Brace for impact. We are presumably (checks watch) four hours from GPT-5.

That's the time you need to catch up on all the other AI news.

In another week, I might have done an entire post on Gemini 2.5 Deep Thinking, or Genie 3, or a few other things. This week? Quickly, there's no time.

OpenAI has already released an open model. I’m aiming to cover that tomorrow.

Table of Contents

Also: Claude 4.1 is an incremental improvement, On Altman's Interview With Theo Von.

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Outline:

(00:42) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

(03:04) Language Models Don't Offer Mundane Utility

(06:04) Huh, Upgrades

(07:31) On Your Marks

(11:24) Thinking Deeply With Gemini 2.5

(16:33) Choose Your Fighter

(16:47) Fun With Media Generation

(18:24) Optimal Optimization

(21:38) Get My Agent On The Line

(29:15) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon

(33:19) You Drive Me Crazy

(34:42) They Took Our Jobs

(37:53) Get Involved

(41:24) Introducing

(42:27) City In A Bottle

(48:15) Unprompted Suggestions

(48:54) In Other AI News

(51:10) Papers, Please

(51:18) The Mask Comes Off

(52:55) Show Me the Money

(01:01:11) Quiet Speculations

(01:09:20) Mark Zuckerberg Spreads Confusion

(01:15:05) The Quest for Sane Regulations

(01:19:11) David Sacks Once Again Amplifies Obvious Nonsense

(01:23:28) Chip City

(01:27:50) No Chip City

(01:30:00) Energy Crisis

(01:33:13) To The Moon

(01:34:58) Dario's Dismissal Deeply Disappoints, Depending on Details

(01:46:05) The Week in Audio

(01:50:48) Tyler Cowen Watch

(01:54:50) Rhetorical Innovation

(02:00:35) Shame Be Upon Them

(02:01:21) Correlation Causes Causation

(02:04:17) Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult

(02:06:29) The Lighter Side

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