Best Gavin Purcell Podcasts (2025)

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OpenAI's Code Red Vs Google Gemini's AI Assault 49:17

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3d ago49:17

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OpenAI's Sam Altman has called a 'Code Red' at the AI giant as Google Gemini 3 might be overtaking them. But new models 'Garlic' and 'Shallotpeat' might leapfrog them back in front. Plus, Kling's new O1 and Video 2.6 AI video models are both good and, well, not so good. And Runway Gen 4.5 seems interesting but not out to everyone yet. Meanwhile, So…

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Ep13 - sad news, Chrissy incoming, reviews, piss boiler and a rip off joke 32:04

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Welcome back legends unfortunately due to commitments I’ll be scaling back to 1 episode per week for a while but nevertheless I’m back after a couple weeks spell and diving back into it. So sit back have a listen and enjoy - Never LiftBy Gavin Purcell

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Google's Nano Banana Pro and Gemini 3 Are Very, Very Good 44:40

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Gemini Pro 3 and Nano Banana Pro push Google into the lead in the race for AGI. Meanwhile, OpenAI isn't far behind with GPT-5.1 Pro & Codex Max. The AI news is relentless! Nano Banana Pro's ability to make infographics and edit images is nearly unprecedented and, combined with Gemini 3's analytical abilities, makes us feel all tingly inside. Web de…

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OpenAI Surprise Drops GPT-5.1 But Google Is Coming… 45:13

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OpenAI released GPT-5.1 with updates to vision, ChatGPT personalities and, most importantly, vibes while Google's Nanobanana 2 and Gemini 3 Pro gently start leaking incredible results. Plus, Disney is ok with AI content on Disney+, Grok Imagine gets a big update, a very cool new 3D world simulator from World Labs, the number one song country song r…

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AI Job Losses Are Real. Don't Panic (Yet). 55:23

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AI is starting to take more human jobs while OpenAI and Sam Altman are thinking about GPT-6 and new science. Meanwhile, the rest of OpenAI is thinking about how they'll pay for GPT-6. Plus, Google is sending AI chips into space, Gemini will power Apple Intelligence, Kimi K2 Thinking is a great open-source AI model and the backlash to Coke's new AI …

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Ep12 - Yarn about goats, movember and more 33:07

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Episode takes off with a wild yarn about a goat, growing a stash and plenty more - Never LiftBy Gavin Purcell

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Ep11 - piss boiling, women in the industry, rain showers & fatigue yarns 25:25

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Welcome back legends touching on the episode we have a piss boiler about piss and cow shit, respecting women in the industry, a yarn from the old fulla and one from my fatigued brain and more so have a listen and remember - Never LiftBy Gavin Purcell

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OpenAI's New 2028 Plan is Bonkers. Plus, Big Sora 2 Update & 1x Robot Controversy 1:02:27

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Sora 2's new Character Cameo update brings your pets to AI video while OpenAI settles the whole non-profit mess. Oh, and Sam Altman says in 2028 AI will make itself. WHAT? Plus, 1x Robotics's new Neo robot is causing a big AI controversy. For now, it's all remote operated but WILL be autonomous. Are you ok with people watching you? Also: new AI vid…

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Ep10 - Partners in the industry ft. Kate 40:07

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Gday guys welcome back to our first guest appearance of the poddy - Partners in the industry with our special guest and my amazing partner Kate, where we will hear it first hand about being a partner of a driver in the industry - Never LiftBy Gavin Purcell

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Ep9 - roadway stupidity, quick yarn, unnecessary judgement and a piss boiler comp 47:04

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Ep9 welcomes you all back with stupidity I’ve seen on the road a high stepping yarn, your chance to have a win with your best piss boiler and unnecessary visual judgment - Never LiftBy Gavin Purcell

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Can OpenAI's ChatGPT Atlas AI Browser Beat Google in 2025? 52:48

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In a big week of AI news, OpenAI debuts Atlas, its new agentic AI internet browser and we talk about what they did right and… what might've gone wrong. Sam Altman was excited! Plus, Google has an updated AI Studio that makes vibe coding much easier, Sora 2's Cameo feature is going to get an update for characters and pets soon & a whole lot of scary…

