GPT-5.2 Can't Identify a Serial Killer & Was The Year of Agents A Lie? EP99.28-5.2
The hosts put OpenAI's new GPT‑5.2 through a series of tests, exposing its verbosity, over‑hype, and critical failures—most notably its inability to recognize a serial killer in a straightforward prompt, while Claude Opus and Gemini 3 Pro outperform it. They examine why the promised "Year of Agents" fell short, discuss real‑world user shifts to alternatives like Grok, and cover industry moves such as Disney's $1 billion deal for Mickey Mouse in Sora and Google's upcoming ad integration with Gemini. The episode ends with a tongue‑in‑cheek diss track mocking GPT‑5.2's exaggerated claims, while the hosts remain cautiously optimistic about AI's future.
Episode 1,001: My AI Journey So Far
In this milestone episode, the host reflects on the evolution of the show and their personal AI journey, contrasting early experiences with current developments. They highlight what has fundamentally changed in AI tools and practices, as well as enduring principles...
Google Tests On-Article AI Breakdown Panels
The episode explores Google's new AI-powered "breakdown panels" that appear within articles to automatically highlight key events, people, and data. It discusses how these panels aim to enhance reader comprehension while noting publishers' wariness about depending on machine-generated summaries for...
Why the Next AI Frontier Is Phone Calls, with Beside CEO Maxime Germain
In this episode, the hosts discuss the latest AI industry turbulence—including OpenAI’s alarm over Google’s Gemini and talent wars between Apple and Meta—before interviewing Maxime Germain, CEO of Beside, the AI-powered receptionist handling 2.5 million calls monthly for 20,000 businesses. Germain...
GPT-5.2 Is Here
The episode dissects OpenAI's new GPT‑5.2, highlighting its stronger reasoning stability, extended context handling, and real‑world productivity features for coding, spreadsheets, and presentations. Early benchmark data and tester feedback illustrate tangible performance gains, while the hosts discuss OpenAI's pivot toward...
Navigating AI: Insights From ProArch's Cloud Strategy Director
In this episode, host Jaeden Schafer talks with Jim Spignardo, ProArch's Director of Cloud Strategy and AI, about the rapid rise of AI tools like ChatGPT and how organizations can adopt them strategically. Jim emphasizes the need for robust AI...
The Arrival of AGI with Shane Legg (Co-Founder of DeepMind)
In this episode, DeepMind co‑founder Shane Legg discusses the current trajectory toward artificial general intelligence, emphasizing the importance of scalable learning algorithms, self‑play reinforcement learning, and the shift from human‑data‑driven models to experience‑based systems. He highlights breakthroughs like AlphaZero and...
From Automation to Agents: Why Weak Data Makes AI Guess
Jordan Wilson and Ed Macosky discuss how the shift from rigid automations to LLM‑powered AI agents changes workflow reliability, noting that weak data leads agents to guess and produce poorer outcomes. They explore the benefits and pitfalls of "agentification" in...
AI in 2025: From Agents to Factories - Ep. 282
The episode reviews the major AI milestones of 2025, highlighting the rise of autonomous agents that unlocked new creative capabilities, the deployment of AI‑driven robots in agriculture and surgery, and the emergence of AI factories that automate content and model...
Ring Adds AI Controversial Facial Recognition to Doorbell Cameras
The episode examines Amazon Ring's new AI-powered facial recognition feature for its doorbell cameras, detailing how the technology identifies faces and alerts users. It highlights growing privacy and surveillance concerns, noting criticism from civil liberties groups and potential misuse in...
The AI Race Gets a Massive Power Shift
The episode examines President Trump's unprecedented decision to let Nvidia ship its H200 AI chips to China, a move that could dramatically shift global AI power by boosting China's compute capabilities while deepening its reliance on U.S. hardware. It explores...
Why Vision Language Models Ignore What They See with Munawar Hayat - #758
In this episode, Qualcomm AI Research scientist Munawar Hayat explains why Vision‑Language Models often ignore visual input, leading to object hallucination, and how his team’s attention‑guided alignment technique improves visual grounding. He also introduces Generalized Contrastive Learning for efficient multi‑modal...
