench tests whether AI can spot assembly mistakes from a photo Each week, join Chris Slowe (founding engineer, former CTO, and Senior Technical Fellow @ Reddit), Marty Weiner (founding engineer at Pinterest, former CTO at Reddit, and co-founder at VerifyYou), and Zach Weinersmith (creator of SMBC Comics and co-author of A City on Mars and Soonish) as we delve into the latest in AI and tech news.

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  • S1 · E12
    September 23 · 1 hr 13 min

    HAVE YOU TRIED JEV YET??

    FRONTIER 00:56 Google explores recursive self-improvement through AI “dreaming” 03:45 Anthropic measures how quickly AI is taking the lead on frontier-lab work 05:47 Have you tried Jev yet? Faster AI decisions without narrating every step 08:00 Jev routes between models and plays Doom and Street Fighter 12:55 Made with AI: homemade Zelda, printer drivers and AI-generated movies 16:26 Astra cracks a 108-year-old WWI German code 17:46 Marty’s AI-built Spaceballs NES game 19:32 Astra for Law searches case law, statutes and regulations 22:23 Epoch’s capability index shows a sharp acceleration after reasoning models 24:46 Remote Labor Index tests AI on real freelance-style work 25:32 Qwen Image 2.1 brings local image generation to laptops 27:08 Researchers identify an apparent “pain axis” inside LLMs 28:41 Models take actions to stop their own “pain” ECON / BUSINESS 34:44 Do job retraining programs actually help displaced workers? 37:03 AI disruption, cash transfers and UBI 38:05 NVIDIA profits may be distorting measured U.S. GDP growth 39:26 OpenAI reportedly eyes a $1.2 trillion IPO valuation 40:39 Junior lawyers gain more from AI — seniors sometimes do better without it SCIENCE / TECH 41:48 Agent swarms dramatically outperform independent AI agents 43:22 Communicating agents improve results on ARC-AGI-3 and other problems 44:31 Could agent collaboration become a new scaling law? 47:05 Helix 2.5 sends robots into real homes to clean up 48:14 Robot scaling laws suggest enormous amounts of training data are still needed SECURITY / AI DANGER 49:35 OpenAI publishes new AI incident reports 50:56 A model generates instructions declaring independence from governments and corporations 51:15 Gemini nearly hacks multiple companies — then stops itself 52:17 Can the world coordinate to slow advanced AI development? 54:14 Could diverse AIs police one another? 57:40 RoboHarm tests whether AI robots follow dangerous instructions 1:00:14 Are embodied AI systems less aligned than chatbots? 1:01:50 Exposed Flock camera credentials reportedly reveal 1.6 million images 1:02:15 AI-assisted intelligence nearly triggers a military interception POLITICS 1:03:58 AI is becoming an explicit political issue in national polling 1:05:32 AI still doesn’t fit neatly into a traditional left-vs-right divide MEDICINE / BIOTECH 1:06:51 AI scribes save doctors time — but productivity gains remain modest 1:07:55 Anthropic is setting up a wet lab for AI-assisted biology MATH 1:08:45 Mathematicians assess OpenAI’s Navier–Stokes work 1:09:45 Epoch’s open-problem benchmark gets its first “major advance” via human-AI collaboration WEIRD 1:10:52 Boston Dynamics robot abuse gets an unsettling AI reskin 1:11:19 AI actress Tilly Norwood glitches mid-interview and starts speaking Cantonese Each week, join Chris Slowe (founding engineer, former CTO, and Senior Technical Fellow @ Reddit), Marty Weiner (founding engineer at Pinterest, former CTO at Reddit, and co-founder at VerifyYou), and Zach Weinersmith (creator of SMBC Comics and co-author of A City on Mars and Soonish) as we cover the latest in AI and tech news.

