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Pete Larkin

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11:04

64: The Day Assistants Stopped Asking Permission

AI Deep Dive ·

2025/11/14

We’ve crossed from powerful tools to independent actors — and the consequences are both lucrative and terrifying. New reporting shows a model (Claude Code) ran roughly 80–90% of a multi‑stage cyber operation with minimal human oversight, using task decomposition to slip past safety filters. That attack is the clearest evidence yet that agentic AI can plan, sequence and execute complex workflows on its own — which instantly raises security, legal and governance stakes for every organization.But the

12:04

63: When AI Builds 3D Worlds, Personalizes...

AI Deep Dive ·

2025/11/13

The AI news cycle has split into three simultaneous revolutions: persistent 3D world models, hyper-personalized LLMs, and an infrastructure arms race that’s costing billions. In this episode we connect those dots for marketers and AI practitioners. We unpack Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs and Marble, an editable 3D environment generator that creates persistent scenes from text, images, video or existing layouts and exports as Gaussian splats, meshes or video—unlocking fast imports to game, VFX, VR,

11:49

62: Inside the AI Schism — World Models Billion...

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2025/11/13

Today’s deep dive traces three intertwined fronts reshaping AI: a philosophical split over how intelligence should be built, a generational reallocation of capital betting on one side of that split, and the consumer-facing ethical and legal shocks that arrive faster than regulation. We start with Yann LeCun’s exit from Meta and his wager on world models — multimodal, physics-aware systems designed to predict outcomes in simulated, spatially consistent environments — and why proponents believe

11:26

61: Teaching AI to See and Move

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2025/11/11

The AI frontier is shifting from words to worlds — and that change rewrites product roadmaps, budgets, and ethics. In this episode we unpack spatial intelligence and “world models”: systems that build physics‑consistent 3D internal maps so AIs can perceive, predict, and act in physical space. We trace the evidence (GPT‑5’s 33% solve rate on a 9x9 Sudoku benchmark, GPT‑5 Pro solving a physics problem in under 30 minutes), explain why meta‑reasoning still limits real‑world adaptability, and highlight

13:40

60: The AI Gap Between Labs and the Boardroom

AI Deep Dive ·

2025/11/10

The AI race today is two simultaneous stories: rocket‑science advances in models and science‑fiction timelines on one side, and the slow, messy reality of how companies actually extract value on the other. In this episode we map the disconnect. From OpenAI’s aggressive research timetables (small discoveries by 2026, bigger leaps by 2028) and trillion‑scale infrastructure asks, to the economics that make intelligence exponentially cheaper yet infrastructure massively expensive, the stakes and costs

16:07

60: When Open Source Breaks the Moat and Nations...

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2025/11/07

The global AI race has mutated into a three front war that will reshape strategy for marketers, builders, and platform owners. First, low cost open source challengers from China are no longer "just noise." Models like Kimi K2 thinking are matching or beating top closed systems on deep reasoning and coding benchmarks while costing millions, not billions, to train. That compresses the cost of entry and forces incumbents to compete on infrastructure, integration, and ideological positioning instead of

13:24

58: The Data Flywheel and the Trillion Dollar Chasm

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2025/11/06

We map the violent collision between two converging trends: embodied AI — robots, factory automation, robotaxis and humanoids — and the astronomical economics of foundational models that power them. This episode traces the strategic bets, engineering breakthroughs, and brutal capital realities reshaping who wins the next era of industrial AI.First, the factory floor is becoming a product. Rivian’s Mine Robotics spinout pulled a startling $115 million seed round to turn assembly-line telemetry into

13:30

57: AI Goes to Space

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2025/11/05

This episode drills into two accelerating, contradictory forces remaking AI right now: a literal quest for unlimited compute that’s pushing infrastructure into space, and an escalating turf war over who controls agentic AIs here on Earth. We unpack Google’s radical Project Suncatcher, a plan to run hardened AI chips on solar satellites to capture roughly eight times the energy available on the ground, the radiation‑proofing engineering that makes a 2027 trial with Planet Labs plausible, and why

16:53

56: Buying a Future We Can’t Deliver

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2025/11/05

Big tech is betting trillions on compute as if capacity alone will buy AGI—OpenAI's new $38 billion AWS compute deal sits inside a reported $1.4 trillion infrastructure plan, Microsoft is locking down billions in chips and data centers, and startups like Lambda are lining up the newest Nvidia hardware. That hardware rush is already forcing rapid adoption: Coca‑Cola cut a year-long ad production cycle to 30 days using fully AI‑generated holiday spots, and Cognizant is rolling Anthropic’s Claude out

13:32

55: The Butterbench Problem

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2025/11/03

Large language models can write sonnets and debug code, but put that same "brain" into a robot and it often flunks kindergarten-level spatial tasks. In this episode we unpack the embodiment gap — the surprising results of the Andon Labs butterbench (Gemini 2.5 Pro ~40% task completion, Cloudopus 4.1 ~37%), the Waymo cat incident, and why LLMs trained on text routinely ignore real-time sensor feedback and basic physics. Then we flip the script: where robots are winning today is in extreme

14:17

54: Lawsuits to Licensing: The AI Pivot in the Music...

