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AI

#1849 39:40

Tech Leaders Demand a Pause on Superintelligence

In this episode, Ray breaks down a petition signed by 800+ leaders calling to pause the superintelligence race, then digs into AWS outage chatter about AI replacing DevOps, and Microsoft’s Gaming Copilot privacy concerns. Plus: a prompt trick that boosts LLM accuracy, a 2-billion-FPS camera that visualizes light, and JAXA’s HTV-X cargo launch to the ISS.

#1848 36:27

ChatGPT Set to Unlock Mature Content for Verified Users

In this episode, Ray dives into OpenAI’s plan to allow mature content for verified ChatGPT users, explores the Xreal One AR glasses and Opera’s AI-powered Neon browser, and highlights innovations like Portalgraph’s holographic display. Plus, updates on NASA’s ISS retirement, YouTube’s “second chance” policy, and reflections on balancing life and podcasting.

#1847 23:35

The Future of AI on Your Desktop

NVIDIA’s new DGX Spark is shaking up the AI world — a $3,999 pocket-sized supercomputer built to run powerful AI models locally. A true game changer for developers.

AI Isn’t Helpful

Over the past few months I've been increasingly frustrated by AI companies trying to insert AI "help" into everything in the faint hope that something will stick and it will actually be helpful. WhatsApp seems to think that I need help responding to whether my son can go on a playdate or if my daughter can attend coaching practice. Spotify

Anthropic Enables Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 To End Conversations In “Cases Of Persistently Harmful Or Abusive Interactions”

We recently gave Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 the ability to end conversations in our consumer chat interfaces. This ability is intended for use in rare, extreme cases of persistently harmful or abusive interactions. This feature was developed primarily as part of our exploratory work on potential AI welfare, though it has broader relevance to model alignment and safeguards. Anthropic

The White House Unveils The AI Action Plan

The Trump administration published its much-anticipated AI Action Plan on Wednesday, a document that takes a sharp shift away from former President Biden’s cautious approach to addressing the risks of AI, and instead barrels ahead with plans to build out AI infrastructure, cut red tape for tech companies, shore up national security and compete with China, TechCrunch reported. The downstream

OnePlus AI Slides Onto Smartphones

Once the information has been captured, AI Plus Mind will review and analyse the content to understand the data. The press release mentions extracting schedule details and adding them to the calendar but hopefully it will be able to handle addresses and other semi-structured data. AI Search is integrated as well so you'll be able to make natural language queries about the information stored in the Mind Space.