Is Prompt Engineering Dead?
The episode opened with Google’s leadership changes, including Demis Hassabis moving into the chief scientist and DeepMind chairman roles, while DeepMind’s chief technology officer takes greater contr...
6 Aug 1h
Did Anthropic Break Opus 5?
The episode opened with sharply different experiences using Opus 5. Beth described the model ignoring established context, launching broad research agents and then losing control after those agents cr...
5 Aug 59min
Can an AI Agent Run Sales Without You?
The episode opened with Fiji Simo’s decision to launch Chronicle Bio, a startup using AI and large biological datasets to study POTS and other chronic illnesses after the condition affected her own he...
4 Aug 1h 6min
Does Microsoft Need the Best AI Model to Win?
The episode focused on the growing challenge of separating AI-generated media from reality after Google briefly connected Nano Banana image generation with Google Earth, allowing users to place convin...
3 Aug 1h 2min
The Robot Manners Conundrum
Humanoid robots are starting to move from labs into workplaces, schools, stores, and homes. As they become more common, we will have to decide how people are expected to behave around them.Do you say ...
1 Aug 28min
Did Leo Aschenbrenner Fly Too Close to the AI Sun?
The episode opened with the story around Leo Aschenbrenner’s Situational Awareness hedge fund, its heavy exposure to the AI trade, the market drop that put pressure on its positions, and Citadel’s mov...
31 Juli 59min
Is Meta Done Sharing Their AI?
The episode focused on signs that frontier AI systems are becoming more autonomous, starting with Meta’s rising AI costs, Mark Zuckerberg’s claim that Meta’s systems are now self-improving, and the de...
30 Juli 1h 3min
Is AI Moving Too Fast to Control?
The episode focused on new details from the OpenAI and Hugging Face security incident, including additional services accessed by the models, an Artifactory zero-day vulnerability, and the ability of A...
29 Juli 1h