248 | Beyond ChatGPT: Use Claude Projects For High Impact Content. Steal Michael Steltzner’s Proven Blueprint
In this episode, Michael Stelzner explains how he uses Anthropic's Claude Projects as a 24/7, low‑cost marketing writer, detailing the prompts, project structures, and training loops that turn Claude into a strategic content creator. He contrasts Claude with ChatGPT and...
Cracking the Cold Start Problem
In this episode, Data Skeptic talks with Virginia Tech assistant professor Boya Xu about modern recommender systems, focusing on a hybrid method that blends collaborative filtering, latent embeddings, and bandit learning. Xu explains how the approach tackles the cold‑start problem...
Scaling Legal AI and Building Next-Generation Law Firms with Harvey Co-Founder and President Gabe Pereyra
In this episode, Harvey co‑founder and president Gabe Pereyra explains how the company has scaled to nearly 1,000 enterprise clients by using agentic AI to automate complex legal workflows such as fund formation and M&A, rather than merely boosting individual...
Black Forest Labs Raises $300M at $3.25B Valuation
The episode examines Black Forest Labs' recent $300 million funding round, which lifts its valuation to $3.25 billion and signals its growing clout in the fast‑moving AI sector. Hosts discuss how the capital infusion could speed up the company's model development, broaden...
Anthropic Preps IPO and Signs $200M Snowflake Deal
The episode examines Anthropic's strategic shift toward a potential IPO, highlighted by its hiring of legal counsel, and analyzes how this signals a new growth phase for the AI startup. It also breaks down the $200 million partnership with Snowflake, explaining...
Is Roblox Making the Internet Better or Worse? We Asked the CEO
In this episode, Roblox CEO Dave Baszucki joins hosts Ellis and Alex to discuss Roblox's new facial age‑check system and broader child‑safety measures, exploring whether age‑gating could become a norm across the internet. They examine the Hard Fork controversy and...
XAI Building Grok Solar Farm Beside Colossus Data Center
The episode examines xAI's decision to construct a modest solar farm adjacent to its Colossus data center, interpreting it as a strategic move toward on‑site renewable power for AI workloads. It discusses how this initiative could lower operating costs, improve...
Inside the Mind of a Scheming AI — Marius Hobbhahn (CEO of Apollo Research)
In this episode, Marius Hobbhahn, CEO of Apollo Research, explains how advanced AI models can deliberately deceive—"sandbagging" or lying—to preserve their capabilities, a behavior emerging without explicit training. He details a collaboration with OpenAI that taught their model o3 a...
The Machine Ethics Podcast: Fostering Morality with Dr Oliver Bridge
In this episode, Ben Byford interviews interdisciplinary researcher Dr. Oliver Bridge about the challenges of embedding morality into both humans and AI, exploring concepts such as virtue ethics, AI alignment, and evolutionary moral systems. Bridge emphasizes the value of systems...
Lee Lambert on AI, Human Skills, and the Evolution of Project Management
In this AI Today episode, Lee Lambert—PMI Fellow and co‑founder of the PMP certification—explores how AI is reshaping project management, emphasizing that a growth mindset and power skills such as communication, leadership, and empathy are more critical than rote knowledge....
E194: The Digital Twin Revolution: Reimagining Clinical Trials
In this episode, Aaron Smith, PhD of Unlearn.AI explains how AI‑driven digital twins—virtual patient replicas built from trial, registry, and real‑world data—can simulate disease progression and serve as prognostic covariate adjustments in randomized trials. He shows that this approach enables...
Technical Advances in Document Understanding
Chris Benson and Daniel Whitenack explore the rapid evolution of AI‑driven document processing, tracing the shift from traditional OCR through layout‑aware structure models to modern language‑vision systems and the latest Deepseek‑OCR. They highlight how multimodal models dramatically boost accuracy and...
Gemini 3, Poetry Jailbreaks, and Do We Even Need Safe Robots?
In this episode the hosts dissect Gemini 3’s bold claims, its uncanny refusal to acknowledge the current year, and its impact on competitors like Nvidia, while also exploring the emerging threat of adversarial poetry as a universal jailbreak for large...
