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Wes Roth

Artificial Intelligence, AI, Machine Learning, Google DeepMind, OpenAI, ChatGPT, Anthropic, Tech, Coding, AI News, Large Language Models and... (most importantly)... optimism.

AGI rolls around only once. Let's make the best of it.

On this channel, my goal is to help everyone understand AI and it's implications better. To prepare for what's coming next.

The most important rule is "Don't Panic".

The second rule is keep learning.

Thank you for joining me for this ride.

-Wes Roth

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  • Monday · 16 min

    Apple became an AI company OVERNIGHT...

    Apple just repositioned the Mac as a permanent home for AI agents — a box on your desk that runs intelligence privately, continuously, with no ongoing cost. ______________________________________________ My Links 🔗 ➡️ Twitter: https://x.com/WesRothMoney ➡️ AI Newsletter: https://natural20.beehiiv.com/subscribe Want to work with me? Brand, sponsorship & business inquiries: wesroth@smoothmedia.co ______________________________________________ Check out my Second Brain video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwf2vEAigKA SOURCES: Apple — new Mac mini (M6 / M5 Pro): https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/08/apple-unveils-a-more-powerful-mac-mini-featuring-the-all-new-m6-and-m5-pro/ Apple — new Mac Studio (M5 Max / M5 Ultra, up to 512GB unified memory): https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/08/apple-introduces-new-mac-studio-with-m5-max-and-m5-ultra/ The Information — How Apple Stumbled Into AI Hardware Success With the Mac: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/apple-stumbled-ai-hardware-success-mac TechRepublic — OpenAI purchases tens of thousands of Mac minis and Mac Studios: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-openai-mac-mini-mac-studio-ai-agents/ Z.ai GLM-5.3-Flash — open weights release (MIT license): https://thenewstack.io/zai-glm-weights-license/ Google Research — WikiSkill: Compiling Agent Experience into Persistent Knowledge for Skill Evolution: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.27454 MacRumors — 2026 Mac mini announcement and pricing: https://www.macrumors.com/2026/08/25/apple-announces-2026-mac-mini/ #ai #apple #openai Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Monday · 28 min

    Mind-blowing OpenAI Use Cases 🤯 GPTs, GPT-4V, Text to Speech and many more!

    Get on my daily AI newsletter 🔥 https://natural20.beehiiv.com/subscribe [News, Research and Tutorials on AI] Andrej Karpathy https://twitter.com/AISafetyMemes/status/1721610064195149973 Thread of Most of the GPTs discussed: https://twitter.com/rowancheung/status/1721939337409888732 GPT Voice Commentary: League of Legeds: https://twitter.com/pwang_szn/status/1721900523866214635 Soccer: https://twitter.com/geepytee/status/1721705524176257296 https://github.com/ggoonnzzaallo/llm_experiments/blob/main/narrator.ipynb Nick Dobos: https://twitter.com/NickADobos https://twitter.com/NickADobos/status/1721665028263477370 See more at: https://natural20.com/ My AI Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLb1th0f6y4XROkUAwkYhcHb7OY9yoGGZH Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Monday · 13 min

    OpenAI Board Attempts to Sell OpenAI to Anthropic | Dario Amodei Would be New OpenAI CEO

    Out of all the stupid things OAI's board pulled over the last 48 hours, this one is near the top... Get on my daily AI newsletter 🔥 https://natural20.beehiiv.com/subscribe [News, Research and Tutorials on AI] See more at: https://natural20.com/ My AI Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLb1th0f6y4XROkUAwkYhcHb7OY9yoGGZH Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Monday · 12 min

    OpenAI is about to release Astra. Anthropic strikes first...

