Laptop AI = 6 Month Old Frontier Models, AI Cancer Vaccines, Test Scores Down, Bomber Drones + AI

FRONTIER

01:20 Laptop-scale AI is already competing with frontier models from six months ago
03:28 Stripe reportedly tells investors we're already in the Singularity
04:17 NVIDIA coding agent scores 100% on ARC-AGI-3
06:19 Linus Torvalds uses AI to help solve a gnarly Intel GPU driver bug

TECH

07:26 China's Robot Olympics — robots outrun and out-jump humans
08:28 When are household robots actually useful?
12:21 Russian AI-guided drones can keep attacking even when communications are jammed
13:03 What autonomous weapons could mean for international law
14:50 Tesla says its Austin robotaxis may now be operating unsupervised
15:40 NVIDIA's Groq chips and the rise of processors built specifically for LLM inference
17:39 Could specialized AI chips bring fast models to the edge?

MATH / SCIENCE

20:57 Terence Tao asks what mathematics is for in the age of AI
22:40 Should a mathematical proof count if no human can actually explain it?
27:11 Moderna and Merck's personalized mRNA cancer vaccine
28:57 Study: AI homework scores go up while exam scores go down
31:21 Does using AI remove the productive struggle required to actually learn?
34:35 Claude helps design protein binders against 15 biological targets
35:30 Scientists put a complete housefly neuron map into Minecraft
36:17 Another century-old mathematical conjecture falls to a counterexample
36:36 IBM's “quantum fridges” and what actually matters for fault-tolerant quantum computing

ECON / BUSINESS

39:25 Anthropic reportedly posts a profitable quarter — is that actually good news?
39:57 Is NVIDIA creating an enormous blind spot in US GDP statistics?
42:45 Why globalization and digital technology make GDP increasingly hard to measure
45:00 Stanford study finds AI-exposed entry-level jobs are down sharply
45:48 Are companies replacing junior engineers with AI?
47:42 ChatGPT can now connect to your finances — would you trust it with your money?
50:46 “Prompt kitties”: spending hundreds of dollars on AI to hack an Amazon tablet

ARTS / CULTURE

51:32 New research asks whether large AI models still owe individual artists attribution
53:17 “Attribution decay”: as models get bigger, does any single artist still matter?
55:40 Val Kilmer returns to the screen using AI — and the result looks rough
57:53 Spider-Man concept art accidentally preserves the unmistakable look of 2023-era AI
58:54 Dr. Dre compares AI backlash to early resistance to drum machines and synthesizers

WEIRD

1:00:21 AI Steve Jobs rises from the grave to introduce “Terminator Pro Max”
1:01:08 Expert witness asks ChatGPT to show how 3M is “0% at fault” in an explosion lawsuit
1:02:40 The AI job market apparently now includes “masturbation consultants”

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.