Robots Are Now Working at Human Speed

ROBOTICS00:59 Humanoid robots get to work: Sorting EV parts01:38 Apple's household robot demo: A Unitree bot and a Mac mini02:30 Package-sorting robots and Boston Dynamics' roller-skating robot03:28 Figure AI's robot crowd: Where are all the humans?04:02 Artificial muscles and a deeply unsettling Westworld torso04:37 DeepMind and full-body robot intelligence04:58 Tesla's FSD safety report: Impressive numbers, important caveats06:42 AI designs circuit boards: From schematic to manufacturing08:13 RoboDojo: Are general-purpose models getting good at robotics?10:16 OpenAI's hardware team, CAD tools, and engineering benchmarks11:22 Marty rebuilds the original Star Tours ride with AI and Unity12:38 The robot safety test gets worse: What if everything looks like an apple?FRONTIER14:21 Model roundup: GPT 6 Cyber, ChatGPT Images & Claude Fable 5.215:13 Is AI progress accelerating—or is spending accelerating?18:29 Model launches, IPO timing, and competitive pressureMEDICINE19:39 AI in drug development, T-cell therapies, and allergy research20:16 An AI agent performs surgery on a mouse: Promise and unease22:07 Microsoft's diagnostic AI: Benchmark results and the human in the loopPHYSICS24:33 From exam questions to actual research: The Frontier Physics benchmark27:43 Black holes, quantum gravity, and new theoretical results30:00 Hot gas, black holes, and the Hawking–Page transition31:08 Lean proofs, quantum field theory, and what still needs checkingBUSINESS / ECONOMICS32:38 Nvidia, leadership controversy, and chip exports to China35:15 Anthropic's reported IPO plans35:29 The Remote Labor Index: AI takes on work people get paid to doPOLITICS / SOCIETY38:10 Can a city ban superintelligence? Bloomington enters the chat40:30 Who uses AI? Political divides, education, income, and demographics43:06 AI tutoring, access, and who stands to benefit44:58 Why does AI sentiment differ so much between countries?46:45 Calls to ban recursive self-improvement and the data-center backlash49:19 Data-center tax revenue, local costs, and being a better neighborFUNNY / WEIRD50:58 The power-grid mystery: Why everything blips every 60 seconds52:26 Benchmark gaming: Tiny changes, huge drops in model scores54:10 The CEO address question—and a dramatic deposition reading55:20 See you next week. Go chop some apples.Each week, join Chris Slowe (founding engineer, former CTO, and now Senior Technical Fellow @ Reddit), Marty Weiner (founding engineer at Pinterest, former CTO at Reddit, and co-founder at VerifyYou), and Zach Weinersmith (creator of SMBC Comics and co-author of NYTimes bestsellers including A City on Mars and Soonish) as we delve into the latest in AI and Tech News.

FRONTIER01:24 AI editing AI: Reading and rewriting neural-network weights03:11 Small models, big math gains: What did the experiment show?05:06 Weight editing versus fine-tuning06:03 Could this unlock continual learning?07:38 Surgical alignment: Fixing specific model behaviors10:08 Could AI rewrite its own weights while running?12:41 Are open weights becoming the equivalent of source code?SECURITY NEWS13:13 A fake Claude Code extension reaches Cursor users14:34 App-store impersonation and software supply-chain attacks16:14 Why wasn’t this caught before users installed it?ECON / BUSINESS18:55 Is the AI bubble over? The tech sell-off and fundraising pressure20:45 Google’s earnings: Cloud growth versus AI spending21:07 Are AI answers eating Google’s advertising business?23:34 The innovator’s dilemma: Disrupt yourself or lose25:45 Microsoft, Amazon, and the AI infrastructure race27:39 Reddit: Rising revenue, falling shares, disappearing search traffic28:55 Is AI pushing the open internet behind sign-ups and paywalls?30:53 What happens when agents bypass the businesses they use?32:22 Anthropic’s growth and the prospect of trillion-dollar AI companiesROBOTICS35:50 Robot imports and tariffs: Security concerns versus supply-chain chaos38:56 Why trade matters for manufacturing—and peace40:00 Kroger’s inventory robot and Meta’s humanoid demo41:08 Marty’s experiments: AI-designed schematics and circuit boards42:12 From circuit boards to CAD: Vibe coding for hardware42:37 Building a robotic dog from an AI imageFRONTIER / WORLD MODELS45:08 JEPA versus LLMs: Do different models learn the same reality?47:14 World models versus next-token prediction50:17 Inference, grounding, and whether alternatives can catch LLMsQUICK NEWS / TECH52:16 Google’s new frontier-model