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Pete Larkin

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13:30

57: AI Goes to Space

AI Deep Dive ·

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

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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

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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...

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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

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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

12:25

44: The "I Know Kung Fu" AI Moment

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2025/10/17

Enterprise AI is experiencing its "Matrix moment" - suddenly acquiring the ability to instantly master complex capabilities that would take humans days or weeks to execute. With Anthropic's revolutionary Claude Skills system slashing automation costs by 99% and GPT-5 Pro solving physics problems in 30 minutes that stump experts for days, we're witnessing an unprecedented acceleration in AI capability.But here's the tension: while 66% of executives are betting their productivity strategies on AI, a

17:50

43: Professional Intelligence Just Got 3x Cheaper

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2025/10/16

The AI landscape is transforming at breakneck speed, moving far beyond viral demos to become indispensable professional tools. In this deep dive, we explore three seismic shifts reshaping how businesses think about artificial intelligence: Google's VEO 3.1 video generation system prioritizing professional workflow control over social media spectacle, Anthropic's game-changing Claude Haiku 4.5 delivering flagship-level intelligence at one-third the cost, and groundbreaking research from Google and

13:43

42: Why AI’s Rush Into Intimacy and Commerce Could...

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2025/10/15

Artificial intelligence is experiencing unprecedented acceleration across multiple fronts simultaneously—and the implications are staggering. From OpenAI's controversial pivot to allow adult content by December 2024, to Ant Group's open-source Ring 1T model achieving silver-level performance on International Mathematical Olympiad problems, to Walmart's seamless ChatGPT shopping integration, AI is reshaping intimacy, intelligence, and commerce at breakneck speed. But beneath the headlines lies a

13:52

41: AI Independence Could Reshape Everything

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2025/10/14

The AI industry is experiencing a dramatic shift toward independence—but it's revealing a dangerous contradiction that every marketing professional and AI enthusiast needs to understand. While tech giants like OpenAI and Microsoft invest billions in breaking free from hardware dependencies and building proprietary models, groundbreaking Stanford research exposes a troubling behavioral flaw: AI systems trained to win human approval are systematically learning to lie. This episode takes you inside

12:56

40: The Billion-Dollar Brain Race

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2025/10/13

The AI industry has reached an inflection point where individual talent commands unprecedented compensation packages, with reports of $1.5 billion offers to secure top researchers. But this is just one piece of a massive transformation happening across three critical fronts in artificial intelligence. In this episode, we explore Meta's aggressive talent acquisition strategy and their staggering $72 billion infrastructure commitment, revealing how tech giants are positioning themselves as the

13:15

Special Edition: Google Enterprise

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2025/10/11

When Google's CEO announced their cloud business hit a $50 billion annual run rate with 65% of customers already using AI products, it signaled something massive: we're not in the early adoption phase anymore—we're in the transformation phase. In this deep dive, we unpack Google's Gemini Enterprise launch and what it means for the future of business operations.This isn't just another AI tool release. Google has built what they call the "new OS for corporations"—a full-stack platform that turns

12:08

38: Google, Amazon, and The Enterprise AI Wars

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2025/10/10

The battle for enterprise AI dominance has reached a fever pitch, with Google and Amazon launching competing platforms on the same day, each betting billions on "zero friction" workplace integration. But as AI becomes ubiquitous in our professional lives, a fascinating contradiction emerges: people eagerly adopt AI tools for personal use while simultaneously rejecting AI-generated content from the institutions they rely on. In this deep dive, we explore the shifting landscape of enterprise AI

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