Are you marketing to AI yet?, Humans talking like AI now, Live AI made TV shows, China exports surge

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 a major RAM shortage
[08:10] Are you marketing to AI yet? AI agents are becoming both shoppers and product recommenders
[13:29] Google proposes an LLM architecture that could cut token usage by as much as 94%
[16:08] NVIDIA moves to acquire Hugging Face for a reported $12.9 billion
[17:52] Apple may be getting back into the server business for AI

TECH / ROBOTICS
[18:55] Anthropic proposes a standard interface for connecting AI to real-world scientific hardware
[20:49] New Chinese battery technology hits 600 Wh/kg — potentially transforming EVs, drones, and aviation
[23:33] AI-powered agricultural robots can identify crops, kill weeds, and harvest food
[24:58] Could AI and robotics finally make vertical farming economical?

ARTS / CULTURE
[26:17] AI is changing how humans talk — researchers find ChatGPT vocabulary spreading into spontaneous speech
[30:54] Humans may now avoid words and phrases simply because they “sound like AI”
[33:01] Could AI text watermarking accidentally change human language too?
[34:33] AI-generated Rick and Morty-style TV can now run faster than real time
[36:35] Generative video could turn television into interactive entertainment
[39:05] Unreal Engine is increasingly built around AI-assisted game development
[40:20] AI-generated textures and DLSS are rapidly changing how games are rendered

POLITICS / BUSINESS
[40:58] NVIDIA launches its own political action committee
[42:22] China’s high-tech exports surge 41% as domestic manufacturing accelerates
[42:50] Flock Safety CEO says Americans need to compromise on privacy
[43:06] How Flock’s network of license-plate and surveillance cameras works

WEIRD
[44:18] AI turns China’s robot games into a bizarre human-looking competition
[45:02] Elon Musk responds to OpenAI with “Scam Altman” and “Greg Stockman”
[45:57] We workshop better Elon Musk-style insults for OpenAI executives

MATH / SCIENCE
[47:07] AI enters the operating room with assistance during brain-tumor surgery
[48:30] Quantum navigation could provide GPS-free positioning that is extremely difficult to jam
[50:02] ChatGPT helps improve a mathematical bound on the gaps between prime numbers

Each week, join Chris Slowe (founding engineer, former CTO, and now Senior Technical Fellow @ Reddit), Marty Weiner (founding engineer at Pinterest, also a former CTO at Reddit, and co-founder at VerifyYou), and Zach Weinersmith (creator of SMBC Comics and co-author of several New York Times best sellers including A City on Mars and Soonish) as they delve into the latest in AI and tech news.