Episode Details

What if China is teaching AI better than the U.S.? And what if your next doctor or teacher… was an AI?

This week, Jeff Keltner is joined by Dr. Ivy Lee — a physician and AI policy leader — for a sharp, grounded take on the latest AI developments.

They unpack China’s aggressive push to make AI a core academic skill, explore Meta’s vision of smart glasses as “personal superintelligence,” and raise big questions about who controls the future of learning.

We also cover:
- Amazon quietly backs a “Netflix of AI” app where users generate animated TV shows
- Microsoft Edge evolves into a real AI agent, acting across tabs and tasks
- Google’s NotebookLM now turns your documents into narrated video explainers

Relevant Links:

• China’s AI blueprint focuses on global collaboration and open access
• Alibaba drops Wan 2.2, a next-gen video generation model
• Zhipu AI’s GLM-4.5 released as fully open model with agentic abilities
• Meta bets on smart glasses and personal superintelligence
• DeepMind unveils AlphaEarth, an AI for planetary-scale monitoring
• Amazon-backed Fable launches Showrunner, the “Netflix of AI”
• Adobe adds “Harmonize” to Photoshop, blurring reality and fiction
• Microsoft Edge rolls out Copilot Mode for AI-powered browsing
• Google’s NotebookLM adds video overviews to documents
• OpenAI releases Study Mode to guide students with Socratic prompts
• Stanford’s virtual AI lab designs COVID antibodies in days
• China mandates AI literacy across universities and K–12 schools