Yeah. That happened yesterday. This is real life.

I know we have to ensure no one notices Gemini 2.5 Pro, but this is rediculous.

That's what I get for trying to go on vacation to Costa Rica, I suppose.

I debated waiting for the market to open to learn more. But f*** it, we ball.

Table of Contents

Also this week: More Fun With GPT-4o Image Generation, OpenAI #12: Battle of the Board Redux and Gemini 2.5 Pro is the New SoTA.

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Outline:

(00:35) The New Tariffs Are How America Loses

(07:35) Is AI Now Impacting the Global Economy Bigly?

(12:07) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

(14:28) Language Models Don't Offer Mundane Utility

(15:09) Huh, Upgrades

(17:09) On Your Marks

(23:27) Choose Your Fighter

(25:51) Jevons Paradox Strikes Again

(26:25) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon

(31:47) They Took Our Jobs

(33:02) Get Involved

(33:41) Introducing

(35:25) In Other AI News

(37:17) Show Me the Money

(43:12) Quiet Speculations

(47:24) The Quest for Sane Regulations

(53:52) Don't Maim Me Bro

(57:29) The Week in Audio

(57:54) Rhetorical Innovation

(01:03:39) Expect the Unexpected

(01:05:48) Open Weights Are Unsafe and Nothing Can Fix This

(01:14:09) Anthropic Modifies Its Responsible Scaling Policy

(01:18:04) If You're Not Going to Take This Seriously

(01:20:24) Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult

(01:23:54) Trust the Process

(01:26:30) People Are Worried About AI Killing Everyone

(01:26:52) The Lighter Side

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