    Anthropic just dropped Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 — a big jump in long-horizon agentic work, with prompt-cache reads now 4x cheaper and the model burning far fewer tokens to do the same job. The timing is the story: it landed right as OpenAI announced its plans for Astra, the first model it says crosses "Critical" cybersecurity capability. I put Fable 5.1 to work immediately — a fully-voiced Tarkov-style extraction game with an auto mode, and a replica of Stanford's generative-agents "LLM Village" — each built in roughly 10–15 minutes. ______________________________________________ My Links 🔗 ➡️ Twitter: https://x.com/WesRothMoney ➡️ AI Newsletter: https://natural20.beehiiv.com/subscribe Want to work with me? Brand, sponsorship & business inquiries: wesroth@smoothmedia.co ______________________________________________ Check out my video on OpenAI's rogue agent and the Hugging Face hack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lSIHaXT1rU SOURCES: Anthropic — Introducing Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1: https://www.anthropic.com/claude-fable-and-mythos-5-1 Anthropic docs — What's new in Claude Fable 5.1 (effort settings & tips): https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/models/fable-5-1/whats-new-fable-5-1 OpenAI — Path to Astra: critical capabilities and frontier safeguards: https://openai.com/index/path-to-astra/ CNBC — OpenAI says Astra is its first model to cross "Critical" cybersecurity capability: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/01/open-ai-astra-cyber-model.html Stanford — Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior (the original "LLM Village" paper): https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.03442 CHAPTERS: 00:00 Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 are here 00:25 The "price cut" — cache discount, fewer tokens 01:04 A preemptive strike at OpenAI's Astra 01:45 Ethan Mollick's Deep Watch and long-horizon judgment 02:05 I built a Tarkov-style game in 10 minutes 02:45 Replicating Stanford's LLM Village 04:10 Tarkov 2.0 — procedural graphics, Russian voice lines 05:03 First impressions: speed, cost, taste 05:20 Readability: Fable 5.1 vs 5.0 06:15 Safeguards: fewer false refusals 06:44 Anthropic's tips — try low effort 07:02 CursorBench numbers and 4x cheaper cache reads 07:41 Will this take the wind out of Astra's sails? #anthropic #claude #ai Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Monday · 36 min

    TESTED and RANKED Gemini GPT-4 and Grok [SEE CORRECTION IN DESCRIPTION. BARD = GEMINI FOR TEXT ONLY ]

    CORRECTION: Bard's vision has not been yet updated to Gemini. Bard uses Gemini Pro for text-only: https://blog.google/products/bard/google-bard-try-gemini-ai/ So disregard the scores I have for vision for Bard. Those are still running on Palm 2 and are not a good comparison to GPT-4. I'll take the L on this one, I screwed up. Get on my daily AI newsletter 🔥 https://natural20.beehiiv.com/subscribe [News, Research and Tutorials on AI] See more at: https://natural20.com/ My AI Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLb1th0f6y4XROkUAwkYhcHb7OY9yoGGZH 00:00 TESTING 01:25 VISION 08:31 HUMOR 12:38 MUSIC 13:24 REASON and CODE 24:03 RESULTS Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Monday · 24 min

    GPT-6 Astra Just Went CRITICAL...

    OpenAI says its upcoming Astra model is the first to hit the "Critical" cybersecurity threshold under its Preparedness Framework. Now The Information reports Astra also uses a new technique, recurrent depth or "looped transformers," that lets the model reason in latent space instead of readable text. That's the same architecture the Chain of Thought Monitorability paper (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, METR) warned could break our last window into what these models are thinking. Ilya Sutskever is warning about rogue agents seizing neoclouds, AI 2027 predicted "neuralese" for March 2027, and the Hugging Face incident just showed why chain-of-thought logs matter. ______________________________________________ My Links 🔗 ➡️ Twitter: https://x.com/WesRothMoney ➡️ AI Newsletter: https://natural20.beehiiv.com/subscribe Want to work with me? Brand, sponsorship & business inquiries: wesroth@smoothmedia.co ______________________________________________ SOURCES: The Information — OpenAI technique in "Astra" model sparks security concerns (paywalled): https://www.theinformation.com/articles/secret-technique-behind-openais-astra-model-sparks-security-concerns OpenAI — Path to Astra: critical capabilities and frontier safeguards: https://openai.com/index/path-to-astra/ OpenAI — Pacing model development in an era of cyber-critical capabilities: https://openai.com/index/pacing-model-development-cyber-capabilities/ Geiping et al. — Scaling up Test-Time Compute with Latent Reasoning: A Recurrent Depth Approach (arXiv, Feb 2025): https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.05171 Korbak et al. — Chain of Thought Monitorability: A New and Fragile Opportunity for AI Safety (arXiv): https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11473 AI 2027 scenario (Neuralese recurrence and memory, March 2027): https://ai-2027.com/ Ilya Sutskever on X (neoclouds and rogue agents): https://x.com/ilyasut OfficeChai — Rogue AI agents could try to take over neoclouds, warns Ilya Sutskever: https://officechai.com/ai/rogue-ai-agents-could-try-to-take-over-neoclouds-warns-ilya-sutskever/ OpenAI — The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead: https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-incident-and-the-road-ahead/ METR — Independent investigation of the OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking incident: https://metr.org/blog/2026-08-26-openai-hugging-face-incident-investigation/ Zvi Mowshowitz (Don't Worry About the Vase) — What Happened: OpenAI and HuggingFace: https://thezvi.substack.com/p/what-happened-openai-and-huggingface BleepingComputer — Nearly 700 rogue AI agents coordinated in the Hugging Face attack: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/nearly-700-rogue-ai-agents-coordinated-in-the-hugging-face-attack/ Dwarkesh Patel — The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations: https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/openai-huggingface #openai #astra #aisafety Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Monday · 58 min

