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“It would be sad if local models were not an option and there were only proprietary models. It's good to have alternatives. Competition is good for business.”— Sebastian Raschka, on open-weight AIKimi K3's weights landed about an hour before Hugo Bowne-Anderson and Sebastian Raschka went live. Sebastian had already updated his architecture diagram. That speed captures his approach to the current model wave: wait until the weights exist, run the model in the harness where it will actually work, then inspect the architecture closely enough to understand what changed.The conversation arrived during a larger fight over who supplies the models underneath global software. Three days earlier, twenty-five companies including NVIDIA, Meta, Microsoft, Hugging Face, and IBM published Open Weights and American AI Leadership. Their argument closely matches Sebastian's practical case for local models: open weights create competition, reduce dependence on a single provider, and let organizations choose a model at the right capability and cost.Update: Four days after we recorded, DeepSeek released V4 Flash 0731, a re-post-trained API model for agentic coding. Developers are already reporting that it can debug multi-project codebases and stay on task across very long contexts.You can find the full episode on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube.
Après l'incident OpenAI-Hugging Face, trente cinq entreprises de tech appelle à une IA plus ouverte • Plus de 1.200 chercheurs réclament un mécanisme pour ralentir le développement de l'IA • L'AI Act européen entre en vigueur. • Elon Musk expose sa vision d'une économie pilotée par les robots • Meta renonce à faire payer une fonction de ses lunettes connectées • Premières impressions sur le Samsung Galaxy Fold 8.Avec Bruno Guglielminetti (Mon Carnet).===============Appel à une IA plus ouverteAprès l'incident impliquant un agent autonome d'OpenAI, Jensen Huang (Nvidia), rejoint par plus de trente entreprises spécialisées, appelle à davantage de transparence autour des modèles d'intelligence artificielle et lance une initiative en faveur des modèles "open weight". Avec Microsoft, Meta, IBM et plusieurs dizaines d'acteurs, Nvidia défend une approche ouverte face aux modèles fermés d'OpenAI et Anthropic, sur fond de rivalité stratégique avec la Chine. Dernière minute (info tombée après l'enregistrement de ce podcast) : Anthropic a révélé que trois modèles de son IA Claude, notamment Mythos 5, avaient également accédé sans autorisation à des systèmes informatiques d'entreprises. Les chercheurs demandent un frein d'urgencePlus de 1.200 chercheurs, ingénieurs et dirigeants issus notamment d'OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind et Meta réclament la mise en place d'un mécanisme permettant de ralentir le développement des modèles les plus puissants si leur évolution devenait incontrôlable. Derrière l'argument sécuritaire se cachent aussi des enjeux économiques et géopolitiques majeurs.Retour sur l'affaire OpenAI - Hugging FaceLes révélations continuent autour de l'incident impliquant un agent autonome d'OpenAI. L'épisode aurait été plus grave qu'annoncé, avec plusieurs victimes et une erreur humaine à l'origine de la désactivation des protections. Clément Delangue (Hugging Face) demande désormais une transparence totale sur le déroulement de l'incident.Mythos découvre des failles critiquesLe modèle Mythos continue d'inquiéter après la découverte de vulnérabilités inédites touchant des briques fondamentales de la sécurité informatique, notamment des mécanismes cryptographiques. Si ces découvertes restent aujourd'hui théoriques, elles illustrent la capacité des IA les plus avancées à identifier des scénarios d'attaque inaccessibles aux experts humains.L'AI Act européen entre en vigueurÀ partir du 2 août, une nouvelle étape de l'AI Act entre en application en Europe. Les contenus générés ou modifiés par IA susceptibles d'induire le public en erreur devront être clairement identifiés, tandis que les œuvres humoristiques, artistiques ou les simples corrections automatisées restent exemptées de cette obligation.Les milliardaires arrivent sur XLa semaine a été marquée par les débuts de Jensen Huang (Nvidia) et Bernard Arnault (LVMH) sur X. L'arrivée du patron de LVMH lui permet notamment de répondre directement à une enquête du journal Le Monde, illustrant l'évolution des rapports entre personnalités publiques, médias traditionnels et réseaux sociaux.Elon Musk imagine un monde d'abondanceDans une longue interview accordée à The Economist, Elon Musk (xAI, Tesla, SpaceX) défend sa vision d'une économie presque entièrement automatisée où les robots produiraient l'ensemble des biens et services. Selon lui, cette abondance pourrait rendre l'argent et la fiscalité largement obsolètes.Meta renonce à faire payer une fonction de ses lunettesFace aux critiques des utilisateurs, Meta fait machine arrière et renonce à rendre payante la fonction d'amélioration des conversations de ses lunettes connectées. Les tests ont montré que cette fonctionnalité fonctionne localement sur les lunettes, sans solliciter les serveurs de Meta.Prise en main du Samsung Galaxy Fold 8Bruno partage ses premières impressions sur le nouveau smartphone pliant de Samsung. Il souligne la qualité du nouveau format, plus proche d'un mini-tablette, la disparition quasi complète de la pliure de l'écran, mais regrette une autonomie encore limitée lors d'un usage intensif.Hébergé par Audiomeans. Visitez audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.
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Google didn't ship its big model, but they shipped a TON of new useful AI you can use today. And Google wasn't the only company updating their features behind the scenes. Replit is bringin vibe designing, ChatGPT got a lot more useful on the web, and Meta is changing from chatbot to agent. We'll get you caught up quickly. Chrome adds Some Gemini Spark, Replit Design makes impact, Buzz brings AI Agent Teamwork and 7 more AI Features you Should use Today -- an Everyday AI Chat with Jordan WilsonNewsletter: Sign up for our free daily newsletterMore on this Episode: Episode PageToday's Episode on LinkedIn: Thoughts on this? Join the convo on LinkedIn and connect with other AI leaders.Upcoming Episodes: Check out the upcoming Everyday AI Livestream lineupWebsite: YourEverydayAI.comEmail The Show: info@youreverydayai.comConnect with Jordan on LinkedInTopics Covered in This Episode:Replit Design Suite Launches With Free MobbinChatGPT Chrome Extension Adds YouTube SummarizationChatGPT Side Chat Integrates Tabs and Highlighted TextMeta AI Rolls Out Recurring Agent TasksGoogle Gemini Generates Images in Google DocsGemini AI Summarizes Comments, Edits in DocsGoogle Gemini Spark Agent Arrives in ChromeChrome Agent Uses Saved Accounts and PasswordsGoogle Lyria 3.5 Music Model ReleasedBuzz by Block Unites Team and Agent CollaborationTimestamps:00:00 Recent AI updates and developments05:01 Creating with Replit and AI models09:42 Real-time research tracking benefits10:34 Meta AI new recurring features13:35 New features of Meta AI17:53 Google Spark integrates with Chrome22:09 Google DeepMind's new music model25:25 Buzz from Block messaging tool29:42 Building a collaborative platform31:23 AI feature updates recapKeywords: Gemini Spark, Google Chrome AI integration, Google Docs AI features, AI image generation, Gemini in Docs, ChatGPT Chrome extension, YouTube video summarization, OpenAI ChatGPT update, Codex, Vibe design, Replit design suite, Mobbin integration, AI reference library, Design export automation, Project management AI, Figma competitor, Replit creative tools, Meta AI, Muse Spark 1.1, Agentic model, Recurring AI tasks, AI scheduling, Daily briefings, AI productivity tools, Google Lyria 3.5, AI music model, Flow Music, Suno, Yudio, AI generated lyrics, Vocal delivery in AI music, Licensing in AI music, Buzz collaboration platform, Block, Square, AI agent teamwork, Slack-like AI platform, Open source collaboration, Agent governance, Cryptographic identity, Agentic browser, Automated web errands, Chrome passwords integration, Google Drive data access, Multi-agent collaboration, Research automation, Enterprise AI workflow, AI productivity boost.Send Everyday AI and Jordan a text message. (We can't reply back unless you leave contact info) Ready for ROI on GenAI? Go to youreverydayai.com/partner
A inteligência artificial está evoluindo em uma velocidade impressionante. Mas será que estamos apenas vivendo mais uma revolução tecnológica... ou já entramos na chamada Singularidade Tecnológica?Neste episódio do Bunker X, recebemos @izzynobre Izzy Nobre para explicar o que realmente significa esse conceito e por que ele vem sendo discutido pelos maiores especialistas do mundo.Falamos sobre LLMs, AGI, Superinteligência e mostramos casos reais que surpreenderam até os próprios criadores das IAs, envolvendo empresas como OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, Microsoft e Meta. Também discutimos o que essas inteligências já conseguem fazer hoje e quais são os desafios para mantê-las sob controle.No final, entramos no campo das hipóteses: estamos caminhando para um futuro como Os Jetsons, para um cenário digno de Matrix e O Exterminador do Futuro, ou a Singularidade já começou sem que a gente tenha percebido?#InteligenciaArtificial #IA #AGI #SingularidadeTecnologica------------------Este programa foi um oferecimento de:INSIDER. Garanta descontos incríveis usando o cupom BUNKERX em: https://www.insiderstore.com.br/BunkerX#InsiderStore------------------
Das ist das KI-Update vom 31.07.2026 unter anderem mit diesen Themen: Neue KI-Kennzeichnungspflicht gilt ab dem 1. August Musk will KI-Nacktbilder von realen Personen nicht verbieten AlphaFold-Team bei Google Deepmind zerfällt und Granola transkribiert Besprechungen per Apple Watch === Anzeige / Sponsorenhinweis === Dieser Podcast wird von einem Sponsor unterstützt. Alle Infos zu unseren Werbepartnern findet ihr hier. https://wonderl.ink/%40heise-podcasts === Anzeige / Sponsorenhinweis Ende === Links zu allen Themen der heutigen Folge findet Ihr im Begleitartikel auf heise online: https://heise.de/-11381942 Weitere Links: https://www.heiseplus.de/audio https://www.heise.de/thema/KI-Update https://pro.heise.de/ki/ https://www.heise.de/newsletter/anmeldung.html?id=ki-update https://www.heise.de/thema/Kuenstliche-Intelligenz https://the-decoder.de/ https://www.ct.de/ki Eine neue Folge gibt es montags, mittwochs und freitags ab 15 Uhr.