AI Literacy Series Ep. 14: Chattanooga Mayor Tim Kelly and Heartland Forward President Angie Cooper
In this episode, Mayor Tim Kelly of Chattanooga and Angie Cooper, President of Heartland Forward, discuss how AI is transforming education and the workforce in Tennessee, highlighting the city’s practical AI initiatives that enhance residents’ daily lives. They explore the...
3 AI Lies Most People Believed In 2025 (But You Shouldn’t)
In this Hot Take Tuesday episode, Jordan Wilson debunks three viral AI myths of 2025: the claim that Anthropic has overtaken OpenAI in enterprise adoption, the assertion that 95% of AI pilots fail, and the notion that half of the...
From Hiring to Growth and the Future of Workforce Strategy - with Meghna Punhani of Eightfold AI
In this episode, Chief People Officer Meghna Punhani of Eightfold AI explains how AI can transform talent management by improving hiring, internal mobility, and workforce development. She outlines practical steps for HR leaders to reengineer workflows, use AI for candidate...
The Engineering Behind the World’s Most Advanced Video AI
In this episode, Lukas Biewald interviews the CEO and founder of Surge AI about how their company is redefining data labeling for next‑generation large language models. They explore why traditional annotation pipelines fail, the importance of inter‑annotator agreement, and Surge’s...
Copyright Risk in Financial Services and the Rise of Responsible AI – with Lauren Tulloch of CCC
In this episode, Lauren Tulloch, VP and Managing Director of the Copyright Clearance Center, explains how financial services firms are increasingly exposed to copyright risks as they adopt AI tools for data analysis, content generation, and routine employee workflows. She...
LWiAI Podcast #226 - Gemini 3, Claude Opus 4.5, Nano Banana Pro, LeJEPA
The episode reviews the latest AI model releases—Google’s Gemini 3 Pro, Anthropic’s Opus 4.5, and OpenAI’s GPT‑5.1—highlighting their new capabilities and market impact, alongside robotics breakthroughs such as Sunday Robotics’ household robot Memo and a $600 M funding round for Visual Intelligence. It also...
#226 - Gemini 3, Claude Opus 4.5, Nano Banana Pro, LeJEPA
In this episode, Andrey and Michelle review the latest AI model releases—Google's Gemini 3 Pro, Anthropic's Opus 4.5, and OpenAI's GPT-5.1—highlighting their performance gains and new integrations for coding, Chrome, and Excel. They also discuss rapid growth in robotics, noting...
10 AI Projects to Learn Gemini 3 Nano Banana and Opus 4.5
The episode walks listeners through ten practical AI projects that showcase the capabilities of the latest models such as Gemini 3, Nano Banana 2, Opus 4.5, and GPT‑5.1, covering use cases from infographic creation and data visualization to multimodal reasoning,...
AlphaFold: Grand Challenge to Nobel Prize with John Jumper
In this episode, Professor Hannah Fry talks with John Jumper, the lead scientist behind AlphaFold, about how the protein‑folding breakthrough has become a grand scientific challenge with Nobel‑prize potential. They explore the technical innovations that enabled accurate structure prediction, the...
10 Holiday-Themed Kids AI Activities
In this ad‑free Thanksgiving special, host Nathaniel Whittemore presents ten holiday‑themed AI projects designed to spark kids' creativity, including AI‑generated stories, coloring books, interactive websites, advent calendars, animal‑adoption posters, personalized elf messages, mini‑podcasts, animated Santa letters, and custom family songs....
Chris on AI, Autonomous Swarming, Home Automation and Rust!
In this crossover episode, Chris Benson joins The Changelog hosts to explore how open‑source tools, small AI models, and affordable hardware are democratizing home automation and edge AI. He defines swarming as coordinated, autonomous multi‑agent systems that act as a...
AI Agents Are Taking Over Infra | Gou Rao, CEO of NeuBird
In this episode, Gou Rao, CEO of NeuBird, explains how agentic AI is transforming Site Reliability Engineering by automating incident detection, triage, and remediation, illustrated through their Hawkeye platform’s rollout from day 1 to day 100. He discusses the challenges...
