Listen "Weekly AI News - Aug. 15, 2025"
Episode Synopsis
This week on our show, the hosts start with the US government launching USAi, a new secure platform for federal employees to use AI tools. They discuss the growing pains of the AI boom, as massive, energy-hungry data centers strain the national grid. The conversation then shifts to US policy, with the hosts discussing the motivation behind the former Biden administration's AI chip restrictions against China. They then discuss a new development, with the US now secretly embedding trackers in chip shipments to enforce those controls, and highlight a potential contradiction, as the current Trump administration's science funding cuts threaten its own AI action plan. On the product front, the hosts cover the disappointing launch of OpenAI's GPT-5, which struggled with basic tasks despite the hype. Finally, they look at the competitive landscape where Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is facing technical delays and explore the future, from the societal risks of superintelligence to Google's CEO highlighting the latest steps toward achieving AGI. The hosts leave listeners to mull over a final, bold prediction from OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman: that ChatGPT will eventually out-talk all of humanity. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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