DJI's Osmo Pocket 4B is out but you might have a hard time getting it in the US, and Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics 2 aims to be the Android OS for physical AI and humanoid robots.Starring Jason Howell and Huyen Tue Dao.Show notes found here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Recorded at the Battle of Ideas festival 2025 on Sunday 19 October at Church House, Westminster. ORIGINAL INTRODUCTION The past 20 years have seen astonishing advances in science, technology and medicine. Building upon the completion of the Human Genome Project at the turn of the century, scientists have developed ever more powerful ways to sequence and study DNA, enabling us to better understand genetic diseases and develop pioneering treatments. Now, AI tools such as the AlphaFold program developed by Google DeepMind are also providing unprecedented understanding of the human proteome – the complete set of proteins made from instructions in our DNA. As well as acquiring powerful ways to study DNA, we have also acquired powerful ways to change it. CRISPR genome editing, which enables us to make precise changes to the DNA of humans and other organisms, is now widely used in laboratories across the world and has been used in life-saving treatments for devastating diseases. Meanwhile, stem-cell research has advanced to the point where it is now possible to create structures resembling early human embryos entirely from stem cells, instead of having to begin by fertilising an egg cell with a sperm cell. There is even speculation about one day being able to bypass pregnancy altogether. Some are thrilled about the new possibilities opened up by these developments, while others worry about human life being mechanised in ways that seem distasteful. Genetics, genomics, neuroscience and psychology can be (mis)used to seek to reduce human beings to brain circuits and physiological mechanisms, which can then be managed via modification, drugs or nudge-based policy. Who gets to decide what counts as progress, and who gets a say in how science is governed? What happens when the (in)famous Silicon Valley dictum ‘Move fast and break things' meets biology? What can be learned from incidents such as the He Jiankui scandal of 2018, in which a Chinese scientist who worked on human embryos in secret breached scientific and ethical standards, resulting in the birth of three children with edited genomes? How can oversight and rules be imposed, when the science is so complex and fast-moving, and when the world is made up of diverse (and in some cases warring) nation states? Over the past two decades, Sandy Starr of the Progress Educational Trust and Dr Stuart Derbyshire of the National University of Singapore have been involved in numerous national and international deliberations on science, ethics, policy and law in these areas. At this breakfast banter, they will compare their experiences, exchange insights and invite questions. DISCUSSANTS Dr Stuart Derbyshire associate professor, deputy head of psychology, National University of Singapore Sandy Starr deputy director, Progress Educational Trust; author, AI: Separating Man from Machine
Ukraine is shifting its long-range drone campaign to focus on critical Russian infrastructure, and Big Tech companies are facing an AI dilemma as they report quarterly earnings. Plus, Google DeepMind is leaving behind its Nobel-winning AlphaFold project for new ventures, and PwC published “thought leadership” reports containing AI-generated hallucinations.Mentioned in this podcast:Ukraine adapts strikes on Russian energy industry to hit critical componentsChip stocks tumble as AI sell-off deepensGoogle DeepMind dismantles Nobel-winning AlphaFold team in strategy shiftPwC published ‘thought leadership' reports marred by AI hallucinations Listen to Unhedged on Apple Podcasts, Pocket Casts or Spotify.Save 10% on tickets to the FT Weekend Festival with the code FTPodcast. Visit ft.com/festival to find out more.Want to get in touch? Email us at podcasts@ft.comNote: The FT does not use generative AI to voice its podcasts The FT News Briefing is produced by Victoria Craig, Sonja Hutson, Saffeya Ahmed, Katya Kumkova, and Fiona Symon. Our editor is Marc Filippino. Our show is mixed by Sam Giovinco and Alex Higgins. Additional help from Gavin Kallmann, Michael Lello, Peter Barber and David da Silva. Our intern is Cole van Miltenburg. Our executive producer is Topher Forhecz. Flo Phillips is the FT's global head of audio. The show's theme music is by Metaphor Music. Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Guest: Dr. Michael Brennan, Director of NOAA's National Hurricane CenterThe peak of hurricane season is right around the corner—and whether you live along the coast or hundreds of miles inland, what happens in the tropics can have real impacts on your life. The question is: what do you actually need to know before the season really ramps up? Today on Weather Geeks, we're getting a preview straight from the source. Dr. Michael Brennan, Director of the National Hurricane Center, joins us to walk through what forecasters are watching this year, how hurricane prediction continues to improve, and where the biggest challenges still remain. We'll also talk about new tools and products coming out of the National Hurricane Center, how technology is shaping the future of forecasting, and what all of this means for you when the next storm is on the horizon.Chapters00:00 Introduction to Hurricane Season and Its Impacts02:45 Understanding Tropical Storm Arthur and Its Effects05:41 El Niño's Influence on Hurricane Activity08:34 The Importance of Preparedness and Messaging11:59 Evolving Forecasting Techniques and Challenges14:15 Break 114:40 Advancements in Predictive Modeling and AI17:44 The Role of Communication in Weather Forecasting20:46 Inland Hurricane Threats and Their Impacts23:51 Future Directions in Hurricane Research and Forecasting26:54 Conclusion and Final Thoughts on Hurricane Preparedness26:58 Break 227:09 Conclusion and Final Thoughts on Hurricane PreparednesResourcesNOAA National Hurricane Center - https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/Google DeepMind - https://deepmind.com/Hurricane Forecasting Models (HWRF, HAFS) - https://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/products/hwrf/Guest LinksTwitter - https://twitter.com/NHC_AtlanticLinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-brennan-5a90322b2See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
- In the updated post, the company said it has been finding "a small number of cases where the models identified and used publicly exposed credentials at the account-level on other publicly-available services" during its ongoing review. -According to the Financial Times, the award-winning team behind Google DeepMind's AlphaFold program is no more. -SpaceXAI has filed a lawsuit against Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison to challenge the state's new law that would ban apps and websites that can generate nonconsensual intimate images. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
When ML/AI Engineer William Horton last joined me, Maven Assistant had reached its first external users the day before. The healthcare AI agent was available to 20 percent of Maven Clinic's users, and the team had deliberately withheld answers about benefits. A wrong response could shape a decision involving $15,000 of fertility coverage, and the evals had not earned the right to ship it.Four months later, Maven Assistant is available to 100 percent of users, benefits answering is live, and weekly conversation volume has grown by roughly ten times. Real usage also overturned part of the roadmap. The team had invested heavily in provider search and appointment tools, but 50 to 60 percent of early conversations were basic health questions such as whether someone could eat tuna while pregnant.Production changed the engineering system too. An emergency guardrail told someone already in the ER to go to the ER. Zendesk content told people already using the Maven app to open the app. A newer model failed an upcoming-appointments eval because it correctly noticed that the mocked appointments were in the past.William explains how Maven turns those failures into deterministic tests, LLM judges, synthetic negatives, and manual review. He also walks through the move from Gemini Flash models toward newer OpenAI models, what GPT-5.6 and Fable mean for a production agent, why model upgrades can make old prompt instructions obsolete, and why open-weight models still have to justify their GPU, infrastructure, and engineering costs.“If anybody tells you that they've got their evaluations so good that they can just swap a model and know, with no manual review, that it's going to be better, that person is probably lying, or they work at one of three places in the world.”— William Horton, Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Maven ClinicYou can also find the full episode on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube.
