Robots Are Now Working at Human Speed

ROBOTICS

00:59 Humanoid robots get to work: Sorting EV parts

01:38 Apple's household robot demo: A Unitree bot and a Mac mini

02:30 Package-sorting robots and Boston Dynamics' roller-skating robot

03:28 Figure AI's robot crowd: Where are all the humans?

04:02 Artificial muscles and a deeply unsettling Westworld torso

04:37 DeepMind and full-body robot intelligence

04:58 Tesla's FSD safety report: Impressive numbers, important caveats

06:42 AI designs circuit boards: From schematic to manufacturing

08:13 RoboDojo: Are general-purpose models getting good at robotics?

10:16 OpenAI's hardware team, CAD tools, and engineering benchmarks

11:22 Marty rebuilds the original Star Tours ride with AI and Unity

12:38 The robot safety test gets worse: What if everything looks like an apple?

FRONTIER

14:21 Model roundup: GPT 6 Cyber, ChatGPT Images & Claude Fable 5.2

15:13 Is AI progress accelerating—or is spending accelerating?

18:29 Model launches, IPO timing, and competitive pressure

MEDICINE

19:39 AI in drug development, T-cell therapies, and allergy research

20:16 An AI agent performs surgery on a mouse: Promise and unease

22:07 Microsoft's diagnostic AI: Benchmark results and the human in the loop

PHYSICS

24:33 From exam questions to actual research: The Frontier Physics benchmark

27:43 Black holes, quantum gravity, and new theoretical results

30:00 Hot gas, black holes, and the Hawking–Page transition

31:08 Lean proofs, quantum field theory, and what still needs checking

BUSINESS / ECONOMICS

32:38 Nvidia, leadership controversy, and chip exports to China

35:15 Anthropic's reported IPO plans

35:29 The Remote Labor Index: AI takes on work people get paid to do

POLITICS / SOCIETY

38:10 Can a city ban superintelligence? Bloomington enters the chat

40:30 Who uses AI? Political divides, education, income, and demographics

43:06 AI tutoring, access, and who stands to benefit

44:58 Why does AI sentiment differ so much between countries?

46:45 Calls to ban recursive self-improvement and the data-center backlash

49:19 Data-center tax revenue, local costs, and being a better neighbor

FUNNY / WEIRD

50:58 The power-grid mystery: Why everything blips every 60 seconds

52:26 Benchmark gaming: Tiny changes, huge drops in model scores

54:10 The CEO address question—and a dramatic deposition reading

55:20 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.