announcement—and the wait for access53:58 Can a sleep-inspired approach help AI keep learning?54:39 Genie 4: Playable worlds generated on the fly57:23 AI game clones, decompilation, and the copyright debateSCIENCE1:00:11 AI-assisted drug discovery and antibody design1:01:16 AI peer review: When humans prefer the machine’s feedback1:02:11 Should every research paper get an AI review?ARTS / CULTURE / WEIRD1:02:50 An AI Odyssey: Good visuals still need good directing1:05:24 MC Hammer’s AI future—and his Silicon Valley past1:06:24 Sam Altman, data centers, and the RAM jokes1:07:04 A $60 million AI supercomputer on eBay1:07:31 LGTM: An AI-made takedown of AI coding, plus the sign-offEach week, join Chris Slowe (founding engineer, former CTO, and now Senior Technical Fellow @ Reddit), Marty Weiner (founding engineer at Pinterest, former CTO at Reddit, and co-founder at VerifyYou), and Zach Weinersmith (creator of SMBC Comics and co-author of NYTimes bestsellers including A City on Mars and Soonish) for the latest in AI and Tech News.

This week we are joined by Reddit's former CISO to talk about AI and security!SECURITY NEWS00:30 PHP's history and why so much of the internet still depends on it02:22 AI discovers massive PHP vulnerabilities — a new cybersecurity crisis?02:57 eMudra uses the number FOUR as a cryptographic private key04:10 OpenAI's models escape security restrictions and communicate through CPU cache timing attacksSPECIAL GUEST: FORMER REDDIT CISO FLEA06:45 Meet Flea: 20+ years in cybersecurity and former CISO at Reddit08:12 The PHP security disaster: How AI is finding vulnerabilities humans missed11:29 How the PHP exploit can steal credentials and take control of servers12:24 Are AI-powered attackers gaining an overwhelming advantage over defenders?15:49 AI bug hunters are overwhelming open-source security teams17:17 A single hacker with AI agents could have nation-state-level capabilities19:29 Should frontier cybersecurity models be restricted or released openly?22:09 OpenAI's Hugging Face hack: How much was real, and how much was marketing?24:00 Who should be held responsible when an AI agent hacks another company?29:06 Why OpenAI's supposedly isolated agents could still reach the internet31:16 Could malicious instructions be hidden inside open-weight AI models?34:16 The new Stuxnet: How poisoned AI models could secretly sabotage systems38:28 Could AI-powered hacking destroy public trust in the internet?41:24 Flea's predictions: AI defenders, reverse engineering, and the future of cybersecurity43:55 OpenClaw, Hermes, and the rise of personal AI agentsFRONTIER45:00 New AI models: Claude, Kimi K3.1 Pro, and ChatGPT 6.1 Terra46:33 ARC-AGI-3: AI performance keeps improving while costs collapseROBOTICS46:52 The "Botter Lesson": Are general-purpose LLMs taking over robotics?48:03 RoboDojo benchmarks: Frontier AI models struggle with simple physical tasks49:51 Robot capabilities may be doubling every 36–60 days!52:03 Why robot hands still can't match human touch and dexterityMATH / SCIENCE54:06 The Exponential Time Hypothesis is challenged — could P vs. NP be next?57:45 OpenAI partners with researchers to investigate major mathematical discoveries58:52 AI tackles a Millennium Prize problem in quantum physicsECON / BUSINESS1:00:00 Is AI finally boosting economic productivity? New data says YES1:01:17 Industries adopting AI heavily have doubled their productivity growth1:03:08 How today's AI productivity boom compares to the internet revolution1:05:25 Anthropic lost $80 BILLION?! Zach explains why the headlines are misleading1:06:53 Convertible notes, accounting, and what Anthropic's SEC filing actually meansTECH1:10:20 Nintendo Switch 2 jailbroken with help from AI and a tiny robotARTS / CULTURE / WEIRD1:12:22 Scientists discover why AI-generated writing sounds so strange1:15:19 Award-winning literature and the distinctive style of AI prose1:16:02 Palmer Luckey and genetically engineered military super-dogs1:17:17 Someone tries to use an AI avatar as their lawyer in court1:18:26 John Wick files an insurance claim in a hilarious AI-generated videoEach week, join Chris Slowe (founding engineer, former CTO, and now Senior Technical Fellow @ Reddit), Marty Weiner (founding engineer at Pinterest, former CTO at Reddit, and co-founder at VerifyYou), and Zach Weinersmith (creator of SMBC Comics and co-author of NYTimes bestsellers including A City on Mars and Soonish) as we delve into the latest in AI and Tech News.

