AI Did Brain Surgery on Another AI (Then $1.5T Vanished)

FRONTIER

01:24 AI editing AI: Reading and rewriting neural-network weights

03:11 Small models, big math gains: What did the experiment show?

05:06 Weight editing versus fine-tuning

06:03 Could this unlock continual learning?

07:38 Surgical alignment: Fixing specific model behaviors

10:08 Could AI rewrite its own weights while running?

12:41 Are open weights becoming the equivalent of source code?

SECURITY NEWS

13:13 A fake Claude Code extension reaches Cursor users

14:34 App-store impersonation and software supply-chain attacks

16:14 Why wasn’t this caught before users installed it?

ECON / BUSINESS

18:55 Is the AI bubble over? The tech sell-off and fundraising pressure

20:45 Google’s earnings: Cloud growth versus AI spending

21:07 Are AI answers eating Google’s advertising business?

23:34 The innovator’s dilemma: Disrupt yourself or lose

25:45 Microsoft, Amazon, and the AI infrastructure race

27:39 Reddit: Rising revenue, falling shares, disappearing search traffic

28:55 Is AI pushing the open internet behind sign-ups and paywalls?

30:53 What happens when agents bypass the businesses they use?

32:22 Anthropic’s growth and the prospect of trillion-dollar AI companies

ROBOTICS

35:50 Robot imports and tariffs: Security concerns versus supply-chain chaos

38:56 Why trade matters for manufacturing—and peace

40:00 Kroger’s inventory robot and Meta’s humanoid demo

41:08 Marty’s experiments: AI-designed schematics and circuit boards

42:12 From circuit boards to CAD: Vibe coding for hardware

42:37 Building a robotic dog from an AI image

FRONTIER / WORLD MODELS

45:08 JEPA versus LLMs: Do different models learn the same reality?

47:14 World models versus next-token prediction

50:17 Inference, grounding, and whether alternatives can catch LLMs

QUICK NEWS / TECH

52:16 Google’s new frontier-model announcement—and the wait for access

53:58 Can a sleep-inspired approach help AI keep learning?

54:39 Genie 4: Playable worlds generated on the fly

57:23 AI game clones, decompilation, and the copyright debate

SCIENCE

1:00:11 AI-assisted drug discovery and antibody design

1:01:16 AI peer review: When humans prefer the machine’s feedback

1:02:11 Should every research paper get an AI review?

ARTS / CULTURE / WEIRD

1:02:50 An AI Odyssey: Good visuals still need good directing

1:05:24 MC Hammer’s AI future—and his Silicon Valley past

1:06:24 Sam Altman, data centers, and the RAM jokes

1:07:04 A $60 million AI supercomputer on eBay

1:07:31 LGTM: An AI-made takedown of AI coding, plus the sign-off

Each week, join Chris Slowe (founding engineer, former CTO, and now Senior Technical Fellow @ Reddit), Marty Weiner (founding engineer at Pinterest, former CTO at Reddit, and co-founder at VerifyYou), and Zach Weinersmith (creator of SMBC Comics and co-author of NYTimes bestsellers including A City on Mars and Soonish) for the latest in AI and Tech News.