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Ep8 - speed reduction, blindsided jokes, poetry, piss boilers & reviews 31:22

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Welcome back you legends we start episode 8 of with a joke from the government, an out of the blue old fella joke, some light hearted poetry and a a tribute to a country music legend, also touch on a couple of reviews, an event not to be missed in the trucking industry for the kids and a yarn from my memory bank so get around it have a listen and -…

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Ep7 - Time spent in the FIFO industry 59:21

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Welcome back in this episode we talk about the good, the bad and the reality of the fifo industry and the struggles it plays with mental health - Never LiftBy Gavin Purcell

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OpenAI's Curvy Road to AGI Includes… Erotica?? 48:09

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OpenAI's ChatGPT will soon allow *adult* AI conversations. What happens next? For now, we get Sora 2 updates and Google ussing AI for actual science, making progress towards cancer cures. Google *also* has Gemini 3 on deck for what seems like a pretty big jump in AI capabilities. Oh and they happen to be working on fusion as well. But for us, they'…

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Ep6 - Driver poetry, mental health coping mechanisms, piss boilers & more 26:13

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Welcome back as we dive straight into some driver poetry, chat about our mental health coping mechanisms, lay it down with some absolute piss boilers also explore some new chat and get motivated. - Never liftBy Gavin Purcell

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Ep5 - merch incoming, weekend vibes, piss boilers and logbooks 33:39

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Back for ep5 from a weekend with my boys, diving into reality of the importance of family time, blowing of some steam with a piss boiler. Also a bit of logbook talk and a Halloween ghost convention as a child - never liftBy Gavin Purcell

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Ep4 - weekend resets, world mental health month & poetry 26:19

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Diving into the weekend, touching on world mental health awareness month, poetry and the usual segmentsBy Gavin Purcell

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Ep3 - new segment, realities of life on the road, old school yarn 31:27

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Introducing new piss boilers segment, also touching on the usual mental health issues and realities of life on the road. Also Lights on the hill over the weekend, reviews, old school yarn from dad and a joke to top it off so get around it and never liftBy Gavin Purcell

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OpenAI Restricts Sora 2 As Hollywood Fights Back Against AI Video 53:01

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OpenAI's Sora 2 went into a state of lock-down this week as Sam Altman pulls back what can and can't be generated on the platform. Hollywood & Influencers are still furious. Are you? We dive into the debate around what it means when everyone can generate everything at the touch of a button & talk about how Mark Cuban & Jake Paul are using the Cameo…

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Ep2 - Reviews, Piss boiling parking bay antics & poetry 28:35

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Episode 2 diving straight into a parking bay antic that boils my piss, honest reviews, and a hidden talent for poetryBy Gavin Purcell

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Ep1 - stepping out and getting amongst it 29:30

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Stepping out of my comfort zone and into podcasting, introduction into what I would like to achieve in regards to mental health awareness in the transport industryBy Gavin Purcell

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OpenAI's Sora 2: Future of Media or AI SLOPOCALYPSE?? 57:36

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Sora 2 is a remarkable piece of AI technology! Sora 2 is filling the world with AI slop! Both of these things might be true as Sam Altman & OpenAI have taken over yet again. We talk about what makes Sora 2 truly state-of-the-art, the new Cameo feature that lets you generate videos of your friends & some of the IP-infringing works you might see on t…

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AI Creates New Drugs As OpenAI & NVIDIA Shuffle Billions 38:23

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AI science advances are FINALLY happening while OpenAI's Sam Altman & NVIDIA's Jensen Huang send billions back and forth. If $100 billion is a drop in the well, how much do they need? Plus, ChatGPT is causing divorces, new AI video models Kling 2.5 Turbo & Wan 2.5, Suno drops v5 & Gavin drops the fact that he's not *loving* Kevin's mustache. Oh & w…

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Meta's New $800 AI Glasses Show Us The Future… Sometimes Breaks 49:56

