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The Necessary Friction Conundrum
AI agents are beginning to handle the tasks people hate most: filling out forms, disputing charges, comparing insurance plans, booking appointments, …
1 month ago
Three Years of AI News, Every Single Weekday
Episode 785
Three years of daily AI news and discussion comes full circle as the original co-hosts gather to look back on August 2023 — the ChatGPT, Bard, and Cl…
1 month ago
Is Prompt Engineering Dead?
Episode 784
The episode opened with Google’s leadership changes, including Demis Hassabis moving into the chief scientist and DeepMind chairman roles, while Deep…
1 month, 1 week ago
Did Anthropic Break Opus 5?
Episode 783
The episode opened with sharply different experiences using Opus 5. Beth described the model ignoring established context, launching broad research a…
1 month, 1 week ago
Can an AI Agent Run Sales Without You?
Episode 782
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 chroni…
1 month, 1 week ago
Does Microsoft Need the Best AI Model to Win?
Episode 781
The episode focused on the growing challenge of separating AI-generated media from reality after Google briefly connected Nano Banana image generatio…
1 month, 1 week ago
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 pe…
1 month, 1 week ago
Did Leo Aschenbrenner Fly Too Close to the AI Sun?
Episode 780
The episode opened with the story around Leo Aschenbrenner’s Situational Awareness hedge fund, its heavy exposure to the AI trade, the market drop th…
1 month, 1 week ago
Is Meta Done Sharing Their AI?
Episode 779
The episode focused on signs that frontier AI systems are becoming more autonomous, starting with Meta’s rising AI costs, Mark Zuckerberg’s claim tha…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Is AI Moving Too Fast to Control?
Episode 778
The episode focused on new details from the OpenAI and Hugging Face security incident, including additional services accessed by the models, an Artif…
1 month, 2 weeks ago