OpenAI v Hugging Face Update, Opus 5, Anthropic v Open Weights, Startup Surge, Qualcomm Robot Fail
Notes de l’épisode
FRONTIER
00:50 OpenAI's model broke free and hacked Hugging Face
09:55 Several companies call for NOT banning open weight models
10:08 Anthropic's response to banning open weights
19:05 Kimi K3 weights, Claude Opus 5 released
24:40 The challenge of Benchmaxxing
TECH
33:20 NVIDIA invests $5B in Safe Superintelligence (SSI)
34:05 Waymo's self-driving cars outperforming humans
35:10 Qualcomm's robot demo fails SPECTACULARLY
29:00 Running Qwen 3.6 on a laptop
ECON / BUSINESS
38:15 Report: AI is driving a surge in new startups
41:15 New York pushes back on AI data centers
44:50 Anthropic begins IPO preparations
ARTS / CULTURE
48:15 Elon Musk wants to remake The Odyssey with AI. Spoiler: It's gonna be bad.
52:10 AI builds a Starfield-style game in just 24 hours
MATH / SCIENCE
1:04:45 Dinitz-Garg-Goémons conjecture false by asking model to "do a breakthrough"
... and then basically saying "come ooonnnn"
WEIRD
57:00 AI-first schools?!
1:01:00 Students caught cheating with AI at Brown
1:13:00 Sex bots... teaching students?!
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.