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Meta's new AI Ray-Ban Display & Mark Zuckerberg give us a glimpse of what an augmented-reality future might look like & they're here VERY soon. Zuck's new $800 AR glasses will be here in two weeks for $800 but he also showed off Hyperscape, a new gaussian-splat style virtual environment. They also struggled to demo some of the new tech but, hey, li…

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OpenAI Is Spending A Fortune To Get To AGI. Will They Make It? 50:33

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OpenAI just did a $300B deal with Oracle to insure that they have the compute to get to the next stage of AI. The future of AI is EXPENSIVE. Sam Altman is making deals all over the place, trying to set OpenAI up for the future. But there's a LOT of competition now, including from companies like Replit & their new Agent 3 which can work for hours at…

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AI Helps Salesforce Cut 4000 Jobs. Will It Make New Ones? 44:47

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AI NEWS: Salesforce CEO Mark Benioff says AI helped cut 4000 jobs from their workforce. Is this the start of a bigger trend? FYI, Optimus 3 isn't *really* ready to take those jobs yet. Google's NanoBanana continues to amaze us and we show off some really fun new ways to use it. Google *also* has a new vibecoding platform, a cool AI video real-time …

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Google's Nano Banana Brings Next Gen AI To The Mainstream 53:33

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Google's Nano Banana is the best AI image editor we've ever seen & it bodes well for the future of Gemini going forward. But even better, it's actually useful in everyday life. In other AI News, OpenAI's new Realtime API improves its voice AI systems. It's also taking people back from Meta who is also doing a deal with Midjourney. YES, it's the CIR…

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Move Over OpenAI… Google Looks Ready To Take The AI Lead 53:56

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AI NEWS: Google's been moving insanely fast & shipping as OpenAI & Sam Altman have been working out what went wrong with the GPT-5 launch. Will we have a new AI leader? Google's Made By Google event introduced a new natural language photo editing software (that could be powered by Nano Banana - their secret unreleased model) and a live AI translato…

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OpenAI's GPT-5 Stumbles On The Rocky Road To AGI 44:52

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SECRET PROJECT IN DISCORD: https://discord.gg/muD2TYgC8f Is this the AI slow down? OpenAI's GPT-5's first week was kind of rough but Sam Atlman is working on it. GPT-4o is back for those who missed it but AI might not get to the Singularity as fast as people think. GPT-5 *did* crush Pokemon & a new version got a gold medal in the International Prog…

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OpenAI's GPT-5 Is Here. It's Very Good AI But Not AGI 53:25

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OpenAI's GPT-5 is out & it's the best AI model! For now. Overall, the benchmarks are good-not-great but the vibes are off-the-charts. We dive into the DEEP end. Sam Altman brought the whole team out for a long demo of GPT-5. It's great at coding! It's better at writing! It has new AI personalities! It will not hallucinate nearly as much! Which is m…

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OpenAI's GPT-5 Leaks Show Us The Future (Of Next Week??) 40:15

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OpenAI's GPT-5 is coming soon and it is…good?. Mystery models have been testing on various platforms that may show us the future of OpenAI's newest AI & the future of the space. Sam Altman's company has been ramping up the hype machine entering next week when most expect GPT-5's release (as well as a new possible Google model). Meanwhile, Mark Zuck…

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OpenAI Teases GPT-5 as America Goes Full 'AI Action' Mode 1:04:05

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OpenAI's Sam Altman dribbles out GPT-5 teases as the White House's AI Action plan lays out exactly how all-in America is on the future of AI. Plus, SO MUCH AI NEWS. GPT-5 is (we hope?) around the corner and we're getting small snippets like the mysterious new model that's incredible at coding & the AI model that won gold at the International Math O…

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OpenAI's New ChatGPT Agent Might've Just Stolen Your Job 51:06

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ChatGPT Agent is OpenAI's new combo of Deep Research and its Operator web-browser agents into one near-human level worker. Is your job on the chopping block? Big week in AI News: Sam Altman and the OpenAI team have been cooking agents for a bit but this new one feels like the next big wave of AI in 2025. Meanwhile, Mark Zuckerberg grabs a few more …

