Thanks for everything. And I do mean everything.

Everyone gave us a new model in the last few weeks.

OpenAI gave us GPT-5.1 and GPT-5.1-Codex-Max. These are overall improvements, although there are worries around glazing and reintroducing parts of the 4o spirit.

xAI gave us Grok 4.1, although few seem to have noticed and I haven’t tried it.

Google gave us both by far the best image model in Nana Banana Pro and also Gemini 3 Pro, which is a vast intelligence with no spine. It is extremely intelligent and powerful, but comes with severe issues. My assessment of it as the new state of the art got to last all of about five hours.

Anthropic gave us Claude Opus 4.5. This is probably the best model and quickly became my daily driver for most but not all purposes including coding. I plan to do full coverage in two parts, with alignment and safety on Friday, and the full capabilities report and general review on Monday.

Meanwhile the White House is announcing the Genesis Mission to accelerate science, there's a continuing battle over another attempt at a moratorium, there's a new planned $50 [...]

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Outline:

(02:20) Language Models Offer Mundane Utility

(02:53) Language Models Don't Offer Mundane Utility

(03:22) Huh, Upgrades

(05:52) On Your Marks

(07:30) Choose Your Fighter

(08:11) Deepfaketown and Botpocalypse Soon

(14:40) What Is Slop? How Do You Define Slop?

(17:43) Fun With Media Generation

(21:40) A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer

(23:58) You Drive Me Crazy

(28:31) They Took Our Jobs

(28:53) Think Of The Time I Saved

(32:07) The Art of the Jailbreak

(33:02) Get Involved

(33:37) Introducing

(34:18) In Other AI News

(37:05) Show Me the Money

(39:11) Quiet Speculations

(41:55) Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble

(44:32) The Quest for Sane Regulations

(54:31) Chip City

(55:50) Water Water Everywhere

(57:17) The Week in Audio

(59:05) Rhetorical Innovation

(01:04:53) You Are Not In Control

(01:08:42) AI 2030

(01:19:19) Aligning a Smarter Than Human Intelligence is Difficult

(01:21:57) Misaligned?

(01:25:00) Messages From Janusworld

(01:27:16) The Lighter Side

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