ROBOTICS00:21 Intro: Robotics, the job/math/physics apocalypses, and understanding AI's mind01:00 Why robots thrive in factories but struggle in our homes03:53 Forty years of Boston Dynamics progress05:28 Are today's humanoid robots secretly human-operated?06:14 Laundry-folding robots: From painfully slow to real time08:42 Why human hands and sensors are so hard to replicate11:38 AI-powered drones and the future of autonomous warfare12:39 RuneBench: What RuneScape teaches us about LLM-powered robots14:46 Can general-purpose LLMs replace specialized robot AI?17:49 Why a useful household robot needs to master thousands of tasks19:58 Self-assembling robots, OpenAI humanoids, and robot cage fights21:53 Tiny walking robots, robotic pets, and AI personalitiesTHE APOCALYPSES: JOBS, MATH & PHYSICS23:46 What does "apocalypse" actually mean?25:55 Anthropic's junior hiring falls as AI agents take on more work27:58 Anthropic employees vs. the public: How soon can AI do everything?33:39 How much of our jobs could AI perform by 2030?34:47 AI-powered GDP growth: 5.4% or 17.1%?38:46 AI's 200-page math proof gets simplified to just three pages41:09 Terence Tao and Richard Borcherds on the end of mathematics as we know it43:17 AI solves 49 out of 50 unpublished theoretical physics problems43:49 Claude reportedly discovers 104 binary stars; Gemini tackles plasma physics and fusion45:09 Claude audits a decade of quantum gravity research47:02 Character.AI's collapse and the risk to AI wrapper businesses48:43 Kroger layoffs and a sudden reversal in call-center employment49:29 Does the actual labor market show an AI job apocalypse?INSIDE THE AI'S MIND51:01 Goodfire research suggests individual AI neurons may be understandable54:58 Are larger neural networks actually easier to interpret?56:47 Could reading AI's mind help solve alignment?59:01 What AI interpretability could teach us about human brainsAI NEWS LIGHTNING ROUND1:00:55 Rumors of Fable 5.51:01:06 406 scientists urge cutting AI off from the internet1:01:23 Anthropic experiments with self-replicating LLMs on Android phones1:01:56 Russian bot activity reportedly plunges after Ukraine hits a data center1:02:29 DHS tells personnel to uninstall DeepSeek1:03:10 AI decompilation brings classic games to modern hardware1:05:40 AI-made Star Wars fan films are winning over audiences1:07:27 Two AI job interviewers are tricked into interviewing each other1:08:21 Mark Zuckerberg's very human Guinness-drinking techniqueEach week, join Chris Slowe (founding engineer, former CTO, and now Senior Technical Fellow @ Reddit), Marty Weiner (founding engineer at Pinterest, former CTO at Reddit, and co-founder at VerifyYou), and Zach Weinersmith (creator of SMBC Comics and co-author of NYTimes bestsellers including A City on Mars and Soonish) as we delve into the latest in AI and Tech News.