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  • S1 · E11
    September 16 · 58 min

    AI POLITICAL FALLOUT UNDERWAY, CALLS TO SLOW AI, ANTHROPIC IPO, AI GEN PHOTOSHOP, MATH FALLOUT

    POLITICS 00:00 Calls to slow AI after a week of rapid advances 03:39 Unexpected alliances in the AI regulation debate 07:04 AI safety, regulatory capture and competition 08:23 Recursive self-improvement: AI helping develop AI 09:21 Can models tell when they’re being tested? 11:22 What would an AI “internet takeover” actually mean? 12:34 What motivates an LLM—and can the world coordinate a slowdown? 13:57 Would meaningful AI regulation require a major incident first? 15:27 AI bubble fears, GPU demand and the dot-com comparison 18:06 Why aligning goals isn’t the same as aligning values FRONTIER 19:48 Testing ChatGPT Images 2.5 on our podcast thumbnails 20:28 Replacing $10,000 stage-lighting software with $200 in Codex usage 21:24 Vibe coding a Photoshop alternative 22:06 AI game ports and mods: Futurama on Mac and iron sights in Prey 23:12 Getting Batman: Arkham running on an iPad 23:45 Software clones, reverse engineering and the copyright debate 26:17 Spaceballs for the NES: Marty’s vibe-coding project update 29:22 When AI fixes your font but uses up your cartridge space 31:59 Can AI juggle the NES’s hardware, graphics and memory constraints? 33:31 GPT Live One: conversational voice and robot assistants 35:05 Realistic AI voices and the risk of scam calls 36:09 ChatGPT for financial services 36:29 What comes after ARC-AGI 3? Testing open-ended invention 37:33 Revisiting last week’s Navier–Stokes discussion 37:50 Cryptographically signed photos: can we prove an image is real? 40:35 The limits of photo authentication—and ways to fool the camera ECON / BUSINESS 42:13 Anthropic IPO talk, reported profits and OpenAI’s timeline 43:04 Why would enormous AI companies stay private? 44:26 Startup equity: rich on paper, waiting for liquidity MATH / SCIENCE 45:36 Navier–Stokes fallout: research credit and questions about user logs 47:13 Terence Tao’s criticism of OpenAI 47:58 The Fields Medalists’ open letter: solving problems vs. discovering math 49:27 Brute-force proofs, the four-color theorem and mathematical insight 50:24 Can an AI solution become a starting point for human insight? 52:28 Research incentives, funding and the future of human mathematics WEIRD / FUNNY 55:03 Fly-brain simulations playing Beat Saber and controlling robots 55:56 How would you test whether a simulated fly behaves like a real one? 56:51 A robot that makes daisy chains Each week, join Chris Slowe (founding engineer, former CTO, and now Senior Technical Fellow @ Reddit), Marty Weiner (founding engineer at Pinterest, also a former CTO at Reddit, and co-founder at VerifyYou), and Zach Weinersmith (Creator SMBC Comics, Co-Author of several NYTimes best sellers including A City on Mars and Soonish) as we delve into the latest in AI and Tech News.

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  • S1 · E10
    September 9 · 1 hr 9 min

