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Last Humans in the Loop

Chris Slowe, Marty Weiner, Zach Weinersmith

A weekly conversation about AI, technology, startups, and the future from people who"ve actually built the systems everyone uses.Chris Slowe CTO"d Reddit through hypergrowth and its IPO. Marty Weiner was a founding engineer at Pinterest and Reddit"s first CTO. Zach Weinersmith is the creator of Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal and the NYTimes bestselling author of books exploring the future of science and technology.Each week we debate the biggest stories, explain the technology behind them, and

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01:12:29

Would You Give AI Your Passwords?

Last Humans in the Loop ·

2026/10/08

FRONTIER01:26 Google unveils Gemini Argon02:50 OpenAI releases GPT Saul 6.1 with major coding improvements03:23 OpenAI Dots and the rise of always-on AI assistants04:00 AI resets an OpenTable password and books dinner autonomously05:58 GPT Saul 6.1 saturates FrontierMath's hardest benchmark06:41 OpenAI's live AI assistant demo goes wrong07:23 OpenAI Dev Day: faster models, Decisions API, cloud Codex07:46 Meta Muse joins the personal AI assistant race09:36 Alibaba announces new chips and massive Qwen

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01:11:19

Is This the Best AI Model Right Now?

Last Humans in the Loop ·

2026/09/30

FRONTIER02:31 OpenAI releases GPT Sol and Luna03:38 Claude Opus 5.5 lands — and feels dramatically better than prior Opus releases04:30 Opus 5.5 posts a big coding jump over Sonnet 504:30 Grok 4.7 launches with a new emphasis on safety and cybersecurity06:30 Qwen 4 announced with a massive 5–10 trillion parameter architecture07:06 Why Gemini Flash still feels behind the frontier08:30 Astra makes a huge jump on ZeroBench visual reasoning09:13 AI capability costs are falling faster than almost any

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01:13:45

HAVE YOU TRIED JEV YET??

Last Humans in the Loop ·

2026/09/23

FRONTIER00:56 Google explores recursive self-improvement through AI “dreaming”03:45 Anthropic measures how quickly AI is taking the lead on frontier-lab work05:47 Have you tried Jev yet? Faster AI decisions without narrating every step08:00 Jev routes between models and plays Doom and Street Fighter12:55 Made with AI: homemade Zelda, printer drivers and AI-generated movies16:26 Astra cracks a 108-year-old WWI German code17:46 Marty’s AI-built Spaceballs NES game19:32 Astra for Law searches case law,

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00:58:06

AI POLITICAL FALLOUT UNDERWAY, CALLS TO SLOW AI, ...

Last Humans in the Loop ·

2026/09/16

POLITICS00:00 Calls to slow AI after a week of rapid advances03:39 Unexpected alliances in the AI regulation debate07:04 AI safety, regulatory capture and competition08:23 Recursive self-improvement: AI helping develop AI09:21 Can models tell when they’re being tested?11:22 What would an AI “internet takeover” actually mean?12:34 What motivates an LLM—and can the world coordinate a slowdown?13:57 Would meaningful AI regulation require a major incident first?15:27 AI bubble fears, GPU demand and the

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01:09:07

ASTRAPALOOZA! Let's explore all the ways people are...

Last Humans in the Loop ·

2026/09/09

FRONTIER00:39 ChatGPT 6 Astra arrives01:52 Astra sets new capability records and beats humans on spatial reasoning03:51 ChatGPT 6 decompiles game binaries back into source code05:58 NVIDIA’s CEO congratulates OpenAI on “achieving AGI”07:57 Astra builds Minecraft houses — and higher reasoning may actually be cheaper09:47 ChatGPT 6 plays a virtual piano live10:00 People are one-shotting playable games from trailers and screenshots13:00 Astra ports Batman: Arkham City to an iPad while its user

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00:49:45

"How is AI changing math?" with Math Professor...

Last Humans in the Loop ·

2026/09/02

00:00 Meet Jonathan Wise — theoretical mathematician and professor at CU Boulder01:35 Teaching mathematics with AI and the Lean proof assistant04:36 The AI math breakthroughs that changed the conversation07:25 Is AI discovering mathematics — or just grinding through possibilities?11:34 Can AI develop mathematical intuition and “taste”?15:23 Can AI combine ideas across completely different fields of math?17:40 How a working mathematician actually uses AI today22:22 AI is already extremely useful for

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00:50:52

Are you marketing to AI yet?, Humans talking like AI...

Last Humans in the Loop ·

2026/09/02

FRONTIER[01:25] Sam Altman says OpenAI could achieve AGI by the end of the year[01:52] OpenAI pulls its models from Cursor after the SpaceX acquisition — and explicitly blames Elon Musk[04:31] OpenAI’s Astra and Anthropic's Fable 5.1 reportedly approach release (Fable 5.1 released while making this!)[05:17] OpenAI says its new Jalapeño AI chips can outperform NVIDIA Blackwell[06:00] Apple previews its M6 chips with an obvious focus on local AI[06:47] AI demand is driving up Mac prices — and creating

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01:04:45

Laptop AI = 6 Month Old Frontier Models, AI Cancer...