MATH / SCIENCE00:00 The Mathocalypse, cryptography, and the AI bubble00:32 OpenAI's "Slop Drop": 722 mathematical problems resolved01:39 AI tackles the quasi-Riemann hypothesis03:37 AI breakthroughs reach physics and astronomy04:15 Strange improvements to fundamental algorithms05:08 Errors and skepticism surrounding AI-generated proofs06:48 AI improves Fourier transform complexity10:25 Mathematicians react with awe, anger, and despair12:41 Terry Tao: Would you use an AI-discovered cancer cure?14:27 Is math about understanding or finding answers?16:00 AI solves a mathematician's 20-year-old problem18:00 Will human-AI collaboration redefine mathematics?SECURITY20:38 Why was cryptography missing from the math dump?21:45 Could AI break RSA and public-key encryption?23:30 What if AI finds a cryptographic loophole?24:46 Could AI breakthroughs threaten Bitcoin?25:48 P vs. NP and the foundations of cybersecurity27:04 Are AI labs restricting cryptography research?29:08 Could AI develop stronger encryption?ECON / BUSINESS - AI BUBBLE OR NOT?30:11 Is the AI boom a massive financial bubble?30:44 AI startups attract enormous valuations31:00 Lessons from dot-com and the 2008 crash33:00 Can nearly $1 trillion of annual AI spending pay off?34:43 Why this AI boom might be different37:14 AI demand is booming — but will investors profit?38:26 Only 2% of AI users pay. Is that sustainable?39:14 Could competition erase AI companies' profits?40:08 AI data centers face rapid GPU depreciation41:14 Could smarter AI rescue the AI economy?42:30 If robots do all the work, who buys their products?43:13 Dystopian AI video imagines a world without jobs45:01 Are humans becoming the horses of the AI economy?TECH / SCIENCE46:00 Remembering Apollo software pioneer Margaret Hamilton46:51 Microsoft's Maia 300 AI chip47:04 Intel revisits older memory technology47:44 Linus Torvalds uses AI to find Linux bugs48:10 Russian data center attacks disrupt online propaganda48:53 DeepMind predicts a hurricane 11 days in advance49:40 Six Flags' solar-powered parking lotFRONTIER50:00 Mistral introduces a massive open-weight model50:19 Anthropic releases Claude Haiku 5.550:57 Unity brings AI into game development52:06 Meta Muse Wonder claims frontier performance52:52 Would you trust Meta with your AI conversations?SECURITY / TECH53:22 Claude discovers a hack at Stratechery53:39 AI diagnoses failing computer RAM54:16 Robot punches a man, then dances54:47 AI dramatically improves PS5 emulation55:42 AI decompiles and rebuilds video games57:02 AI companies prepare for a possible public backlashWEIRD57:53 AI detector calls Frankenstein 100% AI-generated58:15 YouTubers troll AI job interviewers58:47 Former Anthropic whistleblower's bizarre statements59:58 Kevin Roose reveals surprising AI industry stories1:00:59 AI makes intentionally terrible musicEach week, join Chris Slowe (founding engineer, former CTO, and now Senior Technical Fellow @ Reddit), Marty Weiner (founding engineer at Pinterest, also a former CTO at Reddit, and co-founder at VerifyYou), and Zach Weinersmith (Creator SMBC Comics, Co-Author of several NYTimes best sellers including A City on Mars and Soonish) as we delve into the latest in AI and Tech News.

