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.

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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.

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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

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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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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".

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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
TL;DR ➡ HERE

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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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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TLDR 27Jan25 ... R1: China's DeepSeek powerful, super cheap, open source model ... Stargate: Trump $100 Billion A.I. partnership with Altman & associates ... Operator: Open AI's new agent with Altman and associates

Last update: Monday 1/28725

Welcome to our 27Jan25 TL;DR summaries by ChatGPT of the past week's top 3 stories on our "Useful AI News" page ➡ 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

 

Podcast ➡ HERE
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Podcast 23Jan25 + Transcript... OpenAI Courts Trump ... Biden Administration's final AI Executive Order RESCINDED BY PRESIDENT TRUMP... Nvidia’s Glitchy AI Chip Rack

Last update: Thursday 1/23/25 

Welcome to our podcast (plus transcript) of the 23Jan25 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 ➡ (1) OpenAI Courts Trump, (2) Biden Administration's final AI Executive Order RESCINDED BY PRESIDENT TRUMP, and (3) Nvidia’s Glitchy AI Chip Rack.

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 20Jan25 ... OpenAI Courts Trump ... Biden Administration Adopts Rules to Guide A.I.’s Global Spread ORDER RESCINDED BY PRESIDENT TRUMP, ... Nvidia’s Top Customers Face Delays From Glitchy AI Chip Rack

Last update: Tuesday 1/21/25 

Welcome to our 20Jan25 TL;DR summaries by ChatGPT of the past week's top 3 stories on our "Useful AI News" page ➡ 1) OpenAI Courts Trump With Vision for ‘A.I. in America’, (2) Biden Administration Adopts Rules to Guide A.I.’s Global Spread — RESCINDED BY PRESIDENT TRUMP, and (3) Nvidia’s Top Customers Face Delays From Glitchy AI Chip Racks,

 

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TL;DR 16Jan25 ... The MAGAfication of Silicon Valley ... Meta’s Fact-Checking Partners Say They Were ‘Blindsided’ by Decision to Axe Them

Last update: Thursday 1/13625 

   Marc Andreessen

Welcome to our 16Jan25 TL;DR summaries by ChatGPT of the past week's top 2 stories on our "Useful AI News" page ➡ 1) The MAGAfication of Silicon Valley, and 2) Meta’s Fact-Checking Partners Say They Were ‘Blindsided’ by Decision to Axe Them

 

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Podcast plus transcript of TL;DR 6Jan25 ... Introduction: Apple Intelligence on iPhones, (1) Microsoft $80 billion AI data centers, (2) Apple $95 Siri fine, (3) Meta AI characters

Last update: Thursday 1/9/25 

Welcome to our podcast (plus transcript) of the 6Jan25 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: Why Apple Intelligence severely impedes generative AI on iPhones, 1) Microsoft spending $80 billion on AI data centers, (2) Apple paying $95 million to people spied on by Siri, (3) Meta removes creepy AI characters.

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 6Jan25 ... Microsoft spending $80 billion on AI data centers ... Apple paying $95 million to people spied on by Siri ... Meta removes creepy AI characters

Last update: Monday 1/6/25 

   NYC skyline at twilight  …
  One World Trade Center, Brooklyn Bridge

Welcome to our 6Jan25 TL;DR summaries by ChatGPT  of the past week's top 3 stories on our "Useful AI News" page. ... 1) Microsoft spending $80 billion on AI data centers, (2) Apple paying s$95 million to people spied on by Siri, and (3) Meta removes creepy AI characters.

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