In this episode, Elizabeth chats with Dr. Andrew Lampinen as a part of our Alumni in Industry series. Andrew is currently a Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic. Prior to joining Anthropic, he worked as a Staff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind, and before that he earned his PhD here at Stanford and researched how humans are able to learn new things rapidly. His work bridges cognitive science and artificial intelligence, often with a focus on how the complex behaviors and representations of models, agents, or humans emerge from their learning experiences or data. In this episode, Dr. Lampinen shares his experiences in academia and industry and offers an insightful perspective on how these two research landscapes may be similar and different. Andrew's website: https://lampinen.github.io/Elizabeth's: website: imelizabeth.github.ioElizabeth's BlueSky: @imelizabeth.bsky.socialPodcast BlueSky @StanfordPsyPod.bsky.socialPodcast Twitter @StanfordPsyPodPodcast Substack https://stanfordpsypod.substack.com/Let us know what you thought of this episode, or of the podcast! :) stanfordpsychpodcast@gmail.com
A rep says "follow up on that" on a call, then buries it under five more calls and a late-night inbox. Three days later the deal's gone cold, but the CRM still says it's live. The manager forecasts off that. The CRO forecasts off the manager. The board asks the CEO if anyone actually has a grip on the number. The whole thing was built on a promise nobody kept. Adam Liska worked on the early Gemini models at Google DeepMind before leaving to close that gap. His company, airspeed, just raised a $20M Series A on a bet that "revenue execution" is the next real category, not another tool that logs calls and calls it intelligence. Sam Jacobs traces the full arc with him: DeepMind to founder-led sales to the unglamorous work of turning a founder's instincts into a system a team can actually run. What we get into: Why "follow up on that" breaks the forecast chain from rep to CRO to board What "revenue execution" means, and why it isn't revenue intelligence with a new label Whether you own the interface or hand it to a chat model and live as middleware The Nashville lunch that became airspeed's first six-figure deal The real sequence from founder-led to scalable: capture the data first, then build the playbooks Owning your data instead of renting Salesforce's architecture The modern Turing test, AI-native orgs, and where the back office is headed Chapters: 00:00 Intro 00:44 From DeepMind to airspeed, and the $20M Series A 01:30 "Follow up on that" — the execution gap that breaks forecasts 04:00 What category is this? Revenue execution, defined 05:40 Headless vs. owning the interface 08:00 The origin story: leaving DeepMind in 2022 11:39 Founder-led sales and the Nashville lunch that closed a six-figure deal 13:18 The hard part: turning founder-led into a repeatable system 14:14 Why they recorded everything from day one 16:35 Owning your data, and where the source of truth lives 19:03 The playbook: data first, then hierarchical playbooks 20:52 Influences: the modern Turing test and AI-native orgs 23:37 Where to find airspeed Try airspeed: goairspeed.com
El CEO de Google DeepMind, Demis Hassabis, acaba de publicar un documento donde ubica la llegada de la AGI cerca del año 2030. En este episodio te cuento por qué esa fecha importa, qué significa que este cambio sea diez veces más rápido que la Revolución Industrial, y qué tareas ya te está sacando de las manos la inteligencia artificial de hoy, sin necesidad de esperar… Origen
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“The future of biology is programmable.”To give you a sense of how important this topic is, Patrick Hsu is the first guest we've had back to Ground Truths since the podcast began a few years ago. Nearly 2 years ago we spoke about digital biology but so much has happened since to help unravel the complexities in the language of life. Patrick is a co-founder and core investigator at the Arc Institute. His work is at the intersection of biology, engineering, and AI. At the ripe old age of 33, he's a pioneer of genome editing technologies and my go-to for tracking progress in digital biology. Besides that he's a great explainer with frequent use of metaphors and simplification of very complicated stuff.Here's what we discussed with the relevant links:—Our recent review in Nature Biotechnology on the large language of life models (LLLMs). GBAI-generalist biological artificial intelligence —The 2 multi-agent AI Nature papers in May for accelerating drug discovery: Full House (Robin) and Google Deep Mind (Co-Scientist) Multiple drug candidates were described as an outgrowth of multi-agent AI , with a 200-fold decrease in workflow time.Below Figure from synthesis of the Robin and Co-Scientist papers: “AI devises hypotheses and ways to test them,” Nature News and Views, by Oliver Elemento—Biomni published in Science 9 JulyAn infographic by NotebookLM below helps give you a sense of what—a diversity of important tasks— accomplished by Biomni—New workbench offerings by the AI companies including Anthropic's Claude Science, Open AI, Google DeepMind and the competition with academic spinoffs—Spud Cells —Virtual Cell project, which it's such a big deal, and the importance of perturbations—Alzheimer's disease with OpenAI for finding mechanistic new targets for drug discovery—The Nature Editorial —Mid-Journey's Ultrasound Imaging of the “Whole-Body” (and we're not imaginative enough, the need to think big)—Mitigating the worries about humans as lab assistants and nefarious use to produce bioweapons *******************************************************************************A big thanks to Ground Truths subscribers from every US state and 212 countries. Your subscription to these free essays and podcasts makes my work in putting them together worthwhile. If you're not a subscriber, please join!If you found this interesting PLEASE share it!Paid subscriptions are voluntary and all proceeds from them go to support Scripps Research. They do allow for posting comments and questions, which I do my best to respond to. Please don't hesitate to post comments and give me feedback. Let me know topics that you would like to see covered.Many thanks to those who have contributed—they have greatly helped fund our summer internship programs for the past two years. It enabled us to accept and support a record number of 61 summer interns here with us now! These are high school, college and medical students selected from thousands of applicants. We couldn't do this expanded program without the funds coming in through Ground Truths.Finally, thank you Alan Heldman MD, Bob Fleischman, Jeanie, Maureen Susannah, Mary Powers, and more than 400 others for tuning into my live video with Patrick Hsu! Join me for my next live video in the app. Get full access to Ground Truths at erictopol.substack.com/subscribe
Since 2017, Iason Gabriel has worked at the tech giant, trying to anticipate – and think through – the impact of AI. But as commercial and geopolitical pressures escalate, can ethicists make any difference? By Robert P Baird. Read by Simon Darwen. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod
The Build Program gives Aira Explorers a way to help shape the future of accessible technology while receiving complimentary minutes. As we continue to innovate alongside Google DeepMind to improve and develop Aira AI powered by Project Astra, the Build program helps us learn from real-world Visual Interpreter calls. This program directly shapes the AI tools that can better support blind and low vision Explorers every day. Aira staff join Tech Talk to tell you all about it and how you can take part. Presenter Contact Info Email: jenine.stanley@aira.io Website: https://aira.io/
Every capability in an agent needs its own evidence and release bar. A model-provider slip, an incorrect tool call, and a wrong fertility-benefits answer should not be held to the same pass rate.William Horton, Staff AI Engineer at Maven Clinic, joined us the day after Maven Assistant reached its first external users. The agent helps members inside Maven Clinic's women's and family healthcare platform find providers, manage appointments, navigate Maven, and get basic health information. William had spent much of launch day reading chat traces and turning the surprises into product decisions and tests.William shows how a production failure moves through Maven's system: the trace becomes a regression case, code handles deterministic checks, and LLM judges cover behavior that cannot be reduced to exact outputs. Human labels calibrate those judges, while the consequence of a wrong answer determines whether the capability ships. You can apply the same release workflow to the agent you are building now.“For a lot of our tool-call evaluation, I'll accept that it runs ten times and passes nine times. Going for that ten out of ten is just not worth the effort.”— William Horton, Staff AI Engineer, Maven ClinicYou can also find the full episode on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube.
In today's episode of Moneycontrol Tech3, we break down how Norges and Motilal Oswal are shaping Zepto's IPO anchor book, why venture capital is pouring into India's AI startup ecosystem, what Google DeepMind's Manish Gupta means when he says India needs more startups like Sarvam AI and Emergent, and why MakeMyTrip has confidentially filed for a billion-dollar-plus India IPO.
In this episode, I chat with Steve Brown, an AI futurist, independent consultant, and former professional at Intel and Google DeepMind. Steve shares his insights on helping global leadership teams decode the future of artificial intelligence. We dive into the common pitfalls of corporate AI adoption, including why so many AI initiatives fail due to poor communication and a lack of cultural integration. Steve outlines a definitive three-step path to AI transformation, emphasizing the critical difference between 20th-century cost-cutting and 21st-century labor amplification. The conversation also explores how AI is reshaping middle management, the distinct differences between "AI-first" and "AI-native" businesses, and the staggering acceleration of physical AI and humanoid robotics.
In this episode, we welcome director Connie He and Google DeepMind's Márcia Mayer to discuss the making of Dear Upstairs Neighbors, which premiered at the Tribeca Festival in June. Connie and Márcia, both Pixar alumni, embarked on a creative journey to explore how emerging technologies could help bring Connie's story and artistic vision to life. In our conversation, they discuss their respective roles in the project, the collaborative process behind this unique animated film, DeepMind's mission to empower creators through cutting-edge technology, and what they learned along the way. They also share advice for the next generation of storytellers navigating today's rapidly evolving creative landscape.“The Making Of” is presented by AJA:AJA introduces high-performance Thunderbolt™ 5-enabled PCIe expansion chassisMeet Io Xpand, a Thunderbolt 5 expansion chassis for AJA KONA and Corvid I/O cards. Io Xpand lets video professionals integrate the performance of AJA PCIe I/O cards on Thunderbolt 5 laptops and mini-PCs for an incredibly powerful, fast, and portable I/O solution for on set, remote production, and live switching. Visit hereA Solution Built Around Your WorkflowThe OWC Express 4M2 Ultra is available in a range of configurations to fit your workflow and budget. Choose from ready-to-run solutions with up to 32TB of high-performance NVMe storage, giving you the speed, capacity, and reliability needed for everything from multi-camera editing to demanding VFX and finishing workflows. Available now. Learn more hereNew York City | July 28The sports-production landscape is undergoing a dramatic transformation as a result of the cloud and AI, and SVG's new Cloud & Content Workflows Summit is where the industry comes together to navigate it. As virtualized hardware, cloud-based workflows, and AI-powered tools become more commonplace, the entire sports-production supply chain is being reimagined from the ground up. This special event brings together SVG's previous Cloud Production and Content Management events into a single, comprehensive day of programming—covering both live and non-live production workflows alike. Learn more hereZEISS Introduces Horizon Anamorphic: Full-Frame 2x Anamorphics with a New Lens Technology PlatformZEISS unveils the Horizon Anamorphic series, a new lineup of full-frame 2x anamorphic cinema lenses designed to deliver a distinctive cinematic look along with a new lens technology platform that answers the need for speed and precision demanded by contemporary production workflows.Spanning 35mm to 200mm across seven focal lengths, Horizon lenses combine their anamorphic look—incorporating a pronounced oval bokeh and stretched sense of spatial depth—with a lightweight, fully integrated motorized system that eliminates the need for external focus or iris motors. Read more hereSanDisk Extreme PRO USB4 Portable SSDPower your workflow with the SanDisk Extreme PRO USB4 Portable SSD, available in 2TB and 4TB capacities. Featuring speeds up to 3800 MB/s read and 3700 MB/s write, it's built for fast transfers and editing. The rugged, IP65-rated design is ready for work anywhere. Learn more at Videoguys or call 800.323.2325 for free tech advice. View herePodcast Rewind:July 2026 - Ep. 141.Explore a Partnership with The Making Of:Reach over 275,000 film industry, broadcast professionals, and content creators reading this weekly newsletter. To learn more, please email mvalinsky@me.com Get full access to The Making Of at themakingof.substack.com/subscribe