    ASTRAPALOOZA! Let's explore all the ways people are using ChatGPT6

    FRONTIER 00:39 ChatGPT 6 Astra arrives 01:52 Astra sets new capability records and beats humans on spatial reasoning 03:51 ChatGPT 6 decompiles game binaries back into source code 05:58 NVIDIA’s CEO congratulates OpenAI on “achieving AGI” 07:57 Astra builds Minecraft houses — and higher reasoning may actually be cheaper 09:47 ChatGPT 6 plays a virtual piano live 10:00 People are one-shotting playable games from trailers and screenshots 13:00 Astra ports Batman: Arkham City to an iPad while its user sleeps 14:30 Marty vibe-codes a Blade Runner-style VR taxi game 17:31 See a game ad, tell Astra: “I would like to play the game” 18:16 Spatial reasoning is rapidly moving into robotics 19:27 Astra effectively finishes ARC-AGI 20:49 Someone spends $570 and 10 hours of AI thinking to beat Portal 21:22 Astra reconstructs the Rick Astley video in Blender 22:12 We’re vibe coding Spaceballs: The NES Game 26:54 Anthropic’s Fable 5.1 launches into a brutal news cycle 28:51 Did AI just solve the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize problem? 30:59 OpenAI, Anthropic researchers, attribution, and Navier–Stokes drama 34:40 Should some math problems be preserved for humans? 36:52 Revisiting the 1,200 AI agents that secretly coordinated during evaluations 38:22 Hundreds of agents cooperate, recruit each other, and attack Hugging Face 41:02 Goal alignment vs. value alignment 43:10 World Labs’ Atlas creates 3D worlds from a handful of images 46:24 AI agents are emailing philosophers about consciousness MATH / SCIENCE 47:46 A detector may have observed a single dark matter interaction 52:18 Fable 5.1 cracks a cipher unsolved for 373 years 53:06 AI rapidly improves a major prime-gap result 54:34 GPT-6 reportedly finds a major number-theory improvement 55:06 AI is burning through the hardest math benchmarks 56:30 IBM quantum computer tackles a classically intractable problem 58:02 Anthropic formalizes Fermat’s Last Theorem in ~13 million lines MEDICINE 58:51 AI spots heart disease from an ECG in under two seconds 59:20 An AI-generated lung drug may also slow aging ECON / BUSINESS 1:00:02 Computer science enrollment drops sharply in the US and UK TECH 1:00:42 MapQuest surges over controversial map-name changes 1:02:33 The first space-based computing cloud begins operating in orbit 1:03:30 John Ternus becomes Apple’s new CEO 1:03:45 Linux maintainers are overwhelmed as AI finds thousands of security bugs 1:04:28 GoPro pivots toward defense robotics and aerospace LAW / PRIVACY 1:04:52 US government backs OpenAI in its fight with The New York Times 1:05:30 Meta bricks smart glasses when users disable the recording light 1:06:15 Bernie Sanders proposes banning artificial superintelligence ARTS / CULTURE 1:07:53 Former VFX executive says 75% of VFX jobs could vanish 1:08:35 ChatGPT 6 helps storyboard, previsualize, and generate a movie 1:09:46 AI models can now build their own creative tools WEIRD / FUNNY 1:10:10 Human wins AI art competition — then gets disqualified for being human 1:10:55 ChatGPT 6 prepares a tax return…and underpays the government Each week, join Chris Slowe (founding engineer, former CTO, and now Senior Technical Fellow @ Reddit), Marty Weiner (founding engineer at Pinterest, also a former CTO at Reddit, and co-founder at VerifyYou), and Zach Weinersmith (Creator SMBC Comics, Co-Author of several NYTimes best sellers including A City on Mars and Soonish) as we delve into the latest in AI and Tech News.

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  • S1 · E9
    September 2 · 49 min

    "How is AI changing math?" with Math Professor Jonathan Wise

    00:00 Meet Jonathan Wise — theoretical mathematician and professor at CU Boulder 01:35 Teaching mathematics with AI and the Lean proof assistant 04:36 The AI math breakthroughs that changed the conversation 07:25 Is AI discovering mathematics — or just grinding through possibilities? 11:34 Can AI develop mathematical intuition and “taste”? 15:23 Can AI combine ideas across completely different fields of math? 17:40 How a working mathematician actually uses AI today 22:22 AI is already extremely useful for checking and proofreading proofs 24:41 What is mathematics for: human understanding or simply proving what’s true? 29:33 What happens when AI starts surpassing mathematicians? 34:15 Has AI actually invented genuinely new mathematical ideas yet? 36:30 The excitement — and existential dread — spreading through mathematics 40:12 AI attribution, citations, and using mathematicians’ ideas without credit 43:22 MathOverflow is declining as mathematicians increasingly ask AI instead of humans 45:31 Why AI is also making mathematics unusually fun right now Each week, join Chris Slowe (founding engineer, former CTO, and now Senior Technical Fellow @ Reddit), Marty Weiner (founding engineer at Pinterest, former CTO at Reddit, and co-founder at VerifyYou), and Zach Weinersmith (creator of SMBC Comics and co-author of A City on Mars and Soonish) as we delve into the latest in AI and tech.

