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 banning open weights

19:05 Kimi K3 weights, Claude Opus 5 released

24:40 The challenge of Benchmaxxing

TECH

33:20 NVIDIA invests $5B in Safe Superintelligence (SSI)

34:05 Waymo's self-driving cars outperforming humans

35:10 Qualcomm's robot demo fails SPECTACULARLY

29:00 Running Qwen 3.6 on a laptop

ECON / BUSINESS

38:15 Report: AI is driving a surge in new startups

41:15 New York pushes back on AI data centers

44:50 Anthropic begins IPO preparations

ARTS / CULTURE

48:15 Elon Musk wants to remake The Odyssey with AI. Spoiler: It's gonna be bad.

52:10 AI builds a Starfield-style game in just 24 hours

MATH / SCIENCE

1:04:45 Dinitz-Garg-Goémons conjecture false by asking model to "do a breakthrough"

        ... and then basically saying "come ooonnnn"

WEIRD 

57:00 AI-first schools?!

1:01:00 Students caught cheating with AI at Brown

1:13:00 Sex bots... teaching students?!

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