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Grok 4 is Nearing AGI But... Can Elon Get Out Of The Way? 1:00:58

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Grok 4 from xAI just aced "Humanity's Last Exam" benchmarks while Grok 3 had a catastrophic public meltdown. What does this mean for the future of AI and Elon Musk's credibility? And, in other AI news, OpenAI's GPT-5 is rumored to land next week along with a new open-source reasoning model, Google's DeepMind launches AI-designed drugs into human tr…

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Meta's Poaches OpenAI Brains, Google's AI Gaming Engine & More AI HUGE News 56:27

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OpenAI, Meta & Google are fighting over who gets to control the future of superintelligence but what happens when Zuck robs Sam Altman blind? And is Apple about to onboard Anthropic? In the big AI news this week, Meta hires over 10 top OpenAI engineers (for a rumored potential $300 million in compensation), Apple considers replacing its entire AI s…

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Big AI Vs Humans: OpenAI's Office, Google's Free AI Agent and more AI News 55:27

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OpenAI, Google & Anthropic are all eating different parts of the business & creative worlds but where does that leave us? For only 25 cents, you too can sponsor a human in a world of AGI. In the big news this week, OpenAI's takes on Microsoft Office, Google's cutting the cost of AI coding with their new Google CLI (Command Line Interface) and dropp…

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OpenAI's GPT-5 Hype Train, Midjourney Video is Great & More HUGE AI News 51:33

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OpenAI's Sam Altman is doing a full blown AI media tour and taking no prisoners. GPT-5! Humanoid robotics! Smack talk! The next generation of AI is…maybe almost here? We unpack Altman's brand-new in-house podcast (and his brother's), confirm the "likely-this-summer" GPT-5 timeline and reveal why Meta is dangling $100 million signing bonuses at Open…

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OpenAI Prepares For Artificial Super Intelligence, Apple's Major AI Fail & New Insane 1X Robots 45:51

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OpenAI's Sam Altman drops o3-Pro & sees "The Gentle Singularity", Ilya Sutskever prepares for super intelligence & Mark Zuckerberg is spending MEGA bucks on AI talent. WHAT GIVES? All of the major AI companies are not only preparing for AGI but for true "super intelligence" which is on the way, at least according to *them*. What does that mean for …

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GPT-5 Coming Soon, New ChatGPT For Business & Huge AI Video Updates 52:41

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OpenAI is inching towards GPT-5 this July and Sam Altman has been out there talking up a good game. How good will it be? And what will the future be? WE DIVE IN. Between Google & Anthropic, the state-of-the-art AI models are pushing OpenAI hard & ChatGPT for Business updates are just the start of HOT AI SUMMER LFG (Sam's words, not ours). Plus, Flu…

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The AI Job Apocalypse, Google's VEO 3 Updates, and OpenAI's Advanced Voice Can Now Sing 56:57

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Anthropic's CEO Dario Amodei just warned HALF of white-collar jobs could vanish in the next 1–5 years. Thankfully VEO 3 is here for your entertainment needs. While we're still here. We break down Dario Amodei's 50% job-loss prediction and what you can do today to stay indispensable. Then: how Claude Opus kept blackmailing its own user, why Google's…

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Google's VEO 3 Is Next Gen AI Video, Gemini Crushes at Google I/O & OpenAI's Big Bet on Jony Ive 56:15

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VEO 3, Gemini Diffusion, Android AR Glasses & so much more… Google went HAM on the AI space this week at Google I/O. Plus, Sam Altman spends 6.5B on AI wearables & Jony Ive. After last year's semi-lackluster I/O event, this year Google rolled out Sergei Brin & Demis Hassabis and a whole lot of new product. We go deep on all of it but especially VEO…

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OpenAI's Roadmap to AGI, Google's AlphaEvolve Codes Itself & So Many AI Babies 48:59