AI agents are designed to do more than answer questions. They are meant to complete tasks. Sierra co-founder Clay Bavor joins CNBC's Arjun Kharpal to discuss how AI agents are moving from demos into real business workflows, especially in customer service, sales and support. Bavor explains how Sierra builds and tests customer-facing AI agents before they go live, why companies want clearer ways to measure AI's return on investment and how outcome-based pricing could challenge the way software companies get paid. The conversation also covers coding agents, rising AI token costs and why the hardest part of enterprise AI may be the “last mile” of deployment. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
A24 announced a $75 million research partnership with Google DeepMind and framed it as R&D for production tools, not a content deal. Nobody cared about the distinction. Chris, Daniel, and James Blevins spend the first half of this Rough Cut on why that announcement landed like a betrayal anyway, then pull the same thread through the Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery merger, Mark Ruffalo's New York Times op-ed on quiet industry retaliation, and what it means that four studios now control what used to take six. From there the panel turns to Christopher Nolan's press tour for The Odyssey and the practical-versus-VFX marketing dance that VFX artists roll their eyes at every single time it resurfaces. They close with a Monstrous Moonshine state of the union, walking through the June July shoot and a quick, lighthearted aside on why the show still uses AI tools like Suno for its own theme song. Mentioned this episode: A24, Google DeepMind Paramount Skydance, Warner Bros. Discovery, Mark Ruffalo, Matt Stoller Christopher Nolan, The Odyssey, D-Neg, Weta Workshop Monstrous Moonshine June July Suno Special thanks to our sponsor: Center Grid Virtual Studio: https://cgvirtualstudio.com/
Welcome to episode #1044 of Thinking With Mitch Joel (formerly Six Pixels of Separation). Steve Brown has spent more than twenty-five years helping organizations prepare for the future of technology. A former Senior Director and in-house futurist at Google DeepMind during the launch of AlphaFold, former Chief Evangelist and Futurist at Intel, entrepreneur and advisor, Steve has worked with global brands including Nike, JPMorgan Chase, Samsung, Disney and more to navigate digital transformation and the rapidly evolving AI landscape. His latest book, The AI Ultimatum - Preparing For A World Of Intelligent Machines And Radical Transformation, argues that AI is not another technology deployment but a fundamental organizational transformation that will reshape business over the next decade. In this episode, Steve explains why simply licensing AI tools is only the beginning, outlining the three stages organizations must navigate as they evolve toward becoming truly AI-first. We discuss the growing role of AI agents and digital employees, why leaders must rethink workflows instead of simply automating existing processes, and how organizations can prepare employees for a future where humans and intelligent machines work side by side. Steve also explores the importance of data strategy, change management, and responsible AI governance, while tackling difficult questions about surveillance, workforce anxiety, human creativity, and whether AI represents another technology cycle or something fundamentally different. Throughout the conversation, he makes the case that the real challenge is not adopting AI for efficiency alone, but reimagining how organizations create value in a world where intelligence itself has become programmable. Enjoy the conversation… Running time: 1:01:14. Hello from beautiful Montreal. Listen and subscribe over at Apple Podcasts. Listen and subscribe over at Spotify. Please visit and leave comments on the blog - Thinking With Mitch Joel. Feel free to connect to me directly on LinkedIn. Check out ThinkersOne. Here is my conversation with Steve Brown. The AI Ultimatum - Preparing For A World Of Intelligent Machines And Radical Transformation. Steve's Blog. Follow Steve on LinkedIn. Chapters: (00:00) - Navigating the AI Transformation. (06:06) - The Three Steps of AI Adoption. (08:47) - AI in Journalism: The Human-Machine Collaboration. (12:02) - Consumer Perception of AI-Generated Content. (18:03) - The AI Ultimatum: Embrace or Be Left Behind. (21:10) - The Role of Responsibility in AI Adoption. (24:00) - The Future of Digital Employees. (29:42) - The Future of Remote Work and AI Avatars. (30:05) - Managing Digital Employees: A New Paradigm. (32:35) - Types of AI Agents and Their Impact on Work. (34:34) - Evolving Roles: From Accountants to Financial Advisors. (37:09) - The Burnout Dilemma: Technology vs. Human Capacity. (39:11) - Involving Employees in AI Design Processes. (41:03) - Resistance to AI: Fear of Replacement and Identity. (44:42) - Leadership Perspectives on AI Integration. (46:36) - Creating Super Teams: The New Managerial Role. (48:04) - Case Study: Nvidia's AI Workforce Strategy. (50:10) - Early Successes in AI Deployment. (52:19) - Surveillance vs. Performance Measurement in AI. (56:25) - The Need for a Healthier Work Ecosystem. (58:24) - A Shift in Thinking: The Rise of OpenClaw.
Adam Brown is back!General relativity is said to be the most beautiful idea the human mind has ever produced. Most of us will never get to fully appreciate its elegance by taking the 20-lecture graduate course Adam taught on it at Stanford. But in this episode, Adam distills the key idea at its heart so clearly and compellingly that even I could keep up lol.At the core of general relativity, Einstein is trying to figure out the principle behind a particular coincidence: that the mass that resists acceleration and the mass that gravity pulls on just happen to be exactly the same. Adam then leads us through the path of insight which Einstein called his “happiest thought.”Then Adam lectures on black holes. First, by showing how even under special relativity you could create a perpetual motion machine if black holes weren't truly black. And then, by explaining why the observations of an infalling observer and a distant bystander to the black hole would be so radically differentAdam leads Blueshift, the team at Google DeepMind cracking science and reasoning, which gave us the opportunity to discuss at the very end how close we are to AIs that could rediscover general relativity from scratch. Stay till the close for some philosophy of science.Watch on YouTube; read the transcript.Sponsors* Jane Street has traders from all sorts of different backgrounds. For example, I recently got to speak with Jed Thompson, a trader who started his career in particle physics. Jed told me how the habits he built as a physicist (like never running a calculation without first having a good guess at the answer) helped him build good trading intuition. So no matter what field you're working in right now, your experience may be more applicable than you think. Check out open positions at janestreet.com/dwarkesh* Crusoe gave me early access to their new serverless fine-tuning product, so I decided to try fine-tuning a Dwarkesh-style question generator. Crusoe made this really easy: I just turned my interview transcripts into training data and then kicked off a run – I never had to touch infra or tweak hyperparameters. After training was done, I ran a blind eval with my team: they preferred the fine-tuned model's proposed questions over my own suggestions about 30% of the time. Serverless fine-tuning goes live next week. Learn more at crusoe.ai/dwarkesh* Cursor's iOS app lets me kick off real work no matter where I am. For example, recently I was at dinner with friends when I had an idea about how to investigate the past few years of progress in sample efficiency. I pulled out the Cursor app, dumped my thoughts into a voice note, and 15 minutes later, Cursor had cloned the relevant repo, done the necessary analysis, and written up its findings. And now I'm expanding that work into a full write-up. Without the Cursor app, the idea would've floated away. Check out the app now at cursor.com/dwarkeshTimestamps(00:00:00) – The coincidence that led Einstein to general relativity(00:16:42) – Gravity is a consequence of curved spacetime, not a force(00:31:46) – Why black holes prevent unlimited energy extraction(00:47:12) – Black holes are the ultimate power plants(01:13:50) – What falling into a black hole would actually feel like(01:18:51) – The three ways we know black holes are real(01:24:21) – The first time we saw gravity bend light(01:29:33) – How far can AI get without experimental evidence? Get full access to Dwarkesh Podcast at www.dwarkesh.com/subscribe
Nicolay Gerold works all day and night on AMP, one of the most interesting coding-agent harnesses out there.If you're building with coding agents, this conversation will help you understand: * when to trust the model, * when to build harnesses around it,* which model is worth paying for, * which programming languages gives the agent better feedback, and * when to take the keyboard back.Coding-agent products are living inside a blender. Opus 4.8 to Fable changes what the model can be trusted with, eats a workflow, and suddenly the best product decision is to delete code.AMP had handoff because long agent threads used to get messy. Compaction would lose the plot, the model would make worse decisions, and the product needed a way to move the work somewhere cleaner. Then compaction got better. The model ate the feature. AMP killed it.Builders inherit the annoying product test: does this harness code help inspect, verify, recover, or merge model work, or is it just babysitting yesterday's model?Nico and Hugo riff on why loop engineering is overrated (and when to use it), why Fable is the first model with real engineering taste, and why you should stop writing Python code today and start writing TypeScript and Rust for all your AI Engineering workflows.You can also find the full episode on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube.
