Episode Details

It’s a huge week in AI, with OpenAI releasing GPT-OSS and GPT-5, Grok getting deeply problematic again with its “spicy” video generator, and Tim Cook admitting that Apple may need to cut some deals. Then we talk the age gating of the internet and how you might soon need an ID card to get just about anywhere online. Finally, the Lightning Round gets re-rebranded. Adi Robertson and Alex Heath join the show to discuss.

Further reading:

• GPT-5 is being released to all ChatGPT users
• OpenAI releases a free GPT model that can run on your laptop
• Why open-source AI became an American national priority
• Mark Zuckerberg promises you can trust him with superintelligent AI
• xAI’s new Grok image and video generator has a ‘spicy’ mode
• Grok’s ‘spicy’ video setting instantly made me Taylor Swift nude deepfakes
• I tested Grok’s Valentine sex chatbot and it (mostly) behaved
• Tim Cook says Apple ‘must’ figure out AI and ‘will make the investment to do it’
• Tim Cook says Apple is ‘open to’ AI acquisitions

• Ready or not, age verification is rolling out across the internet
• The UK is now age-gating the internet
• The UK is slogging through an online age-gate apocalyps
• The UK’s new age-gating rules are easy to bypass
• Reddit and Discord’s UK age verification can be defeated by Death Stranding’s photo mode
• Reddit rolls out age verification in the UK to comply with new rules
• Five EU states to test age verification app to protect children
• The EU approach to age verification
• Commission presents guidelines and age verification app prototype for a safer online space for children
• Porn age-gating is the future of the internet, thanks to the Supreme Court
• The Supreme Court just upended internet law, and I have questions

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