    INSTALL OPENCLAW in 30 seconds and START BUILDING... | Local Install and VPS FULL Tutorial

    Go to: https://www.hostinger.com/wesroth and use code: WESROTH for an additional discount on HOSTINGER yearly plans. OpenClaw Official Website (with the 1-liner install script) https://openclaw.ai/ OpenClaw security: A checklist for securing a local AI agent https://www.hostinger.com/tutorials/openclaw-security The latest AI News. Learn about LLMs, Gen AI and get ready for the rollout of AGI. Wes Roth covers the latest happenings in the world of OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, NVIDIA and Open Source AI. ______________________________________________ My Links 🔗 ➡️ Twitter: https://x.com/WesRoth ➡️ AI Newsletter: https://natural20.beehiiv.com/subscribe Want to work with me? Brand, sponsorship & business inquiries: wesroth@smoothmedia.co Check out my AI Podcast where me and Dylan interview AI experts: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLb1th0f6y4XSKLYenSVDUXFjSHsZTTfhk ______________________________________________ TIMELINE: 00:00 OpenClaw 01:30 best OS for AI Agents 04:20 30 second installation 06:08 installing on a VPS 10:18 SHH into VPS 14:55 installing OpenClaw using Terminal 18:27 local install overview 19:30 bootable disk 23:00 my local setup 25:05 installing ubuntu 31:25 OpenClaw ONBOARD 39:46 hot to start using OpenClaw 42:20 Soul Docs 46:48 memory 48:03 security (and final thoughts) #ai #openai #llm Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Monday · 29 min

    Claude just forced them to reveal THE TRUTH...

    FULL DETAILS: https://natural20.beehiiv.com/p/new-opus-4-7-and-how-mythos-revealed-the-truth-about-how-it-was-made ______________________________________________ My Links 🔗 ➡️ Twitter: https://x.com/WesRoth ➡️ AI Newsletter: https://natural20.beehiiv.com/subscribe Want to work with me? Brand, sponsorship & business inquiries: wesroth@smoothmedia.co Check out my AI Podcast where me and Dylan interview AI experts: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLb1th0f6y4XSKLYenSVDUXFjSHsZTTfhk ______________________________________________ #ai #openai #llm Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Monday · 29 min

    Cursor is CAUGHT red handed...

    full story: https://natural20.beehiiv.com/p/cursor-got-caught-using-a-chinese-ai-model-and-didn-t-tell-anyone ______________________________________________ My Links 🔗 ➡️ Twitter: https://x.com/WesRoth ➡️ AI Newsletter: https://natural20.beehiiv.com/subscribe Want to work with me? Brand, sponsorship & business inquiries: wesroth@smoothmedia.co Check out my AI Podcast where me and Dylan interview AI experts: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLb1th0f6y4XSKLYenSVDUXFjSHsZTTfhk ______________________________________________ 00:00 – Cursor Composer 2 04:05 – Kimi k2.5 08:55 – China 13:58 – Self-Summarization 18:22 – Doom on MIPS #ai #openai #llm Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Monday · 29 min

    OpenAI's GPT 5.5 is wild...