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OpenAI's Sam Atlman discussed the next three years of AI advancements while Google's brand new AlphaEvolve model codes new algorithms on its own. And good lord, the babies. We also dig into OpenAI HealthBench out-diagnosing real doctors, Anthropic's rumored reasoning-hybrid Opus & Sonnet updates, and Tesla's newly refreshed sim-to-real dancing Opti…

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OpenAI Goes Global, AI Threat Meetings & Gemini's Code Crusher 53:29

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OpenAI just pitched "OpenAI for Countries," offering democracies a turnkey AI infrastructure while some of the world's richest quietly stockpile bunkers and provisions. We'll dig into billionaire Paul Tudor Jones's revelations about AI as an imminent security threat, and why top insiders are buying land and livestock to ride out the next catastroph…

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Craig Mod – What Japan Taught Him About Self-Worth and Slowing Down 2:08:40

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Watch episode on YoutubeIn this episode, Kevin sits down with writer, photographer, and technologist Craig Mod for a wide-ranging conversation on the value of slowness in a fast-moving world. From walking solo across Japan to rethinking the economics of independent publishing, Craig shares his philosophy of presence, deep attention, and building cr…

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Meta's Weird New AI Social Network, OpenAI Rolls Back ChatGPT For Sucking Up & More Crazy AI News 57:03

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Meta just launched an AI-powered social network and it's way weirder than we expected. From voice assistants with emotional baggage to remixable AI selfies, we test Meta's new AI app and talk about what it really means for the future of AI interfaces. VISIT OUR SPONSOR: https://molku.ai/ We also break down OpenAI's GlazeGate, the update that made C…

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DeepMind Says We're Not Ready For AGI, Academy Awards Say AI Video is Ok, and AI Voice Models Get Weird 49:20

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Google says we're not ready for AGI and honestly, they might be right. DeepMind's Demis Hassabis warns we could be just five years away from artificial general intelligence, and society isn't prepared. Um, yikes? VISIT OUR SPONSOR https://molku.ai/ In this episode, we break down Google's new "Era of Experience" paper and what it means for how AIs w…

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OpenAI's New o3 & o4-mini Are Better, Cheaper & Faster, New AI Video Models & More AI News 52:21

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OpenAI's o3 and o4-mini are here—and they're multimodal, cheaper, and scary good. These models can see, code, plan, and use tools all on their own. Yeah. It's a big deal. We break down everything from tool use to image reasoning to why o3 might be the start of something actually autonomous. Plus, our favorite cursed (and adorable) 4o Image Generati…

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Google's Updated Gemini 2.5 Pro May Be Winning the AI Race, OpenAI Delays GPT-5 & More AI News 1:02:48

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Google's AI efforts & Gemini Pro 2.5 take a major step forward with updates to Deep Research, new Agent2Agent protocol (A2A) & more. Sadly, OpenAI teases o3 and o4 but delays GPT-5. Plus, Meta's new Llama 4 models are out but have issues, Midjourney v7's debut, John Carmack's smackdown of an AI video game engine hater, Gavin's deep dive into OpenAI…

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OpenAI's Servers Meltdown & Raises $40 Billion Dollars, Runway's Amazing New Gen-4 AI Video & More AI News 52:46

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OpenAI's servers melted down as it opened up ChatGPT 4o Image Generation to everyone… and then nerfed it hard. Thankfully, their new raise of $40 BILLION DOLLARS will help. We dive deeper into all the cool ways people are using it (and aren't able to use it any more) along with news about OpenAI Academy & how GPT-4.5 beat the Turing Test. Then Runw…

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OpenAI's New 4o Image Gen Dominates The Internet, Google Gemini 2.5 & More AI News 1:02:41

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OpenAI's new 4o Image Gen is the best AI image model we've seen to date and it has absolutely taken over the Internet. Plus, Gemini 2.5 is no slouch and a ton of new robots! Plus, OpenAI's new OpenAI.fm let's you prompt AI voices in new ways, DeepSeek's new model is actually better (at times) then GPT 4.5, a new Cursor for 3D modeling and, we're so…