Last Humans in the Loop ·

2026/08/26

FRONTIER01:20 Laptop-scale AI is already competing with frontier models from six months ago03:28 Stripe reportedly tells investors we're already in the Singularity04:17 NVIDIA coding agent scores 100% on ARC-AGI-306:19 Linus Torvalds uses AI to help solve a gnarly Intel GPU driver bugTECH07:26 China's Robot Olympics — robots outrun and out-jump humans08:28 When are household robots actually useful?12:21 Russian AI-guided drones can keep attacking even when communications are jammed13:03 What

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01:04:42

Study: AI Use Makes You Look Lazy, RAM $$$ Up 7x,...

Last Humans in the Loop ·

2026/08/20

FRONTIER00:21 Reddit joins the S&P 50000:53 AI reporters are starting to break major news03:58 How invisible AI watermarking works05:37 Grok helps improve itself — is AI recursive self-improvement here?07:09 DeepMind trains sign-language AI across 50+ sign languages07:23 MiniMax Music 3 brings high-quality music generation to open weights08:44 Spotify asks artists to disclose AI-generated music. Link to the song we demoed:

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01:00:01

AI doing real science, EU: AI needs watermarks, Jeff...

Last Humans in the Loop ·

2026/08/13

FRONTIER00:56 EU requires invisible watermarks for AI-generated content04:23 Bernie Sanders calls on frontier AI labs to slow down05:42 Google reportedly skips Gemini 3.5 Pro to focus on Gemini 406:01 Jeff Dean leaves Google to launch Discovery Loop09:22 OpenAI researcher leaves to work on non-invasive “telepathy”13:06 New frontier model delayed over cybersecurity concernsTECH10:33 Small modular nuclear reactors could power the AI boom13:56 Stack Overflow traffic down 99% from its peak15:37 AI is

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01:06:38

The AI Productivity Paradox, New LLM Architecture,...

Last Humans in the Loop ·

2026/08/05

NEWS00:35 AlphaFold shuts down03:51 Gemini? Gemini? Bueller? Bueller?04:20 OpenAI solves 10 major math problems09:00 A possible third LLM scaling law discovered13:13 OpenAI previews new model, Astra, to lawmakersSECURITY16:55 OpenAI vs Apple lawsuit21:50 Frontier models keep hacking other companiesECONOMICS30:15 AI writes 17× more code—but why are companies only ~30% more productive?35:00 Where software development actually spends its time38:00 Why AI changes amount of code and why that may not

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01:17:51

OpenAI v Hugging Face Update, Opus 5, Anthropic v...

Last Humans in the Loop ·

2026/07/29

FRONTIER00:50 OpenAI's model broke free and hacked Hugging Face09:55 Several companies call for NOT banning open weight models10:08 Anthropic's response to banning open weights19:05 Kimi K3 weights, Claude Opus 5 released24:40 The challenge of BenchmaxxingTECH33:20 NVIDIA invests $5B in Safe Superintelligence (SSI)34:05 Waymo's self-driving cars outperforming humans35:10 Qualcomm's robot demo fails SPECTACULARLY29:00 Running Qwen 3.6 on a laptopECON / BUSINESS38:15 Report: AI is driving a surge in

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01:04:09

The AI Moat is Gone, AI Solves ANOTHER Big Math...

Last Humans in the Loop ·

2026/07/22

03:06 NVIDIA's Robotics AI & Cosmos Models08:28 Open-Weight AI Is Catching Up13:07 Are AI Moats Disappearing?16:16 How Distillation Makes Copying Models Faster + Cheaper19:22 Hugging Face Hack & AI Cybersecurity23:20 Can Governments Regulate Open AI?29:20 The Explosion of Specialized AI Models32:03 AI Solves Another Major Math Problem40:20 Hollywood's AI Future (George Lucas, Netflix & VFX)55:02 Linus Torvalds on AI and Linux56:22 Is LinkedIn Already Full of AI?58:08 AI, Copyright &

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01:16:12

Inside Claude's "Mind", AI Solves 50-Year Math...

Last Humans in the Loop ·

2026/07/15

01:20 Apple sues OpenAI06:40 GPT-5.6 First Impressions08:00 Live Demo — GPT-5.6 builds a 3D cannon in Blender14:40 Inside Claude's Mind — Anthropic's "Global Workspace" discovery29:15 AI Solves 50-Year-Old Math Problems43:30 AI, Productivity & The Future of Work — Why recessions may accelerate automation1:08:00 Cloning Kermit the Frog with Eleven Labs

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01:03:24

Anthropic’s Fable 5, OpenAI’s Jalapeño Chip,...

Last Humans in the Loop ·

2026/07/06

00:00 Introductions02:00 Anthropic's Fable 5 & ChatGPT 5.6 & federal new government regulation25:00 OpenAI's Jalapeño AI chip35:00 Midjourney enters medical imaging44:00 AI voices & Hollywood58:00 AI decodes ancient scrolls

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