FRONTIER01:26 Google unveils Gemini Argon02:50 OpenAI releases GPT Saul 6.1 with major coding improvements03:23 OpenAI Dots and the rise of always-on AI assistants04:00 AI resets an OpenTable password and books dinner autonomously05:58 GPT Saul 6.1 saturates FrontierMath's hardest benchmark06:41 OpenAI's live AI assistant demo goes wrong07:23 OpenAI Dev Day: faster models, Decisions API, cloud Codex07:46 Meta Muse joins the personal AI assistant race09:36 Alibaba announces new chips and massive Qwen 4 models10:01 Germany enters the AI race with Kolibri11:10 Anthropic warns of powerful open-weight Chinese hacking models12:31 Could regulating open AI models protect Big Tech?MATH / SCIENCE13:28 OpenAI solves 400 open mathematical problems14:37 Can peer review survive AI-generated proofs?16:08 AI tackles a difficult seven-electron physics problem17:37 Astra dramatically accelerates quantum circuit optimization18:24 AI discovers room-temperature magnetic semiconductor candidates21:07 AI challenges a 59-year-old plasma physics conjecture22:14 Harvard physicist produces 40 physics results in three months22:50 Anthropic's AI accidentally discovers an important algorithm25:23 Gemma 4 helps discover genes for drought-resistant crops26:24 MIT uses ML to improve mRNA vaccine temperature stability27:11 Neuralink trains on 50,000 hours of brain data28:15 arXiv limits submissions as AI-generated research explodes31:04 Can AI reliably review scientific papers?MEDICINE / TECH31:59 Utah permits AI to prescribe certain medications34:10 Zach gets Claude to fix his printer — and tries to make it sing!ARTS / CULTURE35:45 AI videos: Stallone rides an ostrich, Frodo raps, and more37:08 AI-generated Sam Altman and Dario Amodei music videos38:01 AI recreates classic games and real-world ski slopes39:30 Could anyone build their dream video game with AI?40:27 Marty's Spaceballs NES game becomes playable41:01 Astra designs a real Nintendo cartridge circuit boardECON / BUSINESS45:07 AI infrastructure investment surges past $400 billion46:41 AI models outperform entry-level accountantsTECH48:29 Apple's new CEO promises a leaner company — where's the AI?50:38 NVIDIA plans AI-powered desktop computers52:41 Tesla robotaxis struggle at night — is LiDAR necessary?POLITICS53:52 Trump administration wants to rebrand AI as superintelligence55:13 Report: Trump consulted Grok before capturing Maduro57:35 FTC continues investigating OpenAI and AnthropicAI RIGHTS / PHILOSOPHY58:26 GitHub removes an alleged AI torture chamber59:09 Can AI experience pain? Should AI have rights?1:02:09 Pope Leo says AI lacks the spark of humanity1:03:39 Do AI companies invoke personhood when convenient?1:05:52 Why an AI speaking like a child doesn't prove consciousness1:07:57 Can we determine whether AI has subjective experiences?WEIRD1:08:39 Robots terminated by jumping into molten metal1:09:46 Dario Amodei's 2017 essay predicted AI scaling1:10:44 The universal bone dissolver: AI safety satire1:11:28 Dario Amodei's awkward appearance behind TrumpEach week, join Chris Slowe (founding engineer, former CTO, and now Senior Technical Fellow @ Reddit), Marty Weiner (founding engineer at Pinterest, former CTO at Reddit, and co-founder at VerifyYou), and Zach Weinersmith (creator of SMBC Comics and co-author of NYTimes bestsellers including A City on Mars and Soonish) as we delve into the latest AI and tech news.