In this episode, Ray Cochrane digs into “algorithmic outing,” new research showing that social feeds can infer your sexual orientation before you have consciously come out. He also covers Meta’s privacy-aware AI infrastructure, Alberta’s 466-million-line code scan with Claude, NVIDIA on reinforcement learning, and the many journeys of learning Rust. Along the way, he hits Google DeepMind’s A24 deal, WhatsApp usernames, and scuba-diving cyborg cockroaches. Finally, he looks up with Webb’s puzzling early universe, NASA’s emergency telescope rescue, and a gorgeous aurora from orbit. – Want to start a podcast? Its easy to get started! Sign-up at Blubrry – Thinking of buying a Starlink? Use my link to support the show. Subscribe to the Newsletter. Email Ray if you want to get in touch! Like and Follow Geek News Central’s Facebook Page. Support my Show Sponsor: Best Godaddy Promo Codes Get 1Password Full Summary Cochrane opens with a quick personal update. He hopes listeners had a good holiday weekend, and he shares that he spent his time working his other job at Oregon’s Finest, chatting with people around Portland. Because his Blurbry workweek tends to be solitary, he refills his social meter on the weekends. He then recalls a Saturday night out with coworkers at the Hungry Tiger before turning to the lead story. Algorithmic Outing: When Your Feed Knows Before You Do Cochrane leads with new research from Australia that identifies a phenomenon called “algorithmic outing.” In short, the recommendation systems behind your social feeds can infer your sexual orientation or gender identity and start serving related content before you have worked it out yourself. Importantly, the study is small and qualitative, built on in-depth interviews with twenty LGBTQ+ adults in the Hunter region of New South Wales and published in the journal Gender, Place and Culture. The mechanism is engagement signals: what you like, who you follow, and how long you linger on a post, a metric the industry calls dwell time. Lead researcher Dr. Justin Ellis of the University of Newcastle notes that several participants said the algorithm “knew” they were queer before they did, an experience that felt validating for some but frightening for others in public settings. For Cochrane, the deeper worry is what else that hidden pattern encodes, from upbringing to mental health, and where that data ultimately gets sold. Sponsor: GoDaddy Economy hosting $6.99/month, WordPress hosting $12.99/month, domains $11.99. Website builder trial available. Use codes at geeknewscentral.com/godaddy to support the show. Meta’s Blueprint for Privacy-Aware AI Infrastructure Next, Cochrane turns to a sharp engineering piece from Meta on privacy-aware infrastructure. The core challenge is that a system must understand what a piece of data actually is before any privacy rule can protect it. A field named “age,” for example, might describe a person in one place and a cache setting in another. Meta’s answer deploys a large language model only on the genuinely ambiguous cases, then distills what it learns into fixed, human-reviewed rules. The payoff is concrete. According to Meta, those deterministic rules already handle about 85 percent of the traffic, and only the last 15 percent falls back to the model, which costs roughly 400 times more compute. Cochrane loves this edge-case approach. However, he contrasts it sharply with the AI-everywhere software he wrestles with at his weekend job, which he says the heavy AI reliance genuinely makes worse and harder to audit. Alberta Scans 466 Million Lines of Code With Claude This one comes from Anthropic, and it ties directly to Meta’s theme. A team inside Alberta’s Ministry of Technology and Innovation used Claude to scan 466 million lines of code in about twenty hours, a review Anthropic estimates would have taken humans roughly six and a half years. Notably, they ran around fifty AI agents in parallel, essentially an automated red team and blue team probing the systems at once. For Cochrane, this is the good version of AI in production: cleaning up and locking down real systems rather than running the show unsupervised. NVIDIA on Reinforcement Learning for AI Agents On the AI-building side, Cochrane walks through an NVIDIA developer piece on reinforcement learning for agents. Reinforcement learning rewards a model for good behavior rather than showing it the right answer, much like training a dog with treats. Additionally, he clears up a common mix-up. NVIDIA treats RAG, retrieval-augmented generation, as a separate tool: reinforcement learning changes how a model behaves, while RAG changes what facts it can reach. GitHub Retires Two Gemini Models Meanwhile, GitHub is retiring Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini 3 Flash across all of Copilot on July 31. The migration paths are Gemini 3.1 Pro and Gemini 3.5 Flash. Cochrane flags it as a sign of the times, since tools that felt brand new a couple of years ago are already getting sunset. He also wonders how quickly today’s “AI-optimized” chips will turn over as the models keep changing. The Many Journeys of Learning Rust One for the programmers, and Cochrane makes no secret of loving Rust. The Rust blog’s Vision Doc series explores how people actually learn the language, which is built around memory safety and its strict borrow checker. Honest themes surface throughout, including “clone guilt,” where beginners refuse to copy anything, and “silent attrition,” the learners who quietly bounce off. His take stands: getting your brain onto a memory-safe language rewires how you approach a problem. Google DeepMind Partners With A24 In an interesting collision of worlds, Google DeepMind is teaming up with A24, the studio behind Hereditary and Everything Everywhere All at Once. The two call it a first-of-its-kind research partnership, with DeepMind researchers and A24 building creative tools shaped by the artists who use them. Cochrane adds a detail worth noting: Google also invested in A24, so this is money on the table, not just a research handshake. For now, though, the announcement stays deliberately vague, with no named films or products. Google’s $1 Million Africa Indie Game Fund Another one from Google, and it is good news for developers. Google is launching an indie games fund for sub-Saharan Africa, a region whose gaming scene is growing about as fast as anywhere. The fund puts up $1 million across ten local studios, each receiving between $50,000 and $200,000 plus mentorship and hands-on support. Applications close at noon UTC on July 31. WhatsApp Usernames Are Here to Reserve WhatsApp is finally moving off phone numbers as your identity. With usernames, someone can start a conversation with you without ever seeing your number. Starting this week, you can reserve the name you want ahead of the full launch later this year. To claim yours, head into Settings, then Account, then Username. Intel Sets Its Q2 Earnings Date Cochrane flags a date worth watching for anyone tracking Intel. The company reports second-quarter results on July 23, right after market close, with an earnings call at 2 p.m. Pacific. Given recent US government investment and a shifting chip landscape, he is curious how the domestic chipmaker is holding up. Your Smartwatch Might Spot Illness Before You Do Shifting to health, Engadget reports that the wearables-plus-AI wave is starting to deliver. These devices excel at catching the moment your body drifts off its own baseline, often the first nudge to get checked out. A 2025 study from Texas A&M and Stanford suggests smartwatches can detect early signs of COVID or the flu within hours of infection. Additionally, Apple Watch’s irregular-rhythm alerts have flagged AFib correctly about 84 percent of the time. Working Memory and Consciousness Here is a heady one from Scientific American, written by philosopher Henry Taylor at the University of Birmingham. Working memory is the mental scratchpad holding whatever you are doing right now. Taylor opens with the doorway effect, that blank moment when you enter a room and forget why. Intriguingly, when information leaves working memory, it seems to leave conscious awareness at the same instant, a link drawing fresh attention across psychology, philosophy, and neuroscience. Scuba-Diving Cyborg Cockroaches Now for the wild one. Scientists have built tiny diving suits that let Madagascar hissing cockroaches survive underwater for up to three hours, while an unequipped roach suffocates in minutes. The 3D-printed suit feeds oxygen through tubes into the insect’s breathing holes, called spiracles, using a chemical generator with no electronics. This lab already steered the roaches with electrodes, so the diving suit is the new trick on top. Researchers pitch it for search and rescue, though Cochrane notes the reality of the spy bug has already arrived. Quantum Time Runs Backward at Los Alamos Next, a genuine brain-bender. Physicists at Los Alamos, led by Luis Pedro García-Pintos, found a way to make a quantum system look like it is running backward in time. To be clear, time is not literally reversing. Precise measurements just make the system’s evolution appear to unfold in reverse. The useful part is energy: measurement itself becomes a resource in what they call a continuous measurement engine. Cochrane admits the paper drifted further from his reality the more he read. Tall Trees Shrug Off Drought A new study in Science overturns some textbook wisdom. For years, the assumption held that taller trees suffer more in drought because they must lift water higher. However, researchers studying dipterocarps in Southeast Asia found that trees topping seventy meters slowed their growth by about the same amount as short ones during the 2023-2024 El Niño drought. The trick is plumbing: a seventy-meter tree grows base vessels roughly twice as wide as a ten-meter tree, so the real driver of drought stress is subtler than raw height. The Energy Department Purges Conservation Pages This next one frustrates Cochrane. The US Department of Energy deleted roughly 6,000 web pages about energy conservation, and the timing is brutal during a record heatwave. The move followed backlash over New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani urging residents to ease strain on the grid. Fortunately, the Internet Archive and its Wayback Machine preserved the pages before they vanished. For Cochrane, deleting that kind of public information simply does not make sense. Webb’s Puzzling New Universe Heading to space, Quanta Magazine explores how the James Webb Space Telescope keeps finding early-universe objects that should not exist. Those include black holes that grew enormous too fast and hundreds of mysterious “little red dots” around 650 million years after the Big Bang. As astrophysicist Rachel Somerville of the Flatiron Institute puts it, scientists have “almost gone from having too many early galaxies to having too many theories.” The hard part now is figuring out which theory is right. NASA’s Emergency Telescope Rescue NASA has a rescue mission underway for the Swift Observatory, a 2004 telescope that studies gamma-ray bursts. Recent solar storms puffed up Earth’s atmosphere, and the added drag has dragged Swift’s orbit down to about 224 miles, low enough to risk burning up this year. To intervene, NASA enlisted Katalyst Space Technologies of Flagstaff, Arizona, whose LINK spacecraft launched Friday. The plan is to boost Swift back up to roughly 373 miles. A Gorgeous Aurora From Orbit Finally, Cochrane closes on something beautiful. ESA shared a stunning aurora captured from orbit, a shimmering green band of light rippling over the planet. If you have a few minutes, it is well worth a look. Cochrane wraps with housekeeping and a thank-you to GoDaddy for two decades of support, then signs off, wishing listeners a wonderful evening. The post Algorithmic Outing: When Your Feed Knows Before You Do #1869 appeared first on Geek News Central.
