AI doing real science, EU: AI needs watermarks, Jeff Dean leaves Google, Riemann Hypothesis Progress
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FRONTIER
00:56 EU requires invisible watermarks for AI-generated content
04:23 Bernie Sanders calls on frontier AI labs to slow down
05:42 Google reportedly skips Gemini 3.5 Pro to focus on Gemini 4
06:01 Jeff Dean leaves Google to launch Discovery Loop
09:22 OpenAI researcher leaves to work on non-invasive “telepathy”
13:06 New frontier model delayed over cybersecurity concerns
TECH
10:33 Small modular nuclear reactors could power the AI boom
13:56 Stack Overflow traffic down 99% from its peak
15:37 AI is driving enormous Linux updates — and changing software review
18:20 Waymo argues Tesla’s self-driving approach will always fall short without LiDAR
MATH / SCIENCE
22:32 Claude makes major progress related to the Riemann Hypothesis
24:44 AI helps solve a 17-year-old computer science problem
26:20 Can AI actually make scientific “jumps”?
30:24 AI + robotics accelerate automated enzyme engineering
33:39 AI used to design entirely new viruses
35:22 AI is contributing to an explosion of scientific papers
39:39 Stanford runs 37,000 AI agents as a virtual biotech — and Merck confirms one drug design
40:46 Mathematicians launch an “AI-free mathematics” movement
ECON / BUSINESS
46:22 AI-generated books are flooding publishing
47:40 What happens to creative gig work when AI can produce unlimited content?
ARTS / CULTURE
48:08 Hank Green faces backlash for using AI in research
49:47 Is AI productivity actually addictive?
50:22 Coding projects that once took months can now take a weekend
52:59 Is using AI becoming the new cultural taboo?
WEIRD
54:36 Published books are accidentally leaving AI responses in the final text
56:26 Meta’s Llama 3 reportedly tells a recovering addict to use meth
57:35 DEFCON attendees allegedly jam an airplane’s Wi-Fi and create their own network
Each 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.