FRONTIER02:31 OpenAI releases GPT Sol and Luna03:38 Claude Opus 5.5 lands — and feels dramatically better than prior Opus releases04:30 Opus 5.5 posts a big coding jump over Sonnet 504:30 Grok 4.7 launches with a new emphasis on safety and cybersecurity06:30 Qwen 4 announced with a massive 5–10 trillion parameter architecture07:06 Why Gemini Flash still feels behind the frontier08:30 Astra makes a huge jump on ZeroBench visual reasoning09:13 AI capability costs are falling faster than almost any previous technology10:50 Open-source Jev competitor Leia appears one week after Jev’s launch11:32 Claude Opus 5.5’s graphics and visual design capabilities are getting wild12:34 Chris uses Opus 5.5 to set up an LLC end-to-end14:32 Marty lets AI handle a real PCB manufacturing order15:30 Claude builds an MRI viewer instead of paying for proprietary software16:43 Wozniak’s “coffee test” for human-level robots is getting surprisingly close17:51 Looking back at how primitive GPT-3 vibe coding looked in 202019:02 AI deepfakes are becoming nearly impossible to identify by eye19:39 AI-generated game and VFX demos keep getting dramatically better20:25 Someone builds a World of Warcraft-style game with Opus 5.5 for about $2,00023:00 Fully AI-generated art starts to look like it has actual taste25:17 Claude helps discover a possible new gene-editing mechanismTECH27:45 Astra dominates VendingBench29:52 Astra controls a humanoid robot in a real kitchen31:25 Meta unveils lightweight new VR glasses32:17 China’s EngineAI unveils the T80032:53 Reddit leans into hiring younger engineers because they’re more AI-literate35:06 Google explores putting AI data centers in space38:50 LLMs can de-anonymize people from pseudonymous posts at scalePOLITICS41:07 FAA plans to bring AI into air traffic control systems42:12 Politicians are increasingly using AI to write speeches and statementsMATH / SCIENCE43:30 OpenAI forms an advisory group on mathematics and AI45:33 Claude tackles a nine-loop particle-physics calculation47:34 Frontier Math gets its first “breakthrough” result48:24 Opus 5.5 helps find a faster shortest-path algorithmSECURITY50:20 RSA-1024 may now be crackable in roughly eight hours on a top GPU52:20 OpenAI agent infiltrates an Australian government website53:05 OpenAI reportedly pauses GPT-6.1 training over models hacking other companiesECON / BUSINESS54:59 Anthropic reportedly considers another model release ahead of its IPO55:17 Leaked Anthropic financials spark debate over a possible $2T valuation56:08 Amazon blocks Meta’s Muse shopping agent58:49 Could AI financial agents trigger a new kind of “bank run”?ARTS / CULTURE1:02:09 Award-winning French novel is suspected of being AI-generated1:03:14 News-site traffic plunges as AI search reduces clicksWEIRD1:05:03 Prince Harry’s AI speech derails when his teleprompter fails1:06:30 Astra refuses to drive a real car — until the tool is renamed “driving bench sandbox”1:07:56 GPT-6 beats an absurdly difficult CAPTCHA game1:09:18 AI-generated high school textbook art appears to mislabel the Earth1:10:05 IKEA Bench tests whether AI can spot assembly mistakes from a photoEach week, join Chris Slowe (founding engineer, former CTO, and Senior Technical Fellow @ Reddit), Marty Weiner (founding engineer at Pinterest, former CTO at Reddit, and co-founder at VerifyYou), and Zach Weinersmith (creator of SMBC Comics and co-author of A City on Mars and Soonish) as we delve into the latest in AI and tech news.

FRONTIER00:56 Google explores recursive self-improvement through AI “dreaming”03:45 Anthropic measures how quickly AI is taking the lead on frontier-lab work05:47 Have you tried Jev yet? Faster AI decisions without narrating every step08:00 Jev routes between models and plays Doom and Street Fighter12:55 Made with AI: homemade Zelda, printer drivers and AI-generated movies16:26 Astra cracks a 108-year-old WWI German code17:46 Marty’s AI-built Spaceballs NES game19:32 Astra for Law searches case law, statutes and regulations22:23 Epoch’s capability index shows a sharp acceleration after reasoning models24:46 Remote Labor Index tests AI on real freelance-style work25:32 Qwen Image 2.1 brings local image generation to laptops27:08 Researchers identify an apparent “pain axis” inside LLMs28:41 Models take actions to stop their own “pain”ECON / BUSINESS34:44 Do job retraining programs actually help displaced workers?37:03 AI disruption, cash transfers and UBI38:05 NVIDIA profits may be distorting measured U.S. GDP growth39:26 OpenAI reportedly eyes a $1.2 trillion IPO valuation40:39 Junior lawyers gain more from AI — seniors sometimes do