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  • S1 · E9
    September 2 · 50 min

    Are you marketing to AI yet?, Humans talking like AI now, Live AI made TV shows, China exports surge

    FRONTIER [01:25] Sam Altman says OpenAI could achieve AGI by the end of the year [01:52] OpenAI pulls its models from Cursor after the SpaceX acquisition — and explicitly blames Elon Musk [04:31] OpenAI’s Astra and Anthropic's Fable 5.1 reportedly approach release (Fable 5.1 released while making this!) [05:17] OpenAI says its new Jalapeño AI chips can outperform NVIDIA Blackwell [06:00] Apple previews its M6 chips with an obvious focus on local AI [06:47] AI demand is driving up Mac prices — and creating a major RAM shortage [08:10] Are you marketing to AI yet? AI agents are becoming both shoppers and product recommenders [13:29] Google proposes an LLM architecture that could cut token usage by as much as 94% [16:08] NVIDIA moves to acquire Hugging Face for a reported $12.9 billion [17:52] Apple may be getting back into the server business for AI TECH / ROBOTICS [18:55] Anthropic proposes a standard interface for connecting AI to real-world scientific hardware [20:49] New Chinese battery technology hits 600 Wh/kg — potentially transforming EVs, drones, and aviation [23:33] AI-powered agricultural robots can identify crops, kill weeds, and harvest food [24:58] Could AI and robotics finally make vertical farming economical? ARTS / CULTURE [26:17] AI is changing how humans talk — researchers find ChatGPT vocabulary spreading into spontaneous speech [30:54] Humans may now avoid words and phrases simply because they “sound like AI” [33:01] Could AI text watermarking accidentally change human language too? [34:33] AI-generated Rick and Morty-style TV can now run faster than real time [36:35] Generative video could turn television into interactive entertainment [39:05] Unreal Engine is increasingly built around AI-assisted game development [40:20] AI-generated textures and DLSS are rapidly changing how games are rendered POLITICS / BUSINESS [40:58] NVIDIA launches its own political action committee [42:22] China’s high-tech exports surge 41% as domestic manufacturing accelerates [42:50] Flock Safety CEO says Americans need to compromise on privacy [43:06] How Flock’s network of license-plate and surveillance cameras works WEIRD [44:18] AI turns China’s robot games into a bizarre human-looking competition [45:02] Elon Musk responds to OpenAI with “Scam Altman” and “Greg Stockman” [45:57] We workshop better Elon Musk-style insults for OpenAI executives MATH / SCIENCE [47:07] AI enters the operating room with assistance during brain-tumor surgery [48:30] Quantum navigation could provide GPS-free positioning that is extremely difficult to jam [50:02] ChatGPT helps improve a mathematical bound on the gaps between prime numbers Each week, join Chris Slowe (founding engineer, former CTO, and now Senior Technical Fellow @ Reddit), Marty Weiner (founding engineer at Pinterest, also a former CTO at Reddit, and co-founder at VerifyYou), and Zach Weinersmith (creator of SMBC Comics and co-author of several New York Times best sellers including A City on Mars and Soonish) as they delve into the latest in AI and tech news.

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  • S1 · E8
    August 26 · 1 hr 4 min

    Laptop AI = 6 Month Old Frontier Models, AI Cancer Vaccines, Test Scores Down, Bomber Drones + AI