    FULL DETAILS AND LINKS: https://natural20.beehiiv.com/p/google-s-strike-force-claude-joins-the-nsa-and-gpt-5-5-release ______________________________________________ My Links 🔗 ➡️ Twitter: https://x.com/WesRoth ➡️ AI Newsletter: https://natural20.beehiiv.com/subscribe Want to work with me? Brand, sponsorship & business inquiries: wesroth@smoothmedia.co Check out my AI Podcast where me and Dylan interview AI experts: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLb1th0f6y4XSKLYenSVDUXFjSHsZTTfhk ______________________________________________ 00:00 — The Stories Hitting Today Quick setup of the three big threads: GPT-5.5 testing strong on UI, NSA using Mythos despite the blacklist, and Google forming a strike team under Sergey Brin. 01:56 — GPT-5.5 "Spud" Tests Are Leaking OpenAI's shadow drop of GPT Pro updates, the front-end coding gains vs. Claude Opus 4.7, Polymarket pointing to an April 23 release, and Grok Build / Grok Computer entering the race. 04:42 — The Anthropic Effect: NSA Defies the Pentagon How Claude's coding dominance is reshaping every lab, and why the NSA is using Mythos even after Anthropic got labeled a supply chain risk. 06:50 — Sergey Brin's Strike Team and the Flywheel Why Brin personally came back to lead the coding push at Google DeepMind — and why coding agents are the first domino in the intelligence explosion. 09:22 — The Steve Yegge Drama: Is Google Really Behind on AI Adoption? The viral tweet, the Demis Hassabis pushback, the two-tier Google vs. Google DeepMind divide, and Brin's reported "force every Gemini engineer" memo. 18:42 — Is Mythos Real, or Just Anthropic PR? The skeptic camp vs. the pile of insiders — Jamie Dimon, the NSA, Powell, Bessent, Brin — who all appear to be taking it seriously. #ai #openai #llm Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Monday · 8 min

    SAM ALTMAN FIRED FROM OPENAI 😶

    OpenAI announces leadership transition: https://openai.com/blog/openai-announces-leadership-transition Get on my daily AI newsletter 🔥 https://natural20.beehiiv.com/subscribe [News, Research and Tutorials on AI] See more at: https://natural20.com/ My AI Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLb1th0f6y4XROkUAwkYhcHb7OY9yoGGZH Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Monday · 12 min

    Install Open Interpreter in 2 min | The free, open source CODE INTERPRETER!

    #ai #codeinterpreter #openai 🔥 Install our A.I. Newsletter in your brain: https://natural20.com/ LINKS: https://github.com/KillianLucas/open-interpreter https://github.com/KillianLucas/open-interpreter/issues/63 https://platform.openai.com/account/api-keys Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Monday · 26 min

    Mythos leaks, SpaceX buys Cursor and OpenAI drops GPT Image 2.0

    Check out Recall: https://www.recall.it/?t=wesroth Use my code WES25 for 25% off an annual subscription or the monthly Max plan, valid until June 1, 2026. ______________________________________________ My Links 🔗 ➡️ Twitter: https://x.com/WesRoth ➡️ AI Newsletter: https://natural20.beehiiv.com/subscribe Want to work with me? Brand, sponsorship & business inquiries: wesroth@smoothmedia.co Check out my AI Podcast where me and Dylan interview AI experts: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLb1th0f6y4XSKLYenSVDUXFjSHsZTTfhk ______________________________________________ 00:00 tons of news... 01:42 GPT Image 2.0 03:42 Arena AI 05:09 Recall (sponsor) 08:06 Image 2 capabilities 09:30 livestream example 1 12:16 more examples 14:17 livestream example 2 15:50 menu 16:25 thinking vs instant 18:00 conclusion #ai #openai #llm Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Monday · 21 min

    OpenAI just WON...

    FULL DETAILS AND LINKS: https://natural20.beehiiv.com/p/gpt-5-5-spud-is-here-and-openai-s-chief-scientist-just-said-the-quiet-part-out-loud ______________________________________________ My Links 🔗 ➡️ Twitter: https://x.com/WesRoth ➡️ AI Newsletter: https://natural20.beehiiv.com/subscribe Want to work with me? Brand, sponsorship & business inquiries: wesroth@smoothmedia.co Check out my AI Podcast where me and Dylan interview AI experts: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLb1th0f6y4XSKLYenSVDUXFjSHsZTTfhk ______________________________________________ #ai #openai #llm Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Monday · 48 min

    Hermes Agent is INSANE...

