Podcast ... Using generative AI agents to make Signal a safe and secure administrative tool for all presidents ... Part 1, SignalGate

Last update: Wednesday 4/9/25 

Welcome to the 1st of a series of 4 podcasts about the Signal app. The series is called, "Using generative AI agents to make Signal a safe and secure administrative tool for all presidents". This first podcast answers some questions raised by our readers, friends, and associates about the issues addressed in the lengthy report that we posted last week, "SignalGate ... Alternative timelines of a leaky chat". This fiasco demonstrated how badly things can go when high level officials with insufficient training and insufficient technical support use a world class open source messaging app to discuss highly confidential subjects. ... The first section of this podcast is based on ChatGPT's succinct responses to a series of questions of concern to potential new users of Signal. What’s it all about? The second section is based on the chatbot's TL;DR summary of our lengthy report about the fiasco's double-hack. As usual, our podcast audio is a recording of the Descript app reading the chatbot's responses and summaries in an AI imitation of the voices of the editor of this blog and his AI colleagues.

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TL;DR 7Apr25 ... (1) Microsoft updates Copilot with the most popular AI features, (2) OpenAI now worth $300 billion, (3) Musk sells X to his A.I. start-Up xAI, and (4) Users now generate images directly from ChatGPT and Sora -- DRAFT

Last update: Monday 4/7/25

Welcome to our 7Apr25 TL;DR summaries by ChatGPT of the past week's top 4 stories on our "Useful AI News" page ➡  (1) Microsoft updates Copilot with the most popular AI features, (2) OpenAI now worth $300 billion, (3) Musk sells his X to his AI start-Up x.AI, and (4) Users now generate images directly from ChatGPT and Sora.

 

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SignalGate ... Alternative timelines of a leaky chat

Last update: Sunday 4/6/25

Here's the headline: House Democratic leader "Jeffries calls for firing Hegseth over war plans group chat", Nicholas Wu, Politico, 3/25/25 ... This blog note offers an alternative interpretation of what happened, an alternative that yields two recommendations that might minimize the chances of this happening again by putting GenAI agents on center stage.

TLDR-24Mar25 ... (1) Anthropic adds web search to its Claude chatbot, and (2) Apple faces lawsuit over Apple Intelligence delays

Last update: Monday 3/24/25

Welcome to our 24Mar15 TL;DR summaries by ChatGPT of the past week's top 2 stories on our "Useful AI News" page ➡  Introduction: Search engines and chain-of-reason models, (1) Anthropic adds web search to its Claude chatbot, and (2) Apple faces lawsuit over Apple Intelligence delays. 

Podcast ➡ HERE
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Podcast 19Mar25 (plus transcript) ... Our podcast Introduction will discuss why Siri cannot be "fixed" by an "upgrade", (1) Intense reactions within he Apple community to Apple's delay of Siri upgrades, and (2) Responses to NSF/OSTP's request for input on AI Action Plan

Last update: Wednesday 3/19/25 

Welcome to our podcast (plus transcript) of the 17Mar25 TL;DR summaries by ChatGPT of the past week's top 2 stories on our  "Useful AI News" page ➡ Our podcast introduction discusses why Siri cannot be "fixed" by an "upgrade", (1) Intense reactions within the Apple community to Apple's delay of Siri upgrades, and (2) Responses to the NSF-OSTP request for input on AI Action Plan,... As usual, our podcast audio is a recording of the Descript app reading ChatGPT's summaries in an AI imitation of the voices of the editor of this blog and his AI colleagues.

During our podcasts, our blog's AI staff only read the most important points in the chatbot's summaries. Then the staff engage in vigorous discussions of these points, sometimes disagreeing with the chatbot's summaries and/or with each other. That's why we include transcripts (below) of our podcasts, with section headings and a few time stamps for our listeners' convenient reference.

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Audio podcast ... 24 min 

 

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TLDR 17Mar25 ... Our podcast "Introduction" will discuss why Siri cannot be "fixed" by an "upgrade", (1) Intense reactions within the Apple community to Apple's delay of Siri upgrades, and (2) Responses to the NSF-OSTP request for input on AI Action Plan,

Last update: Monday 3/17/25

Welcome to our 17Mar25 TL;DR summaries by ChatGPT of the past week's top 2 stories on our "Useful AI News" page ➡  Our  podcast "Introduction" will discuss why Siri cannot be "fixed" by an "upgrade", (1) Intense reactions within the Apple community to Apple's delay of Siri upgrades, and (2) Responses to the NSF-OSTP request for input on AI Action Plan,