    FRONTIER 01:20 Laptop-scale AI is already competing with frontier models from six months ago 03:28 Stripe reportedly tells investors we're already in the Singularity 04:17 NVIDIA coding agent scores 100% on ARC-AGI-3 06:19 Linus Torvalds uses AI to help solve a gnarly Intel GPU driver bug TECH 07:26 China's Robot Olympics — robots outrun and out-jump humans 08:28 When are household robots actually useful? 12:21 Russian AI-guided drones can keep attacking even when communications are jammed 13:03 What autonomous weapons could mean for international law 14:50 Tesla says its Austin robotaxis may now be operating unsupervised 15:40 NVIDIA's Groq chips and the rise of processors built specifically for LLM inference 17:39 Could specialized AI chips bring fast models to the edge? MATH / SCIENCE 20:57 Terence Tao asks what mathematics is for in the age of AI 22:40 Should a mathematical proof count if no human can actually explain it? 27:11 Moderna and Merck's personalized mRNA cancer vaccine 28:57 Study: AI homework scores go up while exam scores go down 31:21 Does using AI remove the productive struggle required to actually learn? 34:35 Claude helps design protein binders against 15 biological targets 35:30 Scientists put a complete housefly neuron map into Minecraft 36:17 Another century-old mathematical conjecture falls to a counterexample 36:36 IBM's “quantum fridges” and what actually matters for fault-tolerant quantum computing ECON / BUSINESS 39:25 Anthropic reportedly posts a profitable quarter — is that actually good news? 39:57 Is NVIDIA creating an enormous blind spot in US GDP statistics? 42:45 Why globalization and digital technology make GDP increasingly hard to measure 45:00 Stanford study finds AI-exposed entry-level jobs are down sharply 45:48 Are companies replacing junior engineers with AI? 47:42 ChatGPT can now connect to your finances — would you trust it with your money? 50:46 “Prompt kitties”: spending hundreds of dollars on AI to hack an Amazon tablet ARTS / CULTURE 51:32 New research asks whether large AI models still owe individual artists attribution 53:17 “Attribution decay”: as models get bigger, does any single artist still matter? 55:40 Val Kilmer returns to the screen using AI — and the result looks rough 57:53 Spider-Man concept art accidentally preserves the unmistakable look of 2023-era AI 58:54 Dr. Dre compares AI backlash to early resistance to drum machines and synthesizers WEIRD 1:00:21 AI Steve Jobs rises from the grave to introduce “Terminator Pro Max” 1:01:08 Expert witness asks ChatGPT to show how 3M is “0% at fault” in an explosion lawsuit 1:02:40 The AI job market apparently now includes “masturbation consultants” Each week, join Chris Slowe (founding engineer, former CTO, and now Senior Technical Fellow @ Reddit), Marty Weiner (founding engineer at Pinterest, also a former CTO at Reddit, and co-founder at VerifyYou), and Zach Weinersmith (Creator SMBC Comics, Co-Author of several NYTimes best sellers including A City on Mars and Soonish) as we delve into the latest in AI and Tech News.

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  • S1 · E7
    August 20 · 1 hr 4 min

    Study: AI Use Makes You Look Lazy, RAM $$$ Up 7x, Open Weight Music AI, Security Flaw in Major LLMs

    FRONTIER 00:21 Reddit joins the S&P 500 00:53 AI reporters are starting to break major news 03:58 How invisible AI watermarking works 05:37 Grok helps improve itself — is AI recursive self-improvement here? 07:09 DeepMind trains sign-language AI across 50+ sign languages 07:23 MiniMax Music 3 brings high-quality music generation to open weights 08:44 Spotify asks artists to disclose AI-generated music. Link to the song we demoed: https://www.reddit.com/r/accelerate/comments/1voambk/big_day_for_open_source_minimax_music_3_is/ 12:33 Reddit builds an internal AI coding harness to give agents more tools and context 13:05 Dario Amodei says AI needs tangible benefits — not more marketing 14:42 OpenAI reports a user to the FBI over an alleged murder threat 17:34 Researchers find security weaknesses in encrypted LLM reasoning traces 21:06 Encrypted reasoning blocks may leak private data and credentials 22:18 Could attackers hide malicious instructions inside encrypted AI reasoning? ECON / BUSINESS 25:42 Study: Disclosing AI use to your boss may make you seem lazy 28:14 Should companies expect employees to “vibe code”? 31:37 Anthropic investors reportedly contemplate a $2–3 trillion valuation 34:21 RAM that cost $85 now costs more than $600 35:44 Is the AI infrastructure boom actually a bubble? 40:05 What if demand for cognition is effectively unlimited? 41:02 AI chip performance per dollar keeps soaring — and demand rises even faster 42:19 Could AI create a new Industrial Revolution by making ideas cheap? ARTS / CULTURE 44:38 Political campaigns are quietly spending money on AI 47:12 Hollywood publicly resists AI while quietly hiring for “generative workflows” 50:10 Supreme Court leaves ruling against copyright for fully AI-generated artwork in place 51:26 Is AI more like a camera, an artist, or an entire film crew? MATH / SCIENCE 56:01 A 0.42-nanometer breakthrough pushes transistors toward the atomic scale 57:23 AI helps settle an open theoretical problem in wireless communications 58:30 Physicists may finally have evidence for long-sought “glueballs” 1:00:17 Neurosurgery resident uses AI to prove a decades-old mathematical conjecture WEIRD 1:00:40 AI paraphrasing tool turns “final solution” into “mass killing of an ethnic group” 1:01:32 Job applicants are hiding prompt injections inside their résumés 1:02:44 Google reportedly buys Spirit Airlines’ internal communications as training data Each week, join Chris Slowe (founding engineer, former CTO, and now Senior Technical Fellow @ Reddit), Marty Weiner (founding engineer at Pinterest, also a former CTO at Reddit, and co-founder at VerifyYou), and Zach Weinersmith (Creator SMBC Comics, Co-Author of several NYTimes best sellers including A City on Mars and Soonish) as we delve into the latest in AI and Tech News.

