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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Audio podcast ... 22 min 

 

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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

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  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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Display TL;DR  ➡ HERE  

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