Podcast ➡ HERE
TL;DR ➡ HERE

Podcast 12Mar25 (plus transcript) ... Introduction: Why Big Tech can't keep up with OpenAI and Anthropic ... (1) Justice Dept. Doubles Down on Request to Break Up Google, (2) Judge Denies Musk’s Request to Block OpenAI’s For-Profit Plan, (3) Microsoft’s Wants Independence From OpenAI, (4) AI-Powered Enhancements to Apple's Siri Delayed

Last update: Thursday 3/13/25 

Welcome to our podcast (plus transcript) of the 10Mar25 TL;DR summaries by ChatGPT of the past week's top 4 stories on our "Useful AI News" page ➡ Introduction: Why Big Tech can't keep up with OpenAI and Anthropic, (1) Justice Dept. Doubles Down on Request to Break Up Google, (2) Judge Denies Musk’s Request to Block OpenAI’s For-Profit Plan, (3) Microsoft’s Wants Independence From OpenAI, (4) AI-Powered Enhancements to Apple's Siri  Delayed ... As usual, our podcast audio is a recording of the Descript app reading ChatGPT's summaries in an AI imitation of the voices of the editor of this blog and his AI colleagues.

During our podcasts, our blog's AI staff only read the most important points in the chatbot's summaries. Then the staff engage in vigorous discussions of these points, sometimes disagreeing with the chatbot's summary and/or with each other. That's why we include transcripts (below) of our podcasts, with section headings and a few time stamps for our listeners' convenient reference.

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Audio podcast ... 32 min 

 

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TL;DR 10Mar25 ... Introduction/Discussion, (1) Justice Dept. Doubles Down on Request to Break Up Google, (2) Judge Denies Musk’s Request to Block OpenAI’s For-Profit Plan, (3) Microsoft’s Wants Independence From OpenAI, (4) AI-Powered Enhancements to Apple's Siri Delayed.

Last update: Monday 3/10/25

Welcome to our 10Mar25 TL;DR summaries by ChatGPT of the past week's top 4 stories on our "Useful AI News" page ➡  Introduction: We will discuss some important stories that were not widely noted in the media, (1) Justice Dept. Doubles Down on Request to Break Up Google, (2) Judge Denies Musk’s Request to Block OpenAI’s For-Profit Plan, (3) Microsoft’s Wants Independence From OpenAI, (4) AI-Powered Enhancements to Apple's Siri Delayed.

Podcast ➡ HERE
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Podcast 6Mar25 plus transcript ... Introduction: Our experience with OpenAI's Deep Research agent, (1) Nvidia's stock wobbles, (2) OpenAI unveils GPT-4.5 Orion, (3) Apple Vows to Spend $500 Billion in U.S. on data centers, and (4) Amazon Unveils GenAI Alexa+

Last update: Thursday 3/6/25 

   Nvidia's Blackwell chip ... 

Welcome to our podcast (plus transcript) of the 4Mar25 TL;DR summaries by ChatGPT of the past week's top 4 stories on our "Useful AI News" page  Introduction: We'll discuss our experience with OpenAI's Deep Research agent that was released to Plus subscribers on 3/3/25, (1) Nvidia's stock wobbles, (2) OpenAI unveils GPT-4.5 Orion, (3) Apple Vows to Spend $500 Billion in U.S. on data centers, and (4) Amazon Unveils GenAI Alexa+ ... As usual, our podcast audio is a recording of the Descript app reading ChatGPT's summaries in an AI imitation of the voices of the editor of this blog and his AI staff.

During our podcasts, our blog's AI staff only read the most important points in the chatbot's summaries. Then the staff engage in vigorous discussions of these points, sometimes disagreeing with the chatbot's summary and/or with each other. That's why we include transcripts (below) of our podcasts, with section headings and a few time stamps for our listeners' convenient reference.

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Audio podcast ... 25 min 

 

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TLDR 3Mar25 ... Introduction: We will discuss our experience with OpenAI's Deep Research agent ➡ (1) Nvidia stock wobbles, (2) OpenAI unveils GPT-4.5 Orion, (3) Apple Vows to Spend $500 Billion in U.S. on data centers, and (4) Amazon Unveils GenAI Alexa+

Last update: Tuesday 3/3/25

Welcome to our 3Mar25 TL;DR summaries by ChatGPT of the past week's top 4 stories on our "Useful AI News" page Introduction: We'll discuss our experience with OpenAI's Deep Research agent that was released to Plus subscribers on 3/3/25, (1) Nvidia stock wobbles, (2) OpenAI unveils GPT-4.5 Orion, (3) Apple Vows to Spend $500 Billion in U.S. on data centers, and (4) Amazon Unveils GenAI Alexa+

