🚀 Episode 31 Post-Google I/O Shockwave, Agentic AI Chaos & a $1M Hackathon?
🎙️ Hosted by Chris & Mark | Witty, high-energy, and absolutely packed with insights
Still catching your breath from Google I/O?
So is the entire AI industry. In this episode, the boys sift through the aftershocks—and unearth gold from the companies overshadowed by Google’s tidal wave.
🔥 Highlights this week:
🧠 AI Whiplash
Google’s I/O left everyone reeling—VO3, NotebookLM mobile, and that wild try-on shopping tool
Veo’s hyperreal video generation sparks laughs, awe, and deepfakes anxiety
⚔️ Agentic AI Arms Race
Anthropic’s Claude 4 drops new tools: Files API, prompt caching, voice mode, web search for free users
Microsoft Copilot unleashes multi-agent orchestration—build AI “coworkers” in Excel
OpenAI eyes dominance with GPT login features and memory tweaks
Perplexity enters the dashboard arena: AI-powered spreadsheet tools + live data visualizations
Mistral, DeepSeek, Opera, and xAI all launch agent-powered updates
🏆 $1M Hackathon Alert!
Bolt drops a global AI build challenge with 50,000+ participants
Chris & Mark are entering—expect a future demo 👀
Free domains, hosting, Bolt Pro credits included
🎭 Real Talk + Satire
AI-generated stunts? Cooking with plutonium? The guys joke (and worry) about the rise of hyperreal content
Need for blockchain-based digital IDs to verify real vs fake
Ethical dilemmas in AI-powered therapy
Links:
Google NotebookLM: https://blog.google/technology/ai/notebooklm-app/
Copilot Multi-Agent: https://news.microsoft.com/build-2025/
Claude 4: https://www.anthropic.com/news/agent-capabilities-api & https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-4
Singin with ChatGPT: https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/27/openai-may-soon-let-you-sign-in-with-chatgpt-for-other-apps/
Mistral AI: https://mistral.ai/news/agents-api
Salesforce buys Informatica: https://www.salesforce.com/news/press-releases/2025/05/27/salesforce-signs-definitive-agreement-to-acquire-informatica/
Deepseek R1 update: https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/28/deepseek-updates-its-r1-reasoning-ai-model-releases-it-on-hugging-face/
Opera browser update: https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/28/operas-new-browser-can-code-websites-and-games-for-you/
🎯 Takeaway
"AI’s moving fast. Stay curious, stay building, and don’t get left behind."
📲 Hit play to decode the chaos. Because this week... was anything but normal.

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