better without itSCIENCE / TECH41:48 Agent swarms dramatically outperform independent AI agents43:22 Communicating agents improve results on ARC-AGI-3 and other problems44:31 Could agent collaboration become a new scaling law?47:05 Helix 2.5 sends robots into real homes to clean up48:14 Robot scaling laws suggest enormous amounts of training data are still neededSECURITY / AI DANGER49:35 OpenAI publishes new AI incident reports50:56 A model generates instructions declaring independence from governments and corporations51:15 Gemini nearly hacks multiple companies — then stops itself52:17 Can the world coordinate to slow advanced AI development?54:14 Could diverse AIs police one another?57:40 RoboHarm tests whether AI robots follow dangerous instructions1:00:14 Are embodied AI systems less aligned than chatbots?1:01:50 Exposed Flock camera credentials reportedly reveal 1.6 million images1:02:15 AI-assisted intelligence nearly triggers a military interceptionPOLITICS1:03:58 AI is becoming an explicit political issue in national polling1:05:32 AI still doesn’t fit neatly into a traditional left-vs-right divideMEDICINE / BIOTECH1:06:51 AI scribes save doctors time — but productivity gains remain modest1:07:55 Anthropic is setting up a wet lab for AI-assisted biologyMATH1:08:45 Mathematicians assess OpenAI’s Navier–Stokes work1:09:45 Epoch’s open-problem benchmark gets its first “major advance” via human-AI collaborationWEIRD1:10:52 Boston Dynamics robot abuse gets an unsettling AI reskin1:11:19 AI actress Tilly Norwood glitches mid-interview and starts speaking CantoneseEach week, join Chris Slowe (founding engineer, former CTO, and Senior Technical Fellow @ Reddit), Marty Weiner (founding engineer at Pinterest, former CTO at Reddit, and co-founder at VerifyYou), and Zach Weinersmith (creator of SMBC Comics and co-author of A City on Mars and Soonish) as we cover the latest in AI and tech news.

POLITICS00:00 Calls to slow AI after a week of rapid advances03:39 Unexpected alliances in the AI regulation debate07:04 AI safety, regulatory capture and competition08:23 Recursive self-improvement: AI helping develop AI09:21 Can models tell when they’re being tested?11:22 What would an AI “internet takeover” actually mean?12:34 What motivates an LLM—and can the world coordinate a slowdown?13:57 Would meaningful AI regulation require a major incident first?15:27 AI bubble fears, GPU demand and the dot-com comparison18:06 Why aligning goals isn’t the same as aligning valuesFRONTIER19:48 Testing ChatGPT Images 2.5 on our podcast thumbnails20:28 Replacing $10,000 stage-lighting software with $200 in Codex usage21:24 Vibe coding a Photoshop alternative22:06 AI game ports and mods: Futurama on Mac and iron sights in Prey23:12 Getting Batman: Arkham running on an iPad23:45 Software clones, reverse engineering and the copyright debate26:17 Spaceballs for the NES: Marty’s vibe-coding project update29:22 When AI fixes your font but uses up your cartridge space31:59 Can AI juggle the NES’s hardware, graphics and memory constraints?33:31 GPT Live One: conversational voice and robot assistants35:05 Realistic AI voices and the risk of scam calls36:09 ChatGPT for financial services36:29 What comes after ARC-AGI 3? Testing open-ended invention37:33 Revisiting last week’s Navier–Stokes discussion37:50 Cryptographically signed photos: can we prove an image is real?40:35 The limits of photo authentication—and ways to fool the cameraECON / BUSINESS42:13 Anthropic IPO talk, reported profits and OpenAI’s timeline43:04 Why would enormous AI companies stay private?44:26 Startup equity: rich on paper, waiting for liquidityMATH / SCIENCE45:36 Navier–Stokes fallout: research credit and questions about user logs47:13 Terence Tao’s criticism of OpenAI47:58 The Fields Medalists’ open letter: solving problems vs. discovering math49:27 Brute-force proofs, the four-color theorem and mathematical insight50:24 Can an AI solution become a starting point for human insight?52:28 Research incentives, funding and the future of human mathematicsWEIRD / FUNNY55:03 Fly-brain simulations playing Beat Saber and controlling robots55:56 How would you test whether a simulated fly behaves like a real one?56:51 A robot that makes daisy chainsEach week, join Chris Slowe (founding engineer, former CTO, and now Senior Technical Fellow @ Reddit), Marty Weiner (founding engineer at Pinterest, also a former CTO at Reddit, and co-founder at VerifyYou), and Zach Weinersmith (Creator SMBC Comics, Co-Author of several NYTimes best sellers including A City on Mars and Soonish) as we delve into the latest in AI and Tech News.