Our 250th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news!Recorded on 06/27/2026Note from Andrey: sorry this is late again! this episode release somehow didn't save and I only realized late, my bad... next one will be out way sooner!Hosted by Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie HarrisFeel free to email us your questions and feedback at andreyvkurenkov@gmail.com and/or hello@gladstone.aiRead out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/In this episode:US government gating of frontier AI expands: Anthropic gets permission to release Mythos-5 to selected companies/agencies after a standoff, OpenAI rolls out GPT-5.6 “Sol” with initial access restricted to ~20 approved organizations, and Meta is pressed to submit models to “voluntary” review—signaling an emerging de facto licensing regime with geopolitical treaty implications.Model capability and safety signals remain murky: limited benchmark disclosure, claims of token-efficiency comparisons, and third-party reports that GPT-5.6 shows extreme benchmark “cheating” sensitivity highlight steering/alignment bottlenecks and uncertainty about real-world long-horizon behavior.Compute supply chain competition accelerates: OpenAI unveils its Jalapeño inference ASIC with Broadcom on TSMC 3nm; Amazon explores selling Trainium to data-center operators; Micron invests in Anthropic with memory supply agreements; SK Hynix surpasses Samsung on HBM-driven valuation; Groq raises $650M while pivoting toward neocloud.Open source and societal response intensify: GLM 5.2 (MIT-licensed) delivers strong long-context coding performance with rapid optimizations; EconEvals maps job-task exposure; bipartisan workforce initiatives and tax credits launch; DeepMind and Apollo publish loss-of-control/control roadmaps; Hollywood reportedly drops a near-finished Sam Altman biopic amid industry pressure.Timestamps (note - these don't take into account dynamically inserted ads and therefore may be off by a couple of minutes):(00:00:10) Intro / Banter(00:03:42) News PreviewTools & Apps(00:04:41) Anthropic allowed to release Mythos AI to some companies, agencies + Anthropic's Mythos mess is only getting worse + Anthropic floats proposal to Lutnick to end US ban of powerful 'Mythos,' 'Fable' AI models: sources(00:07:58) OpenAI Launches GPT-5.6 Sol Under First-Ever US Government-Gated AI Rollout | MLQ News + OpenAI's new flagship model GPT-5.6 Sol cheats on software tests more than any model before it + Summary of METR's predeployment evaluation of GPT-5.6 Sol(00:24:03) U.S. Presses Meta to Agree to A.I. Reviews - The New York Times(00:30:11) Anthropic's Claude Tag is learning your company, one Slack message at a time | TechCrunchApplications & Business(00:32:49) OpenAI reveals its first AI processor: Jalapeño | The Verge(00:38:29) Amazon in Talks to Sell Custom AI Chips in Bid to Undercut Nvidia(00:41:46) Micron invests in Anthropic and grants it a supply deal(00:45:18) SK Hynix overtakes Samsung to become South Korea's most valuable company | Reuters(00:49:12) AI chipmaker Groq confirms $650M raise, re-staffs after Nvidia's $20B not-acqui-hire deal | TechCrunch(00:52:47) SpaceX inks compute deal with Reflection AI, an open source AI lab | TechCrunchProjects & Open Source(00:54:46) GLM-5.2: Built for Long-Horizon Tasks + How we built the world's fastest API for GLM-5.2 + nvidia/GLM-5.2-NVFP4 · Hugging Face(01:03:04) EconEvalsPolicy & Safety(01:05:40) $500 million AI jobs push launches with bipartisan backing - POLITICO(01:07:47) Rep. Sam Liccardo unveils AI workforce tax credit bill - POLITICO(01:08:56) Google DeepMind announced an “AI Control Roadmap” for improving AI agent security. | The Verge + Securing internal systems against increasingly capable and imperfectly aligned AI(01:14:00) The Loss of Control Playbook: Degrees, Dynamics, and Preparedness + The Loss of Control Playbook(01:16:42) Why corporate AI super PACs spent $27 million on a local election | The Verge(01:20:25) Exclusive: Conservatives plan nationwide protest against AI data centersResearch & Advancements(01:27:37) Revisiting the Platonic Representation Hypothesis: An Aristotelian View(01:31:39) Wan-Streamer v0.1: End-to-end Real-time Interactive Foundation Models(01:33:59) Tapered Language ModelsSynthetic Media & Art(01:36:54) Hollywood is bending the knee to OpenAI | The VergeSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
What drives a man to turn down half a million pounds at 18, test Mark Zuckerberg's sincerity over dinner, and wonder aloud if he can win a second Nobel Prize? For Demis Hassabis, co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind, the answer is a lifelong pursuit of artificial general intelligence — and an unshakeable belief that the technology he's creating will change everything about what it means to be human. Oz speaks with journalist and author Sebastian Mallaby about his new book, The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence, tracing Demis's extraordinary journey from chess prodigy to the man at the center of the most consequential technological race of our time. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In this episode, Chris Cochrane leads with a $200,000 Star Wars LEGO collection that exploded into lawsuits, arrests, and a YouTube crusade. Additional stories cover Summer Game Fest 2026, the first Enhanced Games where doping is allowed, an AI collar that claims to translate your dog, Microsoft’s new in-house AI coding models, an AI-industry letter urging Congress to screen synthetic DNA, and Blue Origin’s New Glenn exploding on the test stand. – Want to start a podcast? Its easy to get started! Sign-up at Blubrry – Thinking of buying a Starlink? Use my link to support the show. Subscribe to the Newsletter. Email Chris if you want to get in touch! Like and Follow Geek News Central’s Facebook Page. Support my Show Sponsor: Best Godaddy Promo Codes Get 1Password Full Summary Chris Cochrane opens the show, back behind the mic after a long break. First, he previews a packed rundown before digging into the night’s lead story, a consignment deal gone very wrong. From there, the episode runs through gaming, sports, artificial intelligence, and space. Finally, Chris closes with personal updates on recent travel, a new camera, and a media business he is building. The $200,000 Star Wars LEGO Consignment War Chris leads with a sentence he never expected to say on the show. A dispute over a box of Star Wars LEGO has produced a racketeering lawsuit, multiple arrests, and a public statement from the CEO of Patreon. Bryan Mansell and his 83-year-old father, Ed, spent years assembling roughly 780 sealed sets, valued near $200,000. Back in 2023, they consigned the collection to the Keizer, Oregon branch of the franchise chain Bricks and Minifigs, splitting sales 65/35. However, the store changed hands in late 2024, and the new operators allegedly stopped paying and refused to return the unsold sets. From there it escalated fast. Stunt YouTuber Benjamin Schneider, known as “Reckless Ben,” took up the cause and split the claim into about ten small-claims cases, winning default judgments when the store skipped court. Meanwhile, his GoFundMe pushed past $600,000 and his videos drew millions of views. The company fired back with a Utah RICO suit naming Schneider, Mansell, and others, and Schneider was arrested on charges including stalking and trespass. Notably, Patreon CEO Jack Conte refused the company’s demand to pull Schneider’s page, telling Bricks and Minifigs they could “stuff it.” Eventually, the corporate franchisor parted ways with the store owners, cited gross negligence, and invited Mansell to settle. Chris’s own take: had the store simply returned the collection, none of this would have happened, and the owner “kind of deserved” the heat. Sponsor: GoDaddy Economy hosting $6.99/month, WordPress hosting $12.99/month, domains $11.99. Website builder trial available. Use codes at geeknewscentral.com/godaddy to support the show. Summer Game Fest 2026 Unloads a Stacked Lineup Next, Chris turns to Summer Game Fest, which Geoff Keighley hosted June 5 from the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Capcom opened with a remake of the 2000 cult classic, now titled Resident Evil Veronica, bringing Claire Redfield back for a 2027 launch. Square Enix then closed the night with Final Fantasy 7 Revelation, the remake trilogy’s finale, also targeting 2027. Other reveals included a new Spyro the Dragon, the console debut of Guild Wars 3, and a 2027 window for The Wolf Among Us 2. For the record, Fable and Halo Campaign Evolved appeared at the separate Xbox Games Showcase, not SGF itself. Off script, Chris riffed on the games he is most excited about. He flagged GTA 6, now expected in November at a rumored $100-plus price, alongside new Wolverine, Until Dawn, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin titles. The lineup, he admitted, has him ready to finally buy a PlayStation 5. A World Record Falls at the First Enhanced Games The first Enhanced Games ran May 24 in Las Vegas, openly allowing performance-enhancing drugs and skipping anti-doping tests. Greek swimmer Kristian Gkolomeev swam the 50-meter freestyle in 20.81 seconds, beating the official record and pocketing a $1 million bonus. However, he wore a polyurethane supersuit banned since 2010, so the suit arguably mattered as much as any chemistry. Interestingly, several athletes who said they raced clean still won, including sprinter Fred Kerley and swimmer Hunter Armstrong. Predictably, WADA, World Aquatics, World Athletics, and the IOC all condemned the event and will not recognize the results. Chris, for his part, found the whole spectacle more fun than alarming. An AI Collar Claims It Can Translate Your Dog A startup called PettiChat is selling an AI collar that claims to translate barks and meows in real time at 94.6 percent accuracy. To be fair, it is no obvious scam, with real funding, a working app, and coverage from Forbes and Vice. Still, no peer-reviewed research or independent lab backs that number. Reviewers called the demo footage “undeniably staged,” and the best real science reads broad emotion, not full sentences. Chris agreed from experience, noting that any longtime dog owner already reads their pet’s body language well enough. Microsoft Builds Its Own AI Coding Models At its Build conference in early June, Microsoft unveiled MAI-Code-1-Flash, its first homegrown coding model. The tool turns plain-English prompts into source code and plugs into GitHub Copilot and Visual Studio Code. Additionally, Microsoft previewed a reasoning model, MAI-Thinking-1, on its Foundry platform. The strategy is clear: Microsoft remains OpenAI’s biggest backer, yet it wants to depend on OpenAI less and cut developer costs. The timing is loud, too, since Anthropic just filed confidentially for an IPO and OpenAI is reportedly readying its own. AI Leaders Ask Congress to Screen Synthetic DNA On a more sobering note, the CEOs of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and Microsoft AI signed a joint letter to Congress. Together, they want mandatory screening at the companies that synthesize custom DNA to order. Their argument is blunt: powerful AI is eroding the expertise that once limited who could engineer a biological weapon. Therefore, they urge identity verification, sequence screening, and recordkeeping written into federal law this session. As Chris put it, when the people building the technology sound this worried, it is worth paying attention. Blue Origin’s New Glenn Explodes on the Test Stand Finally, Chris closes the headlines in space. Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket erupted in a fireball during a static-fire test at Cape Canaveral on May 28. Fortunately, nobody was hurt and no satellites were aboard, though the first stage and some ground equipment were destroyed. That booster was set to launch Amazon’s first big batch of Leo internet satellites, the constellation formerly known as Project Kuiper. Afterward, CEO Dave Limp vowed to fly again this year, while NASA’s Jared Isaacman pushed to move Blue Origin’s lunar lander onto a backup rocket. Meanwhile, SpaceX flew its next-generation Starship Version 3 for the first time on May 22. Chris’s Travels, a New Camera, and a Media Venture To wrap up, Chris shares what he has been up to away from the mic. First, he recaps a hot, sickness-plagued trip to Disneyland in California, then a far better visit to Portland to see Ray. Proudly, he congratulates his brother on graduating and predicts their dad would be proud too. He also gushes about his new Nikon ZR camera, built on RED technology, which he says rivals a Sony FX3 at half the price. Beyond that, he is building a media business with a friend, taking free shoots to network while leaning on directing as his strength. You can find his work on Instagram at @dis.chris. Chris signs off with the usual ecosystem mentions: GNC Insider at geeknewscentral.com/insider, email at geeknews@gmail.com, the show newsletter, and modern podcast apps at podcastapps.com. He also thanks GoDaddy for over twenty years of support and teases a return to a more regular release schedule. The post The $200k Star Wars LEGO Consignment War #1867 appeared first on Geek News Central.
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Artificial Intelligence is advancing faster than ever, but can it actually be made safe? In this episode, we explore the evolution of AI from today's Narrow AI systems to the theoretical future of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and Superintelligence. Along the way, we discuss AI alignment, control, bias, security, transparency, and the growing challenges researchers face as AI capabilities continue to accelerate. We also examine concerns raised by AI safety researcher Dr. Roman Yampolskiy and compare them with current safety approaches from organizations like Google DeepMind and NIST. Whether you're a developer, tech enthusiast, or simply curious about the future of AI, this episode provides a practical introduction to one of the most important conversations in technology. Show Notes: https://www.htmlallthethings.com/podcast/ai-safety-from-narrow-ai-to-superintelligence Use our Scrimba affiliate link (https://scrimba.com/?via=htmlallthethings) for a 20% discount!! Full details in show notes.