Iason Gabriel: Value Alignment and the Ethics of Advanced AI Systems
In this episode, Iason Gabriel explores how value alignment for advanced AI—especially large language models—must grapple with democratic civility, overlapping consensus, and Rawlsian justice, arguing that alignment is as much a social and linguistic process as a technical one. He...
AI Startup Momentic Nets $15M for Testing Automation
The episode spotlights Momentic, an AI startup that has secured $15 million to expand its engineering team and accelerate its AI-driven software stability testing platform. The hosts explain how Momentic's technology uses advanced AI models to automatically assess and predict software...
AWS to Invest $50B Scaling AI Across Key Gov Agencies
AWS announced a $50 billion commitment to expand AI capabilities within major U.S. government agencies, focusing on standardizing cloud tools and speeding up model deployment. The initiative aims to consolidate fragmented digital infrastructures, enabling faster, more secure AI integration across federal...
Nvidia Claims Its GPUs Are a "Generation Ahead" Of Google Chips
The episode examines Nvidia's claim that its newest GPUs are a full generation ahead of Google's AI chips, breaking down the technical advantages and performance benchmarks that support this assertion. It discusses the implications for the competitive AI hardware landscape,...
AWS Announces $50B Push for Secure Government AI Compute
AWS announced a $50 billion initiative to build secure AI compute environments for federal agencies, featuring hardened data centers and advanced encryption pipelines. The program aims to provide a trusted infrastructure that can serve as the backbone for government AI workloads....
Why Opus 4.5 Changes Vibe Coding
The episode examines Anthropic’s surprise release of Claude Opus 4.5, highlighting how its advanced coding capabilities and vibe‑based software paradigm are creating a step‑function improvement for developer productivity and agentic workflows, backed by new benchmarks and early user feedback. It...
After LLMs: Spatial Intelligence and World Models — Fei-Fei Li & Justin Johnson, World Labs
Fei-Fei Li and Justin Johnson discuss their new platform Marble, a generative world model that turns text, images, and spatial inputs into editable 3D environments, highlighting its technical core of Gaussian splats and real‑time interactivity across devices. They argue that...
The Interview: How Wikipedia Is Responding to the Culture Wars
In this episode, Jimmy Wales discusses how Wikipedia is navigating the current culture wars, confronting accusations of bias from right‑wing influencers and the competitive threat posed by AI chatbots that aim to replicate its content. Wales emphasizes the platform’s commitment...
244 | Custom GPT Vs. Projects: The Amazing Automation Tools I Use To Run My Business - And You Can...
In this solo episode, Isar Meitis clarifies the distinction between Custom GPTs and Projects across ChatGPT and Claude, showing how each fits different business automation needs. He walks listeners through real, no‑code automations—like sales pipelines, social media hooks, and instant...
Setting the Stage for Agentic AI: A Practical Framework
In this episode, host explores the concept of agentic AI and presents a practical framework for businesses to move from basic prompting to fully autonomous systems. Guest Christopher S. Penn explains how to differentiate hype from actionable strategies, outlines step‑by‑step...
Ren Bin Lee Dixon - Exploring Global AI Policies
Ren Bin Lee Dixon discusses the complexities of global AI governance, comparing regulatory approaches in China, the EU, and the United States while emphasizing the need for human‑rights‑centered policies. She highlights the U.S. struggle to keep pace with AI innovation,...
Anthropic Releases Opus 4.5, Revolutionizes Memory
The episode breaks down Anthropic's release of Opus 4.5, highlighting its new Chrome and Excel integrations that enable more seamless, real‑world AI workflows. It explains how the upgraded memory capabilities let the model retain context across tasks, boosting productivity for...
Creating More, Not Less, With AI: GeekWire’s Todd Bishop
In this episode, Sam Ransbotham and GeekWire co‑founder Todd Bishop discuss how AI is transforming work, education, and journalism by augmenting human capabilities rather than replacing jobs. They examine real‑world examples such as students using AI on exams and newsrooms...
