Chapter 111 - Google's AI clicks, Meta's illegal data, GPT-5's promise, plus tech layoffs & billion-dollar deals.
Google states that integrating AI into its search has not negatively impacted website clicks and has even improved their quality. A jury found that Meta illegally collected menstrual data from users o...
8 Aug 202514min
Episode 110 - Special episode: GPT-5: It Just Does Stuff
GPT-5: It Just Does Stuffhttps://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/gpt-5-it-just-does-stuff
8 Aug 202512min
Episode 109 - OpenAI's valuation, chip smuggling, Microsoft's blunder and the AI arms race
Microsoft is making OpenAI's new open model available on Windows, though its separate AI web initiative has encountered a security flaw. Meanwhile, OpenAI is reportedly planning a share sale at a pote...
7 Aug 202519min
Episode 108 - Spicy Grok, local AI, & game worlds, amid chip woes and tech mergers.
OpenAI has released a free, partially open-source GPT model that can run on a laptop, reportedly in response to competition. Google introduced Genie 3, an AI model that generates video game worlds in ...
6 Aug 202514min
Episode 107 - Special episode: The Author as AI Designer
The Author as Designer: Distant Writing and Literary Creation in the Age of AIhttps://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/scl/fi/rm42i8bccfthwn9gopt82/content_to_share-2.txt?rlkey=fq2ysp4q0bmnvigmw3nd9lxg7&dl=1
6 Aug 202514min
Episode 106 - The AI Arms Race: OpenAI is hiring, Sentinel acquires, and Yotpo lays off, and also: Crypto and Yachts
The market shows a strong appetite for AI, evidenced by OpenAI's fundraising and major infrastructure investments from tech giants like Google and Amazon. In acquisitions, SentinelOne is buying an Isr...
5 Aug 202520min
Episode 105 - Special episode: How LLMs See the World
How LLMs See the World - ByteByteGo Newsletterhttps://blog.bytebytego.com/p/how-llms-see-the-world
5 Aug 202519min
Episode 104 - Special episode: Weaving the Agentic Web
Agentic Web: Weaving the Next Web with AI Agentshttps://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21206
4 Aug 202512min