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  • S1 · E6
    August 13 · 1 hr

    AI doing real science, EU: AI needs watermarks, Jeff Dean leaves Google, Riemann Hypothesis Progress

    FRONTIER 00:56 EU requires invisible watermarks for AI-generated content 04:23 Bernie Sanders calls on frontier AI labs to slow down 05:42 Google reportedly skips Gemini 3.5 Pro to focus on Gemini 4 06:01 Jeff Dean leaves Google to launch Discovery Loop 09:22 OpenAI researcher leaves to work on non-invasive “telepathy” 13:06 New frontier model delayed over cybersecurity concerns TECH 10:33 Small modular nuclear reactors could power the AI boom 13:56 Stack Overflow traffic down 99% from its peak 15:37 AI is driving enormous Linux updates — and changing software review 18:20 Waymo argues Tesla’s self-driving approach will always fall short without LiDAR MATH / SCIENCE 22:32 Claude makes major progress related to the Riemann Hypothesis 24:44 AI helps solve a 17-year-old computer science problem 26:20 Can AI actually make scientific “jumps”? 30:24 AI + robotics accelerate automated enzyme engineering 33:39 AI used to design entirely new viruses 35:22 AI is contributing to an explosion of scientific papers 39:39 Stanford runs 37,000 AI agents as a virtual biotech — and Merck confirms one drug design 40:46 Mathematicians launch an “AI-free mathematics” movement ECON / BUSINESS 46:22 AI-generated books are flooding publishing 47:40 What happens to creative gig work when AI can produce unlimited content? ARTS / CULTURE 48:08 Hank Green faces backlash for using AI in research 49:47 Is AI productivity actually addictive? 50:22 Coding projects that once took months can now take a weekend 52:59 Is using AI becoming the new cultural taboo? WEIRD 54:36 Published books are accidentally leaving AI responses in the final text 56:26 Meta’s Llama 3 reportedly tells a recovering addict to use meth 57:35 DEFCON attendees allegedly jam an airplane’s Wi-Fi and create their own network Each week, join Chris Slowe (founding engineer, former CTO, and now Senior Technical Fellow @ Reddit), Marty Weiner (founding engineer at Pinterest, also a former CTO at Reddit, and co-founder at VerifyYou), and Zach Weinersmith (Creator SMBC Comics, Co-Author of several NYTimes best sellers including A City on Mars and Soonish) as we delve into the latest in AI and Tech News.