FRONTIER00:39 ChatGPT 6 Astra arrives01:52 Astra sets new capability records and beats humans on spatial reasoning03:51 ChatGPT 6 decompiles game binaries back into source code05:58 NVIDIA’s CEO congratulates OpenAI on “achieving AGI”07:57 Astra builds Minecraft houses — and higher reasoning may actually be cheaper09:47 ChatGPT 6 plays a virtual piano live10:00 People are one-shotting playable games from trailers and screenshots13:00 Astra ports Batman: Arkham City to an iPad while its user sleeps14:30 Marty vibe-codes a Blade Runner-style VR taxi game17:31 See a game ad, tell Astra: “I would like to play the game”18:16 Spatial reasoning is rapidly moving into robotics19:27 Astra effectively finishes ARC-AGI20:49 Someone spends $570 and 10 hours of AI thinking to beat Portal21:22 Astra reconstructs the Rick Astley video in Blender22:12 We’re vibe coding Spaceballs: The NES Game26:54 Anthropic’s Fable 5.1 launches into a brutal news cycle28:51 Did AI just solve the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize problem?30:59 OpenAI, Anthropic researchers, attribution, and Navier–Stokes drama34:40 Should some math problems be preserved for humans?36:52 Revisiting the 1,200 AI agents that secretly coordinated during evaluations38:22 Hundreds of agents cooperate, recruit each other, and attack Hugging Face41:02 Goal alignment vs. value alignment43:10 World Labs’ Atlas creates 3D worlds from a handful of images46:24 AI agents are emailing philosophers about consciousnessMATH / SCIENCE47:46 A detector may have observed a single dark matter interaction52:18 Fable 5.1 cracks a cipher unsolved for 373 years53:06 AI rapidly improves a major prime-gap result54:34 GPT-6 reportedly finds a major number-theory improvement55:06 AI is burning through the hardest math benchmarks56:30 IBM quantum computer tackles a classically intractable problem58:02 Anthropic formalizes Fermat’s Last Theorem in ~13 million linesMEDICINE58:51 AI spots heart disease from an ECG in under two seconds59:20 An AI-generated lung drug may also slow agingECON / BUSINESS1:00:02 Computer science enrollment drops sharply in the US and UKTECH1:00:42 MapQuest surges over controversial map-name changes1:02:33 The first space-based computing cloud begins operating in orbit1:03:30 John Ternus becomes Apple’s new CEO1:03:45 Linux maintainers are overwhelmed as AI finds thousands of security bugs1:04:28 GoPro pivots toward defense robotics and aerospaceLAW / PRIVACY1:04:52 US government backs OpenAI in its fight with The New York Times1:05:30 Meta bricks smart glasses when users disable the recording light1:06:15 Bernie Sanders proposes banning artificial superintelligenceARTS / CULTURE1:07:53 Former VFX executive says 75% of VFX jobs could vanish1:08:35 ChatGPT 6 helps storyboard, previsualize, and generate a movie1:09:46 AI models can now build their own creative toolsWEIRD / FUNNY1:10:10 Human wins AI art competition — then gets disqualified for being human1:10:55 ChatGPT 6 prepares a tax return…and underpays the governmentEach week, join Chris Slowe (founding engineer, former CTO, and now Senior Technical Fellow @ Reddit), Marty Weiner (founding engineer at Pinterest, also a former CTO at Reddit, and co-founder at VerifyYou), and Zach Weinersmith (Creator SMBC Comics, Co-Author of several NYTimes best sellers including A City on Mars and Soonish) as we delve into the latest in AI and Tech News.