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Podcast 28Feb25 plus transcript ... Introduction: Non-programming test of Grok-3 vs other models, (1) Elon Musk’s ‘Big Brain’ Grok-3, (2) Microsoft's New State of Matter to Power Quantum Computers, and (3) Mira Murati’s new startup

Last update: Friday 2/28/25 

Welcome to our podcast (plus transcript) of the 25Feb25 TL;DR summaries by ChatGPT of the past week's top 3 stories on our  "Useful AI News" page  ➡ Introduction: non-programming test of Grok-3 vs other models, (1) Elon Musk’s xAI adds ‘Big Brain’ reasoning to Grok-3, (2) Microsoft Says It Has Created a New State of Matter to Power Quantum Computers, and (3) Thinking Machines Lab is ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati’s new startup ... As usual, our podcast audio is a recording of the Descript app reading ChatGPT's summaries in an AI imitation of the voices of the editor of this blog and his AI colleagues.

During our podcasts, our blog's AI staff only read the most important points in the chatbot's summaries. Then the staff engage in vigorous discussions of these points, sometimes disagreeing with the chatbot's summary and/or with each other. That's why we include transcripts (below) of our podcasts, with section headings and a few time stamps for our listeners' convenient reference.

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Audio podcast ... 26 min 

 

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TLDR 25Feb25 ... Introduction -- Grok-3 vs competitors, (1) Elon Musk’s xAI adds ‘Big Brain’ reasoning to Grok-3, (2) Microsoft Says It Has Created a New State of Matter to Power Quantum Computers, and (3) Thinking Machines Lab is ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati’s new startup

Last update: Tuesday 2/25/25

Welcome to our 25Feb25 TL;DR summaries by ChatGPT of the past week's top 3 stories on our "Useful AI News" page ➡ Introduction: Our  initial results of Grok-3 vs competitors on a complex, non-programming word problem, (1) Elon Musk’s xAI adds ‘Big Brain’ reasoning to Grok-3, (2) Microsoft Says It Has Created a New State of Matter to Power Quantum Computers, and (3) Thinking Machines Lab is ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati’s new startup

Podcast ➡ HERE
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Podcast (and transcript) of TL:DR 17Feb25 ... Introduction: San Altman vs Elon Musk for the world's heavyweight AI championship, (1) "OpenAI’s board ‘unanimously rejects’ Elon Musk’s offer to buy the company", and (2) "AI Action Summit in Paris":

Last update: Wednesday 2/19/25 

Welcome to our podcast (plus transcript) of the 17Feb25 TL;DR summaries by ChatGPT of the past week's top 2 stories on our "Useful AI News" page ➡ Introduction: San Altman vs Elon Musk for the world's heavyweight AI championship, (1) "OpenAI’s board ‘unanimously rejects’ Elon Musk’s offer to buy the company", and (2) "AI Action Summit in Paris"

... As usual, our podcast audio is a recording of the Descript app reading ChatGPT's summaries in an AI imitation of the voices of the editor of this blog and his AI colleagues.

During our podcasts, our blog's AI staff only read the most important points in the chatbot's summaries. Then the staff engage in vigorous discussions of these points, sometimes disagreeing with the chatbot's summary and/or with each other. That's why we include transcripts (below) of our podcasts, with section headings and a few time stamps for our listeners' convenient reference.

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Audio podcast ... 21 min 

 

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TLDR 17Feb25 ... Introduction: Altman vs Musk for the world's heavyweight AI championship, (1) "OpenAI’s board ‘unanimously rejects’ Elon Musk’s offer to buy the company", and (2) "AI Action Summit"

Last update: Monday 2/17/25

Welcome to our 17Feb25 TL;DR summaries by ChatGPT of the past week's top 2 stories on our "Useful AI News" page ➡ Introduction: San Altman vs Elon Musk for the world's heavyweight AI championship, (1) "OpenAI’s board ‘unanimously rejects’ Elon Musk’s offer to buy the company", and (2) "AI Action Summit in Paris".

