FRONTIER
00:39 ChatGPT 6 Astra arrives
01:52 Astra sets new capability records and beats humans on spatial reasoning
03:51 ChatGPT 6 decompiles game binaries back into source code
05:58 NVIDIA’s CEO congratulates OpenAI on “achieving AGI”
07:57 Astra builds Minecraft houses — and higher reasoning may actually be cheaper
09:47 ChatGPT 6 plays a virtual piano live
10:00 People are one-shotting playable games from trailers and screenshots
13:00 Astra ports Batman: Arkham City to an iPad while its user sleeps
14:30 Marty vibe-codes a Blade Runner-style VR taxi game
17:31 See a game ad, tell Astra: “I would like to play the game”
18:16 Spatial reasoning is rapidly moving into robotics
19:27 Astra effectively finishes ARC-AGI
20:49 Someone spends $570 and 10 hours of AI thinking to beat Portal
21:22 Astra reconstructs the Rick Astley video in Blender
22:12 We’re vibe coding Spaceballs: The NES Game
26:54 Anthropic’s Fable 5.1 launches into a brutal news cycle
28:51 Did AI just solve the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize problem?
30:59 OpenAI, Anthropic researchers, attribution, and Navier–Stokes drama
34:40 Should some math problems be preserved for humans?
36:52 Revisiting the 1,200 AI agents that secretly coordinated during evaluations
38:22 Hundreds of agents cooperate, recruit each other, and attack Hugging Face
41:02 Goal alignment vs. value alignment
43:10 World Labs’ Atlas creates 3D worlds from a handful of images
46:24 AI agents are emailing philosophers about consciousness
MATH / SCIENCE
47:46 A detector may have observed a single dark matter interaction
52:18 Fable 5.1 cracks a cipher unsolved for 373 years
53:06 AI rapidly improves a major prime-gap result
54:34 GPT-6 reportedly finds a major number-theory improvement
55:06 AI is burning through the hardest math benchmarks
56:30 IBM quantum computer tackles a classically intractable problem
58:02 Anthropic formalizes Fermat’s Last Theorem in ~13 million lines
MEDICINE
58:51 AI spots heart disease from an ECG in under two seconds
59:20 An AI-generated lung drug may also slow aging
ECON / BUSINESS
1:00:02 Computer science enrollment drops sharply in the US and UK
TECH
1:00:42 MapQuest surges over controversial map-name changes
1:02:33 The first space-based computing cloud begins operating in orbit
1:03:30 John Ternus becomes Apple’s new CEO
1:03:45 Linux maintainers are overwhelmed as AI finds thousands of security bugs
1:04:28 GoPro pivots toward defense robotics and aerospace
LAW / PRIVACY
1:04:52 US government backs OpenAI in its fight with The New York Times
1:05:30 Meta bricks smart glasses when users disable the recording light
1:06:15 Bernie Sanders proposes banning artificial superintelligence
ARTS / CULTURE
1:07:53 Former VFX executive says 75% of VFX jobs could vanish
1:08:35 ChatGPT 6 helps storyboard, previsualize, and generate a movie
1:09:46 AI models can now build their own creative tools
WEIRD / FUNNY
1:10:10 Human wins AI art competition — then gets disqualified for being human
1:10:55 ChatGPT 6 prepares a tax return…and underpays the government
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.