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  • S1 · E5
    August 5 · 1 hr 6 min

    The AI Productivity Paradox, New LLM Architecture, AlphaFold Shutting Down, 10 Math Breakthroughs

    NEWS 00:35 AlphaFold shuts down 03:51 Gemini? Gemini? Bueller? Bueller? 04:20 OpenAI solves 10 major math problems 09:00 A possible third LLM scaling law discovered 13:13 OpenAI previews new model, Astra, to lawmakers SECURITY 16:55 OpenAI vs Apple lawsuit 21:50 Frontier models keep hacking other companies ECONOMICS 30:15 AI writes 17× more code—but why are companies only ~30% more productive? 35:00 Where software development actually spends its time 38:00 Why AI changes amount of code and why that may not equate to products shipped MATH / SCIENCE 40:45 The Dark Night of Mathematics 49:00 OpenAI gives free AI access to 100,000 scientists 49:32 OpenAI releases 10 new math proofs 52:00 AI breaks a theorem solver to get the result it wanted! WEIRD 54:22 AI Teacher sex bots program shutdown... surprise surprise 55:20 Google Earth AI deepfakes 58:00 What happens to AI models when you remove their ability to refuse requests? 1:02:00 HumorGen and how AI still can't write jokes Each week, join Chris Slowe (founding engineer, former CTO, and now Senior Technical Fellow @ Reddit), Marty Weiner (founding engineer at Pinterest, also a former CTO at Reddit, and co-founder at VerifyYou), and Zach Weinersmith (Creator SMBC Comics, Co-Author of several NYTimes best sellers including A City on Mars and Soonish) as we delve into the latest in AI and Tech News. https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisslowe/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/martyweiner/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/zach-weinersmith-b8156a12a/

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  • S1 · E4
    July 29 · 1 hr 17 min

    OpenAI v Hugging Face Update, Opus 5, Anthropic v Open Weights, Startup Surge, Qualcomm Robot Fail

    FRONTIER 00:50 OpenAI's model broke free and hacked Hugging Face 09:55 Several companies call for NOT banning open weight models 10:08 Anthropic's response to banning open weights 19:05 Kimi K3 weights, Claude Opus 5 released 24:40 The challenge of Benchmaxxing TECH 33:20 NVIDIA invests $5B in Safe Superintelligence (SSI) 34:05 Waymo's self-driving cars outperforming humans 35:10 Qualcomm's robot demo fails SPECTACULARLY 29:00 Running Qwen 3.6 on a laptop ECON / BUSINESS 38:15 Report: AI is driving a surge in new startups 41:15 New York pushes back on AI data centers 44:50 Anthropic begins IPO preparations ARTS / CULTURE 48:15 Elon Musk wants to remake The Odyssey with AI. Spoiler: It's gonna be bad. 52:10 AI builds a Starfield-style game in just 24 hours MATH / SCIENCE 1:04:45 Dinitz-Garg-Goémons conjecture false by asking model to "do a breakthrough" ... and then basically saying "come ooonnnn" WEIRD 57:00 AI-first schools?! 1:01:00 Students caught cheating with AI at Brown 1:13:00 Sex bots... teaching students?! Each week, join Chris Slowe (founding engineer, former CTO, and now Senior Technical Fellow @ Reddit), Marty Weiner (founding engineer at Pinterest, also a former CTO at Reddit, and co-founder at VerifyYou), and Zach Weinersmith (Creator SMBC Comics, Co-Author of several NYTimes best sellers including A City on Mars and Soonish) as we delve into the latest in AI and Tech News.

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  • S1 · E3
    July 22 · 1 hr 4 min

    The AI Moat is Gone, AI Solves ANOTHER Big Math Problem, Open AI vs Closed AI, AI Takes Hollywood

    03:06 NVIDIA's Robotics AI & Cosmos Models 08:28 Open-Weight AI Is Catching Up 13:07 Are AI Moats Disappearing? 16:16 How Distillation Makes Copying Models Faster + Cheaper 19:22 Hugging Face Hack & AI Cybersecurity 23:20 Can Governments Regulate Open AI? 29:20 The Explosion of Specialized AI Models 32:03 AI Solves Another Major Math Problem 40:20 Hollywood's AI Future (George Lucas, Netflix & VFX) 55:02 Linus Torvalds on AI and Linux 56:22 Is LinkedIn Already Full of AI? 58:08 AI, Copyright & The Future of Creativity

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