Podcast ➡ HERE

TL;DR ➡ HERE

Podcast (with transcript) 10Feb25 ... Introduction -- DEI in Big Tech won’t be missed, (1) Big Tech Quarterly reports -- Alphabet and Amazon, 2) Google launches Gemini 2.0 Pro, and (3) Google Kills Diversity Hiring Targets

Last update: Thursday 2/13/25 

Welcome to our podcast (plus transcript) of the 10Feb25 TL;DR summaries by ChatGPT of the past week's top 3 stories on our  "Useful AI News" page. As usual, our podcast audio is a recording of the Descript app reading ChatGPT's summaries in an AI imitation of the voices of the editor of this blog and his AI colleagues. ... Introduction -- DEI in Big Tech won’t be missed, (1) Big Tech Quarterly reports -- Alphabet and Amazon, 2) Google launches Gemini 2.0, and (3) Google Kills Diversity Hiring Targets.

During our podcasts, our blog's AI staff only read the most important points in the chatbot's summaries. Then the staff engage in vigorous discussions of these points, sometimes disagreeing with the chatbot's summary and/or with each other. That's why we include transcripts (below) of our podcasts, with section headings and a few time stamps for our listeners' convenient reference.

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TL;DR 10Feb25 ... Introduction … DEI in Big Tech won’t be missed ... Big Tech Quarterly reports (Alphabet and Amazon) ... Google launches Gemini 2.0 Pro ... Google Kills Diversity Hiring Targets

Last update: Monday 2/10/25

Welcome to our 10Feb25 TL;DR summaries by ChatGPT of the past week's top 3 stories on our "Useful AI News" page ➡ Introduction -- DEI in Big Tech won’t be missed, (1) Big Tech Quarterly reports -- Alphabet and Amazon, 2) Google launches Gemini 2.0, and (3) Google Kills Diversity Hiring Targets

Podcast ➡ HERE
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Podcast (with transcript) 5Feb25 ... Introduction: Sam Altman is this AI moment's Steve Jobs, (1) Quarterly reports from Apple, Meta, and Microsoft (2) OpenAI launches o3-mini model, and (3) OpenAi introduces Deep Research

Last update:  Thursday 2/6/25

   Dr. I. Robot, Research Associate 

  The Future of AI, Inc.

Welcome to our podcast (plus transcript) of the 3Feb25 TL;DR summaries by Claude of the past week's top 3 stories on our "Useful AI News" page. As usual, our podcast audio is a recording of the Descript app reading ChatGPT's summaries in an AI imitation of the voices of the editor of this blog and his AI colleagues ➡ Introduction: Sam Altman as this AI moment's Steve Jobs, (1) Quarterly reports from Apple, Meta, and Microsoft,  (2)  OpenAI claims DeepSeek "distilled" its data, and (2) OpenAI launches new o3-mini model, and (3) OpenAI's Deep Research.

During our podcasts, our blog's AI staff only read the most important points in the chatbot's summaries. Then the staff engage in vigorous discussions of these points, sometimes disagreeing with the chatbot's summary and/or with each other. That's why we include transcripts (below) of our podcasts, with section headings and a few time stamps for our listeners' convenient reference.

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Audio podcast ... 21 min 

 

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TL;DR 3Feb25 -- ... Quarterly reports from Apple, Meta, and Microsoft, ... OpenAI launches new o3-mini model ... OpenAI's Deep Research

Last update: Monday 2/3/25

Welcome to our 3Feb25 TL;DR summaries by Claude of the past week's top 3 stories on our "Useful AI News" page ➡ Introduction: Sam Altman is this AI moment's Steve Jobs, (1) Quarterly reports from Apple, Meta, and Microsoft (2) OpenAI launches o3-mini model, and (3) OpenAi introduces Deep Research

Podcast ➡ HERE (in process)
TL;DR ➡ HERE

Podcast 29Jan25 ... ➡ 1) R1, China's DeepSeek, powerful, super cheap, open source model ... Stargate, Trump’s $100 Billion A.I. partnership with Altman & associates ... Operator, Open AI's agent

Last update: Thursday 1/30/25 

Welcome to our podcast (plus transcript) of the 29Jan25 TL;DR summaries by ChatGPT of the past week's top 3 stories on our "Useful AI News" page. As usual, our podcast audio is a recording of the Descript app eading ChatGPT's summaries in an AI imitation of the voices of the editor of this blog and his AI colleagues.  ➡ (1) R1, China's DeepSeek, powerful, super cheap, open source model, (2) Stargate, Trump’s $100 Billion A.I. partnership with Altman & associates, and (3) Operator, Open AI's agent

During our podcasts, our blog's AI staff only read the most important points in the chatbot's summaries. Then the staff engage in vigorous discussions of these points, sometimes disagreeing with the chatbot's summary and/or with each other. That's why we include transcripts (below) of our podcasts, with section headings and a few time stamps for our listeners' convenient reference.

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Audio podcast ... 17.5 min 

 

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