August 08, 2025

GPT-5's big new feature: less lying?

1 hour 20 minutes

It’s a huge week in AI, with OpenAI releasing GPT-OSS and GPT-5, Grok getting deeply problematic again with its “spicy” video generator, and Tim Cook admitting that Apple may need to cut some deals. Then we talk the age gating of the internet and how you might soon need an ID card to get just about anywhere online. Finally, the Lightning Round gets re-rebranded. Adi Robertson and Alex Heath join the show to discuss.

Further reading:

GPT-5 is being released to all ChatGPT users

OpenAI releases a free GPT model that can run on your laptop

Why open-source AI became an American national priority

Mark Zuckerberg promises you can trust him with superintelligent AI

xAI’s new Grok image and video generator has a ‘spicy’ mode

Grok’s ‘spicy’ video setting instantly made me Taylor Swift nude deepfakes

I tested Grok’s Valentine sex chatbot and it (mostly) behaved

Tim Cook says Apple ‘must’ figure out AI and ‘will make the investment to do it’

Tim Cook says Apple is ‘open to’ AI acquisitions

Ready or not, age verification is rolling out across the internet

The UK is now age-gating the internet

The UK is slogging through an online age-gate apocalyps

The UK’s new age-gating rules are easy to bypass

Reddit and Discord’s UK age verification can be defeated by Death Stranding’s photo mode

Reddit rolls out age verification in the UK to comply with new rules

Five EU states to test age verification app to protect children

The EU approach to age verification

Commission presents guidelines and age verification app prototype for a safer online space for children

Porn age-gating is the future of the internet, thanks to the Supreme Court

The Supreme Court just upended internet law, and I have questions

Florida Sues Huge Porn Sites Including XVideos and Bang Bros Over Age Verification Law

“Over the last two and a half years, 19 states – home to more than a third of Americans – have passed laws that require pornography websites to confirm a user’s age by checking a government-issued ID or scanning their face, among other methods.”

Google is using AI age checks to lock down user accounts

Today's Supreme Court Decision on Age Verification Tramples Free Speech and Undermines Privacy

Age Verification Harms Users of All Ages

Blocking Access to Harmful Content Will Not Protect Children Online, No Matter How Many Times UK Politicians Say So

Zero Knowledge Proofs Alone Are Not a Digital ID Solution to Protecting User Privacy

Age Verification in the European Union: The Commission's Age Verification App

RFK Jr. pulls $500 million in funding for mRNA vaccine contracts

Epic just won its Google lawsuit again, and Android may never be the same

Google has just two weeks to begin cracking open Android, it admits in emergency filing

Instagram adds a reposts feed and rips off Snap Maps

OpenAI charts crime

OpenAI gets caught vibe graphing