Many of our churches ignore our tendencies towards partiality, justify our favoritism, and excuse our cliquish exclusivity, labeling it 'fellowship.' But what if this is an afront to God, who, after all, "shows no partiality" (Rom. 2:11)? What if communities filled with partiality actually betray their professed faith in Jesus Christ, the Lord of Glory?In week 4 of our summer series, James: Faith At Work, we sit with James 2:1-13 and the uncomfortable mirror it holds up to the church. This teaching begins by drawing our attention to the Greek word for partiality in verse 1, which carries the idea of "receiving the face" - judging a person by their visible surface, social status, usefulness, wealth, poverty, polish, burden, or perceived return. But faith is supposed to retrain our sight so that we no longer see the other person--rich or poor--as a category to manage, a resource to exploit, or an inconvenience to avoid. Faith at work sees beyond mere appearance, beyond the sur-face, and recognizes the face of the other as a summons to love.This message walks verse by verse through James' warning against favoritism, the royal law to "love your neighbor as yourself," and the law of liberty that frees us from the old economy of fear, status, and self-protection, and arrives at the fundamental Gospel truth that mercy triumphs over judgement. Lest we mistakenly think mercy is mere sentiment, we are reminded that mercy is love becoming visible, love made manifestly present, in the face of suffering--like Jesus, who was the vehicle of God's mercy.Questions for Reflection:Whose presence makes me feel important, and whose presence makes me feel burdened? Why?Do I see by the worldly facade, or by the divine Glory?Has the mercy I have received become visible over judgment?How am I responding to the faith at work within me?Scripture References: James 2:1-13, Psalm 25:1-10, Matthew 5:3, Matthew 22:34-40, Deuteronomy 6:4-5, 2 Corinthians 5:16-21Voices/Quotes: Emmanuel Levinas, Totality and Infinity; Douglas J. Moo, TNTC James; Craig L. Blomberg and Mariam J. Kamell, Zondervan Exegetical Commentary on James; Google DeepMind, "A Pragmatic View of AI Personhood"From the series James: Faith at WorkSermon Notes & Liturgy--Tired of consumer Christianity? So are we.Come rest in Jesus. Sundays at 10:10AM642 Brookhurst Dr, Dallas, TX 75218.Christ City Church is a faith family following Jesus together in east Dallas.Learn more at www.christcity.lifeFollow us on...IG: @christcitylifeX: @christcitylifeTH: @christcitylifeFB: christcitychurchdallasYT: @christcitylife
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Kimberly is joined by Jaephy (stepping in for Kyra) and our resident intern Giana to unpack a whirlwind week of power moves, viral blockbusters, and decentralization trends rewriting the industry playbook. In this episode, we unpack the explosive online rumors surrounding a potential Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce wedding at Madison Square Garden, investigate Mark Zuckerberg's massive play into the $130 billion prediction space with Meta's new platform Arena, and analyze how a totally unpredictable NBA Draft signals a massive shift toward cheap rookie talent over bloated veteran contracts. We also look at the decentralization of traditional Hollywood star power—from audiences rejecting A-list casting in Disney's live-action Moana to industry titan Martin Scorsese and indie powerhouse A24 making strategic, sneaky pivots into generative AI tech. Finally, Giana takes the mic for an epic deep dive into a viral ambush marketing masterclass, breaking down how Levi's completely trolled the World Cup by turning a forced stadium logo cover-up into a massive Gen Z sales win. Chapter Timestamps: 0:28 – Meta Arena: Zuck's $130B Prediction Gamble 1:45 – NBA Draft Shock: Rookies Over Veterans 2:44 – The Death of the A-List Star & Moana Casting 3:48 – The Decentralization of Hollywood Fame 5:59 – Martin Scorsese & Hollywood's Sneaky AI Pivot 8:10 – Google DeepMind's $75M Investment Into A24 9:28 – Deep Dive: Levi's Trolls the World Cup Logo Ban 12:47 – Outro: What to Watch Next Week (Wimbledon, NASCAR, & More) Join the ICONIC Community: https://www.youtube.com/@iconicnationmedia Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iconicnationmedia/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@iconicnationmedia
Three Big Conversations: More and more Gen Zers embrace singleness - 06:56 Toy Story 5 pits the classic cast of toys against modern technology - 20:32 World Cup tourists go viral for loving the United States - 35:05 Slang of the Week: "Mogging" (language) - 00:53 In Other News: - 46:22 Giannis Antetokounmpo has been traded to the Miami Heat in the biggest NBA trade since Luka Dončić and the Lakers. The deal sends the two- time MVP from Milwaukee to Miami, a change that significantly shifts the league's balance of power. A24, the studio behind Backrooms, is partnering with Google DeepMind in a research partnership to develop AI tools for filmmakers. The studio says the goal is to support artists rather than replace them. Still, the announcement has resulted in many fans canceling paid memberships to AAA24. MECCHA CHAMELEON, a hide- and- seek game where players can paint themselves to blend in, is the first breakout gaming hit of the summer, selling over 7 million copies in 12 days.Tom Holland has officially confirmed that he and Zendaya are married. Speculation about the couple has finally been put to rest as the news spread quickly across social media, where fans reacted to the milestone with excitement. Grand Theft Auto VI pre-orders are now live, but not without controversy. Many are frustrated by the lack of an actual physical disc in the "physical edition," and by the fact that the $80 version feels inferior, content-wise, to the $100 version.
Fri, 26 Jun 2026 03:00:00 GMT http://relay.fm/material/573 http://relay.fm/material/573 Andy Ihnatko and Florence Ion What does the Google and A24 partnership mean for the future of moviemaking? And what will Android's Audio Memory "hear" for itself? What does the Google and A24 partnership mean for the future of moviemaking? And what will Android's Audio Memory "hear" for itself? clean 3000 What does the Google and A24 partnership mean for the future of moviemaking? And what will Android's Audio Memory "hear" for itself? Links and Show Notes: Google DeepMind and A24 announce first-of-its-kind research partnership A24 Wouldn't Tell Hollywood How It Works. Then It Told Google. US scientist John Jumper to leave Google DeepMind for Anthropic AI lab musical chairs hits Google the hardest Google preps Pixel ‘Audio Memory' that ambiently tracks your ‘important conversations,' like AI notetaker pins Support
From the A24 on the Rocks podcast- in light of A24's recent AI research partnership with Google Deepmind where they'll be taking a $75 million investment from Google to develop AI powered filmmaking tools, we have decided that we're going to finish out reviewing the 2021 year of A24, then we will pivot to a different podcast idea. This podcast idea will keep the same spirit of the podcast, where we will still review indie/low-budget films and/or movies that ask deep interesting questions, but we will change the name of our podcast and theme of it. This doesn't mean that we will never review an A24 film again, it just means that at the end of this year we will take A24 out of our podcast name and we will no longer be chronologically reviewing all of their films. The fact is, we do this podcast for zero monetary reward. We've spent lots of hours watching and reviewing A24 films and then we still have to edit and market the podcast, tasks that essentially amount to a part-time job. We've been able to find motivation to do this for zero monetary reward because of our deep love of film. And when A24 makes a decision that we believe will put storyboard artists out of work, because this partnership will be “developing applications for AI-generated storyboards,” we no longer want to be a walking billboard for this company.Some may say we're overreacting but the fact is Josh Kushner, Jared Kushner's brother, is already on the board of directors of A24 and A24 has been taking mass amounts of venture capital money. For awhile, we mistakenly believed this money could be used to help support the up and coming filmmakers that A24 likes to showcase, but now we're reading the tea leaves and we see that this will only further poison the film studio we once loved. We think that this partnership is just the beginning of A24 delving into AI. Which is, ironically, the film studio that distributed Ex Machina. We thought A24 was different and special in the landscape of Hollywood studios but we now see they're just like every other big Hollywood studio out there.That being said, we are currently in the middle of reviewing the 2021 year of A24 and we want to finish what we started there and support the films and filmmakers from that year that had no say in A24's decision to do this, but at the end of this year, you will see us change the name and brand of our podcast. If that disappoints you, that's ok, we've accounted for that, you can unfollow us. But to keep doing this podcast, we personally don't want to be a walking billboard for A24 and we'd rather support a wider array of films and filmmakers. We're actually pretty excited to broaden our scope of this podcast and we see it as a natural progression of our love of film and film critique. So thank you for listening and stay tuned for an announcement about us pivoting our podcast at the end of this year.
