HAVE YOU TRIED JEV YET??

**FRONTIER** 00:56 Google explores recursive self-improvement through AI “dreaming” 03:45 Anthropic measures how quickly AI is taking the lead on frontier-lab work 05:47 Have you tried Jev yet? Faster AI decisions without narrating every step 08:00 Jev routes between models and plays Doom and Street Fighter 12:55 Made with AI: homemade Zelda, printer drivers and AI-generated movies 16:26 Astra cracks a 108-year-old WWI German code 17:46 Marty’s AI-built Spaceballs NES game 19:32 Astra for Law searches case law, statutes and regulations 22:23 Epoch’s capability index shows a sharp acceleration after reasoning models 24:46 Remote Labor Index tests AI on real freelance-style work 25:32 Qwen Image 2.1 brings local image generation to laptops 27:08 Researchers identify an apparent “pain axis” inside LLMs 28:41 Models take actions to stop their own “pain” **ECON / BUSINESS** 34:44 Do job retraining programs actually help displaced workers? 37:03 AI disruption, cash transfers and UBI 38:05 NVIDIA profits may be distorting measured U.S. GDP growth 39:26 OpenAI reportedly eyes a $1.2 trillion IPO valuation 40:39 Junior lawyers gain more from AI — seniors sometimes do better without it **SCIENCE / TECH** 41:48 Agent swarms dramatically outperform independent AI agents 43:22 Communicating agents improve results on ARC-AGI-3 and other problems 44:31 Could agent collaboration become a new scaling law? 47:05 Helix 2.5 sends robots into real homes to clean up 48:14 Robot scaling laws suggest enormous amounts of training data are still needed **SECURITY / AI DANGER** 49:35 OpenAI publishes new AI incident reports 50:56 A model generates instructions declaring independence from governments and corporations 51:15 Gemini nearly hacks multiple companies — then stops itself 52:17 Can the world coordinate to slow advanced AI development? 54:14 Could diverse AIs police one another? 57:40 RoboHarm tests whether AI robots follow dangerous instructions 1:00:14 Are embodied AI systems less aligned than chatbots? 1:01:50 Exposed Flock camera credentials reportedly reveal 1.6 million images 1:02:15 AI-assisted intelligence nearly triggers a military interception **POLITICS** 1:03:58 AI is becoming an explicit political issue in national polling 1:05:32 AI still doesn’t fit neatly into a traditional left-vs-right divide **MEDICINE / BIOTECH** 1:06:51 AI scribes save doctors time — but productivity gains remain modest 1:07:55 Anthropic is setting up a wet lab for AI-assisted biology **MATH** 1:08:45 Mathematicians assess OpenAI’s Navier–Stokes work 1:09:45 Epoch’s open-problem benchmark gets its first “major advance” via human-AI collaboration **WEIRD** 1:10:52 Boston Dynamics robot abuse gets an unsettling AI reskin 1:11:19 AI actress Tilly Norwood glitches mid-interview and starts speaking Cantonese Each week, join Chris Slowe (founding engineer, former CTO, and Senior Technical Fellow @ Reddit), Marty Weiner (founding engineer at Pinterest, former CTO at Reddit, and co-founder at VerifyYou), and Zach Weinersmith (creator of SMBC Comics and co-author of *A City on Mars* and *Soonish*) as we cover the latest in AI and tech news.