What if AI could stop wars, cure genetic disorders, and still totally miss the mark on being human? This week we dive into some mind-blowing updates in the world of artificial intelligence: Harvard's peace tech simulates global leaders, CRISPR tackles Down syndrome, and OpenAI finds “personas” hidden in neural nets. Plus, a countdown to AGI, a brain-inspired supercomputer, and the skills AI still can’t touch. Let’s get curious.

Is AGI just around the corner? What happens when AI scans your feet and predicts a heart attack? This week we’re diving deep into the AI rabbit hole: biblical authorship secrets, sperm-hunting bots, and why feeding a model 4chan trash somehow made it behave better. Buckle up — it gets weird, fast.

AI just dropped some wild stuff this week. We're talking zoom-enhancing magic tricks, flapping drones that think they’re birds, machines that copy your eye movements, and the question nobody asked but everyone’s thinking: are we living in a simulation? Plus, Elon and Sam are beefing again, peer-reviewed AI papers are happening, and Mary Meeker just dropped a monster AI report. Let’s get into the good stuff.

This week in AI is wild. From LED houseplants that vibe with your living room to AIs that beat human scientists in the lab, the tech just keeps leveling up. I dive into some crazy new research, including a method for measuring the “personality” of language models (yeah, that’s a thing now), a month-by-month forecast of a possible intelligence explosion by 2027, and why some scientists think LLMs might not even need language.

Also in this episode:
• A plant that glows like a smart lamp
• The XString method — weird name, powerful concept
• Transformers thinking like humans?
• Brain-inspired machine vision
• And some very curious YouTube analytics that might explain what the algorithm’s actually thinking

Strap in — this one moves fast.

We talk about what intelligence really means for humans and machines, wondering if those weird AI “hallucinations” might actually be creativity, how we even measure smarts, and whether language or emotions define true intelligence. It asks if we’re close to AGI and if boosting intelligence could end up helping or hurting us, maybe even making us regret AI. It also imagines wild futures where AI fights aging, creates new life forms, or invents its own way of talking, and wonders how all this could shake up ethics, privacy, and our relationships when machines start making real decisions.

Robots are growing spines, meme mysteries are getting solved, and GPT might be having an existential crisis. This week in AI: weird, wild, and way too real.

AI avatars, dad jokes, robot gods, secret factories, and Claude 4 coding like it's possessed. Veo’s cracking jokes, Larry Page is low-key waging war, and Amazon’s playing chess with unions. All facts, no filler. Let’s get curious.

Big week in AI: Google drops a wild 3D video chat platform, SAG-AFTRA’s got beef with Fortnite over a certain Sith Lord’s synthetic voice, and traffic cops might be losing their jobs to algorithms (for good reason). We’re decoding deep brain science, reconstructing broken QR codes with AI magic, and asking what Algernon would think of Neuralink. Yep, it’s one of those episodes — part tech dive, part existential spiral. Let’s get into it.

This week in tech that makes you go “Wait... what?” — Netflix is quietly blending ads into shows with AI (hello, Minority Report), and OpenAI’s Codex might be making your job obsolete (or just way easier).

We’ve got divorce drama sparked by ChatGPT, secret messages invisible to cybersecurity systems, and Tesla’s robot demo gets the James Douma deep-dive treatment. Plus: what do “The Little Prince” and flying cars have in common? (Hint: AI is everywhere.)

We’ll also unpack brain-like models called CTMs, text simplification with Gemini, empathy in robots, and the shockingly overlooked secret to why some systems last and others just... don’t.

It’s a wild ride — part research breakdown, part sci-fi come true. Let’s get weird.

AI is getting weird. Google teaches it tennis. Apple wants it in your browser. Zuckerberg's building your next best friend. Plus: selfies that detect cancer, robots that see in 3D, and why the AI singularity might already be here (just not how you think). Let’s get into it.