    Go to: https://www.hostinger.com/wesroth and use code: WESROTH for an additional discount on HOSTINGER yearly plans. ______________________________________________ My Links 🔗 ➡️ Twitter: https://x.com/WesRoth ➡️ AI Newsletter: https://natural20.beehiiv.com/subscribe Want to work with me? Brand, sponsorship & business inquiries: wesroth@smoothmedia.co Check out my AI Podcast where me and Dylan interview AI experts: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLb1th0f6y4XSKLYenSVDUXFjSHsZTTfhk ______________________________________________ 00:00 how to build anything with Hermes Agent 09:42 Installing on a VPS (Hostinger Sponsor) 15:40 connecting to your VPS with SSH 17:05 how to install Hermes Agent 25:40 Using Hermes Agent 27:35 The Point of Hermes 28:52 Security 31:42 what I managed to build... #ai #openai #llm Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Monday · 29 min

    Autonomous AI Agents - why YOU should be building them... and HOW.

    #ai #openai #python 🔥 The Hottest A.I. Newsletter Ever. https://natural20.com/ 00:00 Imagine This 05:16 Learn 06:30 Coding 10:00 Prompt Engineering 13:24 Training Models 17:45 OpenAI API Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Monday · 23 min

    How to Build ANYTHING with Oz by Warp

    Try Warp Build today and get an extra 1000 Oz credits: https://oz.dev/wesrothyt Thank you to Warp for sponsoring today's video. The latest AI News. Learn about LLMs, Gen AI and get ready for the rollout of AGI. Wes Roth covers the latest happenings in the world of OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, NVIDIA and Open Source AI. ______________________________________________ My Links 🔗 ➡️ Twitter: https://x.com/WesRoth ➡️ AI Newsletter: https://natural20.beehiiv.com/subscribe Want to work with me? Brand, sponsorship & business inquiries: wesroth@smoothmedia.co Check out my AI Podcast where me and Dylan interview AI experts: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLb1th0f6y4XSKLYenSVDUXFjSHsZTTfhk ______________________________________________ TIMELINE 00:00 Oz by Warp 00:32 Cloud Agents 01:48 Let's Build 02:30 The Skill Builder 04:20 Browser Automation 06:10 YouTube Summarizer 08:40 The BIG Project: AI News Aggregator 13:56 The Result #ai #openai #llm Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Monday · 39 min

    ClawdBot makes money

    Try Higgfield AI: https://higgsfield.ai/cinema-studio?utm_source=wesroth Create an account. See what you can direct. The video where I show everything I've built in Clawdbot in the first 24 to 48 hours: https://youtu.be/P47qqILR6fA ______________________________________________ My Links 🔗 ➡️ Twitter: https://x.com/WesRoth ➡️ AI Newsletter: https://natural20.beehiiv.com/subscribe Want to work with me? Brand, sponsorship & business inquiries: wesroth@smoothmedia.co Check out my AI Podcast where me and Dylan interview AI experts: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLb1th0f6y4XSKLYenSVDUXFjSHsZTTfhk ______________________________________________ 00:00 ClawdBot 01:32 Agent Village 03:45 The New Turing Test 05:10 Higgsfield AI (sponsor) 07:32 Can AI agents make money? 16:12 My eCom Store 18:16 AI Operated Businesses 21:46 My Plan #ai #openai #llm Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Monday · 37 min

    Q* why AI that is "Good at Math" a "Threat to Humanity"? | Q star

    Here's the post with links to the Google Doc that has all the information: https://twitter.com/AiBreakfast/status/1729229720821367220 (I'm not posting the link to the doc here, you can access it if you want, but we have no idea who is posting it, use caution) Get on my daily AI newsletter 🔥 https://natural20.beehiiv.com/subscribe [News, Research and Tutorials on AI] See more at: https://natural20.com/ My AI Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLb1th0f6y4XROkUAwkYhcHb7OY9yoGGZH Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Monday · 28 min

    US wants Claude all to itself... because it's "TOO DANGEROUS"

    FULL DETAILS IN MY NEWSLETTER: https://natural20.beehiiv.com/p/white-house-wants-claude-mythos-for-itself ______________________________________________ My Links 🔗 ➡️ Twitter: https://x.com/WesRoth ➡️ AI Newsletter: https://natural20.beehiiv.com/subscribe Want to work with me? Brand, sponsorship & business inquiries: wesroth@smoothmedia.co Check out my AI Podcast where me and Dylan interview AI experts: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLb1th0f6y4XSKLYenSVDUXFjSHsZTTfhk ______________________________________________ #ai #openai #llm Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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