Episode Details

This week, we discuss AI doom odds, WordPress's boardroom coup, and Meta's Muse assistant. Plus, a robot vacuum fire scare.

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Runner-up Titles

• Maybe you have too much
• The mopping sucks
• Why not us?
• I subscribe to all the conspiracies
• I brought my own pieces
• The true heroes are the open source users
• We learned a lot about VR on the way
• Fun for your spatial reasoning
• It's Only Cheating If You Get Caught
• Won't Somebody Slow Down?
• I Brought My Own Pieces
• A Big Living Room in the Sky
• I Don't Read the Five Stars, I Read the Four Stars

Rundown

• AI Doom and Gloom
  • Dario Amodei — We Must Pace the Frontier
  • President Trump Is on the Line About an A.I. Slowdown
  • How AI might reshape the economy
  • The contagion of fear | The Observation Deck
  • Goldman AI chief: Don't rule out open models
  • The contagion of fear
• Executive behavior
  • Matt Mullenweg tells (trolls?) Automattic staff, saying he's back in control after CEO ouster
  • Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg Put on 'Leave of Absence'
  • Automattic’s interim CEO and legal chief signed reciprocal severance deals during Mullenweg’s brief ouster
  • Ballmer to accept NBA's punishment, has 'sincere regrets'
• Introducing Muse: The World's First Personal AI Agent Built for Everyone

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