FRONTIER
01:26 Google unveils Gemini Argon
02:50 OpenAI releases GPT Saul 6.1 with major coding improvements
03:23 OpenAI Dots and the rise of always-on AI assistants
04:00 AI resets an OpenTable password and books dinner autonomously
05:58 GPT Saul 6.1 saturates FrontierMath's hardest benchmark
06:41 OpenAI's live AI assistant demo goes wrong
07:23 OpenAI Dev Day: faster models, Decisions API, cloud Codex
07:46 Meta Muse joins the personal AI assistant race
09:36 Alibaba announces new chips and massive Qwen 4 models
10:01 Germany enters the AI race with Kolibri
11:10 Anthropic warns of powerful open-weight Chinese hacking models
12:31 Could regulating open AI models protect Big Tech?
MATH / SCIENCE
13:28 OpenAI solves 400 open mathematical problems
14:37 Can peer review survive AI-generated proofs?
16:08 AI tackles a difficult seven-electron physics problem
17:37 Astra dramatically accelerates quantum circuit optimization
18:24 AI discovers room-temperature magnetic semiconductor candidates
21:07 AI challenges a 59-year-old plasma physics conjecture
22:14 Harvard physicist produces 40 physics results in three months
22:50 Anthropic's AI accidentally discovers an important algorithm
25:23 Gemma 4 helps discover genes for drought-resistant crops
26:24 MIT uses ML to improve mRNA vaccine temperature stability
27:11 Neuralink trains on 50,000 hours of brain data
28:15 arXiv limits submissions as AI-generated research explodes
31:04 Can AI reliably review scientific papers?
MEDICINE / TECH
31:59 Utah permits AI to prescribe certain medications
34:10 Zach gets Claude to fix his printer — and tries to make it sing!
ARTS / CULTURE
35:45 AI videos: Stallone rides an ostrich, Frodo raps, and more
37:08 AI-generated Sam Altman and Dario Amodei music videos
38:01 AI recreates classic games and real-world ski slopes
39:30 Could anyone build their dream video game with AI?
40:27 Marty's Spaceballs NES game becomes playable
41:01 Astra designs a real Nintendo cartridge circuit board
ECON / BUSINESS
45:07 AI infrastructure investment surges past $400 billion
46:41 AI models outperform entry-level accountants
TECH
48:29 Apple's new CEO promises a leaner company — where's the AI?
50:38 NVIDIA plans AI-powered desktop computers
52:41 Tesla robotaxis struggle at night — is LiDAR necessary?
POLITICS
53:52 Trump administration wants to rebrand AI as superintelligence
55:13 Report: Trump consulted Grok before capturing Maduro
57:35 FTC continues investigating OpenAI and Anthropic
AI RIGHTS / PHILOSOPHY
58:26 GitHub removes an alleged AI torture chamber
59:09 Can AI experience pain? Should AI have rights?
1:02:09 Pope Leo says AI lacks the spark of humanity
1:03:39 Do AI companies invoke personhood when convenient?
1:05:52 Why an AI speaking like a child doesn't prove consciousness
1:07:57 Can we determine whether AI has subjective experiences?
WEIRD
1:08:39 Robots terminated by jumping into molten metal
1:09:46 Dario Amodei's 2017 essay predicted AI scaling
1:10:44 The universal bone dissolver: AI safety satire
1:11:28 Dario Amodei's awkward appearance behind Trump
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 AI and tech news.
