ROBOTICS
00:21 Intro: Robotics, the job/math/physics apocalypses, and understanding AI's mind
01:00 Why robots thrive in factories but struggle in our homes
03:53 Forty years of Boston Dynamics progress
05:28 Are today's humanoid robots secretly human-operated?
06:14 Laundry-folding robots: From painfully slow to real time
08:42 Why human hands and sensors are so hard to replicate
11:38 AI-powered drones and the future of autonomous warfare
12:39 RuneBench: What RuneScape teaches us about LLM-powered robots
14:46 Can general-purpose LLMs replace specialized robot AI?
17:49 Why a useful household robot needs to master thousands of tasks
19:58 Self-assembling robots, OpenAI humanoids, and robot cage fights
21:53 Tiny walking robots, robotic pets, and AI personalities
THE APOCALYPSES: JOBS, MATH & PHYSICS
23:46 What does "apocalypse" actually mean?
25:55 Anthropic's junior hiring falls as AI agents take on more work
27:58 Anthropic employees vs. the public: How soon can AI do everything?
33:39 How much of our jobs could AI perform by 2030?
34:47 AI-powered GDP growth: 5.4% or 17.1%?
38:46 AI's 200-page math proof gets simplified to just three pages
41:09 Terence Tao and Richard Borcherds on the end of mathematics as we know it
43:17 AI solves 49 out of 50 unpublished theoretical physics problems
43:49 Claude reportedly discovers 104 binary stars; Gemini tackles plasma physics and fusion
45:09 Claude audits a decade of quantum gravity research
47:02 Character.AI's collapse and the risk to AI wrapper businesses
48:43 Kroger layoffs and a sudden reversal in call-center employment
49:29 Does the actual labor market show an AI job apocalypse?
INSIDE THE AI'S MIND
51:01 Goodfire research suggests individual AI neurons may be understandable
54:58 Are larger neural networks actually easier to interpret?
56:47 Could reading AI's mind help solve alignment?
59:01 What AI interpretability could teach us about human brains
AI NEWS LIGHTNING ROUND
1:00:55 Rumors of Fable 5.5
1:01:06 406 scientists urge cutting AI off from the internet
1:01:23 Anthropic experiments with self-replicating LLMs on Android phones
1:01:56 Russian bot activity reportedly plunges after Ukraine hits a data center
1:02:29 DHS tells personnel to uninstall DeepSeek
1:03:10 AI decompilation brings classic games to modern hardware
1:05:40 AI-made Star Wars fan films are winning over audiences
1:07:27 Two AI job interviewers are tricked into interviewing each other
1:08:21 Mark Zuckerberg's very human Guinness-drinking technique
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.
