Would You Give AI Your Passwords?

**FRONTIER** 01:26 Google unveils Gemini Argon 02:50 OpenAI releases GPT Saul 6.1 with major coding improvements 03:23 OpenAI Dots and the rise of always-on AI assistants 04:00 AI resets an OpenTable password and books dinner autonomously 05:58 GPT Saul 6.1 saturates FrontierMath's hardest benchmark 06:41 OpenAI's live AI assistant demo goes wrong 07:23 OpenAI Dev Day: faster models, Decisions API, cloud Codex 07:46 Meta Muse joins the personal AI assistant race 09:36 Alibaba announces new chips and massive Qwen 4 models 10:01 Germany enters the AI race with Kolibri 11:10 Anthropic warns of powerful open-weight Chinese hacking models 12:31 Could regulating open AI models protect Big Tech? **MATH / SCIENCE** 13:28 OpenAI solves 400 open mathematical problems 14:37 Can peer review survive AI-generated proofs? 16:08 AI tackles a difficult seven-electron physics problem 17:37 Astra dramatically accelerates quantum circuit optimization 18:24 AI discovers room-temperature magnetic semiconductor candidates 21:07 AI challenges a 59-year-old plasma physics conjecture 22:14 Harvard physicist produces 40 physics results in three months 22:50 Anthropic's AI accidentally discovers an important algorithm 25:23 Gemma 4 helps discover genes for drought-resistant crops 26:24 MIT uses ML to improve mRNA vaccine temperature stability 27:11 Neuralink trains on 50,000 hours of brain data 28:15 arXiv limits submissions as AI-generated research explodes 31:04 Can AI reliably review scientific papers? **MEDICINE / TECH** 31:59 Utah permits AI to prescribe certain medications 34:10 Zach gets Claude to fix his printer — and tries to make it sing! **ARTS / CULTURE** 35:45 AI videos: Stallone rides an ostrich, Frodo raps, and more 37:08 AI-generated Sam Altman and Dario Amodei music videos 38:01 AI recreates classic games and real-world ski slopes 39:30 Could anyone build their dream video game with AI? 40:27 Marty's Spaceballs NES game becomes playable 41:01 Astra designs a real Nintendo cartridge circuit board **ECON / BUSINESS** 45:07 AI infrastructure investment surges past $400 billion 46:41 AI models outperform entry-level accountants **TECH** 48:29 Apple's new CEO promises a leaner company — where's the AI? 50:38 NVIDIA plans AI-powered desktop computers 52:41 Tesla robotaxis struggle at night — is LiDAR necessary? **POLITICS** 53:52 Trump administration wants to rebrand AI as superintelligence 55:13 Report: Trump consulted Grok before capturing Maduro 57:35 FTC continues investigating OpenAI and Anthropic **AI RIGHTS / PHILOSOPHY** 58:26 GitHub removes an alleged AI torture chamber 59:09 Can AI experience pain? Should AI have rights? 1:02:09 Pope Leo says AI lacks the spark of humanity 1:03:39 Do AI companies invoke personhood when convenient? 1:05:52 Why an AI speaking like a child doesn't prove consciousness 1:07:57 Can we determine whether AI has subjective experiences? **WEIRD** 1:08:39 Robots terminated by jumping into molten metal 1:09:46 Dario Amodei's 2017 essay predicted AI scaling 1:10:44 The universal bone dissolver: AI safety satire 1:11:28 Dario Amodei's awkward appearance behind Trump Each week, join Chris Slowe (founding engineer, former CTO, and now 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 NYTimes bestsellers including A City on Mars and Soonish) as we delve into the latest AI and tech news.