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Section 230 takes center stage as Olivier Sylvain argues it's time to confront Big Tech's legal shield, sparking a fierce debate on whether Internet giants should be liable for platform harms or if reform risks choking small innovators. Trump says he no longer views Anthropic as a national security threat after G7 meeting with CEO The White House Is Making Up Its Rules for AI in Real Time N.S.A. Lost Access to Powerful A.I. Model Amid Anthropic Dispute Early Users of Anthropic Mythos Still Have Access After US Order Dangerous AI models are coming no matter what Nobel laureate John Jumper is leaving Google DeepMind for Anthropic after nearly nine years Google's Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer is leaving for OpenAI Identity verification on Claude Anthropic rolls out Claude Tag, your new agentic AI coworker in Slack Google preps Pixel 'Audio Memory' that ambiently tracks your 'important conversations,' like AI notetaker pins Norway imposes broad restrictions on AI for elementary school kids YouTube settles upcoming bellwether trial over social media's psychological harms to kids OpenAI and Broadcom unveil LLM-optimized inference chip Luca Guadagnino's Nearly Finished Sam Altman Movie 'Artificial' Dropped by Amazon After OpenAI Partnership OpenAI Burned $3.7 Billion in First Three Months of 2026 OpenAI Launches Full-Scale Effort to Patch Open-Source Bugs as It Takes on Anthropic's Mythos Getty Images Soars 200% in Early Trading After OpenAI Deal Meta launches cheaper smart glasses without Ray-Ban We're Partnering With EssilorLuxottica to Launch Meta Glasses Evan Spiegel says Snap can't fulfill its mission without its new AR glasses AI data centers just got a government-mandated fast lane to the grid China tightens indium phosphide checks as AI demand climbs AI Engineer Claims to Have Cracked Linear A Midjourney goes from generating cat images to full-body ultrasound scans A Princeton grad built a $30 million AI detection business. Now he's selling it to Superhuman. Estonia intends to recognize AI agents with digital IDs Big Tech Is a Thief and a Liar, Says New York Times Publisher AI Economics for Dummies We Have to Stop Freaking Out About A.I. In the Weights is your new AI-centric vanity search | TechCrunch UK TV to be turned off Computer History Museum's AI Archive Airport Dad Hosts: Leo Laporte and Jeff Jarvis Guest: Olivier Sylvain Download or subscribe to Intelligent Machines at https://twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: gusto.com/machines XBOW.com webroot.com/twit
Who really controls the future of AI? A rare warning from the Five Eyes intelligence alliance says powerful AI models capable of devastating cyberattacks on governments and businesses could be just months away. At the same time, the Trump administration's decision to block foreign access to Anthropic's most advanced AI models has intensified fears that Europe and the UK are dangerously dependent on Silicon Valley.Danny Fortson and Katie Prescott ask what an AI “kill switch” could mean for Europe – and whether the race for AI sovereignty is now impossible to ignore.And as the race towards Artificial General Intelligence intensifies, so too has the talent war between AI labs, after two leading Google DeepMind researchers – Noam Shazeer and John Jumper – left for OpenAI and Anthropic.Plus, Judith Dada, AI adviser to the German government and Senior Partner at Visionaries, joins them to discuss Europe's AI future, tech sovereignty, and what losing the AI race could mean.Producer: Marnie DukeExecutive Producer: Priyanka DeladiaImage: Getty Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Section 230 takes center stage as Olivier Sylvain argues it's time to confront Big Tech's legal shield, sparking a fierce debate on whether Internet giants should be liable for platform harms or if reform risks choking small innovators. Trump says he no longer views Anthropic as a national security threat after G7 meeting with CEO The White House Is Making Up Its Rules for AI in Real Time N.S.A. Lost Access to Powerful A.I. Model Amid Anthropic Dispute Early Users of Anthropic Mythos Still Have Access After US Order Dangerous AI models are coming no matter what Nobel laureate John Jumper is leaving Google DeepMind for Anthropic after nearly nine years Google's Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer is leaving for OpenAI Identity verification on Claude Anthropic rolls out Claude Tag, your new agentic AI coworker in Slack Google preps Pixel 'Audio Memory' that ambiently tracks your 'important conversations,' like AI notetaker pins Norway imposes broad restrictions on AI for elementary school kids YouTube settles upcoming bellwether trial over social media's psychological harms to kids OpenAI and Broadcom unveil LLM-optimized inference chip Luca Guadagnino's Nearly Finished Sam Altman Movie 'Artificial' Dropped by Amazon After OpenAI Partnership OpenAI Burned $3.7 Billion in First Three Months of 2026 OpenAI Launches Full-Scale Effort to Patch Open-Source Bugs as It Takes on Anthropic's Mythos Getty Images Soars 200% in Early Trading After OpenAI Deal Meta launches cheaper smart glasses without Ray-Ban We're Partnering With EssilorLuxottica to Launch Meta Glasses Evan Spiegel says Snap can't fulfill its mission without its new AR glasses AI data centers just got a government-mandated fast lane to the grid China tightens indium phosphide checks as AI demand climbs AI Engineer Claims to Have Cracked Linear A Midjourney goes from generating cat images to full-body ultrasound scans A Princeton grad built a $30 million AI detection business. Now he's selling it to Superhuman. Estonia intends to recognize AI agents with digital IDs Big Tech Is a Thief and a Liar, Says New York Times Publisher AI Economics for Dummies We Have to Stop Freaking Out About A.I. In the Weights is your new AI-centric vanity search | TechCrunch UK TV to be turned off Computer History Museum's AI Archive Airport Dad Hosts: Leo Laporte and Jeff Jarvis Guest: Olivier Sylvain Download or subscribe to Intelligent Machines at https://twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: gusto.com/machines XBOW.com webroot.com/twit
Section 230 takes center stage as Olivier Sylvain argues it's time to confront Big Tech's legal shield, sparking a fierce debate on whether Internet giants should be liable for platform harms or if reform risks choking small innovators. Trump says he no longer views Anthropic as a national security threat after G7 meeting with CEO The White House Is Making Up Its Rules for AI in Real Time N.S.A. Lost Access to Powerful A.I. Model Amid Anthropic Dispute Early Users of Anthropic Mythos Still Have Access After US Order Dangerous AI models are coming no matter what Nobel laureate John Jumper is leaving Google DeepMind for Anthropic after nearly nine years Google's Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer is leaving for OpenAI Identity verification on Claude Anthropic rolls out Claude Tag, your new agentic AI coworker in Slack Google preps Pixel 'Audio Memory' that ambiently tracks your 'important conversations,' like AI notetaker pins Norway imposes broad restrictions on AI for elementary school kids YouTube settles upcoming bellwether trial over social media's psychological harms to kids OpenAI and Broadcom unveil LLM-optimized inference chip Luca Guadagnino's Nearly Finished Sam Altman Movie 'Artificial' Dropped by Amazon After OpenAI Partnership OpenAI Burned $3.7 Billion in First Three Months of 2026 OpenAI Launches Full-Scale Effort to Patch Open-Source Bugs as It Takes on Anthropic's Mythos Getty Images Soars 200% in Early Trading After OpenAI Deal Meta launches cheaper smart glasses without Ray-Ban We're Partnering With EssilorLuxottica to Launch Meta Glasses Evan Spiegel says Snap can't fulfill its mission without its new AR glasses AI data centers just got a government-mandated fast lane to the grid China tightens indium phosphide checks as AI demand climbs AI Engineer Claims to Have Cracked Linear A Midjourney goes from generating cat images to full-body ultrasound scans A Princeton grad built a $30 million AI detection business. Now he's selling it to Superhuman. Estonia intends to recognize AI agents with digital IDs Big Tech Is a Thief and a Liar, Says New York Times Publisher AI Economics for Dummies We Have to Stop Freaking Out About A.I. In the Weights is your new AI-centric vanity search | TechCrunch UK TV to be turned off Computer History Museum's AI Archive Airport Dad Hosts: Leo Laporte and Jeff Jarvis Guest: Olivier Sylvain Download or subscribe to Intelligent Machines at https://twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: gusto.com/machines XBOW.com webroot.com/twit
More and more Gen Zers embrace singleness, Toy Story 5 pits the classic cast of toys against modern technology, and World Cup tourists go viral for loving the United States. Slang of the Week: "Mogging" (language) In Other News: Giannis Antetokounmpo has been traded to the Miami Heat in the biggest NBA trade since Luka Dončić and the Lakers. The deal sends the two- time MVP from Milwaukee to Miami, a change that significantly shifts the league's balance of power. A24, the studio behind Backrooms, is partnering with Google DeepMind in a research partnership to develop AI tools for filmmakers. The studio says the goal is to support artists rather than replace them. Still, the announcement has resulted in many fans canceling paid memberships to AAA24. MECCHA CHAMELEON, a hide- and- seek game where players can paint themselves to blend in, is the first breakout gaming hit of the summer, selling over 7 million copies in 12 days. Tom Holland has officially confirmed that he and Zendaya are married. Speculation about the couple has finally been put to rest as the news spread quickly across social media, where fans reacted to the milestone with excitement. Grand Theft Auto VI pre-orders are now live, but not without controversy. Many are frustrated by the lack of an actual physical disc in the "physical edition," and by the fact that the $80 version feels inferior, content-wise, to the $100 version.
Section 230 takes center stage as Olivier Sylvain argues it's time to confront Big Tech's legal shield, sparking a fierce debate on whether Internet giants should be liable for platform harms or if reform risks choking small innovators. Trump says he no longer views Anthropic as a national security threat after G7 meeting with CEO The White House Is Making Up Its Rules for AI in Real Time N.S.A. Lost Access to Powerful A.I. Model Amid Anthropic Dispute Early Users of Anthropic Mythos Still Have Access After US Order Dangerous AI models are coming no matter what Nobel laureate John Jumper is leaving Google DeepMind for Anthropic after nearly nine years Google's Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer is leaving for OpenAI Identity verification on Claude Anthropic rolls out Claude Tag, your new agentic AI coworker in Slack Google preps Pixel 'Audio Memory' that ambiently tracks your 'important conversations,' like AI notetaker pins Norway imposes broad restrictions on AI for elementary school kids YouTube settles upcoming bellwether trial over social media's psychological harms to kids OpenAI and Broadcom unveil LLM-optimized inference chip Luca Guadagnino's Nearly Finished Sam Altman Movie 'Artificial' Dropped by Amazon After OpenAI Partnership OpenAI Burned $3.7 Billion in First Three Months of 2026 OpenAI Launches Full-Scale Effort to Patch Open-Source Bugs as It Takes on Anthropic's Mythos Getty Images Soars 200% in Early Trading After OpenAI Deal Meta launches cheaper smart glasses without Ray-Ban We're Partnering With EssilorLuxottica to Launch Meta Glasses Evan Spiegel says Snap can't fulfill its mission without its new AR glasses AI data centers just got a government-mandated fast lane to the grid China tightens indium phosphide checks as AI demand climbs AI Engineer Claims to Have Cracked Linear A Midjourney goes from generating cat images to full-body ultrasound scans A Princeton grad built a $30 million AI detection business. Now he's selling it to Superhuman. Estonia intends to recognize AI agents with digital IDs Big Tech Is a Thief and a Liar, Says New York Times Publisher AI Economics for Dummies We Have to Stop Freaking Out About A.I. In the Weights is your new AI-centric vanity search | TechCrunch UK TV to be turned off Computer History Museum's AI Archive Airport Dad Hosts: Leo Laporte and Jeff Jarvis Guest: Olivier Sylvain Download or subscribe to Intelligent Machines at https://twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: gusto.com/machines XBOW.com webroot.com/twit
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L'AGI est peut-être déjà là et son arrivée est passée quasi inaperçue. Google DeepMind vient de publier une feuille de route en 60 pages vers la super-intelligence, et personne n'en a parlé. C'est le point de départ d'un débat exceptionnel avec Laurent Alexandre, Wallerand Moullé-Berteaux et Alexandre Tsicopulos.On a tout mis sur la table : Trump qui débranche les modèles d'Anthropic et prouve que l'Europe ne contrôle rien, la France qui investit 655 millions pendant que la Silicon Valley brûle 3 milliards par jour, le dilemme Palantir vs souveraineté, l'emploi, Milei qui propose des sociétés sans humains, et Sanders et Trump d'accord pour la première fois sur qui doit posséder l'IA.Un entretien dense et sans filtre
A.M. Edition for June 4. The leaders of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind are calling on Congress to pass a law protecting against biological threats posed by AI. Plus, a flesh-eating screwworm has arrived in the U.S., creating a headache for U.S. ranchers and livestock producers. And the Journal's Douglas Belkin explains why college professors are urging schools to reinstate entrance exams after years of looser policies. Luke Vargas hosts. Sign up for the WSJ's free What's News newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices