The AI Productivity Paradox, New LLM Architecture, AlphaFold Shutting Down, 10 Math Breakthroughs

Last Humans in the Loop · Aug 5, 2026 · 1h 6m · transcript

NEWS

00:35 AlphaFold shuts down

03:51 Gemini? Gemini? Bueller? Bueller?

04:20 OpenAI solves 10 major math problems

09:00 A possible third LLM scaling law discovered

13:13 OpenAI previews new model, Astra, to lawmakers

SECURITY

16:55 OpenAI vs Apple lawsuit

21:50 Frontier models keep hacking other companies

ECONOMICS

30:15 AI writes 17× more code—but why are companies only ~30% more productive?

35:00 Where software development actually spends its time

38:00 Why AI changes amount of code and why that may not equate to products shipped

MATH / SCIENCE

40:45 The Dark Night of Mathematics

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