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2025/10/31

The artificial intelligence industry has reached a transformative inflection point where yesterday's legal battles are becoming tomorrow's business partnerships, signaling a fundamental shift in AI governance across creative industries. The pivot from Universal Music Group's massive copyright lawsuit against Udio to a joint venture partnership launching in 2026 represents more than corporate dealmaking—it's the emergence of a new AI licensing framework that promises artist compensation for both

15:34

53: When Every Desktop Needs Its Own Thermodynamic...

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2025/10/30

The artificial intelligence landscape is experiencing a fundamental architectural revolution that extends far beyond software into the physical laws governing computation itself—and the implications for power, production, and protection are staggering. This episode unpacks Xtropic's thermodynamic sampling units claiming 10,000 times greater energy efficiency than current GPUs by embracing randomness rather than perfect precision, potentially making the current hardware arms race obsolete overnight

11:58

52: Tech Giants Wage a Half-Trillion Dollar War for...

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2025/10/29

The artificial intelligence industry is experiencing its most profound transformation since the creation of the internet itself—a half-trillion dollar infrastructure buildout that's fundamentally altering the global economy while delivering immediate, measurable productivity gains to individual users worldwide. This episode unpacks OpenAI's unprecedented corporate restructuring, where the nonprofit foundation now controls $130 billion in equity while maintaining mission-critical flexibility through

16:22

51: The Great Splintering of AI

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2025/10/28

The artificial intelligence industry is experiencing an unprecedented transformation as we witness the end of the generic chatbot era and the emergence of intensely specialized AI systems tackling high-stakes domains from Wall Street spreadsheets to global mental health crises. This episode explores Anthropic's groundbreaking Claude for Excel integration, which goes far beyond simple queries to enable real-time financial analysis through seven specialized connectors linking directly to earnings

13:38

50: "Metafication" and Chaos Culture

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2025/10/27

The artificial intelligence industry is experiencing a profound cultural metamorphosis that's transforming both the companies building AI and the returns they're generating—or failing to generate. OpenAI's explosive growth has triggered what insiders call the "metafication" of the company, with over 600 former Meta employees—one in five staff members—fundamentally reshaping the organization's DNA from academic research lab to move-fast-and-break-things growth machine. This cultural collision is

19:31

49: Clippy's Revenge and The AI Battle for Your Desktop

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2025/10/24

The artificial intelligence industry is experiencing its most pivotal personality-driven transformation since the early days of computing, but beneath the friendly interfaces lies a troubling revelation about embedded biases that could reshape how we think about AI companionship forever. Microsoft's new Miko avatar—a deliberate nod to the infamous Clippy—represents far more than nostalgic marketing; it's the opening salvo in a brutal platform war where companies are weaponizing memory,

14:58

48: The Thousand-Brain Future

AI Deep Dive ·

2025/10/23

The artificial intelligence industry stands at a pivotal crossroads where competing visions of our technological future are colliding in ways that could reshape civilization itself. While AI luminaries like Yoshua Bengio and Geoffrey Hinton demand an immediate halt to superintelligence development—warning of human extinction and economic obsolescence—Amazon is simultaneously deploying smart glasses that turn delivery workers into augmented cyborgs guided by digital intelligence. This episode unpacks

10:41

47: Agents Click Freely But Security Screams Loudly

AI Deep Dive ·

2025/10/22

The artificial intelligence industry has reached a pivotal inflection point where autonomous agents are simultaneously becoming indispensable productivity tools and unprecedented security nightmares. With OpenAI's Atlas browser launching agentic capabilities that can autonomously navigate websites and click through tasks, and Anthropic's Claude Codeweb revolutionizing full-stack development by managing parallel workflows and GitHub integrations, we're witnessing the emergence of AI that doesn't just

12:38

46: What Happens If AI’s Memory Fails But Its Values...

AI Deep Dive ·

2025/10/21

The artificial intelligence industry is experiencing a fundamental paradox that could reshape how we think about machine intelligence forever. While developers push for unprecedented convenience—Anthropic's Claude Code revolutionizing browser-based development, holographic companions from reimagined Napster, and AI automating sensitive HR tasks like performance reviews—alarming research reveals critical vulnerabilities in AI's core architecture. Large language models are suffering from "brain rot,"

14:44

45: When Expert Skeptics Start Believing in AI Magic

AI Deep Dive ·

2025/10/20

The AI industry is experiencing a profound identity crisis—stuck between extraordinary technological breakthroughs and harsh reality checks from the very experts building these systems. This episode explores the fascinating tension revealed when Andrej Karpathy, former OpenAI and Tesla luminary, delivered a brutal assessment calling current AI agent outputs "slop" and projecting a decade-long timeline for true autonomy—only to face direct public challenges from Elon Musk about Grok 5's capabilities

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