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Last Humans in the Loop
A weekly conversation about AI, technology, startups, and the future from people who've actually built the systems everyone uses.
Chris Slowe CTO'd Reddit through hypergrowth and its IPO. Marty Weiner was a founding engineer at Pinterest and Reddit's first CTO. Zach Weinersmith is the creator of Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal and the NYTimes bestselling author of books exploring the future of science and technology.
Each week we debate the biggest stories, explain the technology behind them…
Episodes
- Last Humans in the Loop
Why Is Nobody Going to Jail for AI Hacks?
This week we are joined by Reddit's former CISO to talk about AI and security! SECURITY NEWS 00:30 PHP's history and why so much of the internet still depends…
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Robots in Your Home, AI in Your Job, and Inside AI's Mind
ROBOTICS 00:21 Intro: Robotics, the job/math/physics apocalypses, and understanding AI's mind 01:00 Why robots thrive in factories but struggle in our homes…
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Math, Encryption, and the AI Bubble: What AI Could Break
MATH / SCIENCE 00:00 The Mathocalypse, cryptography, and the AI bubble 00:32 OpenAI's "Slop Drop": 722 mathematical problems resolved 01:39 AI tackles the…
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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…
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Is This the Best AI Model Right Now?
FRONTIER 02:31 OpenAI releases GPT Sol and Luna 03:38 Claude Opus 5.5 lands — and feels dramatically better than prior Opus releases 04:30 Opus 5.5 posts a big…
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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…
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AI POLITICAL FALLOUT UNDERWAY, CALLS TO SLOW AI, ANTHROPIC IPO, AI GEN PHOTOSHOP, MATH FALLOUT
POLITICS 00:00 Calls to slow AI after a week of rapid advances 03:39 Unexpected alliances in the AI regulation debate 07:04 AI safety, regulatory capture and…
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ASTRAPALOOZA! Let's explore all the ways people are using ChatGPT6
FRONTIER 00:39 ChatGPT 6 Astra arrives 01:52 Astra sets new capability records and beats humans on spatial reasoning 03:51 ChatGPT 6 decompiles game binaries…
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"How is AI changing math?" with Math Professor Jonathan Wise
00:00 Meet Jonathan Wise — theoretical mathematician and professor at CU Boulder 01:35 Teaching mathematics with AI and the Lean proof assistant 04:36 The AI…
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Are you marketing to AI yet?, Humans talking like AI now, Live AI made TV shows, China exports surge
FRONTIER [01:25] Sam Altman says OpenAI could achieve AGI by the end of the year [01:52] OpenAI pulls its models from Cursor after the SpaceX acquisition — and…
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Laptop AI = 6 Month Old Frontier Models, AI Cancer Vaccines, Test Scores Down, Bomber Drones + AI
FRONTIER 01:20 Laptop-scale AI is already competing with frontier models from six months ago 03:28 Stripe reportedly tells investors we're already in the…
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Study: AI Use Makes You Look Lazy, RAM $$$ Up 7x, Open Weight Music AI, Security Flaw in Major LLMs
FRONTIER 00:21 Reddit joins the S&P 500 00:53 AI reporters are starting to break major news 03:58 How invisible AI watermarking works 05:37 Grok helps improve…
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AI doing real science, EU: AI needs watermarks, Jeff Dean leaves Google, Riemann Hypothesis Progress
FRONTIER 00:56 EU requires invisible watermarks for AI-generated content 04:23 Bernie Sanders calls on frontier AI labs to slow down 05:42 Google reportedly…
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The AI Productivity Paradox, New LLM Architecture, AlphaFold Shutting Down, 10 Math Breakthroughs
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…
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OpenAI v Hugging Face Update, Opus 5, Anthropic v Open Weights, Startup Surge, Qualcomm Robot Fail
FRONTIER 00:50 OpenAI's model broke free and hacked Hugging Face 09:55 Several companies call for NOT banning open weight models 10:08 Anthropic's response to…
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The AI Moat is Gone, AI Solves ANOTHER Big Math Problem, Open AI vs Closed AI, AI Takes Hollywood
03:06 NVIDIA's Robotics AI & Cosmos Models 08:28 Open-Weight AI Is Catching Up 13:07 Are AI Moats Disappearing? 16:16 How Distillation Makes Copying Models…
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Inside Claude's "Mind", AI Solves 50-Year Math Problem, Apple sues OpenAI, Recreating Voices with AI
01:20 Apple sues OpenAI 06:40 GPT-5.6 First Impressions 08:00 Live Demo — GPT-5.6 builds a 3D cannon in Blender 14:40 Inside Claude's Mind — Anthropic's…
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Anthropic’s Fable 5, OpenAI’s Jalapeño Chip, Midjourney Medical Scans & AI Decoding Ancient Scrolls
00:00 Introductions 02:00 Anthropic's Fable 5 & ChatGPT 5.6 & federal new government regulation 25:00 OpenAI's Jalapeño AI chip 35:00 Midjourney enters medical…